The Enterprise AI Show Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:06:57 -0400 https://www.enterpriseai.show en-us © 2026 Massive Studios yes f3040ef8-8139-5f1e-9452-97021157c043 Massive Studios episodic false The Enterprise AI Show explores the AI journey for Enterprise companies around the world.  [formerly The Cloudcast] 


As the AI revolution moves from experimentation to execution, The Enterprise AI Show provides the clarity needed to lead. Join Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely as they explore the intersection of generative AI, enterprise systems, and global business strategy. Each episode features clear-headed conversations with the people making actual decisions—founders, investors, and practitioners—focusing on the technical architectures and business models that drive real-world ROI.


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Topics: Enterprise AI strategy · The AI Economy ·  LLMs in production · AI leadership · Agentic AI ·  Digital Sovereignty · Machine Learning · AI startups ·  Cloud Computing 

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) AI, GenerativeAI, AI Agents, Agentic, LLMs, CloudComputing, VibeCoding, DataCenters, OpenAI, Anthropic, AI Ethics Massive Studios https://storage.buzzsprout.com/qy0q4u4tgdaume7dfehgpznhwhn0?.jpg The Enterprise AI Show https://www.enterpriseai.show Aaron Delp Brian Gracely Brandon Whichard What are the incentives to share AI learning curves with teammates? What are the incentives to share AI learning curves with teammates? SUMMARY: When we get to the end of 2026, how will enterprise companies be measuring the success of their AI projects? And how well will their teams be sharing their AI learning curves?

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Topic 1 - How do we measure AI-adoption success? 

  • Number of workloads?
  • Financial metrics (Spend, ROI, Costs-Saved, etc.)?
  • Speed improvements?
  • People-level?

Topic 2 Right now the AI tools are very individual-centric 

  • The machinery to share, even at the basic enterprise-level, is very difficult
  • The experience to share is non-deterministic, just as everyone’s working style is different.

Topic 3 - The motivation to share is still unknown. 

  • How do you encourage collaboration when so many companies are laying off people, or the specter of that happening is growing?
  • What was the motivation before (team goals?) and how does that change now? 
  • People don’t want to be monitored, so how does a manager have visibility?
  • What happens when companies remove the managers (“the counters”)? 

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]]> SUMMARY: When we get to the end of 2026, how will enterprise companies be measuring the success of their AI projects? And how well will their teams be sharing their AI learning curves?

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Topic 1 - How do we measure AI-adoption success? 

  • Number of workloads?
  • Financial metrics (Spend, ROI, Costs-Saved, etc.)?
  • Speed improvements?
  • People-level?

Topic 2 Right now the AI tools are very individual-centric 

  • The machinery to share, even at the basic enterprise-level, is very difficult
  • The experience to share is non-deterministic, just as everyone’s working style is different.

Topic 3 - The motivation to share is still unknown. 

  • How do you encourage collaboration when so many companies are laying off people, or the specter of that happening is growing?
  • What was the motivation before (team goals?) and how does that change now? 
  • People don’t want to be monitored, so how does a manager have visibility?
  • What happens when companies remove the managers (“the counters”)? 

FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19302624 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1280 Brian Gracely,TheEntAIShow,Enterprise AI,Collaboration,Claude,Anthropic,OpenAI,Google Gemini,Teams,Skills,CoPilot full false Cerebras is disrupting the market with Fast Inference Cerebras is disrupting the market with Fast Inference SUMMARY: After the first successful AI IPO of 2026, we dig into what makes the Cerebras WSE architecture unique in the market for fast inference. 

GUEST: Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras AI

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and what you focus on today. 

Topic 2 - For anyone that’s not familiar with Cerebras, give us an overview of the company, and especially an overview on the Cerebras technologies (e.g. Wafer-Scale Engine).

Topic 3 - Cerebras’ WSE architecture is different from many of the GPU or GPU-like architectures in the market today. Centralized vs. distributed architectures always have their tradeoffs. Walk us through the technical and economic value of the Cerebras architecture.

Topic 4 - Congratulations on the recent IPO (raised $5.55B). Let’s use that as a point in time vs the previous planned IPO. How has the market changed in that timeframe, and how has the Cerebras position changed? 

Topic 5 - Cerebras (today) offer both WSE hardware, and Cerebras Cloud (API) - very different GTM paths. Can we expect both of those to stay top priorities, or have the market dynamics shifted such that the priorities shift more towards the WSE business - as we’re seeing OpenAI, AWS and other engagements announced?

Topic 6 - Is Cerebras a training and inference company, or are the economics of inference significantly different enough that it needs to be the sole focus of the company (for now)? 

Topic 7 - How much effort is it for any company to add support for the Cerebras chips if they have previously been using other architectures?

Topic 8 - An IPO is a major milestone for any company, but the markets will now look for your future story. How do you see the AI market evolving over the next 2-5 years, and what are some things that people aren’t understanding yet about how it will evolve?


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]]> SUMMARY: After the first successful AI IPO of 2026, we dig into what makes the Cerebras WSE architecture unique in the market for fast inference. 

GUEST: Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras AI

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SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ed2nVbOtZiA

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and what you focus on today. 

Topic 2 - For anyone that’s not familiar with Cerebras, give us an overview of the company, and especially an overview on the Cerebras technologies (e.g. Wafer-Scale Engine).

Topic 3 - Cerebras’ WSE architecture is different from many of the GPU or GPU-like architectures in the market today. Centralized vs. distributed architectures always have their tradeoffs. Walk us through the technical and economic value of the Cerebras architecture.

Topic 4 - Congratulations on the recent IPO (raised $5.55B). Let’s use that as a point in time vs the previous planned IPO. How has the market changed in that timeframe, and how has the Cerebras position changed? 

Topic 5 - Cerebras (today) offer both WSE hardware, and Cerebras Cloud (API) - very different GTM paths. Can we expect both of those to stay top priorities, or have the market dynamics shifted such that the priorities shift more towards the WSE business - as we’re seeing OpenAI, AWS and other engagements announced?

Topic 6 - Is Cerebras a training and inference company, or are the economics of inference significantly different enough that it needs to be the sole focus of the company (for now)? 

Topic 7 - How much effort is it for any company to add support for the Cerebras chips if they have previously been using other architectures?

Topic 8 - An IPO is a major milestone for any company, but the markets will now look for your future story. How do you see the AI market evolving over the next 2-5 years, and what are some things that people aren’t understanding yet about how it will evolve?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19285375 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2121 Brian Gracely,Enterprise AI Show,Cerebras,AI,AI Chips,WSE,Wafer-Scale Engine,GPU,Inference,Fast Inference full false How will team collaboration evolve within Enterprise AI? How will team collaboration evolve within Enterprise AI? SUMMARY: The biggest enterprise AI question is which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business.

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Opening Thesis - How will team collaboration evolve within Enterprise AI?

Question: Any suggestions on how to introduce enterprise-level governance and standardisation for agentic coding? Like skills, rules, plugins, context etc

Key Topics 

1. This isn’t a Coding-specific problem. Every team has this issue. 

  • If your processes weren’t well defined and enforced before, they will be worse now
  • Not it’s not just process standardization, but “buy-in” standardization

2. Everything moves so fast, so managers don’t have the answers (yet) 

  • AI value is being created bottom-up, but paid for (and mandated) top-down
  • The current measurements aren’t useful (tokenmaxxing, all-or-nothing, etc.)

3. The governance tools don’t exist yet.

  • And it’s not clear that anyone wants them. They didn’t want them before. 
  • How do you even define governance? What’s the baby step before that, reuse and basic sharing? 

4. Are we ready to invest in “Centers of Excellence” again? 

5. We under-estimate the “creativity” element in human buy-in. 

  • Is success measured in improvement or replacement?
  • How much of that did “you” do? We don’t know how to measure that.
  • We haven’t lived through an AI-centric promotion cycle yet

6. Bottom-up and Top-down need to find some common language and middle ground. 

  • Have they walked a mile in each other’s shoes yet (or lately)?
  • How to bring a reality to the hype vs. demands vs. learning curve?
  • How long is an AI-centric cycle vs. a pre-AI-centric cycle? 

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]]> SUMMARY: The biggest enterprise AI question is which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business.

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Opening Thesis - How will team collaboration evolve within Enterprise AI?

Question: Any suggestions on how to introduce enterprise-level governance and standardisation for agentic coding? Like skills, rules, plugins, context etc

Key Topics 

1. This isn’t a Coding-specific problem. Every team has this issue. 

  • If your processes weren’t well defined and enforced before, they will be worse now
  • Not it’s not just process standardization, but “buy-in” standardization

2. Everything moves so fast, so managers don’t have the answers (yet) 

  • AI value is being created bottom-up, but paid for (and mandated) top-down
  • The current measurements aren’t useful (tokenmaxxing, all-or-nothing, etc.)

3. The governance tools don’t exist yet.

  • And it’s not clear that anyone wants them. They didn’t want them before. 
  • How do you even define governance? What’s the baby step before that, reuse and basic sharing? 

4. Are we ready to invest in “Centers of Excellence” again? 

5. We under-estimate the “creativity” element in human buy-in. 

  • Is success measured in improvement or replacement?
  • How much of that did “you” do? We don’t know how to measure that.
  • We haven’t lived through an AI-centric promotion cycle yet

6. Bottom-up and Top-down need to find some common language and middle ground. 

  • Have they walked a mile in each other’s shoes yet (or lately)?
  • How to bring a reality to the hype vs. demands vs. learning curve?
  • How long is an AI-centric cycle vs. a pre-AI-centric cycle? 

FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19257437 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1856 Brian Gracely,TheEntAIShow,AI Collaboration,AI Center of Excellent,All Jobs are Software,Underestimating Buy-In,Measuring Success,Measuring Hype full false AI News of the Month - May 2026 AI News of the Month - May 2026 SUMMARY:  Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the month of May, 2026. 

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]]> SUMMARY:  Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the month of May, 2026. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19245153 Wed, 27 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2274 Brian Gracely,Brandon Whichard,TheEntAIShow,NVIDIA,OpenAI,Anthropic,Pope Leo,Intel,Enterprise AI Readiness,Enterprise AI ROI,Token Economics,AI Agents,IBM,Red Hat,Google IO,AWS,Cerebras,SpaceX,xAI full false Why Enterprise AI Economics Are Changing Why Enterprise AI Economics Are Changing SUMMARY: The biggest enterprise AI question may no longer be
Which model is smartest? Instead, which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business?’

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Opening Thesis - Was the first wave of AI adoption artificially cheap? - The industry may be transitioning from subsidized growth to usage-based economics. 

Key Topics 

1. Evidence AI Was Subsidized 

  • Massive CAPEX vs low end-user pricing 
  • Generous enterprise bundles 
  • Frontier model access for $20/month 

2. The Hidden Economics of AI Agents - 

  • Agents consume exponentially more inference 
  • Tool orchestration, retries, memory, verification 

3. Why Frontier Labs Are Shifting Focus 

  • From benchmark supremacy to orchestration 
  • Governance, memory, connectors, MCP, workflows 

4. Forecasting AI Pricing 

  • 12 Months:  
    • Commodity inference gets cheaper - 
    • Frontier reasoning remains premium 
  • 24 Months:  
    • AI billing resembles AWS-style infrastructure billing 
    • Runtime, memory, latency and orchestration become billable 
  • 36 Months: 
    • Outcome-based pricing emerges 
    • AI spending shifts from IT budgets to labor budgets Final Takeaways  
    • Commodity AI becomes utility-priced 
    • Frontier reasoning becomes premium 
    • Agents reshape enterprise economics

Key Conclusions

1. AI probably was subsidized
The economics strongly suggest adoption-first pricing.

2. The subsidy era may be ending
Premium tiers and metered pricing are emerging.

3. AI agents fundamentally alter economics
Usage scales exponentially with autonomy.

4. Commodity AI and frontier reasoning are separating
One becomes cheap.
One becomes premium.

5. The real battle is moving upward in the stack
The future moat may be:

  • orchestration
  • governance
  • workflows
  • enterprise context
  • operational tooling


Final Closing Thought
“The biggest enterprise AI question may no longer be:
‘Which model is smartest?’

Instead:
‘Which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business?’”

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]]> SUMMARY: The biggest enterprise AI question may no longer be
Which model is smartest? Instead, which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business?’

SHOW: 1030

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1030 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/acOBfRI0P3U

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SHOW NOTES:

Opening Thesis - Was the first wave of AI adoption artificially cheap? - The industry may be transitioning from subsidized growth to usage-based economics. 

Key Topics 

1. Evidence AI Was Subsidized 

  • Massive CAPEX vs low end-user pricing 
  • Generous enterprise bundles 
  • Frontier model access for $20/month 

2. The Hidden Economics of AI Agents - 

  • Agents consume exponentially more inference 
  • Tool orchestration, retries, memory, verification 

3. Why Frontier Labs Are Shifting Focus 

  • From benchmark supremacy to orchestration 
  • Governance, memory, connectors, MCP, workflows 

4. Forecasting AI Pricing 

  • 12 Months:  
    • Commodity inference gets cheaper - 
    • Frontier reasoning remains premium 
  • 24 Months:  
    • AI billing resembles AWS-style infrastructure billing 
    • Runtime, memory, latency and orchestration become billable 
  • 36 Months: 
    • Outcome-based pricing emerges 
    • AI spending shifts from IT budgets to labor budgets Final Takeaways  
    • Commodity AI becomes utility-priced 
    • Frontier reasoning becomes premium 
    • Agents reshape enterprise economics

Key Conclusions

1. AI probably was subsidized
The economics strongly suggest adoption-first pricing.

2. The subsidy era may be ending
Premium tiers and metered pricing are emerging.

3. AI agents fundamentally alter economics
Usage scales exponentially with autonomy.

4. Commodity AI and frontier reasoning are separating
One becomes cheap.
One becomes premium.

5. The real battle is moving upward in the stack
The future moat may be:

  • orchestration
  • governance
  • workflows
  • enterprise context
  • operational tooling


Final Closing Thought
“The biggest enterprise AI question may no longer be:
‘Which model is smartest?’

Instead:
‘Which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business?’”

FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19229621 Sun, 24 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1948 Brian Gracely,AI,TheEntAIShow,AI Economics,Token Economics,OpenAI,Anthropic,Google Cloud,AWS,Azure,SaaS,Cost Optimization,Subscription Pricing,Commodity Inference,Frontier Premiums,Agentic AI,AI Agents,Outcome-based Pricing full false Can AI Agents be held Accountable? Can AI Agents be held Accountable? SUMMARY: As AI Agents are being brought into complex, regulated workflows, we explore the importance of accountability and accuracy, and how platforms and harnesses accomplish that goal. Can the CFO really fall in love with AI? 

GUEST:  Ram Venkatesh, Co-Founder/CTO of Sema4.ai

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and what led you to create Sema4.ai?. 

Topic 2 - AI Agents vs. Automation 2.0. What Actually Changed. Tell us about the Sema4.ai platform and capabilities. What challenges does it solve today?

Topic 3 - You’re initially focused on solving challenges for the CFO, which means there is a ROI-focus all the time. Why did you target that segment of the business first?

Topic 3a - What are the biggest hidden costs in enterprise AI deployments today?

Topic 4 - Sema4.ai emphasizes “your LLM, your VPC, your data.”  What are the biggest considerations for companies looking to create these private/sovereign AI solutions? What typically gets overlooked?

Topic 5 - How do you tend to frame the conversation about AI trustworthiness, and the role of humans vs. agents for enterprise work? 

Topic 6 - It feels like so much has changed or evolved with AI in the last 2-3 years. How does an Enterprise think about this much change for something that will be core to many critical applications? What will the Enterprise Architecture look like in 2 years?

Topic 7 - Sema4.ai emerged partly from the acquisition of Robocorp and has roots in open-source automation.  Do you have a perspective on the role open-source will play in AI going forward? 


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]]> SUMMARY: As AI Agents are being brought into complex, regulated workflows, we explore the importance of accountability and accuracy, and how platforms and harnesses accomplish that goal. Can the CFO really fall in love with AI? 

GUEST:  Ram Venkatesh, Co-Founder/CTO of Sema4.ai

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SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Lc3XS44Ixg4

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and what led you to create Sema4.ai?. 

Topic 2 - AI Agents vs. Automation 2.0. What Actually Changed. Tell us about the Sema4.ai platform and capabilities. What challenges does it solve today?

Topic 3 - You’re initially focused on solving challenges for the CFO, which means there is a ROI-focus all the time. Why did you target that segment of the business first?

Topic 3a - What are the biggest hidden costs in enterprise AI deployments today?

Topic 4 - Sema4.ai emphasizes “your LLM, your VPC, your data.”  What are the biggest considerations for companies looking to create these private/sovereign AI solutions? What typically gets overlooked?

Topic 5 - How do you tend to frame the conversation about AI trustworthiness, and the role of humans vs. agents for enterprise work? 

Topic 6 - It feels like so much has changed or evolved with AI in the last 2-3 years. How does an Enterprise think about this much change for something that will be core to many critical applications? What will the Enterprise Architecture look like in 2 years?

Topic 7 - Sema4.ai emerged partly from the acquisition of Robocorp and has roots in open-source automation.  Do you have a perspective on the role open-source will play in AI going forward? 


FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19206450 Wed, 20 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1806 Ram Venkatesh, Sema4, AI, AI Agents, CFO, Accountability, Enterprise Intelligence, AI Harness full false Enabling AI Governance for M365 Enabling AI Governance for M365 SUMMARY: As AI agents become embedded in everyday work, Microsoft 365 governance is no longer a back-office compliance exercise. it’s the “traction control” that lets enterprises innovate faster without losing control of their data, identities, and workflows.

GUEST: Richard Harbridge, Principal Industry Advisor, Microsoft 365 at ShareGate

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and what you focus on today. Tell us about Sharegate. 

Topic 2 - How has generative AI changed the definition of “governance” inside Microsoft 365 environments?

Topic 3 - What are organizations underestimating about AI readiness in M365?

Topic 4 - What do you think about “oversharing risk” in the era of AI assistants?

Topic 5 - What patterns are you seeing around shadow AI and unsanctioned SaaS usage?

Topic 6 - How should organizations rethink identity and access management for AI-driven workflows?

Topic 7 - What does good AI governance look like operationally—not just as a policy document?

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]]> SUMMARY: As AI agents become embedded in everyday work, Microsoft 365 governance is no longer a back-office compliance exercise. it’s the “traction control” that lets enterprises innovate faster without losing control of their data, identities, and workflows.

GUEST: Richard Harbridge, Principal Industry Advisor, Microsoft 365 at ShareGate

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and what you focus on today. Tell us about Sharegate. 

Topic 2 - How has generative AI changed the definition of “governance” inside Microsoft 365 environments?

Topic 3 - What are organizations underestimating about AI readiness in M365?

Topic 4 - What do you think about “oversharing risk” in the era of AI assistants?

Topic 5 - What patterns are you seeing around shadow AI and unsanctioned SaaS usage?

Topic 6 - How should organizations rethink identity and access management for AI-driven workflows?

Topic 7 - What does good AI governance look like operationally—not just as a policy document?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19186138 Sun, 17 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1903 Richard Harbridge, ShareGate, AI, M365, Governance, Security, SaaS, Cloud, Shadow AI, AI Agents, Identity full false An AI Market Analysis, May 2026 An AI Market Analysis, May 2026 SUMMARY: RIP Reasoning, hello The Enterprise AI Show. We do a point-in-time analysis of the AI market for May 2026, across 11 major categories. 

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]]> SUMMARY: RIP Reasoning, hello The Enterprise AI Show. We do a point-in-time analysis of the AI market for May 2026, across 11 major categories. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19168561 Wed, 13 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2453 Anthropic, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Meta, xAI, OpenAI, Funding, Data Centers, AI Hardware, Strengths, Weaknesses full false AI, Data Centers, and the Power Crunch AI, Data Centers, and the Power Crunch SUMMARY: We  explore one of the most overlooked bottlenecks in the AI boom: energy and infrastructure and  why power availability is becoming the limiting factor.

GUEST: Wannie Park, Founder/CEO of PADO AI

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1. AI’s Hidden Constraint: Power

  • AI growth is no longer limited only by GPUs and compute
  • Power generation, cooling, and grid interconnects are emerging as major bottlenecks
  • Data centers could account for 10–12% of North American power demand in coming years

2. Why Data Centers Are Being Reimagined

  • Traditional data centers were built for enterprise IT, not AI-scale workloads
  • AI infrastructure introduces:
    • Massive power density needs
    • Advanced cooling challenges

3. The Grid Wasn’t Built for AI

  • Utilities are designed around peak demand scenarios
  • Most grids run well below peak capacity most of the time
  • AI workloads create volatile and unpredictable consumption patterns
  • Long interconnection timelines are pushing companies toward alternative infrastructure models


4. GPU Utilization Is Surprisingly Low

  • GPU clusters are often underutilized because of:
    • Scheduling inefficiencies, Cooling limitations, SLA constraints
    • Effective GPU utilization may be as low as 12–13% in some environments

5. Cooling as a Major Optimization Layer

  • Legacy data centers often cool entire zones inefficiently
  • Pado AI aligns
  • AI workloads, Cooling systems, Power allocation
  • Workload-aware orchestration helps optimize cooling and compute efficiency


6. The Rise of “Compute Forecasting”

  • Pado forecasts compute demand instead of energy demand
  • The platform models:
    • GPU workloads, Power consumption, Cooling requirements, SLA priorities
    • Goal: maximize “compute per megawatt”

7. AI Workloads Become Time-Aware

  • AI providers may increasingly:
    • Shift workloads to off-peak periods
    • Incentivize delayed non-urgent jobs
    • Dynamically balance compute demand
    • Users are already seeing variable inference latency in real-world AI systems

8. Sustainability vs Reliability vs Profitability

  • Operators must balance:
    • Uptime expectations, Infrastructure costs, Sustainability goals
    • Renewable adoption is growing, but reliability still drives investment in natural gas and battery-backed systems

9. Brownfield vs Greenfield Opportunities

  • Pado AI is focused primarily on existing (“brownfield”) data centers
  • Existing enterprise infrastructure can often be extended and optimized instead of rebuilt
  • Enterprises may gain significant AI capability without hyperscale GPU deployments

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]]> SUMMARY: We  explore one of the most overlooked bottlenecks in the AI boom: energy and infrastructure and  why power availability is becoming the limiting factor.

GUEST: Wannie Park, Founder/CEO of PADO AI

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1026 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/satMQRxKQC8

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SHOW NOTES:

1. AI’s Hidden Constraint: Power

  • AI growth is no longer limited only by GPUs and compute
  • Power generation, cooling, and grid interconnects are emerging as major bottlenecks
  • Data centers could account for 10–12% of North American power demand in coming years

2. Why Data Centers Are Being Reimagined

  • Traditional data centers were built for enterprise IT, not AI-scale workloads
  • AI infrastructure introduces:
    • Massive power density needs
    • Advanced cooling challenges

3. The Grid Wasn’t Built for AI

  • Utilities are designed around peak demand scenarios
  • Most grids run well below peak capacity most of the time
  • AI workloads create volatile and unpredictable consumption patterns
  • Long interconnection timelines are pushing companies toward alternative infrastructure models


4. GPU Utilization Is Surprisingly Low

  • GPU clusters are often underutilized because of:
    • Scheduling inefficiencies, Cooling limitations, SLA constraints
    • Effective GPU utilization may be as low as 12–13% in some environments

5. Cooling as a Major Optimization Layer

  • Legacy data centers often cool entire zones inefficiently
  • Pado AI aligns
  • AI workloads, Cooling systems, Power allocation
  • Workload-aware orchestration helps optimize cooling and compute efficiency


6. The Rise of “Compute Forecasting”

  • Pado forecasts compute demand instead of energy demand
  • The platform models:
    • GPU workloads, Power consumption, Cooling requirements, SLA priorities
    • Goal: maximize “compute per megawatt”

7. AI Workloads Become Time-Aware

  • AI providers may increasingly:
    • Shift workloads to off-peak periods
    • Incentivize delayed non-urgent jobs
    • Dynamically balance compute demand
    • Users are already seeing variable inference latency in real-world AI systems

8. Sustainability vs Reliability vs Profitability

  • Operators must balance:
    • Uptime expectations, Infrastructure costs, Sustainability goals
    • Renewable adoption is growing, but reliability still drives investment in natural gas and battery-backed systems

9. Brownfield vs Greenfield Opportunities

  • Pado AI is focused primarily on existing (“brownfield”) data centers
  • Existing enterprise infrastructure can often be extended and optimized instead of rebuilt
  • Enterprises may gain significant AI capability without hyperscale GPU deployments

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19148383 Sun, 10 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2019 Wannie Park, PADO AI, Power, Cooling, AI Orchestration, Data Centers, Sustainability, Efficiency, GPUs full false AI News of the Month for April 2026 AI News of the Month for April 2026 SUMMARY:  Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the month of April, 2026. 

SHOW: 1025

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1025 Transcript

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SHOW: 1025

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1025 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Gl-49dmAgBs

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19128484 Wed, 06 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2220 full false The 2026 AI Draft The 2026 AI Draft SUMMARY: Draft guru Brandon Whichard (Software Defined Talk) joins us for the inaugural AI Draft, where we predict the next year of AI winners, losers, trends, and headlines. 

GUEST: Brandon Whichard, Software Defined Talk

SHOW: 1024

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1024 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/BjT_HKhOcRE

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Brian’s Picks

  1. Google
  2. Major AI-centric IPO in 2026 ($1T valuation)
  3. Amazon (cloud)
  4. Company has more Agents that Employees
  5. TSMC (hardware)
  6. AMD (hardware)
  7. Family asks about AI at the holidays
  8. Data center issue causes a significant change to human existence

Brandon’s Picks

  1. Anthropic
  2. NVIDIA
  3. Broadcom
  4. OpenAI (frontier model)
  5. AI Consumption-based pricing (end of subsidies)
  6. AI Energy Demand
  7. The end of “vibe-coding”
  8. Sam Altman out at CEO of OpenAI

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]]> SUMMARY: Draft guru Brandon Whichard (Software Defined Talk) joins us for the inaugural AI Draft, where we predict the next year of AI winners, losers, trends, and headlines. 

GUEST: Brandon Whichard, Software Defined Talk

SHOW: 1024

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1024 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/BjT_HKhOcRE

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Brian’s Picks

  1. Google
  2. Major AI-centric IPO in 2026 ($1T valuation)
  3. Amazon (cloud)
  4. Company has more Agents that Employees
  5. TSMC (hardware)
  6. AMD (hardware)
  7. Family asks about AI at the holidays
  8. Data center issue causes a significant change to human existence

Brandon’s Picks

  1. Anthropic
  2. NVIDIA
  3. Broadcom
  4. OpenAI (frontier model)
  5. AI Consumption-based pricing (end of subsidies)
  6. AI Energy Demand
  7. The end of “vibe-coding”
  8. Sam Altman out at CEO of OpenAI

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19114514 Sun, 03 May 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2639 full false Halt & Retool: Rewriting Software Development in the Age of AI Agents Halt & Retool: Rewriting Software Development in the Age of AI Agents SUMMARY: Exploring how to fully embrace AI-driven, agent-based software development, resulting in dramatically increased productivity and faster feature delivery. It highlights a broader shift in engineering—from writing code to orchestrating AI agents.

GUEST: Sam Ramji, CEO/Co-founder at Sailplane

SHOW: 1023

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1023 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/q50s0oL37pQ

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SHOW NOTES:


1. The “Halt and Retool” Moment

  • A single-day build and deployment of a production feature triggered a company-wide realization
  • Paused all development to reassess how AI fundamentally changes engineering workflows
  • Creating “shock moments” (like stopping work) is key to driving mindset shifts

2. From Coding to Agent Orchestration

  • Developers are shifting from writing code → managing AI agents
  • Work resembles “multi-boxing” or conducting an orchestra of parallel agents
  • Success depends on coordinating tasks, not executing them directly

3. The Rise of Harness Engineering

  • Defined as everything between raw AI prompts and production-ready output
  • Focus: eliminating friction across the software development lifecycle 
  • Key practices:
    • Logging agent errors and friction points
    • Continuously refining workflows and tooling
    • Letting AI reflect on and improve its own mistakes

4. Spec-Driven Development Becomes Critical

  • Poor specifications lead to exponential inefficiencies
  • Teams now spend significantly more time on design and specs than coding

5. Measuring the Impact

  • ~3x increase in code velocity
  • Near-zero “bit rot” 
  • Faster feature delivery—sometimes within 24 hours


6. Token Maxing & Developer Fitness

  • Higher token usage often signals better workflows and deeper integration with AI
  • Performance becomes about system design, not efficiency constraints


7. New Tools & Interfaces

  • Increased use of voice interfaces over typing
  • Terminal-first workflows replacing traditional IDE-centric approaches
  • AI-accessible knowledge bases becoming standard


8. The Future of Software Engineering

  • Within ~6 months: developers may stop writing code
  • Within ~12 months: developers may stop reading code
  • Focus shifts to:
    • Intent, design, and orchestration. Domain expertise and problem modeling

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]]> SUMMARY: Exploring how to fully embrace AI-driven, agent-based software development, resulting in dramatically increased productivity and faster feature delivery. It highlights a broader shift in engineering—from writing code to orchestrating AI agents.

GUEST: Sam Ramji, CEO/Co-founder at Sailplane

SHOW: 1023

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1023 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/q50s0oL37pQ

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


1. The “Halt and Retool” Moment

  • A single-day build and deployment of a production feature triggered a company-wide realization
  • Paused all development to reassess how AI fundamentally changes engineering workflows
  • Creating “shock moments” (like stopping work) is key to driving mindset shifts

2. From Coding to Agent Orchestration

  • Developers are shifting from writing code → managing AI agents
  • Work resembles “multi-boxing” or conducting an orchestra of parallel agents
  • Success depends on coordinating tasks, not executing them directly

3. The Rise of Harness Engineering

  • Defined as everything between raw AI prompts and production-ready output
  • Focus: eliminating friction across the software development lifecycle 
  • Key practices:
    • Logging agent errors and friction points
    • Continuously refining workflows and tooling
    • Letting AI reflect on and improve its own mistakes

4. Spec-Driven Development Becomes Critical

  • Poor specifications lead to exponential inefficiencies
  • Teams now spend significantly more time on design and specs than coding

5. Measuring the Impact

  • ~3x increase in code velocity
  • Near-zero “bit rot” 
  • Faster feature delivery—sometimes within 24 hours


6. Token Maxing & Developer Fitness

  • Higher token usage often signals better workflows and deeper integration with AI
  • Performance becomes about system design, not efficiency constraints


7. New Tools & Interfaces

  • Increased use of voice interfaces over typing
  • Terminal-first workflows replacing traditional IDE-centric approaches
  • AI-accessible knowledge bases becoming standard


8. The Future of Software Engineering

  • Within ~6 months: developers may stop writing code
  • Within ~12 months: developers may stop reading code
  • Focus shifts to:
    • Intent, design, and orchestration. Domain expertise and problem modeling

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19092472 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2098 Sam Ramji, AI development, Tokenmaxxing, Sailplane, Software development, AI-first, Measuring Impact full false The Zero-CVE Mirage: Hardening Software in the Age of AI Attacks The Zero-CVE Mirage: Hardening Software in the Age of AI Attacks SUMMARY: How software development is rapidly evolving in the age of AI and automation. Matt Moore shares how his team is rethinking secure software supply chains, scaling infrastructure, and safely integrating AI agents into development workflows.

GUEST: Matt Moore, CTO at Chainguard 

SHOW: 1022

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1022 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/9Q0kWkTYRs8

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SHOW NOTES:


Scaling Challenges & “Factory” Evolution

  • Early automation relied on tools like GitHub Actions
  • At scale, simple systems broke due to:
    • Massive event volumes
    • API rate limits (e.g., GitHub quotas)
    • Exponential fan-out effects
  • Key innovation: custom work queue + reconciliation model
    • ~90% event deduplication
    • Controlled throughput and backpressure
    • Improved reliability and system stability
  • Introduced Driftless 
  • Built on reconciliation principles (inspired by Kubernetes):
    • Compare desired vs. actual state
    • Continuously reconcile differences
  • Benefits:
    • Resilience to missed events
    • Automatic retries and recovery
    • Scales better than purely event-driven systems

AI Agents in Software Development

  • AI is dramatically accelerating development workflows
  • Chainguard uses agents to:
    • Remediate vulnerabilities (CVEs)
    • Update dependencies
    • Fix failing tests and adapt to upstream changes

Key Design Philosophy

  • Least privilege → “least tool call”
    • Avoid giving agents full system access
    • Provide narrowly scoped tools for specific tasks
  • Delegate execution to sandboxed systems (e.g., CI pipelines)
  • Focus on safe, controlled automation

Industry Shift: Velocity vs. Security

  • Explosion of AI-driven tools (e.g., autonomous PR generation)
  • Massive increase in development velocity
  • New risks:
    • Poorly secured agent frameworks
    • Malicious or unsafe automation patterns

Key Takeaways

  1. Scale changes everything
    • Simple systems break under massive workloads
    • Purpose-built infrastructure becomes necessary
  2. Reconciliation > pure event-driven systems at scale
    • More resilient, predictable, and controllable
  3. AI is a force multiplier—but requires guardrails
    • Unrestricted agents introduce serious risk
    • Constrained, purpose-built agents are safer and more effective
  4. Continuous learning is mandatory
    • AI tooling is evolving too fast for static skillsets
    • Teams must actively experiment and adapt

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]]> SUMMARY: How software development is rapidly evolving in the age of AI and automation. Matt Moore shares how his team is rethinking secure software supply chains, scaling infrastructure, and safely integrating AI agents into development workflows.

GUEST: Matt Moore, CTO at Chainguard 

SHOW: 1022

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1022 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/9Q0kWkTYRs8

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


Scaling Challenges & “Factory” Evolution

  • Early automation relied on tools like GitHub Actions
  • At scale, simple systems broke due to:
    • Massive event volumes
    • API rate limits (e.g., GitHub quotas)
    • Exponential fan-out effects
  • Key innovation: custom work queue + reconciliation model
    • ~90% event deduplication
    • Controlled throughput and backpressure
    • Improved reliability and system stability
  • Introduced Driftless 
  • Built on reconciliation principles (inspired by Kubernetes):
    • Compare desired vs. actual state
    • Continuously reconcile differences
  • Benefits:
    • Resilience to missed events
    • Automatic retries and recovery
    • Scales better than purely event-driven systems

AI Agents in Software Development

  • AI is dramatically accelerating development workflows
  • Chainguard uses agents to:
    • Remediate vulnerabilities (CVEs)
    • Update dependencies
    • Fix failing tests and adapt to upstream changes

Key Design Philosophy

  • Least privilege → “least tool call”
    • Avoid giving agents full system access
    • Provide narrowly scoped tools for specific tasks
  • Delegate execution to sandboxed systems (e.g., CI pipelines)
  • Focus on safe, controlled automation

Industry Shift: Velocity vs. Security

  • Explosion of AI-driven tools (e.g., autonomous PR generation)
  • Massive increase in development velocity
  • New risks:
    • Poorly secured agent frameworks
    • Malicious or unsafe automation patterns

Key Takeaways

  1. Scale changes everything
    • Simple systems break under massive workloads
    • Purpose-built infrastructure becomes necessary
  2. Reconciliation > pure event-driven systems at scale
    • More resilient, predictable, and controllable
  3. AI is a force multiplier—but requires guardrails
    • Unrestricted agents introduce serious risk
    • Constrained, purpose-built agents are safer and more effective
  4. Continuous learning is mandatory
    • AI tooling is evolving too fast for static skillsets
    • Teams must actively experiment and adapt

FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19073632 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2113 Chainguard, Matt Moore, Zero-CVE, AI, Security, Software Supply Chain, Open Source full false The Grid’s Breaking Point: Can AI Save the Infrastructure It’s About to Crash? The Grid’s Breaking Point: Can AI Save the Infrastructure It’s About to Crash? SUMMARY: How real-time power flow optimization at the edge is helping data centers and the electrical grid handle surging AI energy demands more efficiently. By unlocking hidden capacity and dynamically managing power systems, we explain how existing infrastructure can support significantly more compute without massive new buildouts.

GUEST: Marissa Hummon, CTO Utilidata

SHOW: 1021

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1021 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ItcpU8UjOFE

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SHOW NOTES:

KEY TOPICS:

  • Differences between grid power dynamics vs. AI workloads
  • Edge AI for real-time power flow optimization
  • Unlocking stranded capacity in existing infrastructure
  • “4-to-make-3” vs. “4-to-make-4” data center design
  • AI training vs. inference power consumption patterns
  • Role of NVIDIA-powered edge compute modules
  • Grid modernization and coordination with utilities
  • Security and resilience in critical infrastructure

KEY MOMENTS:

  • From centralized AI models to edge-based decision-making
  • Defining efficiency: utilization vs. thermal performance
  • Why AI workloads aren’t as constant as they seem
  • NVIDIA partnership and edge compute in power systems
  • Using redundancy to increase usable capacity
  • Increasing density of AI compute and hidden capacity
  • Data center vs. utility responsibilities
  • Addressing data center bottlenecks and scaling challenges
  • Customer landscape: hyperscalers to enterprise
  • Security, resilience, and critical infrastructure

KEY INSIGHTS:

  • AI workloads are dynamic, not constant: Training and inference create fluctuating power demands that can be optimized.
  • Edge intelligence is critical: Real-time sensing and decision-making at the edge unlock efficiency gains not possible with centralized models.
  • Hidden capacity exists: Many data centers have up to 2x unused power capacity due to lack of visibility and control.
  • Software-defined power is the future: Faster control loops allow systems to safely exceed traditional design limits.
  • Efficiency = utilization: The biggest gains come from better use of existing infrastructure, not just improving hardware efficiency.

TAKEAWAYS:

  • AI infrastructure growth is as much an energy challenge as a compute challenge
  • Real-time, edge-based control systems are key to scaling sustainably
  • Existing grid and data center investments can go further with smarter orchestration
  • The future of AI scaling depends on aligning compute innovation with energy intelligence

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]]> SUMMARY: How real-time power flow optimization at the edge is helping data centers and the electrical grid handle surging AI energy demands more efficiently. By unlocking hidden capacity and dynamically managing power systems, we explain how existing infrastructure can support significantly more compute without massive new buildouts.

GUEST: Marissa Hummon, CTO Utilidata

SHOW: 1021

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1021 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ItcpU8UjOFE

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

KEY TOPICS:

  • Differences between grid power dynamics vs. AI workloads
  • Edge AI for real-time power flow optimization
  • Unlocking stranded capacity in existing infrastructure
  • “4-to-make-3” vs. “4-to-make-4” data center design
  • AI training vs. inference power consumption patterns
  • Role of NVIDIA-powered edge compute modules
  • Grid modernization and coordination with utilities
  • Security and resilience in critical infrastructure

KEY MOMENTS:

  • From centralized AI models to edge-based decision-making
  • Defining efficiency: utilization vs. thermal performance
  • Why AI workloads aren’t as constant as they seem
  • NVIDIA partnership and edge compute in power systems
  • Using redundancy to increase usable capacity
  • Increasing density of AI compute and hidden capacity
  • Data center vs. utility responsibilities
  • Addressing data center bottlenecks and scaling challenges
  • Customer landscape: hyperscalers to enterprise
  • Security, resilience, and critical infrastructure

KEY INSIGHTS:

  • AI workloads are dynamic, not constant: Training and inference create fluctuating power demands that can be optimized.
  • Edge intelligence is critical: Real-time sensing and decision-making at the edge unlock efficiency gains not possible with centralized models.
  • Hidden capacity exists: Many data centers have up to 2x unused power capacity due to lack of visibility and control.
  • Software-defined power is the future: Faster control loops allow systems to safely exceed traditional design limits.
  • Efficiency = utilization: The biggest gains come from better use of existing infrastructure, not just improving hardware efficiency.

TAKEAWAYS:

  • AI infrastructure growth is as much an energy challenge as a compute challenge
  • Real-time, edge-based control systems are key to scaling sustainably
  • Existing grid and data center investments can go further with smarter orchestration
  • The future of AI scaling depends on aligning compute innovation with energy intelligence

FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19056694 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1523 Marissa Hummon, Utilidata, AI, Data Center, Electrical Grid, Power Efficiency full false Shadow AI is Faster Than Your Governance: Why Guardrails are Failing Shadow AI is Faster Than Your Governance: Why Guardrails are Failing SUMMARY: Shadow AI is growing much faster than known AI adoption across businesses. How can IT teams get Shadow AI under control?

GUEST: Uri Haramati, CEO at Torii

SHOW: 1020

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1020 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AUrh_xICPzM

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your focus at Torii. 

Topic 2 - Is Shadow AI really a security problem—or is it a product-market fit problem inside the enterprise?

Topic 3 - Why does Shadow AI spread faster—and become more dangerous—than traditional Shadow IT?

Topic 4 - What’s the first signal a company should look for to know Shadow AI is already happening?

Topic 5 - How do you balance visibility vs. control without killing the productivity gains that drove Shadow AI in the first place?

Topic 6 - How should organizations rethink ‘data loss prevention’ in a world where the leak is a prompt, not a file?

Topic 7 - What does a ‘well-governed’ AI environment actually look like in practice—day-to-day for an employee?

Topic 8 - “Do you think Shadow AI ever fully goes away—or does it become a permanent operating model that companies need to design around?”

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]]> SUMMARY: Shadow AI is growing much faster than known AI adoption across businesses. How can IT teams get Shadow AI under control?

GUEST: Uri Haramati, CEO at Torii

SHOW: 1020

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1020 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AUrh_xICPzM

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your focus at Torii. 

Topic 2 - Is Shadow AI really a security problem—or is it a product-market fit problem inside the enterprise?

Topic 3 - Why does Shadow AI spread faster—and become more dangerous—than traditional Shadow IT?

Topic 4 - What’s the first signal a company should look for to know Shadow AI is already happening?

Topic 5 - How do you balance visibility vs. control without killing the productivity gains that drove Shadow AI in the first place?

Topic 6 - How should organizations rethink ‘data loss prevention’ in a world where the leak is a prompt, not a file?

Topic 7 - What does a ‘well-governed’ AI environment actually look like in practice—day-to-day for an employee?

Topic 8 - “Do you think Shadow AI ever fully goes away—or does it become a permanent operating model that companies need to design around?”

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19037055 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1763 Torii, Shadow AI, AI, Security, DLP, Governance, Uri Haramati, Leaks, Prompts full false The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work? The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work? SUMMARY: Have we reached a point where coding is a solved problem? And if so, what are the downstream effects on companies that need software to differentiate their business?

GUEST: Brandon Whichard, Co-Host of Software Defined Talk

SHOW: 1019

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1019 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/q0mksIKcBzk

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

[Via ChatGPT]  A useful way to think about it:

  • Typing code → mostly commoditized
  • Designing systems → partially assisted
  • Owning outcomes → still very human

Topic 1 - How many years into Public Cloud did we assume that Cloud had solved the IT problem? 

Topic 2 - Developers - what are we solving for?

  • 10% of time coding, mostly on the last 10-15% 
  • Lots of time in planning meetings (decoding requirements, resource planning, updates, etc.)
  • Decent amount of time fixing, troubleshooting, technical debt reduction

Topic 2a - Business people have unlimited ideas, and most ideas are money + tech

  • What would be their interface to problem solving without developers? (is this just a shift to consultants)
  • Is this a massive opportunity for a great PaaS 3.0 company (e.g. is Vercel an example?)

Topic 3 - [Hypothetical] Let’s assume a fairly normal company fired all their software developers tomorrow. How long before they could get a moderately complex new application of integration into production? 

Topic 4 - Nobody likes to work on legacy code - missing source, missing engineers, etc. What do we call any code written by AI that was abandoned within the last 6-12 months? 

FEEDBACK?

]]> SUMMARY: Have we reached a point where coding is a solved problem? And if so, what are the downstream effects on companies that need software to differentiate their business?

GUEST: Brandon Whichard, Co-Host of Software Defined Talk

SHOW: 1019

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1019 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/q0mksIKcBzk

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

[Via ChatGPT]  A useful way to think about it:

  • Typing code → mostly commoditized
  • Designing systems → partially assisted
  • Owning outcomes → still very human

Topic 1 - How many years into Public Cloud did we assume that Cloud had solved the IT problem? 

Topic 2 - Developers - what are we solving for?

  • 10% of time coding, mostly on the last 10-15% 
  • Lots of time in planning meetings (decoding requirements, resource planning, updates, etc.)
  • Decent amount of time fixing, troubleshooting, technical debt reduction

Topic 2a - Business people have unlimited ideas, and most ideas are money + tech

  • What would be their interface to problem solving without developers? (is this just a shift to consultants)
  • Is this a massive opportunity for a great PaaS 3.0 company (e.g. is Vercel an example?)

Topic 3 - [Hypothetical] Let’s assume a fairly normal company fired all their software developers tomorrow. How long before they could get a moderately complex new application of integration into production? 

Topic 4 - Nobody likes to work on legacy code - missing source, missing engineers, etc. What do we call any code written by AI that was abandoned within the last 6-12 months? 

FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-19023699 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1999 Anthropic, Claude, AI Coding, Solved Problem, Boris Cherny full false RAG Won’t Save Your Messy Data: The Brutal Truth About AI Reliability RAG Won’t Save Your Messy Data: The Brutal Truth About AI Reliability SUMMARY: The RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pattern is one of the most frequently used to augment LLMs with context-specific information. Let’s explore RAG. 

GUEST: Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Head of Developer Relations at Pinecone

SHOW: 1018

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1018 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/-kZZEMR341Q

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Pinecone 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about RAG systems. What are they? Why do companies choose to use them? What benefits do they provide in AI systems?

Topic 3 - At a high level, RAG sounds straightforward—retrieve relevant context, generate an answer. But in practice, where does it break first as systems scale?

Topic 4 - I’ve heard that RAG systems can return answers that are technically correct but fundamentally wrong. What’s a concrete example of that happening in production—and why does it slip past most teams?

Topic 5 - In traditional systems, we assume there’s a single source of truth. But in enterprise environments, ‘truth’ is often versioned, contextual, and conflicting. How should teams rethink ‘truth’ when building AI systems?

Topic 6 - A lot of teams assume their knowledge base is ‘good enough’ for RAG. What do they usually underestimate about the messiness of real enterprise data?

Topic 7 - There’s a growing narrative that better reasoning models can compensate for weaker retrieval. From what you’ve seen, where does that idea fall apart?

Topic 8 - If correctness depends on things like timing, policy scope, or configuration, how should teams design systems that understand context—not just content?

Topic 9 - Looking ahead, what replaces today’s RAG architectures? What patterns are emerging among teams that are actually getting this right?”


FEEDBACK?

]]> SUMMARY: The RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pattern is one of the most frequently used to augment LLMs with context-specific information. Let’s explore RAG. 

GUEST: Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Head of Developer Relations at Pinecone

SHOW: 1018

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1018 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/-kZZEMR341Q

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Pinecone 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about RAG systems. What are they? Why do companies choose to use them? What benefits do they provide in AI systems?

Topic 3 - At a high level, RAG sounds straightforward—retrieve relevant context, generate an answer. But in practice, where does it break first as systems scale?

Topic 4 - I’ve heard that RAG systems can return answers that are technically correct but fundamentally wrong. What’s a concrete example of that happening in production—and why does it slip past most teams?

Topic 5 - In traditional systems, we assume there’s a single source of truth. But in enterprise environments, ‘truth’ is often versioned, contextual, and conflicting. How should teams rethink ‘truth’ when building AI systems?

Topic 6 - A lot of teams assume their knowledge base is ‘good enough’ for RAG. What do they usually underestimate about the messiness of real enterprise data?

Topic 7 - There’s a growing narrative that better reasoning models can compensate for weaker retrieval. From what you’ve seen, where does that idea fall apart?

Topic 8 - If correctness depends on things like timing, policy scope, or configuration, how should teams design systems that understand context—not just content?

Topic 9 - Looking ahead, what replaces today’s RAG architectures? What patterns are emerging among teams that are actually getting this right?”


FEEDBACK?

]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18999902 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1722 Roie Schwaber-Cohen, AI, RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, LLM, Reasoning, Pinecone full false The Productivity Paradox: Why More AI Code is Slowing Down Shiptimes The Productivity Paradox: Why More AI Code is Slowing Down Shiptimes SUMMARY:  Discover how AI is transforming software development and what it means for engineering leaders. 

GUEST: Jeff Keyes, Field CTO at AllStacks 

SHOW: 1017

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1017 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/cXPu8iWeB0k

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at AllStacks. 

Topic 2 - You’ve been talking to a lot of engineering leaders using AI coding tools—what’s the most surprising gap you’re seeing between increased code generation and actual delivery outcomes?

Topic 3 - Why does increasing developer output with AI often lead to more debugging, duplication, or cleanup instead of faster delivery?

Topic 4 - You’ve described an ‘invisible rework loop’—can you walk us through what that looks like inside a modern engineering team?

Topic 5 - As code generation gets easier, where does the real bottleneck shift in the software delivery lifecycle?

Topic 6 - How do unclear product or engineering specifications get amplified in an AI-assisted development environment?

Topic 7 - If traditional metrics like lines of code or velocity are becoming misleading, what should engineering leaders actually measure to know if AI is improving delivery?

Topic 8 - What does a ‘healthy’ AI-assisted development workflow look like 12–18 months from now?


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GUEST: Jeff Keyes, Field CTO at AllStacks 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at AllStacks. 

Topic 2 - You’ve been talking to a lot of engineering leaders using AI coding tools—what’s the most surprising gap you’re seeing between increased code generation and actual delivery outcomes?

Topic 3 - Why does increasing developer output with AI often lead to more debugging, duplication, or cleanup instead of faster delivery?

Topic 4 - You’ve described an ‘invisible rework loop’—can you walk us through what that looks like inside a modern engineering team?

Topic 5 - As code generation gets easier, where does the real bottleneck shift in the software delivery lifecycle?

Topic 6 - How do unclear product or engineering specifications get amplified in an AI-assisted development environment?

Topic 7 - If traditional metrics like lines of code or velocity are becoming misleading, what should engineering leaders actually measure to know if AI is improving delivery?

Topic 8 - What does a ‘healthy’ AI-assisted development workflow look like 12–18 months from now?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18965555 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2030 AllStacks, Jeff Keyes, AI Software Development, AI Agents, Invisible Network Loop full false The Production Chaos: Why AI-Generated Code is Breaking Traditional SRE The Production Chaos: Why AI-Generated Code is Breaking Traditional SRE SUMMARY: With the explosion of AI-generated code and applications, the modern SRE requires an AI-native approach to managing complex systems. 

GUEST: Anish Agarwal - CEO/Cofounder of Traversal

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1016 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Traversal. 

Topic 2 - AI is dramatically accelerating code generation, but not improving production outcomes. What’s fundamentally breaking in the traditional SRE model—and where do you see the biggest friction between speed and reliability?

Topic 3 - What are the most common failure patterns or mistakes you’re seeing in production from AI-generated code—and what’s driving them?

Topic 4 - AI can generate functional code, but it often lacks context about how systems behave in production. How is this changing what ‘good observability’ needs to look like?

Topic 5 - How do you see SRE evolving in an AI-first world? Does it become more automated, more policy-driven, or even partially autonomous?

Topic 6 - For organizations that want to embrace AI-assisted development but avoid production chaos, what are the most important guardrails they should put in place?

Topic 7 - If we fast-forward 2–3 years, what does a ‘modern’ production stack look like in a world where most code is AI-generated? What capabilities become absolutely essential? In one sentence—what’s the #1 thing a CTO should do right now?

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GUEST: Anish Agarwal - CEO/Cofounder of Traversal

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1016 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/hF3MCRDhMno

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Traversal. 

Topic 2 - AI is dramatically accelerating code generation, but not improving production outcomes. What’s fundamentally breaking in the traditional SRE model—and where do you see the biggest friction between speed and reliability?

Topic 3 - What are the most common failure patterns or mistakes you’re seeing in production from AI-generated code—and what’s driving them?

Topic 4 - AI can generate functional code, but it often lacks context about how systems behave in production. How is this changing what ‘good observability’ needs to look like?

Topic 5 - How do you see SRE evolving in an AI-first world? Does it become more automated, more policy-driven, or even partially autonomous?

Topic 6 - For organizations that want to embrace AI-assisted development but avoid production chaos, what are the most important guardrails they should put in place?

Topic 7 - If we fast-forward 2–3 years, what does a ‘modern’ production stack look like in a world where most code is AI-generated? What capabilities become absolutely essential? In one sentence—what’s the #1 thing a CTO should do right now?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18957751 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1953 Anish Agarwal, Traversal, AI SRE, AI-generated code, Complex Systems full false The Future of Service belongs to Self-Improving AI The Future of Service belongs to Self-Improving AI SUMMARY:  Today’s episode is all about a transformation happening in customer service—one that’s moving us from static systems and scripted workflows into something far more dynamic: AI systems that can actually learn and improve over time.

GUEST: Shashi Upadhyay (President of Product, Engineering, and AI at Zendesk)

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1015 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/IQaxE-DjIpo

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and your focus today. 

Topic 2 - You describe this moment as a shift from systems of record to intelligent systems of action. What’s fundamentally broken in today’s customer service model that’s forcing this transition now? What changed in the last 2–3 years to make this possible?

Topic 3 - There’s been a lot of AI in customer service that overpromised and underdelivered. What are the biggest gaps between what customers actually need—like resolution—and what legacy automation has been delivering?

Topic 4 - The concept of a “self-improving” system is really powerful. What’s actually new here—what enables AI to improve with every interaction without constant human tuning?

Topic 5 - You’ve moved from assistive copilots to what you call “agentic AI” that can resolve issues end-to-end. Where are we today on that journey—and what still requires human involvement?

Topic 6 - Voice has historically been one of the hardest channels to automate. What changes with this new generation of AI that makes even complex, multi-step voice interactions solvable?

Topic 7 - If we fast-forward 2–3 years, what does a “best-in-class” customer service experience look like in an AI-first world?

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]]> SUMMARY:  Today’s episode is all about a transformation happening in customer service—one that’s moving us from static systems and scripted workflows into something far more dynamic: AI systems that can actually learn and improve over time.

GUEST: Shashi Upadhyay (President of Product, Engineering, and AI at Zendesk)

SHOW: 1015

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1015 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/IQaxE-DjIpo

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and your focus today. 

Topic 2 - You describe this moment as a shift from systems of record to intelligent systems of action. What’s fundamentally broken in today’s customer service model that’s forcing this transition now? What changed in the last 2–3 years to make this possible?

Topic 3 - There’s been a lot of AI in customer service that overpromised and underdelivered. What are the biggest gaps between what customers actually need—like resolution—and what legacy automation has been delivering?

Topic 4 - The concept of a “self-improving” system is really powerful. What’s actually new here—what enables AI to improve with every interaction without constant human tuning?

Topic 5 - You’ve moved from assistive copilots to what you call “agentic AI” that can resolve issues end-to-end. Where are we today on that journey—and what still requires human involvement?

Topic 6 - Voice has historically been one of the hardest channels to automate. What changes with this new generation of AI that makes even complex, multi-step voice interactions solvable?

Topic 7 - If we fast-forward 2–3 years, what does a “best-in-class” customer service experience look like in an AI-first world?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18941231 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2046 Shashi Upadhyay, Zendesk, Customer Service, AI, AI Agents full false The $26B Pivot: Why Big Tech is Abandoning the AI "Wrapper" Model The $26B Pivot: Why Big Tech is Abandoning the AI "Wrapper" Model SUMMARY:  Brian (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the month of March, 2026. 

SHOW: 1014

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1014 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XwyAC-hxOQY

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1014 Transcript

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18922706 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2396 NVIDIA, OpenAI, Apple, Anthropic, Claude, CoWork, CoPilot, Microsoft, SuperMicro, Smuggling GPUs, ARM CPUs, OpenClaw, NemoClaw full false Living the Claude-centric Life Living the Claude-centric Life SUMMARY: With @bwhichard, we dig into how daily work-life changes when you make @AnthropicAI @claudeai the center of all workflow activities. 

SHOW: 1013

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1013 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/zEmEH0t67js

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Topic 1 - How long have you been living the Claude-life, and when did it dawn on you to make this central to your day-to-day activities? 

Topic 2 - What were the biggest hurdles you had to overcome before you trusted the system and started letting it have ownership over tasks and workflows?

Topic 3 - What are some of your best practices in terms of machine setup, how or where you store data, how you decide what to give it access to? Walk me through your thoughts around things like keeping things simple, where to be complex, how you think about security, etc.

Topic 4 - How are you learning to give it more responsibilities, or just figure out new ways to be productive with it? 

  • Good resources you’re pulling from? 
  • Any tips to make it use less tokens?
  • Skills marketplaces?

Topic 5 - What have been some of the biggest barriers to successful adoption, or just areas where you’re still struggling to get it to do the things you want? Or are you still in the learning curve stage and things just keep growing on one another?

Topic 6 - If you took the knowledge and skills you have now in Claude-life into your day-job, how do you see yourself working, as well as working with the rest of your team/teams? Would it bother you if you didn’t think they were using AI tools as much? 


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]]> SUMMARY: With @bwhichard, we dig into how daily work-life changes when you make @AnthropicAI @claudeai the center of all workflow activities. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1013 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/zEmEH0t67js

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - How long have you been living the Claude-life, and when did it dawn on you to make this central to your day-to-day activities? 

Topic 2 - What were the biggest hurdles you had to overcome before you trusted the system and started letting it have ownership over tasks and workflows?

Topic 3 - What are some of your best practices in terms of machine setup, how or where you store data, how you decide what to give it access to? Walk me through your thoughts around things like keeping things simple, where to be complex, how you think about security, etc.

Topic 4 - How are you learning to give it more responsibilities, or just figure out new ways to be productive with it? 

  • Good resources you’re pulling from? 
  • Any tips to make it use less tokens?
  • Skills marketplaces?

Topic 5 - What have been some of the biggest barriers to successful adoption, or just areas where you’re still struggling to get it to do the things you want? Or are you still in the learning curve stage and things just keep growing on one another?

Topic 6 - If you took the knowledge and skills you have now in Claude-life into your day-job, how do you see yourself working, as well as working with the rest of your team/teams? Would it bother you if you didn’t think they were using AI tools as much? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18903593 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2216 Anthropic, Claude, AI Agents, AI Assistant, Automated Workflows, Claude Code, Claude Cowork full false NVIDIA’s Open Software Trap: The Real Cost of the New Inference Stack NVIDIA’s Open Software Trap: The Real Cost of the New Inference Stack SUMMARY: We dig into the NVIDIA GTC keynote and highlight three things - accelerated computing for everything, the complexity of the new inference stack, and NVIDIA’s “open” software stack including NemoClaw.

SHOW: 1012

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1012 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Jensen’s trying to paint the bigger picture of accelerated computing everywhere (robotics, autonomous driving, gen-ai, physical ai - but also just everyday enterprise apps). Everything is about keeping the stock price up, and margins high. The stock price provides the warchest to fight off all foes. 

Topic 2 - The inference architecture is a complex mix of GPUs, CPUs, ASICs/LPUs, high-speed networking and seems very different from the training architecture. How big is the burden on data center providers? What are the inference alternatives emerging? 

Topic 3 - Jensen talked a lot about OpenClaw and eventually about NVIDIA’s NemoClaw. How does his interest in Agentic AI tie into his interest in building NVIDIA’s own frontier model


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]]> SUMMARY: We dig into the NVIDIA GTC keynote and highlight three things - accelerated computing for everything, the complexity of the new inference stack, and NVIDIA’s “open” software stack including NemoClaw.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1012 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aXOr91q76yM

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Topic 1 - Jensen’s trying to paint the bigger picture of accelerated computing everywhere (robotics, autonomous driving, gen-ai, physical ai - but also just everyday enterprise apps). Everything is about keeping the stock price up, and margins high. The stock price provides the warchest to fight off all foes. 

Topic 2 - The inference architecture is a complex mix of GPUs, CPUs, ASICs/LPUs, high-speed networking and seems very different from the training architecture. How big is the burden on data center providers? What are the inference alternatives emerging? 

Topic 3 - Jensen talked a lot about OpenClaw and eventually about NVIDIA’s NemoClaw. How does his interest in Agentic AI tie into his interest in building NVIDIA’s own frontier model


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18881246 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1680 NVIDIA, GTC 2026, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, Inference, Groq, Accelerated Computing, Keynote, Open Source, Systems full false Kagenti - A Kubernetes Control Plane for AI Agents Kagenti - A Kubernetes Control Plane for AI Agents SUMMARY: Morgan Foster talks about the Kagenti project, which enables an AI Agent agnostic framework for security, authentication, identity and zero-trust.

SHOW: 1011

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1011 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/djFZruLEDiw

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and areas you focus on today. 

Topic 2 - Tell us a bit about the Kagenti project and the types of challenges it’s trying to solve for Agentic AI deployments. 

Topic 3 - How much commonality exists between different Agentic frameworks that a common, agnostic agentic orchestration approach can work? And how much difference still exists and would drive companies to silo’d deployments? 

Topic 4 - How far should an Agentic Orchestration framework go, and what types of things do you expect will still be Agentic framework dependent? 

  • Is Kagenti more of a control-plane element, or more of a data-plane element? 

Topic 5 - As Kagenti evolves, what are some of the adjacent things that people should be keeping an eye on that might be a dependency, or could shift the direction of the project?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1011 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/djFZruLEDiw

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and areas you focus on today. 

Topic 2 - Tell us a bit about the Kagenti project and the types of challenges it’s trying to solve for Agentic AI deployments. 

Topic 3 - How much commonality exists between different Agentic frameworks that a common, agnostic agentic orchestration approach can work? And how much difference still exists and would drive companies to silo’d deployments? 

Topic 4 - How far should an Agentic Orchestration framework go, and what types of things do you expect will still be Agentic framework dependent? 

  • Is Kagenti more of a control-plane element, or more of a data-plane element? 

Topic 5 - As Kagenti evolves, what are some of the adjacent things that people should be keeping an eye on that might be a dependency, or could shift the direction of the project?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18864723 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0400 2435 Brian Gracely,Aaron Delp,The Reasoning Show,AI Agents,Morgan Foster,Kagenti,Kubernetes,Open Source,Zero-Trust,SPIFFE,MCP,Agentic AI,LLM,Identity,Authentication,Observability,OpenClaw full false Your Career is Legacy Code: Why 'All Jobs are Software' is a Warning, Not a Trend Your Career is Legacy Code: Why 'All Jobs are Software' is a Warning, Not a Trend SUMMARY: Brian talks about the rapidly expanding gap between people and companies that augment their work with AI and those who are making AI the center of their work world. 

SHOW: 1010

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1010 Transcript

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WHY THE NEED FOR A CODE RED? 

  • Velocity of Code (new companies)
  • Velocity of Productivity (employees)
  • Velocity of Analysis (strategy)
  • AgentOps
  • Token Factories
  • Devs for Business, Re-Wiring the Concept of Business Analyst

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]]> SUMMARY: Brian talks about the rapidly expanding gap between people and companies that augment their work with AI and those who are making AI the center of their work world. 

SHOW: 1010

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1010 Transcript

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WHY THE NEED FOR A CODE RED? 

  • Velocity of Code (new companies)
  • Velocity of Productivity (employees)
  • Velocity of Analysis (strategy)
  • AgentOps
  • Token Factories
  • Devs for Business, Re-Wiring the Concept of Business Analyst

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18851296 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1263 Code Red, Jobs as Software, 10x Acceleration, Coding Assistants, AI-native Companies, Evolving Business Analysts, Make devs learn the Business full false Inside OpenClaw and Open Source Innovation Inside OpenClaw and Open Source Innovation SUMMARY: Sally O’Malley (Principle Software Engineer @RedHat, Maintainter @OpenClaw) talks about her early experiences of immersing herself into OpenClaw and evolution of the OpenClaw community.

SHOW: 1009

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1009 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background in software engineering. 

Topic 2 - You recently jumped into the deep end of the pool with OpenClaw. Tell us about the week of immersion with this new technology. 

  • What did you go into it thinking about?
  • What did you learn, what did you create?
  • What new sorts of things did you have to try?

Topic 2a - For anyone that’s new to OpenClaw, can you give us the basics of what OpenClaw does?

Topic 3 - You mentioned that this is a very different (or completely different) paradigm of how software is created. Can you walk us through the differences, your observations, how you had to really rethink things that you did before and after?

Topic 4 - In your day job, you’re focused on software that’s used by large enterprises that have to be concerned with security and stability, as much as they do innovation. How do you see the existing OpenClaw fitting into that world? 

  • How do you expect that OpenClaw might need to change?
  • How do you expect that enterprises might need to change to adapt to this new capability that might be unleashed with their employees?

Topic 5 - You (very) recently were accepted as a committer to the OpenClaw project. I know it’s only been a few days, but what is opening your eyes about how this community operates, especially in comparison to other open projects you’ve worked on? 

  • We could probably have an entire podcast on AI development in open communities.

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]]> SUMMARY: Sally O’Malley (Principle Software Engineer @RedHat, Maintainter @OpenClaw) talks about her early experiences of immersing herself into OpenClaw and evolution of the OpenClaw community.

SHOW: 1009

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1009 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7xARBtgiMQg

SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background in software engineering. 

Topic 2 - You recently jumped into the deep end of the pool with OpenClaw. Tell us about the week of immersion with this new technology. 

  • What did you go into it thinking about?
  • What did you learn, what did you create?
  • What new sorts of things did you have to try?

Topic 2a - For anyone that’s new to OpenClaw, can you give us the basics of what OpenClaw does?

Topic 3 - You mentioned that this is a very different (or completely different) paradigm of how software is created. Can you walk us through the differences, your observations, how you had to really rethink things that you did before and after?

Topic 4 - In your day job, you’re focused on software that’s used by large enterprises that have to be concerned with security and stability, as much as they do innovation. How do you see the existing OpenClaw fitting into that world? 

  • How do you expect that OpenClaw might need to change?
  • How do you expect that enterprises might need to change to adapt to this new capability that might be unleashed with their employees?

Topic 5 - You (very) recently were accepted as a committer to the OpenClaw project. I know it’s only been a few days, but what is opening your eyes about how this community operates, especially in comparison to other open projects you’ve worked on? 

  • We could probably have an entire podcast on AI development in open communities.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18826624 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1555 full false Understanding NeoClouds with Crusoe Understanding NeoClouds with Crusoe Erwan Menard - SVP Product Management @CrusoeAI talks about the evolution of NeoClouds, the challenges of matching the speed of data centers, GPUs and software, and how everything is evolving to megawatts and tokens. 

SHOW: 1008

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1008 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Crusoe. 

Topic 2 - There has obviously been a lot of coverage of AI data center buildouts all over the world for the last few years. Tell us about Crusoe, and your approach to providing “neocloud” services. 

Topic 3 - What are the biggest challenges facing Crusoe today and in the immediate future - is it technology, energy, financing for expansions, etc.?

Topic 4 - Crusoe started as a bitcoin-focused company and has evolved to more of a GenAI-focus. What types of architectural changes did you have to make for this new type of workload? And how do those impact the quality of the services your customers expect from Crusoe?

Topic 5 - Is your focus more on environments to enable model training and customization, or more focus on inference for customer-facing applications? 

Topic 6 - A lot has changed in AI in the last couple years. What has changed the most in the last couple years, and what are you expecting to change the most over the next couple years? 

Topic 7 - Sovereign AI and Private AI have become much bigger topics over the last 12-18 months, and we’d expect that to grow. What unique things is Crusoe doing to adapt to these changing requirements from customers?


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]]> Erwan Menard - SVP Product Management @CrusoeAI talks about the evolution of NeoClouds, the challenges of matching the speed of data centers, GPUs and software, and how everything is evolving to megawatts and tokens. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1008 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/eA8vpPmSW0Y

SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Crusoe. 

Topic 2 - There has obviously been a lot of coverage of AI data center buildouts all over the world for the last few years. Tell us about Crusoe, and your approach to providing “neocloud” services. 

Topic 3 - What are the biggest challenges facing Crusoe today and in the immediate future - is it technology, energy, financing for expansions, etc.?

Topic 4 - Crusoe started as a bitcoin-focused company and has evolved to more of a GenAI-focus. What types of architectural changes did you have to make for this new type of workload? And how do those impact the quality of the services your customers expect from Crusoe?

Topic 5 - Is your focus more on environments to enable model training and customization, or more focus on inference for customer-facing applications? 

Topic 6 - A lot has changed in AI in the last couple years. What has changed the most in the last couple years, and what are you expecting to change the most over the next couple years? 

Topic 7 - Sovereign AI and Private AI have become much bigger topics over the last 12-18 months, and we’d expect that to grow. What unique things is Crusoe doing to adapt to these changing requirements from customers?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18799436 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1660 NeoCloud, Crusoe, AI, data centers, energy, modular data centers, customer engagement, Bitcoin, inference, training, sovereign AI full false Beyond the Chatbot: Why Most "Agents" are Just Glorified Automation Beyond the Chatbot: Why Most "Agents" are Just Glorified Automation OVERVIEW: Welcome to The Reasoning Show! We dig into one of the foundational building blocks of modern Generative AI, the AI Agent. So what is an AI Agent, and what do we need to think about for the next couple years? 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1007 Transcript

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Topic 1 - We’re 3+ years into the Generative AI era. Why do you think AI Agents, or Agentic AI, is now getting so much attention? 

Topic 2 - If someone asked you to explain what an AI Agent is, how would you do that? 

Topic 3 - What are some of the core elements of AI Agents that you’re seeing impact how people think about and use agents?

  • How to define tasks
  • Languages and frameworks
  • Ability to orchestrate multiple agents
  • Human-in-the-Loop vs. Autonomous
  • Other?

Topic 4 - AI Agents are going to spark the great “how much should I pay for this?” discussion. Have you given this any thought yet?  

Topic 5 - How do you expect to use AI agents in your day-to-day work, and how do you expect this to impact Enterprise businesses?

ESSENTIAL READING

Essential Viewing

Frameworks & Tools 

  • LangGraph: standard for complex, stateful agents (nodes, edges, loops)
  • CrewAI: Best for structured task delegation and multi-agent collaboration
  • AutoGen: Microsoft's framework for multi-agent conversational systems
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): standard for connecting agents, tools, data
  • n8n: no-code/low-code visual agent building

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SHOW: 1007

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1007 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/4tdj0S0AyhM

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Topic 1 - We’re 3+ years into the Generative AI era. Why do you think AI Agents, or Agentic AI, is now getting so much attention? 

Topic 2 - If someone asked you to explain what an AI Agent is, how would you do that? 

Topic 3 - What are some of the core elements of AI Agents that you’re seeing impact how people think about and use agents?

  • How to define tasks
  • Languages and frameworks
  • Ability to orchestrate multiple agents
  • Human-in-the-Loop vs. Autonomous
  • Other?

Topic 4 - AI Agents are going to spark the great “how much should I pay for this?” discussion. Have you given this any thought yet?  

Topic 5 - How do you expect to use AI agents in your day-to-day work, and how do you expect this to impact Enterprise businesses?

ESSENTIAL READING

Essential Viewing

Frameworks & Tools 

  • LangGraph: standard for complex, stateful agents (nodes, edges, loops)
  • CrewAI: Best for structured task delegation and multi-agent collaboration
  • AutoGen: Microsoft's framework for multi-agent conversational systems
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): standard for connecting agents, tools, data
  • n8n: no-code/low-code visual agent building

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18777277 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1584 AI, AI Agents, Agent Swarms, Inference, LangGraph, CrewAI, Claude, n8n, Automation, full false AI & Cloud News of the Month - Feb 2026 AI & Cloud News of the Month - Feb 2026 This episode marks the transition from The Cloudcast to The Reasoning Show, focusing more on AI and cloud topics. Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss recent trends in AI, the evolution of tech teams, and the shifting landscape of enterprise AI tools.

SHOW: 1006

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1006 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

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SHOW: 1006

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1006 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18765589 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 2523 AI, cloud computing, tech teams, enterprise AI, The Cloudcast, The Reasoning Show, AI companies, open source AI, Anthropic, OpenClaw full false How The Cloudcast is changing in 2026? How The Cloudcast is changing in 2026? Aaron and Brian discuss how The Cloudcast will be changing going forward, signaling an industry shift from Cloud Computing to AI.  

SHOW: 1005

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1005 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - What are we announcing? (“The Reasoning Show”, a.k.a. “Reasoning”)

  • New name, same RSS feeds (same podcast players)
  • New logo
  • Some existing/renamed and some new social media channels (will be listed)
  • Same co-hosts (and maybe some new friends)

Topic 2 - Why are we changing The Cloudcast?

  • The majority of our content is AI focused now
  • Cloud has become mostly stable, AI is at the beginning and so much is changing
  • We’re not abandoning Cloud, just giving it the amount of coverage needs (monthly Cloudcast, monthly CNOTM)
  • Social media algorithms have changed audience acquisition

Topic 3 - Hasn’t The Cloudcast already been covering AI for a while? 

  • Yes, it’s been about 50/50 since 2024
  • We’ve been discussing this change for almost a year. 
  • We actually discussed having an OpenAI-specific podcast at one point, but so much as changed in the market (which is a good reason for a diverse podcast)

Topic 4 - What can we expect from the new podcast?

  • Still on Wednesday and Sunday
  • Both audio and video formats (Apple, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok/Insta (clips))
  • Trying to make it easier for someone new to follow along - more concentration around core topics, but not exclusively
  • AI Technology, AI Economics, AI Trends, AI (Business) Use-Cases, AI Things to Watch, AI Productivity, AI Regulation
  • We’ll still do a “Cloudcast” once a month, as the Cloud underpins almost everything AI
  • We’ll likely do a “Reasoning Basics” spin-off, like Cloudcast Basics. 
  • We’ll get a newsletter pulled together (hopefully weekly). 

Topic 5 - Anything else?

  • Listeners don’t have to do anything to keep getting their week podcast
  • Subscribe to the social media channels (show notes)
  • Leave a 5-star review on the podcast players
  • Tell a friend to check out the show


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SHOW: 1005

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1005 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - What are we announcing? (“The Reasoning Show”, a.k.a. “Reasoning”)

  • New name, same RSS feeds (same podcast players)
  • New logo
  • Some existing/renamed and some new social media channels (will be listed)
  • Same co-hosts (and maybe some new friends)

Topic 2 - Why are we changing The Cloudcast?

  • The majority of our content is AI focused now
  • Cloud has become mostly stable, AI is at the beginning and so much is changing
  • We’re not abandoning Cloud, just giving it the amount of coverage needs (monthly Cloudcast, monthly CNOTM)
  • Social media algorithms have changed audience acquisition

Topic 3 - Hasn’t The Cloudcast already been covering AI for a while? 

  • Yes, it’s been about 50/50 since 2024
  • We’ve been discussing this change for almost a year. 
  • We actually discussed having an OpenAI-specific podcast at one point, but so much as changed in the market (which is a good reason for a diverse podcast)

Topic 4 - What can we expect from the new podcast?

  • Still on Wednesday and Sunday
  • Both audio and video formats (Apple, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok/Insta (clips))
  • Trying to make it easier for someone new to follow along - more concentration around core topics, but not exclusively
  • AI Technology, AI Economics, AI Trends, AI (Business) Use-Cases, AI Things to Watch, AI Productivity, AI Regulation
  • We’ll still do a “Cloudcast” once a month, as the Cloud underpins almost everything AI
  • We’ll likely do a “Reasoning Basics” spin-off, like Cloudcast Basics. 
  • We’ll get a newsletter pulled together (hopefully weekly). 

Topic 5 - Anything else?

  • Listeners don’t have to do anything to keep getting their week podcast
  • Subscribe to the social media channels (show notes)
  • Leave a 5-star review on the podcast players
  • Tell a friend to check out the show


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18743311 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1065 Cloudcast, The Reasoning Show, AI, podcast transition, tech trends, video content, podcast rebranding, tech podcast, AI trends, podcast evolution full false What's Your Token Budget? What's Your Token Budget? This episode explores the evolving economics of AI development, the rising costs associated with AI agents, and the implications for businesses and developers. It highlights the shift from centralized to decentralized computing, the importance of understanding token budgets, and the future of AI project management.

SHOW: 1004

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1004 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Celebrating Milestones and AI Insights

02:48 - The Cost of AI Agents and Realizations

06:05 - Centralization vs. Decentralization in AI

08:51 - The Evolution of AI Economics

12:03 - Future Trends in AI and Project Management

14:52 - Connecting AI to Real-World Economics

KEY TOPICS:

  • AI agent costs and pricing models
  • The shift from centralized to decentralized computing
  • Token budgets and project economics in AI
  • Historical transitions in computing infrastructure
  • Future trends in AI project management

SHOW NOTES

WE'VE REACHED A POINT WITH AI WHERE PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO THINK ABOUT THE BUSINESS IMPACTS

  • How much should an AI project cost?
  • How do we translate an AI token into some unit that a business can understand?
  • How companies be their own AI token factories?

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SHOW: 1004

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1004 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Celebrating Milestones and AI Insights

02:48 - The Cost of AI Agents and Realizations

06:05 - Centralization vs. Decentralization in AI

08:51 - The Evolution of AI Economics

12:03 - Future Trends in AI and Project Management

14:52 - Connecting AI to Real-World Economics

KEY TOPICS:

  • AI agent costs and pricing models
  • The shift from centralized to decentralized computing
  • Token budgets and project economics in AI
  • Historical transitions in computing infrastructure
  • Future trends in AI project management

SHOW NOTES

WE'VE REACHED A POINT WITH AI WHERE PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO THINK ABOUT THE BUSINESS IMPACTS

  • How much should an AI project cost?
  • How do we translate an AI token into some unit that a business can understand?
  • How companies be their own AI token factories?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18733125 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1138 AI economics, AI agents, decentralization, token budgets, AI project costs, cloud computing, AI development, AI trends 2026 full false Evaluating AI Models in 2026 Evaluating AI Models in 2026 Aaron and Brian review some of the latest AI model releases and discuss how they would evaluate them through the lens of an Enterprise AI Architect. 

SHOW: 1003

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1003 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

TAKEAWAYS

  • The frequency of AI model releases can lead to numbness among users.
  • Evaluating AI models requires understanding their specific use cases and benchmarks.
  • Enterprises must consider the compatibility and integration of new models with existing systems.
  • Benchmarks are becoming more accessible but still require careful interpretation.
  • The rapid pace of AI development creates challenges for enterprise adoption and integration.
  • Companies need to be proactive in managing the versioning of AI models.
  • The industry may need to establish clearer standards for evaluating AI performance.
  • Efficiency and cost-effectiveness are becoming critical metrics for AI adoption.
  • The timing of model releases can impact their market reception and user adoption.
  • Businesses must adapt to the fast-paced changes in AI technology to remain competitive.

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SHOW: 1003

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1003 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

TAKEAWAYS

  • The frequency of AI model releases can lead to numbness among users.
  • Evaluating AI models requires understanding their specific use cases and benchmarks.
  • Enterprises must consider the compatibility and integration of new models with existing systems.
  • Benchmarks are becoming more accessible but still require careful interpretation.
  • The rapid pace of AI development creates challenges for enterprise adoption and integration.
  • Companies need to be proactive in managing the versioning of AI models.
  • The industry may need to establish clearer standards for evaluating AI performance.
  • Efficiency and cost-effectiveness are becoming critical metrics for AI adoption.
  • The timing of model releases can impact their market reception and user adoption.
  • Businesses must adapt to the fast-paced changes in AI technology to remain competitive.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18703311 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1739 AI models, model releases, benchmarks, enterprise AI, AI evaluation, AI landscape, AI efficiency, AI adoption, cloud computing, technology trends full false Three AI Rooms to be a Fly on the Wall in 2026 Three AI Rooms to be a Fly on the Wall in 2026 As we move into Q1 2026, Brian talks about 3 rooms where he'd like to be a fly on wall to see the blueprints of significant AI companies shaping the markets. 

SHOW: 1002

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1002 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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A FLY ON THE WALL IN 3 ROOMS IN 2026

  • Room1 - NVIDIA’s M&A Room (Chips, Software Stack, Hosting Services, Agentic Tools, etc.)
  • Room 2 - Anthropic’s Agentic Vision
  • Room 3 - TSMC’s 2028-2030 Planning

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SHOW: 1002

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1002 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

A FLY ON THE WALL IN 3 ROOMS IN 2026

  • Room1 - NVIDIA’s M&A Room (Chips, Software Stack, Hosting Services, Agentic Tools, etc.)
  • Room 2 - Anthropic’s Agentic Vision
  • Room 3 - TSMC’s 2028-2030 Planning

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18685002 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 777 AI, NVIDIA, Anthropic, TSMC, hardware, software development, agentic tools, chip manufacturing, market trends, technology full false What we wish we knew about the next 3 years of AI? What we wish we knew about the next 3 years of AI? Aaron and Brian explore the evolving landscape of AI over the next three years, discussing its economic implications, political influences, technological advancements, partnership dynamics, changing buying patterns, and the potential impact on job creation and destruction. They emphasize the uncertainty surrounding AI's future and the need for understanding its broader implications.

SHOW: 1001

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1001 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT DO WE WISH WE KNEW ABOUT AI IN 3 YEARS?

  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Regulations
  • Partnerships
  • Buying Patterns
  • Usage Patterns
  • Devices
  • Job Creation/Destruction


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SHOW: 1001

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1001 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT DO WE WISH WE KNEW ABOUT AI IN 3 YEARS?

  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Regulations
  • Partnerships
  • Buying Patterns
  • Usage Patterns
  • Devices
  • Job Creation/Destruction


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18650043 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1830 AI, economics, politics, technology, partnerships, buying patterns, job market, AGI, regulations, investment full false The Economics of Software Developers The Economics of Software Developers If someone walked into your office today and asked you to build a framework for how to value software development, what would you think about it? 

SHOW: 1000

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1000 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:


HOW SHOULD SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE ECONOMICS OF SW DEV IN 2026?

  • If someone walked into your office today and asked you to build a framework for how to value software development, how would you think about it? 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1000 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


HOW SHOULD SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE ECONOMICS OF SW DEV IN 2026?

  • If someone walked into your office today and asked you to build a framework for how to value software development, how would you think about it? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18644243 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 985 software development, SaaS, cloud computing, enterprise software, AI agents, product management, software economics, technology trends, business strategy, innovation full false The Future of Enterprise Software? The Future of Enterprise Software? Are we ready to move into an era of wild predictions about where the future of Enterprise software is headed in 2026 and beyond? 

SHOW: 999

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #999 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES

WHAT HAPPENS TO ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE NEXT?

  • How much do enterprises want to write their own software? 
  • How much do enterprises wish they could write more software?
  • How much do enterprises not understand the economics of owning their own software?
  • How much does “big SaaS” or just “big Enterprise software” actually help because people already know it?
  • Is it possible that this new Agentic-driven software could create a type of new software community? 
  • Are “open” software communities prepared for the emerging economics of AI-created software? 

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SHOW: 999

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #999 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES

WHAT HAPPENS TO ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE NEXT?

  • How much do enterprises want to write their own software? 
  • How much do enterprises wish they could write more software?
  • How much do enterprises not understand the economics of owning their own software?
  • How much does “big SaaS” or just “big Enterprise software” actually help because people already know it?
  • Is it possible that this new Agentic-driven software could create a type of new software community? 
  • Are “open” software communities prepared for the emerging economics of AI-created software? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18622134 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1631 AI, enterprise software, SaaS, Microsoft, software economics, legacy systems, open source, technology trends, software development, cloud computing full false The Rise of Digital Sovereignty The Rise of Digital Sovereignty We take a listener question about digital sovereignty, tariffs and UK/EU independence from large US cloud providers, also Brian reaches out to the Melbourne, AUS listeners. 

SHOW: 998

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #998 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY 

  • What is the definition of Digital Sovereignty? What about Digital Assurance? 
  • Sovereignty from who or what? 
  • What laws are you attempting to comply with? How are they audited or measured? 
  • Data Sovereignty - Maintaining control over how data is collected, classified, processed and stored to ensure that data regulations are met
  • Technical Sovereignty - Running workloads without dependence on a provider’s infrastructure or software, and protected from all extra-territorial interference and scrutiny.
  • Operational Sovereignty - Visibility and control over provider operations from provisioning and performance management, to monitoring of physical and digital access, to the infrastructure.
  • Assurance Sovereignty -Ability to independently verify and assure the integrity, security, and reliability of digital systems and processes including resilience of critical services.


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SHOW: 998

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #998 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY 

  • What is the definition of Digital Sovereignty? What about Digital Assurance? 
  • Sovereignty from who or what? 
  • What laws are you attempting to comply with? How are they audited or measured? 
  • Data Sovereignty - Maintaining control over how data is collected, classified, processed and stored to ensure that data regulations are met
  • Technical Sovereignty - Running workloads without dependence on a provider’s infrastructure or software, and protected from all extra-territorial interference and scrutiny.
  • Operational Sovereignty - Visibility and control over provider operations from provisioning and performance management, to monitoring of physical and digital access, to the infrastructure.
  • Assurance Sovereignty -Ability to independently verify and assure the integrity, security, and reliability of digital systems and processes including resilience of critical services.


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18607007 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1962 Cloudcast, technology, geopolitics, digital sovereignty, US tariffs, Azure, AWS, European industry, data control, cloud providers full false AI & Cloud Trends for January 2026 AI & Cloud Trends for January 2026 Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2026.

SHOW: 997

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #997 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #997 Transcript

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18581982 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0500 2860 full false 10 Questions about what Cloud 2.0 might look like 10 Questions about what Cloud 2.0 might look like Following on the discussion of the Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 2.0 transition, we explore what that future cloud might look like. 

SHOW: 996

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #996 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:

Q1 - What didn’t Cloud 1.0 achieve from the grand vision?

Q2 - What seemed promising but might have been the wrong timing? 

Q3 - Why didn’t more SaaS get bundled by the hyperscalers?

Q4 - Does multi-cloud become easier?

Q5 - Do primitives continue to be the core offering, or do more integrated offerings dominate the landscape?

Q6 - Do a bunch of existing primitives get turned off to make room for new AI capabilities (DC capacity)?

Q7 - Is security on by default? 

Q8 - Do more private/sovereign capabilities get offered?

Q9 - What are the new AI capabilities that nobody has even thought of yet?

Q10 - How does the mix of AI workloads get distributed across clouds, or across private and public? 


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SHOW: 996

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #996 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

Q1 - What didn’t Cloud 1.0 achieve from the grand vision?

Q2 - What seemed promising but might have been the wrong timing? 

Q3 - Why didn’t more SaaS get bundled by the hyperscalers?

Q4 - Does multi-cloud become easier?

Q5 - Do primitives continue to be the core offering, or do more integrated offerings dominate the landscape?

Q6 - Do a bunch of existing primitives get turned off to make room for new AI capabilities (DC capacity)?

Q7 - Is security on by default? 

Q8 - Do more private/sovereign capabilities get offered?

Q9 - What are the new AI capabilities that nobody has even thought of yet?

Q10 - How does the mix of AI workloads get distributed across clouds, or across private and public? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18550761 Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1429 full false The Cloudcast Playbook - Lessons from 1000 Shows The Cloudcast Playbook - Lessons from 1000 Shows After 1000+ shows of The Cloudcast, when critical lessons have we learned about the industry, our our journey, and tips for anyone in tech. 

SHOW: 995

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #995 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:

Lesson 1 - Why did we create The Cloudcast? [Career expansion]

Lesson 2 - How did we learn all the topics we covered? [Skills development]

Lesson 3 - What have been the biggest Cloud trends we’ve covered [Trends]

Lesson 4 - How did you think about technology transitions over the last 10-15 years? [Change]

Lesson 5 - How important was it for you to learn the business side of cloud? [Follow the money]

Lesson 6 - What structural changes do you think Cloud will have on IT in 10 years? [Legacy]

Lesson 7 - What lesson from an episode do you think about the most frequently?

Lesson 8 - What surprised you the most about the Cloud 1.0 era?

Lesson 9 - What did you expect to happen, which never really happened?

Lesson 10 - What were the most important lessons you personally learned? [Lessons Learned]



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SHOW: 995

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #995 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

Lesson 1 - Why did we create The Cloudcast? [Career expansion]

Lesson 2 - How did we learn all the topics we covered? [Skills development]

Lesson 3 - What have been the biggest Cloud trends we’ve covered [Trends]

Lesson 4 - How did you think about technology transitions over the last 10-15 years? [Change]

Lesson 5 - How important was it for you to learn the business side of cloud? [Follow the money]

Lesson 6 - What structural changes do you think Cloud will have on IT in 10 years? [Legacy]

Lesson 7 - What lesson from an episode do you think about the most frequently?

Lesson 8 - What surprised you the most about the Cloud 1.0 era?

Lesson 9 - What did you expect to happen, which never really happened?

Lesson 10 - What were the most important lessons you personally learned? [Lessons Learned]



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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18550739 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0500 2968 full false It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0 It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0 15 years ago, when we started The Cloudcast the definition of cloud was pretty clear cut. But now in 2026, the rules are all different and a new era of Cloud is upon us. Let’s explore what the next generation might provide. 

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WHAT IS AND ISN’T CLOUD IN 2026?

  • Cloud isn’t a single company
  • Cloud isn’t just public cloud
  • A CIA cloud isn’t a Gov cloud isn’t your Enterprise Cloud
  • Multi-cloud is a real thing that needs technology
  • Google, the people that invented “cloud” are a real company in cloud
  • Defining cloud by purity, or IaaS/PaaS/SaaS terms doesn’t really matter
  • Does data locality matter more in an AI-Cloud era?
  • Do we begin to see price wars over the core Cloud 1.0 primitives?
  • Are we in the 9th inning of Cloud, and the 1st inning of what’s next? 
  • AI has replaced SaaS in immediacy, so does that have impact on Cloud services? 
  • Does the lack of application portfolio finally come back to bite AWS? 
  • Can niche cloud services emerge (e.g. is Vercel another Digital Ocean, or something unique?)


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SHOW: 994

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #994 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES


WHAT IS AND ISN’T CLOUD IN 2026?

  • Cloud isn’t a single company
  • Cloud isn’t just public cloud
  • A CIA cloud isn’t a Gov cloud isn’t your Enterprise Cloud
  • Multi-cloud is a real thing that needs technology
  • Google, the people that invented “cloud” are a real company in cloud
  • Defining cloud by purity, or IaaS/PaaS/SaaS terms doesn’t really matter
  • Does data locality matter more in an AI-Cloud era?
  • Do we begin to see price wars over the core Cloud 1.0 primitives?
  • Are we in the 9th inning of Cloud, and the 1st inning of what’s next? 
  • AI has replaced SaaS in immediacy, so does that have impact on Cloud services? 
  • Does the lack of application portfolio finally come back to bite AWS? 
  • Can niche cloud services emerge (e.g. is Vercel another Digital Ocean, or something unique?)


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18527388 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1267 AWS, Azure, GCP, Corey Quinn, Cloud 2.0, Digital Ocean, AI, New Behaviors full false RAG That Survives Production RAG That Survives Production Adam Kamor (@tonicfakedata, Founder & Head of Engineering) talks about building RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems in production for AI data. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #992 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Adam, welcome to the show. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2: Our topic today is RAG systems, specifically RAG in production. Let’s start with customization sources and types. When it comes to customizing off-the-shelf LLMs, RAG is one option, as is an MCP connection to a SQL database, and there is pre- and post-training, as well as fine-tuning. How does an organization decide what path is best for customization?

Topic 3 - RAG came on the scene as the savior for organizations that want to use customer AI without the need for fine-tuning and additional training. It has either gone through or is currently still in the trough of disillusionment. What are your thoughts on RAG's evolution and the challenges it faces?

Topic 4 - Let’s walk through the basics of validation. Once you set up RAG, how would an organization know it works? How is accuracy measured and validated? Are you looking for hallucinations? Context quality?

Topic 5 - What is Tonic Validate, and where does it fit into this stack? Is it in band? Out of band? Built into the CI workflow?

Topic 6 - Accuracy is one aspect, but we hear more and more about ROI for Enterprises. How should ROI, risk, and compliance be measured?

Topic 7 - Where and how does security fit into all of this? Also, your thoughts on synthetic data for training vs. real data?


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SHOW: 992

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #992 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Adam, welcome to the show. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2: Our topic today is RAG systems, specifically RAG in production. Let’s start with customization sources and types. When it comes to customizing off-the-shelf LLMs, RAG is one option, as is an MCP connection to a SQL database, and there is pre- and post-training, as well as fine-tuning. How does an organization decide what path is best for customization?

Topic 3 - RAG came on the scene as the savior for organizations that want to use customer AI without the need for fine-tuning and additional training. It has either gone through or is currently still in the trough of disillusionment. What are your thoughts on RAG's evolution and the challenges it faces?

Topic 4 - Let’s walk through the basics of validation. Once you set up RAG, how would an organization know it works? How is accuracy measured and validated? Are you looking for hallucinations? Context quality?

Topic 5 - What is Tonic Validate, and where does it fit into this stack? Is it in band? Out of band? Built into the CI workflow?

Topic 6 - Accuracy is one aspect, but we hear more and more about ROI for Enterprises. How should ROI, risk, and compliance be measured?

Topic 7 - Where and how does security fit into all of this? Also, your thoughts on synthetic data for training vs. real data?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18505647 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1342 AI, RAG, MCP, Tonic Validate, CI Pipeline, Hallucinations, Adam Kamor, Tonic.ai full false 20 Years of OSS Databases 20 Years of OSS Databases Peter Zairsev (@PeterZaitsev, Founder of @Percona) talks about the history of OSS databases, and how AI is reshaping the demands on modern databases. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #991 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Peter. Give everyone a brief introduction, and we’ll also dig into the details of Percona after that.

Topic 2 - Percona is basically a household name in our space. Part of that is the excellent tech, and part of that is the longevity. Tell everyone the origin story of Percona.

Topic 3 - How have OSS databases evolved? Going back 20 years is a bit far, but what recent trends stand out? How have cloud (i.e. the hyperscalers) and SaaS in particular changed this landscape 

Topic 4 - Percona plays in the same space, and with, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL. If you don’t mind, help everyone connect the dots there and why that matters.

Topic 5 - What are the typical business cases and implementations you are seeing today? What are organizations trying to solve for the most?

Topic 6 - How has AI and the rise of embeddings and vector databases impacted the OSS space? What are your thoughts here? Is this complementary/competitive/both?

Topic 7 - What do you wish people knew more about Percona?


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #991 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Peter. Give everyone a brief introduction, and we’ll also dig into the details of Percona after that.

Topic 2 - Percona is basically a household name in our space. Part of that is the excellent tech, and part of that is the longevity. Tell everyone the origin story of Percona.

Topic 3 - How have OSS databases evolved? Going back 20 years is a bit far, but what recent trends stand out? How have cloud (i.e. the hyperscalers) and SaaS in particular changed this landscape 

Topic 4 - Percona plays in the same space, and with, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL. If you don’t mind, help everyone connect the dots there and why that matters.

Topic 5 - What are the typical business cases and implementations you are seeing today? What are organizations trying to solve for the most?

Topic 6 - How has AI and the rise of embeddings and vector databases impacted the OSS space? What are your thoughts here? Is this complementary/competitive/both?

Topic 7 - What do you wish people knew more about Percona?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18466104 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0500 1556 Percona, MySQL, MongoDB, Peter Zairsev, OSS, Database, Vector Databases, AI full false AI & Cloud Trends for December 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for December 2025 Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from December 2025.

SHOW: 990

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #990 Transcript

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #990 Transcript

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18447030 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0500 2650 OpenAI, NVIDIA, AWS, Oracle, BlueOwl, Groq, LPUs, Salesforce, Microsoft, CoPilot full false Cloud and AI Predictions for 2026 Cloud and AI Predictions for 2026 Aaron and Brian make some bold predictions for the 2026 Cloud and AI markets, as well as reviewing the biggest issues going into 2026.  

SHOW: 989

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #989 Transcript

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

2026 CLOUD + AI PREDICTIONS (AND BIG ISSUES TO REVIEW)

  • OpenAI Revenues and Focus Areas
  • NVIDIA customer profitability
  • Companies moving to GOOG TPUs
  • Enterprise success beyond CoPilot/Gemini
  • Enterprise data+model trainability
  • Enterprise price hikes
  • Broadcom, AMD, Groq - alternative HW options
  • Data Center buildouts
  • Does AI spending shift
  • What is Agentic AI?
  • Long term spending + short term refocuses

PREDICTIONS:

  • At least one big AI IPO in 2026, and it won’t go well. (Aaron says Anthropic)
  • People will question whether Sam Altman is the right person to lead OpenAI
  • AI will be a central issue in the 2026 US elections, either about job losses or electricity prices
  • One major LPU/TPU/dedicated inference chip will break through in 2026
  • Azure will be the Number One Cloud… (Aaron has to keep it going)
  • We will start to see a shift in the Enterprise from big models in the sky (1+trillion parameters) to dedicated, purpose-built models of 500M or less in size for efficiency and security
  • Gemini will dominate the consumer/prosumer space, OpenAI will go through the trough of disillusionment
  • The industry will shift to a base/instruct and a reasoning split of models
  • AWS and Azure will double down on being a solutions provider instead of a primitive supplier for AI and infrastructure

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SHOW: 989

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #989 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

2026 CLOUD + AI PREDICTIONS (AND BIG ISSUES TO REVIEW)

  • OpenAI Revenues and Focus Areas
  • NVIDIA customer profitability
  • Companies moving to GOOG TPUs
  • Enterprise success beyond CoPilot/Gemini
  • Enterprise data+model trainability
  • Enterprise price hikes
  • Broadcom, AMD, Groq - alternative HW options
  • Data Center buildouts
  • Does AI spending shift
  • What is Agentic AI?
  • Long term spending + short term refocuses

PREDICTIONS:

  • At least one big AI IPO in 2026, and it won’t go well. (Aaron says Anthropic)
  • People will question whether Sam Altman is the right person to lead OpenAI
  • AI will be a central issue in the 2026 US elections, either about job losses or electricity prices
  • One major LPU/TPU/dedicated inference chip will break through in 2026
  • Azure will be the Number One Cloud… (Aaron has to keep it going)
  • We will start to see a shift in the Enterprise from big models in the sky (1+trillion parameters) to dedicated, purpose-built models of 500M or less in size for efficiency and security
  • Gemini will dominate the consumer/prosumer space, OpenAI will go through the trough of disillusionment
  • The industry will shift to a base/instruct and a reasoning split of models
  • AWS and Azure will double down on being a solutions provider instead of a primitive supplier for AI and infrastructure

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18409319 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 3726 AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Data Centers, Broadcom, Groq, TPU, LPU, Gemini, Sam Altman, Agentic AI full false The Craziest Year (so far) comes to a close The Craziest Year (so far) comes to a close A lot changed in the world of Cloud and AI this year. And then it changed some more, and some more, and so more. The only constant was change. 


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SHOW NOTES

IT WAS AN INTERESTING YEAR IN CLOUD AND AI TECHNOLOGY

  • AI has become a mainstream technology, political and social talking point
  • AI went through 7yrs of news cycles in 1 yr
  • DeepSeek - Maybe NVIDIA chips aren’t needed?
  • NVIDIA acquihired Grok and their technology
  • Maybe AWS’ lead in the cloud is now in question
  • Google got their act together with GenAI, after inventing the technology in 2017
  • Microsoft and OpenAI sort of broke up, or at least they are seeing other people
  • OpenAI forecasts 100x their current revenue in future computing needs
  • The US Gov’t either bailed out, or socialized Intel
  • Bitcoin - 94k, up to 125k, down to 84k


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SHOW: 988

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #988 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES

IT WAS AN INTERESTING YEAR IN CLOUD AND AI TECHNOLOGY

  • AI has become a mainstream technology, political and social talking point
  • AI went through 7yrs of news cycles in 1 yr
  • DeepSeek - Maybe NVIDIA chips aren’t needed?
  • NVIDIA acquihired Grok and their technology
  • Maybe AWS’ lead in the cloud is now in question
  • Google got their act together with GenAI, after inventing the technology in 2017
  • Microsoft and OpenAI sort of broke up, or at least they are seeing other people
  • OpenAI forecasts 100x their current revenue in future computing needs
  • The US Gov’t either bailed out, or socialized Intel
  • Bitcoin - 94k, up to 125k, down to 84k


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18421664 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1275 Deepseek, NVIDIA, AI, Groq, AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI, Intel, Bitcoin, Politics, Society full false The 2025 State of AI in Review The 2025 State of AI in Review Aaron and Brian review the Year in AI, hand out AI awards, and discuss the biggest AI trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well.

SHOW: 987

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #987 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES

2025 AI YEAR IN REVIEW

  • The Year of OpenAI
  • The Year of NVIDIA
  • The Year of Microsoft
  • The Year of Google
  • The Year of Oracle
  • The Year of China AI
  • The Year of Apple
  • The Year of Coding Agents (Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, CLIs, etc..)
  • The Year of Data Centers
  • AI Highlights and Lowlights (Corporate Layoffs, Acquihires, Funding, etc..)
  • 2026 AI Draft

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #987 Transcript

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2025 AI YEAR IN REVIEW

  • The Year of OpenAI
  • The Year of NVIDIA
  • The Year of Microsoft
  • The Year of Google
  • The Year of Oracle
  • The Year of China AI
  • The Year of Apple
  • The Year of Coding Agents (Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, CLIs, etc..)
  • The Year of Data Centers
  • AI Highlights and Lowlights (Corporate Layoffs, Acquihires, Funding, etc..)
  • 2026 AI Draft

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18409227 Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 3401 NVIDIA, OpenAI, China, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Open Source, AI Economics, Data Centers full false How AGI will change Everything, Everywhere How AGI will change Everything, Everywhere If an AGI falls in the woods and nobody can define it, did it actually fall? This week we make an exact prediction of when AGI will happen, and the 10 ways it will immediately change the world. 

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SHOW NOTES

WHAT DOES REACHING AGI PROVIDE FOR HUMANITY (or ANYTHING)?

  • Y2K bug, 2038 Bug (techies are good at dates when things need to be patched)
  • The % of people with Internet access
  • The % of people with a smartphone
  • The % of people with a certain level of education (basic or advanced)
  • How much smarter is humanity than 10yrs ago? 20yrs ago? 
  • How much smarter could existing humanity be at any given time? 
  • Nobody has a consistent or measurable definition of AGI
  • What are the Top 10 problems of humanity that need to be solved? (direct or indirect)
  • Does reaching AGI enable certain government or corporate actions to start happening that couldn’t happen now? 

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SHOW: 986

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #986 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES

WHAT DOES REACHING AGI PROVIDE FOR HUMANITY (or ANYTHING)?

  • Y2K bug, 2038 Bug (techies are good at dates when things need to be patched)
  • The % of people with Internet access
  • The % of people with a smartphone
  • The % of people with a certain level of education (basic or advanced)
  • How much smarter is humanity than 10yrs ago? 20yrs ago? 
  • How much smarter could existing humanity be at any given time? 
  • Nobody has a consistent or measurable definition of AGI
  • What are the Top 10 problems of humanity that need to be solved? (direct or indirect)
  • Does reaching AGI enable certain government or corporate actions to start happening that couldn’t happen now? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18396135 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 868 AGI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft, Google, AWS, Super Intelligence, Predictions full false The 2025 State of Cloud in Review The 2025 State of Cloud in Review Aaron and Brian review the Year in Cloud, hand out Cloud awards, and discuss the biggest cloud trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well. 

SHOW: 985

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #985 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

2025 CLOUD YEAR IN REVIEW

  • Cloud of the year 
  • Cloud concept of the year (non-AI)
  • Cloud memory of the year
  • Cloud revenues in 2025
  • Are NeoClouds in the hyperscaler discussion? 
  • Was Cloud (circa 2007) the actual downfall of Intel? (Cloud vs Mobile choice)
  • Rank the clouds, end of 2025 (cloud draft 2025)
  • Do outages matter if they are only once a year? 
  • Where does AWS go next?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #985 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

2025 CLOUD YEAR IN REVIEW

  • Cloud of the year 
  • Cloud concept of the year (non-AI)
  • Cloud memory of the year
  • Cloud revenues in 2025
  • Are NeoClouds in the hyperscaler discussion? 
  • Was Cloud (circa 2007) the actual downfall of Intel? (Cloud vs Mobile choice)
  • Rank the clouds, end of 2025 (cloud draft 2025)
  • Do outages matter if they are only once a year? 
  • Where does AWS go next?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18368802 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 3123 AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, NeoClouds, Intel, Cloud Revenues, Cloud Outages full false Will there be a market for expert AI agents? Will there be a market for expert AI agents? How difficult will it be to train and build an AI Agent that has expertise in a given domain? Will it happen in the next year, or 3 years or 10 years? And who will benefit in the marketplace from his evolution? 

SHOW: 984

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #984 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT WOULD BE THE STAGES OF AN EXPERT AGENT?

  • Train it on a set of standard knowledge (e.g. Masters of Accounting, Auditing, International Tax)
  • Train it on a set of well-defined case studies, to provide industry context
  • Train it on a set of adjacent case studies and other domains (business, law, specific industries)
  • How to train corner cases?
  • How to train gray areas like ethics, morality, or cost-benefit analysis? 
  • Who is motivated to train these experts? 
  • What would the cost of these experts be? Can it be similar to a human, or need to be a fraction, or a premium? 
  • Is there a way to build memory (e.g. experience) without disclosing client information? 
  • Is there a way to build shareable knowledge between agents for reinforcement training/learning?


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SHOW: 984

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #984 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT WOULD BE THE STAGES OF AN EXPERT AGENT?

  • Train it on a set of standard knowledge (e.g. Masters of Accounting, Auditing, International Tax)
  • Train it on a set of well-defined case studies, to provide industry context
  • Train it on a set of adjacent case studies and other domains (business, law, specific industries)
  • How to train corner cases?
  • How to train gray areas like ethics, morality, or cost-benefit analysis? 
  • Who is motivated to train these experts? 
  • What would the cost of these experts be? Can it be similar to a human, or need to be a fraction, or a premium? 
  • Is there a way to build memory (e.g. experience) without disclosing client information? 
  • Is there a way to build shareable knowledge between agents for reinforcement training/learning?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18348472 Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1525 AI Agents, Experts, PaaS, Marketplaces, Training, Domain Expertise, Corner Cases, Grey Areas full false How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure Dan McConnell (Senior VP Product Management at @HitachiVantara) talks about how Enterprise infrastructure is having to evolve to keep up with the data challenges of AI. 

SHOW: 983

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #983 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - How is AI changing the way enterprises need to think about infrastructure?

Topic 3 - What makes AI workloads so different from traditional workloads? How is AI exposing the limitations of broken cloud environments?

Topic 4 - Where are organizations feeling the most pressure? What are the biggest misconceptions enterprises have about preparing for AI?

Topic 5 - What problems come from managing separate systems? What is the biggest driving factor toward unified data platforms?

Topic 6 - How is Hitachi Vantara helping customers handle the growing infrastructure demands created by AI?


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SHOW: 983

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - How is AI changing the way enterprises need to think about infrastructure?

Topic 3 - What makes AI workloads so different from traditional workloads? How is AI exposing the limitations of broken cloud environments?

Topic 4 - Where are organizations feeling the most pressure? What are the biggest misconceptions enterprises have about preparing for AI?

Topic 5 - What problems come from managing separate systems? What is the biggest driving factor toward unified data platforms?

Topic 6 - How is Hitachi Vantara helping customers handle the growing infrastructure demands created by AI?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18327227 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1972 Hitachi Vantara, AI, Enterprise Infrastructure, Workloads, Unified Data Platforms full false The Future of PaaS The Future of PaaS The PaaS of the future probably doesn't look anything like the PaaS of the past. AI should help bring in an era where we can abstract much more than just infrastructure to align technology and business. 

SHOW: 982

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #982 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES

IS PAAS READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP? 

  • Where could PaaS evolve to now?
    • Can new PaaS services abstract the developer, and just focus on business logic and business ideas? 
    • What languages or design patterns would be mandated? (web only, mobile only, web + mobile? )
    • Can we template “best practices” enough to be reliable?
    • Can we template compliances needed to handle financial transactions, customer data, etc.?
    • Can troubleshooting become an automated service?
  • Where was PaaS in the past? (Heroku, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes)
  • Language specific
  • Cloud specific
  • Abstracting the infrastructure and security


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SHOW: 982

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #982 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES

IS PAAS READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP? 

  • Where could PaaS evolve to now?
    • Can new PaaS services abstract the developer, and just focus on business logic and business ideas? 
    • What languages or design patterns would be mandated? (web only, mobile only, web + mobile? )
    • Can we template “best practices” enough to be reliable?
    • Can we template compliances needed to handle financial transactions, customer data, etc.?
    • Can troubleshooting become an automated service?
  • Where was PaaS in the past? (Heroku, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes)
  • Language specific
  • Cloud specific
  • Abstracting the infrastructure and security


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18310529 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1217 PaaS, SaaS, AI Agents, Vercel, Business Enablement as a Service, Intelligent Agents, Marketplaces full false AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2025.

SHOW: 981

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #981 Transcript

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SHOW: 981

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18290774 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2445 NVIDIA, Google, OpenAI, AI Bubble, Cloudflare, AGI, Ads, Physical AI full false Things to be Thankful for Things to be Thankful for As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about. 

SHOW: 980

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SHOW NOTES

THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:

  • Thankful for health
  • Happy Birthday to ChatGPT
  • The feature on an iPhone that remembers the code sent in an SMS message
  • Role playing, brain storming, scenario planning on ChatGPT/Gemini
  • Tools like Vercel that let non-programmers use AI to build apps (the future of PaaS)
  • Tools like NotebookLM making complex stuff like LLM training, RAG patterns,  
  • True competition in the cloud market as differentiation emerges
  • The beginnings of alternatives to NVIDIA in the AI HW Acceleration market
  • The evolution of wearables like fitness trackers, or AirPods (better sound quality, noise cancelling, language translation, etc.) 

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SHOW: 980

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

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  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES

THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:

  • Thankful for health
  • Happy Birthday to ChatGPT
  • The feature on an iPhone that remembers the code sent in an SMS message
  • Role playing, brain storming, scenario planning on ChatGPT/Gemini
  • Tools like Vercel that let non-programmers use AI to build apps (the future of PaaS)
  • Tools like NotebookLM making complex stuff like LLM training, RAG patterns,  
  • True competition in the cloud market as differentiation emerges
  • The beginnings of alternatives to NVIDIA in the AI HW Acceleration market
  • The evolution of wearables like fitness trackers, or AirPods (better sound quality, noise cancelling, language translation, etc.) 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18276055 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1085 SMS, ChatGPT, OpenAI, NVIDIA, NotebookLM, Vercel V0, Clouds full false Time Series for Physical AI Time Series for Physical AI Evan Kaplan (@EvanKaplan, CEO @InfluxDB) talks about Physical AI and the evolving and emerging technologies required to bring AI to physical locations and activities. 

SHOW: 979

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, Evan. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - We last spoke in 2019, and our goal with that show was to give everyone an introduction to time series databases. There’s a link in the show notes for those who want to go back and get a refresher. But, if folks aren’t up to speed, give everyone a quick definition of time series and its impacts in recent years

Topic 3 - First, we need to discuss Physical AI. What is Physical AI, and how is it different from, say, GenAI or Agentic AI? It seems that AI in the mainstream equates LLMs with AI, but that isn’t correct. We are talking about deterministic AI, not probabilistic solutions. Can you explain to everyone the difference and why it matters?

Topic 4 - Why is the concept of time series so crucial to Physical AI? Additionally, you provided a great analogy comparing time series data collection to low-resolution and high-resolution images. Can you explain to everyone why this is so important?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about some use cases. How and where does this intersection of Physical AI and time series impact organizations the most? Is this specific to certain industries (robotics, aerospace, IoT, etc.) or specific collection mechanisms (telemetry, sensor data, etc.)

Topic 6 - Are we shifting with AI to a state that is less reactive and more proactive with an active intelligence?

Topic 7 - What kind of demands do real-time, modern workflows and data streaming place on the infrastructure? When I think of time series, I think of real-time data, which means ultra-low latency and processing near the source, among other things. 

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SHOW: 979

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #979 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, Evan. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - We last spoke in 2019, and our goal with that show was to give everyone an introduction to time series databases. There’s a link in the show notes for those who want to go back and get a refresher. But, if folks aren’t up to speed, give everyone a quick definition of time series and its impacts in recent years

Topic 3 - First, we need to discuss Physical AI. What is Physical AI, and how is it different from, say, GenAI or Agentic AI? It seems that AI in the mainstream equates LLMs with AI, but that isn’t correct. We are talking about deterministic AI, not probabilistic solutions. Can you explain to everyone the difference and why it matters?

Topic 4 - Why is the concept of time series so crucial to Physical AI? Additionally, you provided a great analogy comparing time series data collection to low-resolution and high-resolution images. Can you explain to everyone why this is so important?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about some use cases. How and where does this intersection of Physical AI and time series impact organizations the most? Is this specific to certain industries (robotics, aerospace, IoT, etc.) or specific collection mechanisms (telemetry, sensor data, etc.)

Topic 6 - Are we shifting with AI to a state that is less reactive and more proactive with an active intelligence?

Topic 7 - What kind of demands do real-time, modern workflows and data streaming place on the infrastructure? When I think of time series, I think of real-time data, which means ultra-low latency and processing near the source, among other things. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18255832 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1757 Evan Kaplan, InfluxData, Physical AI, Time Series Database, AI, GenAI, Agentic AI full false After NVIDIA's Latest Earnings After NVIDIA's Latest Earnings Once again NVIDIA had a record earnings quarter (Q3FY26), but the strength of their on-going success will be dependent on many factors that may or may not be within their control. Let's explore those broader factors.

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SHOW NOTES:


WHAT WILL BE THE NEW METRICS AND MILESTONES TO TRACK?

  • Customer Revenues (e.g. CoreWeave, OpenAI)
  • “Alternatives” Revenues (e.g. Google/TPUs, AMD, China, etc.)
  • Customer Success Stories (%ROI, Business Differentiation, Business Acceleration)
  • Growth of Data Centers (e.g. buildouts, zoning approvals, etc.)
  • Electricity Buildouts (e.g. nuclear, coal, alternative, regulatory changes, municipality adoption)
  • Accounting Deep-Dives into NVIDIA (not fraud, but days receivables, inventory buybacks, etc.)
  • $500B in back orders (Oracle, Microsoft, OpenAI, GrokAI)

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SHOW: 978

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:


WHAT WILL BE THE NEW METRICS AND MILESTONES TO TRACK?

  • Customer Revenues (e.g. CoreWeave, OpenAI)
  • “Alternatives” Revenues (e.g. Google/TPUs, AMD, China, etc.)
  • Customer Success Stories (%ROI, Business Differentiation, Business Acceleration)
  • Growth of Data Centers (e.g. buildouts, zoning approvals, etc.)
  • Electricity Buildouts (e.g. nuclear, coal, alternative, regulatory changes, municipality adoption)
  • Accounting Deep-Dives into NVIDIA (not fraud, but days receivables, inventory buybacks, etc.)
  • $500B in back orders (Oracle, Microsoft, OpenAI, GrokAI)

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18241247 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1367 NVIDIA, GPUs, AI, Data Center buildout, Electricity Capacity, CoreWeave, Google, TPUs, OpenAI, Microsoft, Huiwei full false Shadow AI Shadow AI SHOW: 977

Rohan Sathe (@rssathe, CEO @NightfallAI) discusses the rise of Shadow AI, where employees unknowingly leak sensitive corporate data through generative AI tools like ChatGPT. 

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #977 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Rohan. Give everyone a brief introduction, including your time at Uber Eats.

Topic 2 - How do you define Shadow AI? We hear Shadow AI compared to Shadow IT back at the start of cloud. However, this looks different because everyone's learning curve is much smaller. For Shadow IT to happen, you had to know IT (servers, storage, etc.). Is this the correct way to think about the problem?

Topic 3 - How big is the Shadow AI problem today?

Topic 4 - Normally, data leaks would be discovered by traditional DLP (data loss prevention) tools. In my experience, those tools have been cumbersome and clunky, and you often face the classic trade-off between user productivity and security, as well as the need to lock down access. How has this mindset evolved in the era of AI? 

Topic 5 - What happens when AI-powered attacks meet AI-powered defense?

Topic 6 - Let's talk about the technical architecture. How does Nightfall actually work across SaaS apps, endpoints, browsers, and AI tools?

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Rohan Sathe (@rssathe, CEO @NightfallAI) discusses the rise of Shadow AI, where employees unknowingly leak sensitive corporate data through generative AI tools like ChatGPT. 

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #977 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Rohan. Give everyone a brief introduction, including your time at Uber Eats.

Topic 2 - How do you define Shadow AI? We hear Shadow AI compared to Shadow IT back at the start of cloud. However, this looks different because everyone's learning curve is much smaller. For Shadow IT to happen, you had to know IT (servers, storage, etc.). Is this the correct way to think about the problem?

Topic 3 - How big is the Shadow AI problem today?

Topic 4 - Normally, data leaks would be discovered by traditional DLP (data loss prevention) tools. In my experience, those tools have been cumbersome and clunky, and you often face the classic trade-off between user productivity and security, as well as the need to lock down access. How has this mindset evolved in the era of AI? 

Topic 5 - What happens when AI-powered attacks meet AI-powered defense?

Topic 6 - Let's talk about the technical architecture. How does Nightfall actually work across SaaS apps, endpoints, browsers, and AI tools?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18215649 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1552 Shadow AI, Nightfall AI, Rohan Sathe, ChatGPT, Security full false Rational and Irrational AI numbers Rational and Irrational AI numbers Is the current level of AI funding and investment rational or irrational? Is it possible that it’s both at the same time? Let’s look at some numbers and the thought process behind them.

SHOW: 976

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #976 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:


DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF AI?

  • How much is one model better than another (e.g. Gemini vs. CoPilot)?
  • How much improvement should a software developer get?
  • How much improvement should a knowledge worker get?
  • How much cost savings should a chatbot provide?
  • How long should it take to make a model understand a company’s data?
  • How many workers can a company displace with AI?
  • OpenAI in 2030 - 26 gigawatts could power between 3.7 million to 17.3 million modern GPU servers
  • OpenAI in 2035 - 50 gigawatts could power between 37 million to 173 million modern GPU servers

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SHOW: 976

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:


DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF AI?

  • How much is one model better than another (e.g. Gemini vs. CoPilot)?
  • How much improvement should a software developer get?
  • How much improvement should a knowledge worker get?
  • How much cost savings should a chatbot provide?
  • How long should it take to make a model understand a company’s data?
  • How many workers can a company displace with AI?
  • OpenAI in 2030 - 26 gigawatts could power between 3.7 million to 17.3 million modern GPU servers
  • OpenAI in 2035 - 50 gigawatts could power between 37 million to 173 million modern GPU servers

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18199630 Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1868 OpenAI, NVIDIA, BG2 Podcast, Power Generation, Developer Productivity, GPUs, VC Funding, AWS, Azure, Google full false 2025 State of APIs 2025 State of APIs James Higginbotham (@launchany) discusses the evolution of API usage across developers, modern applications and APIs. 

SHOW: 975

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #975 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show James. It’s hard to believe it’s been 11 years since we last spoke on the show! Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - To say we’ve come a long way with APIs as an industry is an understatement. But let’s set the table for everyone. In your interactions with Enterprise customers, what trends or standards are currently top of mind? 

Topic 3 - You wrote an article (link in show notes) titled Lessons after a Decade of API Strategy. What struck me from the article was the combination of technology, business, and even culture, all of which have to come together. When talking to Enterprises these days, have we moved past understanding what APIs are and straight to solving problems with APIs?

Topic 4 - What are the most common use cases you see today? API transformation? API sprawl and consolidation/documentation? Integration of SaaS/3rd party services?

Topic 5 - No conversation would be complete without a discussion about AI and AI’s impact on API’s. I view this in several different ways. AI is creating APIs, and AI is being consumed through APIs. How do you think about AI and its impact? What’s changed and what has stayed the same?

Topic 6 - Second aspect to the AI topic, where and how does security fit into this intersection of AI and APIs?


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]]> James Higginbotham (@launchany) discusses the evolution of API usage across developers, modern applications and APIs. 

SHOW: 975

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #975 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show James. It’s hard to believe it’s been 11 years since we last spoke on the show! Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - To say we’ve come a long way with APIs as an industry is an understatement. But let’s set the table for everyone. In your interactions with Enterprise customers, what trends or standards are currently top of mind? 

Topic 3 - You wrote an article (link in show notes) titled Lessons after a Decade of API Strategy. What struck me from the article was the combination of technology, business, and even culture, all of which have to come together. When talking to Enterprises these days, have we moved past understanding what APIs are and straight to solving problems with APIs?

Topic 4 - What are the most common use cases you see today? API transformation? API sprawl and consolidation/documentation? Integration of SaaS/3rd party services?

Topic 5 - No conversation would be complete without a discussion about AI and AI’s impact on API’s. I view this in several different ways. AI is creating APIs, and AI is being consumed through APIs. How do you think about AI and its impact? What’s changed and what has stayed the same?

Topic 6 - Second aspect to the AI topic, where and how does security fit into this intersection of AI and APIs?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18175376 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2156 James Higginbotham, Anylaunch, APIs, Developers, AI full false All the new AI stuff all at once All the new AI stuff all at once In the history of technology era changes, things tend to change slowly at first, and then quickly all at once. We’ve now reached the beginning of the all-at-once era of AI change. 

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SHOW NOTES:


WHAT WAS THE LEADING AI TREND FOR EACH YEAR?

  • 2022 - What is ChatGPT
  • 2023 - What can GenAI do? (Jobs, Skills, etc.)
  • 2024 - Alternatives to OpenAI and NVIDIA, Where is Google?, Where is AWS?
  • 2025 - Open source in AI, AI Regulations, AI Partnerships, Deep Seek, AI Agents, AI Funding, AI Power Challenges, AI Gov’t Involvement
  • 2026 - ???

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SHOW: 974

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SHOW NOTES:


WHAT WAS THE LEADING AI TREND FOR EACH YEAR?

  • 2022 - What is ChatGPT
  • 2023 - What can GenAI do? (Jobs, Skills, etc.)
  • 2024 - Alternatives to OpenAI and NVIDIA, Where is Google?, Where is AWS?
  • 2025 - Open source in AI, AI Regulations, AI Partnerships, Deep Seek, AI Agents, AI Funding, AI Power Challenges, AI Gov’t Involvement
  • 2026 - ???

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18158593 Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1090 Open source in AI, AI Regulations, AI Partnerships, Deep Seek, AI Agents, AI Funding, AI Power Challenges, AI Gov’t Involvement full false AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2025.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18135299 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 3039 Intel, NVIDIA, OpenAI, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ed Zitron, AI, Cloud, Oracle full false Is Amazon the new Cisco? Is Amazon the new Cisco? Patterns in technology tend to eventually repeat themselves (or at least rhyme), and Amazon is beginning to repeat some of the patterns of Cisco from the early 2000s 

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SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?

  • Significant changes from one industry era to the next (Internet to SaaS, Cloud to AI)
  • Once dominant position in a market now appears less dominant (Worth more than next 20 competitors; 7yr head start)
  • Guiding cultural principles well-known within the company - start adding more and more to them
  • Employee motivation driving by stock price as much as work activities
  • Culture evolves and erodes over time as the business changes and evolves - it’s nearly impossible to reset the company culture
  • Companies can rebound from being lost in the woods, but it’s very, very difficult
  • Death by 1000 cuts in a virtuous cycle - employees are constantly more worried about job status than project status - the perception of who gets to make mistakes and who is responsible for mistakes

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  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?

  • Significant changes from one industry era to the next (Internet to SaaS, Cloud to AI)
  • Once dominant position in a market now appears less dominant (Worth more than next 20 competitors; 7yr head start)
  • Guiding cultural principles well-known within the company - start adding more and more to them
  • Employee motivation driving by stock price as much as work activities
  • Culture evolves and erodes over time as the business changes and evolves - it’s nearly impossible to reset the company culture
  • Companies can rebound from being lost in the woods, but it’s very, very difficult
  • Death by 1000 cuts in a virtuous cycle - employees are constantly more worried about job status than project status - the perception of who gets to make mistakes and who is responsible for mistakes

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18120350 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1949 Amazon, Cisco, AWS, John Chambers, Andy Jassy, Death by 1000 Cuts, Layoffs, Culture full false AI Data Analytics AI Data Analytics Soham Mazumdar, CEO @WisdomAI_inc, discusses how organizations can break free from the "drowning in data but starving for insights" paradox that plagues modern enterprises. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Soham. We overlapped briefly at Rubrik. Give everyone a quick introduction and tell everyone a bit about your time at Google prior to Rubrik

Topic 2 - You helped scale Rubrik from inception to a $5.6 billion IPO in 2024. What was the "aha moment" that made you leave that success to tackle the enterprise data analytics problem with WisdomAI?

Topic 3 - Let's define the core problem. Organizations invest heavily in modern data platforms - Snowflake, Databricks, etc. - but there is the term "drowning in data but starving for insights." What's broken in the traditional BI stack that prevents business users from getting answers?

Topic 4 - How do agentic AI and BI fit together? WisdomAI introduces the concept of "Knowledge Fabric" and agentic data insights. Break this down for us - how does this fundamentally differ from traditional dashboards and BI tools?

Topic 5 - One of the biggest challenges with GenAI in enterprise settings is hallucination. You've emphasized that WisdomAI separates GenAI from answer generation. How does your approach tackle this critical trust issue?

Topic 6 - Let's talk about data integration complexity. Your platform works with both structured and unstructured data - Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, but also Excel, PDFs, PowerPoints. How do you handle this "dirty" data reality that most enterprises face?

Topic 6a - With so much data, how do most organizations get started? What’s a typical use case for adoption?


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #963 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Soham. We overlapped briefly at Rubrik. Give everyone a quick introduction and tell everyone a bit about your time at Google prior to Rubrik

Topic 2 - You helped scale Rubrik from inception to a $5.6 billion IPO in 2024. What was the "aha moment" that made you leave that success to tackle the enterprise data analytics problem with WisdomAI?

Topic 3 - Let's define the core problem. Organizations invest heavily in modern data platforms - Snowflake, Databricks, etc. - but there is the term "drowning in data but starving for insights." What's broken in the traditional BI stack that prevents business users from getting answers?

Topic 4 - How do agentic AI and BI fit together? WisdomAI introduces the concept of "Knowledge Fabric" and agentic data insights. Break this down for us - how does this fundamentally differ from traditional dashboards and BI tools?

Topic 5 - One of the biggest challenges with GenAI in enterprise settings is hallucination. You've emphasized that WisdomAI separates GenAI from answer generation. How does your approach tackle this critical trust issue?

Topic 6 - Let's talk about data integration complexity. Your platform works with both structured and unstructured data - Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, but also Excel, PDFs, PowerPoints. How do you handle this "dirty" data reality that most enterprises face?

Topic 6a - With so much data, how do most organizations get started? What’s a typical use case for adoption?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18094017 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1226 Soham Mazumdar, Wisdom AI, Modern Data Platforms, GenAI, Data Integration full false Does Your AI Project Need Help? Does Your AI Project Need Help? Why are 95% of AI projects struggling to create positive ROI, according to a recent MIT study? Do businesses need help getting those first few AI projects started and driven to success?

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SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?

  • Why are Businesses struggling with AI projects in 2025?
  • What are simple steps to make AI projects successful?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #970 Transcript

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  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?

  • Why are Businesses struggling with AI projects in 2025?
  • What are simple steps to make AI projects successful?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18086001 Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1170 MIT, AI, ROI, Vinod Khosla full false The Intersection of Cybersecurity and AI The Intersection of Cybersecurity and AI Monzy Merza (@monzymerza, CEO/Founder @Crogl) talks about build a next-generation Enterprise SOC by leveraging AI to stay ahead of Cybersecurity threats.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Monzy. Give everyone a brief introduction and tell us about your unique journey from government research to Splunk to Databricks to founding Crogl.

Topic 2 - Let's start with the current state of cybersecurity and AI. We're seeing headlines about AI being the top cybersecurity concern for 2025, even overtaking ransomware. From your perspective, what's driving this shift and why should organizations be paying attention to the intersection of cybersecurity and AI?

Topic 3 - You've described Crogl as an "Iron Man suit" for security analysts. That's a compelling metaphor. Can you break down what you mean by that and how your approach differs from the traditional "reduce alerts" mentality that most vendors have been pushing?

Topic 4 - Let's talk about your "knowledge engine" and what you call an “AI for the Enterprise SOC”. You're using compound AI systems with LLMs, smaller models, and knowledge graphs. This sounds quite different from vendors who are just "bolting on" LLMs to existing tools. Walk us through this architectural decision and why it matters.

Topic 5 - The cybersecurity industry is experiencing massive alert fatigue - 4,500 alerts per day, with analysts only able to investigate 8-25 of them. Your philosophy is "every alert should be analyzed" rather than filtering them out. That seems counterintuitive to what the market has been doing. How does your autonomous investigation approach actually work in practice?

Topic 6 - Where do you see this evolution heading, and what are the implications for SOC teams and security practitioners? Are we heading toward fully autonomous SOCs?


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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Monzy. Give everyone a brief introduction and tell us about your unique journey from government research to Splunk to Databricks to founding Crogl.

Topic 2 - Let's start with the current state of cybersecurity and AI. We're seeing headlines about AI being the top cybersecurity concern for 2025, even overtaking ransomware. From your perspective, what's driving this shift and why should organizations be paying attention to the intersection of cybersecurity and AI?

Topic 3 - You've described Crogl as an "Iron Man suit" for security analysts. That's a compelling metaphor. Can you break down what you mean by that and how your approach differs from the traditional "reduce alerts" mentality that most vendors have been pushing?

Topic 4 - Let's talk about your "knowledge engine" and what you call an “AI for the Enterprise SOC”. You're using compound AI systems with LLMs, smaller models, and knowledge graphs. This sounds quite different from vendors who are just "bolting on" LLMs to existing tools. Walk us through this architectural decision and why it matters.

Topic 5 - The cybersecurity industry is experiencing massive alert fatigue - 4,500 alerts per day, with analysts only able to investigate 8-25 of them. Your philosophy is "every alert should be analyzed" rather than filtering them out. That seems counterintuitive to what the market has been doing. How does your autonomous investigation approach actually work in practice?

Topic 6 - Where do you see this evolution heading, and what are the implications for SOC teams and security practitioners? Are we heading toward fully autonomous SOCs?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18056657 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2074 Crogl, Cybersecurity, AI, Enterprise SOC, LLMs, Security, Threats full false Something's Gotta Give on AI Economics Something's Gotta Give on AI Economics What happens when the biggest technology trend is built on economics that don't make any sense when viewed end-to-end? Eventually, some aspect has to change, but which one? 


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SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?

  • Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO) is convinced that the future will be built on always having the most advanced GPUs and Frontier Models. 
  • Oracle is telling investors that they will significantly increase profit margins between now and 2028-30, although they have low margins now and they don’t make high margins on older chips
  • The economics of AI (reasoning models, high#s of AI tokens) is in contrast to the established SaaS business model.
  • Right now everything AI-associated has a high valuation, but these forces are working against each other. 
  • Which one is going to give first? 


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  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?

  • Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO) is convinced that the future will be built on always having the most advanced GPUs and Frontier Models. 
  • Oracle is telling investors that they will significantly increase profit margins between now and 2028-30, although they have low margins now and they don’t make high margins on older chips
  • The economics of AI (reasoning models, high#s of AI tokens) is in contrast to the established SaaS business model.
  • Right now everything AI-associated has a high valuation, but these forces are working against each other. 
  • Which one is going to give first? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18039280 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1330 NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, GPUs, ROI, AI Tokens, SaaS, Business Models, Oracle, Profit Margins, Older Chips full false Agentic AI Coding & Predictive Software Quality Agentic AI Coding & Predictive Software Quality Animesh Koratana (@akoratana, Founder of @playerzero_ai) discusses how agentic AI is transforming software quality assurance through predictive code simulation, and how teams can shift from reactive debugging to proactive problem prevention in the era of AI-generated code.

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SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Animesh. Tell us about your background and your involvement in.

Topic 2 - Let's start with the core problem you're solving. What is "predictive software quality" and why is this becoming critical now, especially in the era of AI-generated code?

Topic 3 - How does agentic code simulation work, and what makes it different from traditional testing approaches?

Topic 4 - This feels like it democratizes software quality beyond just engineering teams. How does PlayerZero work across different roles - developers, QA, product managers, and support teams?

Topic 5 - Integration and workflow - how does PlayerZero fit into existing CI/CD pipelines and development workflows? What does the implementation look like

Topic 6 - Let's talk about scale and complexity. How does PlayerZero handle large, distributed systems with microservices, databases, and complex architectures


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SHOW: 967

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #967 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Animesh. Tell us about your background and your involvement in.

Topic 2 - Let's start with the core problem you're solving. What is "predictive software quality" and why is this becoming critical now, especially in the era of AI-generated code?

Topic 3 - How does agentic code simulation work, and what makes it different from traditional testing approaches?

Topic 4 - This feels like it democratizes software quality beyond just engineering teams. How does PlayerZero work across different roles - developers, QA, product managers, and support teams?

Topic 5 - Integration and workflow - how does PlayerZero fit into existing CI/CD pipelines and development workflows? What does the implementation look like

Topic 6 - Let's talk about scale and complexity. How does PlayerZero handle large, distributed systems with microservices, databases, and complex architectures


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-18013697 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1434 Animesh Koratana, PlayerZero, AI Agents, Software Quality, CI/CD, AI-generated Code full false The 5-10-85 Reality of Enterprise AI The 5-10-85 Reality of Enterprise AI Three years since the launch of ChatGPT, what does the landscape of Enterprise AI look like today? What’s working, what’s struggling and what’s still unknown?

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  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

HOW ARE ENTERPRISES USING AI IN LATE 2025?

  • 5% have a clear vision of how to apply Predictive and Generative AI to a set of use-cases that drive differentiation, productivity improvements and cost reductions. They are keeping the details close to the vest.
  • 10% have allocated about 3-5% of their IT budgets to AI, typically from a C-level mandate, and have given it to Microsoft or Google. They have checked “the business is AI-enabled” and signaled to the market that they have fully embraced AI. The market is rewarding these companies at higher multiples. 
  • 85% aren’t sure what use-cases to focus on, have unrealistic expectations during POCs, and are focused on the “no” areas instead of their own learning curves. 
  • Enterprises don’t have great visibility into AI costs, and limited baselines of what AI should cost - pay for outcomes, pay for seats, pay for tokens, or pay for GPUs?
  • Enterprises don’t have easy access to GPUs outside of via SaaS services - makes it challenging for Private or Sovereign AI demand to be met
  • Right now, there is no simple way for Enterprises to build AI Agents
  • Right now, there is no simple way for Enterprises to share AI experience / learning curve - AI is a very individualized experience


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]]> Three years since the launch of ChatGPT, what does the landscape of Enterprise AI look like today? What’s working, what’s struggling and what’s still unknown?

SHOW: 966

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  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

HOW ARE ENTERPRISES USING AI IN LATE 2025?

  • 5% have a clear vision of how to apply Predictive and Generative AI to a set of use-cases that drive differentiation, productivity improvements and cost reductions. They are keeping the details close to the vest.
  • 10% have allocated about 3-5% of their IT budgets to AI, typically from a C-level mandate, and have given it to Microsoft or Google. They have checked “the business is AI-enabled” and signaled to the market that they have fully embraced AI. The market is rewarding these companies at higher multiples. 
  • 85% aren’t sure what use-cases to focus on, have unrealistic expectations during POCs, and are focused on the “no” areas instead of their own learning curves. 
  • Enterprises don’t have great visibility into AI costs, and limited baselines of what AI should cost - pay for outcomes, pay for seats, pay for tokens, or pay for GPUs?
  • Enterprises don’t have easy access to GPUs outside of via SaaS services - makes it challenging for Private or Sovereign AI demand to be met
  • Right now, there is no simple way for Enterprises to build AI Agents
  • Right now, there is no simple way for Enterprises to share AI experience / learning curve - AI is a very individualized experience


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17995623 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1669 Enterprise AI, Budgeting, Co-Pilot, Gemini, OpenAI, Cursor, Developer Assistant, Chatbots, GPUs full false Using AI Reasoning to Prevent AI Scams Using AI Reasoning to Prevent AI Scams Alan Lefort (CEO, @StrongestLayer) discusses how LLM-powered reasoning is transforming phishing security from reactive pattern-matching to predictive threat detection, and why traditional rule-based systems can no longer defend against sophisticated AI-generated phishing attacks.

SHOW: 965

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #965 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Alan. Tell us about your background and your involvement in Cybersecuity.

Topic 2 - Let's start with the core challenge. You've said that "if only AI can defend against weaponized AI" - what specific gap in traditional email security did you identify that led to this philosophy? How are AI-powered phishing attacks fundamentally different from what we've seen before?

Topic 3 - How does this attack vector demonstrate the limitations of rule-based security systems, and why can't traditional pattern matching keep up?

Topic 4 - Let's break down your TRACE (Threat Reasoning and AI Correlation Engine) architecture. You've described it as "LLM-as-master" rather than "LLM-as-add-on." What does this fundamental architectural difference mean for threat detection, and how does it help?

Topic 5 - You discuss "pre-campaign detection," which involves identifying potential phishing campaigns weeks before emails are sent. This sounds like moving from reactive to predictive security. How does your system correlate technical intelligence with business context to achieve this early warning capability?

Topic 6 - From an implementation standpoint, how do organizations integrate LLM-powered reasoning into their existing security stacks? What's the deployment model, and how do you handle the challenge of reasoning about business context without exposing sensitive organizational data?


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]]> Alan Lefort (CEO, @StrongestLayer) discusses how LLM-powered reasoning is transforming phishing security from reactive pattern-matching to predictive threat detection, and why traditional rule-based systems can no longer defend against sophisticated AI-generated phishing attacks.

SHOW: 965

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #965 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Alan. Tell us about your background and your involvement in Cybersecuity.

Topic 2 - Let's start with the core challenge. You've said that "if only AI can defend against weaponized AI" - what specific gap in traditional email security did you identify that led to this philosophy? How are AI-powered phishing attacks fundamentally different from what we've seen before?

Topic 3 - How does this attack vector demonstrate the limitations of rule-based security systems, and why can't traditional pattern matching keep up?

Topic 4 - Let's break down your TRACE (Threat Reasoning and AI Correlation Engine) architecture. You've described it as "LLM-as-master" rather than "LLM-as-add-on." What does this fundamental architectural difference mean for threat detection, and how does it help?

Topic 5 - You discuss "pre-campaign detection," which involves identifying potential phishing campaigns weeks before emails are sent. This sounds like moving from reactive to predictive security. How does your system correlate technical intelligence with business context to achieve this early warning capability?

Topic 6 - From an implementation standpoint, how do organizations integrate LLM-powered reasoning into their existing security stacks? What's the deployment model, and how do you handle the challenge of reasoning about business context without exposing sensitive organizational data?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17974714 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2040 Alan Lefort, StrongestLayer, CyberSecurity, LLM, TRACE, Threat Detection full false Will Cloud Providers start acquiring SaaS? Will Cloud Providers start acquiring SaaS? As cloud matures, could the hyperscale cloud providers start looking to acquire SaaS providers to build out a bundled application portfolio? Or are the demands of AI investment too much to pursue that strategy? 

SHOW: 964

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #964 Transcript

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

COULD THE CLOUD HYPERSCALERS START LOOKING TO ACQUIRE SAAS COMPANIES?

  • Do the hyperscalers start acting like Private Equity to acquire SaaS revenue streams?
  • Do the hyperscalers start moving from primitive providers to bundlers?
  • Do the hyperscalers have to make a choice between AI/CAPEX investment and SaaS investment?
  • Do the hyperscalers figure out a way to spin-off the AI/CAPEX portions of their business for a period of time?


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SHOW: 964

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SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

COULD THE CLOUD HYPERSCALERS START LOOKING TO ACQUIRE SAAS COMPANIES?

  • Do the hyperscalers start acting like Private Equity to acquire SaaS revenue streams?
  • Do the hyperscalers start moving from primitive providers to bundlers?
  • Do the hyperscalers have to make a choice between AI/CAPEX investment and SaaS investment?
  • Do the hyperscalers figure out a way to spin-off the AI/CAPEX portions of their business for a period of time?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17957067 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1696 Cloud Providers, AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, SaaS, CAPEX, AI, Investments, Acquisitions full false AI & Cloud Trends for September 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for September 2025 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2025.

SHOW: 963

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #963 Transcript

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NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

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]]> Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2025.

SHOW: 963

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #963 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17936054 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2591 NVIDIA, Oracle, OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber, AI, Cloud full false The AI Awkward Years The AI Awkward Years Between the bold predictions, VC economics, and rising usage-patterns are stories of limited ROIs, undefined use-cases and associated job losses. AI is in an awkward phase of maturity and it’s not clear how it will evolve into the next phase. 

SHOW: 962

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #962 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

THE SPECTRUM OF AI

  • The early years of the Internet, we tried to replicate physical-based activities
  • The early years of the Internet, the whole industry/world-economy wasn’t depending on “the next thing”
  • The early years of AI, “the leaders” are talking about curing cancer and double human longevity
  • Cloud had “lift and shift”; AI has “get everyone a GenAI license”
  • Where is the middle? Where is the rational discussion?
  • Massive Funding
  • Massive # of Consumer Users
  • From Ed to Sam, from Dario to Satya, from Jensen to Larry …. Big spectrums of opinions
  • Unprofitable (except NVIDIA, Broadcom)
  • Near monopoly of GPUs by NVIDIA
  • Every couple months, the landscape seems to shift (OpenAI partners, Leading models, 
  • Questionable Enterprise ROI - lots of “we gave everyone GenAI, but we don’t know how to measure it”
  • Companies are laying off workers, or avoiding hiring because of promises of AI
  • Unknown “killer” use-cases beyond chatbots, therapy, developer-assistants, writing, document handling
  • Today’s mantra is “Rub some AI Agents on it”

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]]> Between the bold predictions, VC economics, and rising usage-patterns are stories of limited ROIs, undefined use-cases and associated job losses. AI is in an awkward phase of maturity and it’s not clear how it will evolve into the next phase. 

SHOW: 962

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #962 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

THE SPECTRUM OF AI

  • The early years of the Internet, we tried to replicate physical-based activities
  • The early years of the Internet, the whole industry/world-economy wasn’t depending on “the next thing”
  • The early years of AI, “the leaders” are talking about curing cancer and double human longevity
  • Cloud had “lift and shift”; AI has “get everyone a GenAI license”
  • Where is the middle? Where is the rational discussion?
  • Massive Funding
  • Massive # of Consumer Users
  • From Ed to Sam, from Dario to Satya, from Jensen to Larry …. Big spectrums of opinions
  • Unprofitable (except NVIDIA, Broadcom)
  • Near monopoly of GPUs by NVIDIA
  • Every couple months, the landscape seems to shift (OpenAI partners, Leading models, 
  • Questionable Enterprise ROI - lots of “we gave everyone GenAI, but we don’t know how to measure it”
  • Companies are laying off workers, or avoiding hiring because of promises of AI
  • Unknown “killer” use-cases beyond chatbots, therapy, developer-assistants, writing, document handling
  • Today’s mantra is “Rub some AI Agents on it”

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17914757 Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1629 AI, Awkward Years, Maturity Levels, Poor ROI, Job Losses, Unknown Use-Cases, Chatbots, Negative Economics, NVIDIA, OpenAI full false AI Agents for Unstructured Data AI Agents for Unstructured Data Stephan Donze (@sdonze CEO @AODocs), discusses the enterprise unstructured data crisis, where 80% of business data remains untapped due to legacy system limitations and the challenges of AI-powered document management at scale. We explore how AI agents can transform document workflows while maintaining trust and compliance, the architectural principles needed for cloud-native document management, and why traditional search fails in the age of generative AI.

SHOW: 961

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #961 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Stephan. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - We hear all the time about unstructured data and the continual growth in the Enterprise. I’ve heard numbers of upwards of 80% of all corporate data is unstructured. I’ve worked at several companies and supported a significant number of customers over the years, and I can count on one hand how many say they have “control” of their data. How did this come to be, and is the problem as big as I think?

Topic 3 - The second part of this, and this might be an even bigger problem, is how much of the data is used? Too many needles in the haystack, if you will. How does Agentic AI address this challenge, and where do traditional document management systems fail?

Topic 4 - We’ve talked about data quality in the past on the show, and I’m wondering if this also becomes an issue. Let’s say you have a bunch of draft documents leading up to the final version. Is it possible that improper version control and/or we’re back to a data quality problem of finding the “final version” needle in the haystack? How does AI prevent this and also not hallucinate an answer that may not be true?

Topic 5 - Some have called AI’s ability to absorb and report on data just fancy search. What are your thoughts on this? Where and how does traditional search differ from Agentic AI management?

Topic 6 - I also see this as being so much more than indexing and reporting on documents. There is also the concept of automation and workflows that agentic AI can improve upon. What use cases are your customers implementing?

Topic 7 - Where do you think the industry will go in the next 2-3 years?


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]]> Stephan Donze (@sdonze CEO @AODocs), discusses the enterprise unstructured data crisis, where 80% of business data remains untapped due to legacy system limitations and the challenges of AI-powered document management at scale. We explore how AI agents can transform document workflows while maintaining trust and compliance, the architectural principles needed for cloud-native document management, and why traditional search fails in the age of generative AI.

SHOW: 961

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #961 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Stephan. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - We hear all the time about unstructured data and the continual growth in the Enterprise. I’ve heard numbers of upwards of 80% of all corporate data is unstructured. I’ve worked at several companies and supported a significant number of customers over the years, and I can count on one hand how many say they have “control” of their data. How did this come to be, and is the problem as big as I think?

Topic 3 - The second part of this, and this might be an even bigger problem, is how much of the data is used? Too many needles in the haystack, if you will. How does Agentic AI address this challenge, and where do traditional document management systems fail?

Topic 4 - We’ve talked about data quality in the past on the show, and I’m wondering if this also becomes an issue. Let’s say you have a bunch of draft documents leading up to the final version. Is it possible that improper version control and/or we’re back to a data quality problem of finding the “final version” needle in the haystack? How does AI prevent this and also not hallucinate an answer that may not be true?

Topic 5 - Some have called AI’s ability to absorb and report on data just fancy search. What are your thoughts on this? Where and how does traditional search differ from Agentic AI management?

Topic 6 - I also see this as being so much more than indexing and reporting on documents. There is also the concept of automation and workflows that agentic AI can improve upon. What use cases are your customers implementing?

Topic 7 - Where do you think the industry will go in the next 2-3 years?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17896966 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:00:00 -0400 1585 Stephan Donze, AODocs, AI Agents, Unstructured Data, Data Quality, Document Management full false Two Obseervations about Smart People and AI Two Obseervations about Smart People and AI How is it possible that smart people both love and hate AI? Does it matter how smart you are, or just how you interact with AI? 

SHOW: 960

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #960 Transcript

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  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT TYPES OF SMART PEOPLE LOVE AND HATE AI?

  • Acquihires
  • Early Stock Buyouts
  • AI = Aggregated (or Augmented) Interns
  • Domain-Experts
  • Senior White Collar Workers

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]]> How is it possible that smart people both love and hate AI? Does it matter how smart you are, or just how you interact with AI? 

SHOW: 960

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #960 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT TYPES OF SMART PEOPLE LOVE AND HATE AI?

  • Acquihires
  • Early Stock Buyouts
  • AI = Aggregated (or Augmented) Interns
  • Domain-Experts
  • Senior White Collar Workers

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17877214 Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1428 Smart People, AI, OpenAI, Secondary Funding, Second Wave of GenAI, Senior People, Domain Expertise full false The Return of Bare Metal? The Return of Bare Metal? Todd Robinson, Founder and President of OpenMetal.io, discusses the resurgence of bare metal infrastructure driven by AI workloads, digital sovereignty requirements, and companies reassessing public cloud economics. The conversation explores how organizations are finding cost and control advantages in bare metal solutions, particularly for long-running applications. It examines OpenMetal's open-source approach using technologies like Ceph and OpenStack to deliver flexible infrastructure alternatives.

SHOW: 959

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #959 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 


SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast


SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and you developed a passion around bare metal and cloud services?

Topic 2 - Between AI (GPU rental), digital sovereignty initiatives, and even virtualization alternatives, it feels like bare metal is having a resurgence. Give some a sense of what the demands for bare metal solutions look like today?

Topic 3 - As companies understand the economics of having used public cloud services, are there certain use-cases that become immediately obvious where more private, hosted, bare metal services just make more sense? 

Topic 4 - OpenMetal is based on open source technologies like Ceph and OpenStack. How important to customers about the technologies under their applications, or do the economics and control aspects play a bigger role in their decisions? 

Topic 5 - I’m often asked if there is a model about when it makes more sense to use on-demand service vs. more fixed services. Is there a rule of thumb (e.g. longevity of an application, amount of change, etc.) that you’ve found drives the most success at picking the right environment for applications?

Topic 6 - OpenMetal could be described as a public or private cloud service. Do you find that there is still the stigma over “private cloud” that we saw when the hyperscalers were initially growing so quickly?


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]]> Todd Robinson, Founder and President of OpenMetal.io, discusses the resurgence of bare metal infrastructure driven by AI workloads, digital sovereignty requirements, and companies reassessing public cloud economics. The conversation explores how organizations are finding cost and control advantages in bare metal solutions, particularly for long-running applications. It examines OpenMetal's open-source approach using technologies like Ceph and OpenStack to deliver flexible infrastructure alternatives.

SHOW: 959

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #959 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 


SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast


SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and you developed a passion around bare metal and cloud services?

Topic 2 - Between AI (GPU rental), digital sovereignty initiatives, and even virtualization alternatives, it feels like bare metal is having a resurgence. Give some a sense of what the demands for bare metal solutions look like today?

Topic 3 - As companies understand the economics of having used public cloud services, are there certain use-cases that become immediately obvious where more private, hosted, bare metal services just make more sense? 

Topic 4 - OpenMetal is based on open source technologies like Ceph and OpenStack. How important to customers about the technologies under their applications, or do the economics and control aspects play a bigger role in their decisions? 

Topic 5 - I’m often asked if there is a model about when it makes more sense to use on-demand service vs. more fixed services. Is there a rule of thumb (e.g. longevity of an application, amount of change, etc.) that you’ve found drives the most success at picking the right environment for applications?

Topic 6 - OpenMetal could be described as a public or private cloud service. Do you find that there is still the stigma over “private cloud” that we saw when the hyperscalers were initially growing so quickly?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17854120 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1735 Todd Robinson, Bare Metal, Open Metal, Sovereignty, AI, Open Source, Ceph, OpenStack, GPU full false Exploring Oracle Cloud's Evolution Exploring Oracle Cloud's Evolution How did Oracle Cloud (with OpenAI) suddenly command the news cycle, with a chance to potentially overtake much larger clouds in a few years? Let’s explore how Oracle’s focus on bare-metal and bandwidth might have ripple effects on Cloud and AI.


SHOW: 958

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #958 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR AI? 

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]]> How did Oracle Cloud (with OpenAI) suddenly command the news cycle, with a chance to potentially overtake much larger clouds in a few years? Let’s explore how Oracle’s focus on bare-metal and bandwidth might have ripple effects on Cloud and AI.


SHOW: 958

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #958 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR AI? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17841170 Sun, 14 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2065 Oracle Cloud, Bare Metal, AI, Cloud, AWS, Azure, OCI, OpenAI full false Kubernetes-native Continuous Testing Kubernetes-native Continuous Testing Ole Lensmar (@olensmar, Founder/CTO at @TestKube_io) discusses how Kubernetes-native testing platforms are designed to address limitations in traditional CI/CD testing workflows. The conversation covers how TestKube differs from existing testing environments, expands test coverage opportunities for development and QA teams, and provides best practices for testing in Kubernetes environments.

SHOW: 957

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #957 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search Interconnected by Equinix.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and what led you to start TestKube.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the origins of TestKube. What were some areas where you saw people having frustrations or limitations that were holding back their ability to do proper testing to get things into production?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the basics of TestKube. Can you talk about how it’s different from existing testing environments, or how people use CI/CD today

Topic 4 - Does TestKube expand what a typical Dev-team, or QA-team would test, or does it create new opportunities for test coverage that were very difficult before? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the results or feedback you’ve heard from people using TestKube?

Topic 6 - What are some best practices you’re seeing as people begin to evolve how they test for their Kubernetes environments?

Topic 7 - What’s the best way for people to get started with TestKube


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]]> Ole Lensmar (@olensmar, Founder/CTO at @TestKube_io) discusses how Kubernetes-native testing platforms are designed to address limitations in traditional CI/CD testing workflows. The conversation covers how TestKube differs from existing testing environments, expands test coverage opportunities for development and QA teams, and provides best practices for testing in Kubernetes environments.

SHOW: 957

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #957 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search Interconnected by Equinix.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and what led you to start TestKube.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the origins of TestKube. What were some areas where you saw people having frustrations or limitations that were holding back their ability to do proper testing to get things into production?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the basics of TestKube. Can you talk about how it’s different from existing testing environments, or how people use CI/CD today

Topic 4 - Does TestKube expand what a typical Dev-team, or QA-team would test, or does it create new opportunities for test coverage that were very difficult before? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the results or feedback you’ve heard from people using TestKube?

Topic 6 - What are some best practices you’re seeing as people begin to evolve how they test for their Kubernetes environments?

Topic 7 - What’s the best way for people to get started with TestKube


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17818586 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1923 TestKube, Ole Lensmar, Kubernetes, Testing, CI/CD, QA full false Where is the Android of AI? Where is the Android of AI? Apple’s iPhone had the Android ecosystem, but where is the Android of AI going to come from to challenge the OpenAI/NVIDIA duopoly? Let’s explore the possibilities. 

SHOW: 956

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #956 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR AI? 

  • Consumer: Ad-supported
  • Consumer: Understandable tiers
  • Enterprise: ELAs for Co-Pilot, Gemini
  • Enterprise: Model building tools (e.g. AWS Sagemaker, Google Vertex, etc.)

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]]> Apple’s iPhone had the Android ecosystem, but where is the Android of AI going to come from to challenge the OpenAI/NVIDIA duopoly? Let’s explore the possibilities. 

SHOW: 956

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #956 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR AI? 

  • Consumer: Ad-supported
  • Consumer: Understandable tiers
  • Enterprise: ELAs for Co-Pilot, Gemini
  • Enterprise: Model building tools (e.g. AWS Sagemaker, Google Vertex, etc.)

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17805365 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1442 AI, Android, iPhone, Mobile, Internet 2000, Business Models, Open Source, Subsidized, Google, OpenAI, Vertical Integration full false AI & Cloud Trends for August 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for August 2025 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2025.

SHOW: 955

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #955 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:

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SHOW: 955

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #955 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17780609 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:00:00 -0400 2472 NVIDIA, Intel, Oracle Cloud, AI, Cloud, Developer Assistants, VMware full false Every Week Feels like an AI Gartner Hype Cycle Every Week Feels like an AI Gartner Hype Cycle From extreme ups to startling downs, every week can feel like the peak of expectations and the trough of disillusionment for AI.  

SHOW: 954

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #954 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.

SHOW NOTES:

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF AI - THE CONSTANT HYPE CYCLE

Healthy Competition [YES]

Consumer and Enterprise Markets [YES]

Market leader(s) [YES, sort of]

Well-Defined, profitable business model [NO]

Open, lower-cost alternative emerged [YES/NO]

Usage patterns emerging [YES/NO]

  • [ups] Constant high-profile VC, Sovereign wealth, hyperscaler funding of AI startups
  • [ups] Constant high-profile CAPEX spending by hyperscalers, model builders, data center builders
  • [ups] Rapidly growing user-bases
  • [ups] Growing revenues at some companies (NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic)
  • [downs] Growing losses at high-profile companies  
  • [???] Frequent, high-profile movement by key people at high-profile companies (engineers, leadership)
  • [downs] Frequent, partial acquires of founders and key engineers, but not entire companies
  • [downs] Secondary market scales of startup shares, bypassing traditional secondary and public markets
  • [downs] No “NetFlix of AI” company
  • [downs] No “AI Agent” success stories
  • [???] Consumer “winner-take-all” mindset from AI companies
  • [downs] Enterprise companies struggling to create ROI+ projects (in early days)
  • [???] Enterprise “bundles” raising prices (CoPilot, Gemini, etc.)
  • [downs] Unclear if new frontier models are getting better than previous versions (e.g. GPT-5)
  • [???] Are inference prices coming down? 
  • [ups] Consumers have many excellent AI choices
  • It’s unclear if AI companies have created any moats yet; it’s unclear if LLMs can be differentiated
  • Chatbots, developer-assistants and document management are use-cases. What else?
  • Are agents ready to be mainstream yet? 
  • Pick-axe providers are making the money right now (NVIDIA, Broadcom, etc.), but is there moat entirely on super-premium HW?
  • User-experiences are still being understood
  • Will AI + Ads (business model) be a big bang event, or happen gradually? 

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]]> From extreme ups to startling downs, every week can feel like the peak of expectations and the trough of disillusionment for AI.  

SHOW: 954

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #954 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.

SHOW NOTES:

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF AI - THE CONSTANT HYPE CYCLE

Healthy Competition [YES]

Consumer and Enterprise Markets [YES]

Market leader(s) [YES, sort of]

Well-Defined, profitable business model [NO]

Open, lower-cost alternative emerged [YES/NO]

Usage patterns emerging [YES/NO]

  • [ups] Constant high-profile VC, Sovereign wealth, hyperscaler funding of AI startups
  • [ups] Constant high-profile CAPEX spending by hyperscalers, model builders, data center builders
  • [ups] Rapidly growing user-bases
  • [ups] Growing revenues at some companies (NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic)
  • [downs] Growing losses at high-profile companies  
  • [???] Frequent, high-profile movement by key people at high-profile companies (engineers, leadership)
  • [downs] Frequent, partial acquires of founders and key engineers, but not entire companies
  • [downs] Secondary market scales of startup shares, bypassing traditional secondary and public markets
  • [downs] No “NetFlix of AI” company
  • [downs] No “AI Agent” success stories
  • [???] Consumer “winner-take-all” mindset from AI companies
  • [downs] Enterprise companies struggling to create ROI+ projects (in early days)
  • [???] Enterprise “bundles” raising prices (CoPilot, Gemini, etc.)
  • [downs] Unclear if new frontier models are getting better than previous versions (e.g. GPT-5)
  • [???] Are inference prices coming down? 
  • [ups] Consumers have many excellent AI choices
  • It’s unclear if AI companies have created any moats yet; it’s unclear if LLMs can be differentiated
  • Chatbots, developer-assistants and document management are use-cases. What else?
  • Are agents ready to be mainstream yet? 
  • Pick-axe providers are making the money right now (NVIDIA, Broadcom, etc.), but is there moat entirely on super-premium HW?
  • User-experiences are still being understood
  • Will AI + Ads (business model) be a big bang event, or happen gradually? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17767637 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1945 Gartner Hype Cycle, AI, Competition, Business Models, Profitability, Market Leaders, Low-Cost Alternatives full false The Modernization of FinOps The Modernization of FinOps Amit Kinha - Field CTO @DoITInt | FinOps Foundation Board Member discusses how the relationship between technology and financial accountability has evolved, and how mainstream FinOps is shifting IT focus around innovation. 

SHOW: 953

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #953 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your involvement in FinOps.

Topic 2 - We’ve been through the early days of cloud, where we were told that cloud was cheaper, and then after COVID, everyone seemed to realize that cloud was actually more expensive. Where are we with FinOps and companies understanding how to think about cloud spending?

Topic 3 - You work with the FinOps Foundation. What types of roles do you see focused on FinOps, and how is that evolving as there is greater cloud cost visibility across an entire organization? 

Topic 4 - How has the technology around FinOps evolved? How much is still manual? How much is piecing together different costs from different systems? And how much is evolving to have an AI component? 

Topic 5 - How do the tools and platforms from DoIT help to make FinOps easier for companies? What are some of the key areas of focus, and some insights you’re hearing from the companies that you work with directly? 

Topic 6 - If you had to give a CIO or CFO guidance on how to best think about FinOps, what are the top things you would focus on? 

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SHOW: 953

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #953 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your involvement in FinOps.

Topic 2 - We’ve been through the early days of cloud, where we were told that cloud was cheaper, and then after COVID, everyone seemed to realize that cloud was actually more expensive. Where are we with FinOps and companies understanding how to think about cloud spending?

Topic 3 - You work with the FinOps Foundation. What types of roles do you see focused on FinOps, and how is that evolving as there is greater cloud cost visibility across an entire organization? 

Topic 4 - How has the technology around FinOps evolved? How much is still manual? How much is piecing together different costs from different systems? And how much is evolving to have an AI component? 

Topic 5 - How do the tools and platforms from DoIT help to make FinOps easier for companies? What are some of the key areas of focus, and some insights you’re hearing from the companies that you work with directly? 

Topic 6 - If you had to give a CIO or CFO guidance on how to best think about FinOps, what are the top things you would focus on? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17740387 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1825 DoIT, Amit Kinha, FinOps, FinOps Foundation, Financial Accountability full false Transitioning from the Cloud era to the AI era Transitioning from the Cloud era to the AI era As we begin to transition from the Cloud era to the AI era, what types of changes can we expect to see happen in the market, within our businesses, and for individuals? 

SHOW: 952

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #952 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.

SHOW NOTES:

WHEN TWO ERAS OVERLAP - CLOUD AND AI

  • The early stages of a new era tends to be separate (cloud-native, AI-native), but eventually tends to build upon the previous era’s foundations
  • It usually takes a decade before an era stops being important or prioritized 
  • It usually takes 3-5 years before best practices for new applications emerge
  • Finding new era talent is difficult (and expensive), but current era technology can be optimized (reduce costs, modernize)
  • We’re going to see “Shadow AI” and “Bi-Modal Cloud/AI”
  • The will be a lot of “X is Dead” during the first few years of the transition, until people (again) remember that nothing in IT dies - especially in the enterprise
  • There will be a lot of numbers/reports coming out that seem completely contradictory - $B investment, but $0 ROI from users

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]]> As we begin to transition from the Cloud era to the AI era, what types of changes can we expect to see happen in the market, within our businesses, and for individuals? 

SHOW: 952

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #952 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.

SHOW NOTES:

WHEN TWO ERAS OVERLAP - CLOUD AND AI

  • The early stages of a new era tends to be separate (cloud-native, AI-native), but eventually tends to build upon the previous era’s foundations
  • It usually takes a decade before an era stops being important or prioritized 
  • It usually takes 3-5 years before best practices for new applications emerge
  • Finding new era talent is difficult (and expensive), but current era technology can be optimized (reduce costs, modernize)
  • We’re going to see “Shadow AI” and “Bi-Modal Cloud/AI”
  • The will be a lot of “X is Dead” during the first few years of the transition, until people (again) remember that nothing in IT dies - especially in the enterprise
  • There will be a lot of numbers/reports coming out that seem completely contradictory - $B investment, but $0 ROI from users

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17722206 Sun, 24 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1567 AI, Cloud, Eras, Transition, AI-native, Cloud-native, Bi-Modal, X is Dead full false Looking back on Industry Market Leaders Looking back on Industry Market Leaders After a very long roadtrip, let’s explore the lessons we can learn from some of the greatest business models in tech and how or if they apply to the AI era companies. 

SHOW: 951

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #951 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:

LESSONS FROM THE GREATEST BUSINESS MODELS

  • Founder control, nearly immediately profitable, growth strategies, 
  • How long Enterprise businesses take to mature
  • Is there an AI business model that’s profitable? 
  • Is there a business model that isn’t Enterprise or Ad-supported?
  • Microsoft - commoditize your compliments, understand market expansions, 
  • Google - Customer acquisition, scaling economics, AdWords, AdSense
  • AWS - 
  • Meta - Adapting the offerings
  • NVIDIA - Vertical integration (HW + SW)

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]]> After a very long roadtrip, let’s explore the lessons we can learn from some of the greatest business models in tech and how or if they apply to the AI era companies. 

SHOW: 951

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #951 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.
  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

SHOW NOTES:

LESSONS FROM THE GREATEST BUSINESS MODELS

  • Founder control, nearly immediately profitable, growth strategies, 
  • How long Enterprise businesses take to mature
  • Is there an AI business model that’s profitable? 
  • Is there a business model that isn’t Enterprise or Ad-supported?
  • Microsoft - commoditize your compliments, understand market expansions, 
  • Google - Customer acquisition, scaling economics, AdWords, AdSense
  • AWS - 
  • Meta - Adapting the offerings
  • NVIDIA - Vertical integration (HW + SW)

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17713745 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1539 Microsoft, Meta, Google, Facebook, Amazon, AWS, NVIDIA, Acquired Podcast full false Kubernetes in the Era of GPUs Kubernetes in the Era of GPUs Haseeb Budhani (@haseebbudhani, CEO @rafaysystemsinc) discusses the evolution from traditional DevOps to platform engineering and what "Enterprise Ready" Kubernetes looks like in 2025. We explore AI workloads running on Kubernetes and how modern orchestration solutions can transform teams from bottlenecks into enablers. We also cover the security considerations for GPU-enabled AI workloads and balancing developer self-service capabilities with proper governance and control.

SHOW: 950

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #950 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Haseeb. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about the evolution of Kubernetes as a platform. You’ve said and we’ve talked about on this show for some time how Kubernetes is more of a platform to run platforms. We’ve also seen trends in the industry and shifts in what it means to be DevOps or Platform Engineering in recent years. You've positioned Rafay as a Kubernetes Operations Platform that's now evolved into a Cloud Automation Platform. How do you define the difference between Kubernetes management and true platform engineering?

Topic 3 - What does “Enterprise Ready” Kubernetes look like in 2025?

Topic 4 - Let’s flip over to AI/ML and GPUs with Kubernetes for a bit. Many developers and data scientists aren’t aware of the underlying platform they run on. I saw a stat recently that about 95% of AI runs on Kubernetes, either on-prem or in the cloud. Despite this, Platform teams are often stuck doing manual GPU provisioning, which doesn't scale with AI adoption. How do modern GPU orchestration solutions change the platform team's role?

Topic 5 - With GPU workloads often handling sensitive data and AI models, security becomes even more critical. How should organizations approach security and compliance in their GPU-enabled Kubernetes operations?

Topic 6 - "Most developers don't want to write YAML or manage clusters — they just want to ship software." How do you balance giving developers the self-service capabilities they want while maintaining the control and governance that platform teams need?


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]]> Haseeb Budhani (@haseebbudhani, CEO @rafaysystemsinc) discusses the evolution from traditional DevOps to platform engineering and what "Enterprise Ready" Kubernetes looks like in 2025. We explore AI workloads running on Kubernetes and how modern orchestration solutions can transform teams from bottlenecks into enablers. We also cover the security considerations for GPU-enabled AI workloads and balancing developer self-service capabilities with proper governance and control.

SHOW: 950

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #950 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Haseeb. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about the evolution of Kubernetes as a platform. You’ve said and we’ve talked about on this show for some time how Kubernetes is more of a platform to run platforms. We’ve also seen trends in the industry and shifts in what it means to be DevOps or Platform Engineering in recent years. You've positioned Rafay as a Kubernetes Operations Platform that's now evolved into a Cloud Automation Platform. How do you define the difference between Kubernetes management and true platform engineering?

Topic 3 - What does “Enterprise Ready” Kubernetes look like in 2025?

Topic 4 - Let’s flip over to AI/ML and GPUs with Kubernetes for a bit. Many developers and data scientists aren’t aware of the underlying platform they run on. I saw a stat recently that about 95% of AI runs on Kubernetes, either on-prem or in the cloud. Despite this, Platform teams are often stuck doing manual GPU provisioning, which doesn't scale with AI adoption. How do modern GPU orchestration solutions change the platform team's role?

Topic 5 - With GPU workloads often handling sensitive data and AI models, security becomes even more critical. How should organizations approach security and compliance in their GPU-enabled Kubernetes operations?

Topic 6 - "Most developers don't want to write YAML or manage clusters — they just want to ship software." How do you balance giving developers the self-service capabilities they want while maintaining the control and governance that platform teams need?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17701890 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1511 Haseeb Budhani, Rafay Systems, DevOps, Kubernetes, GPU, Operations, Automation full false Enterprise AI Platforms Enterprise AI Platforms Shay Levi (@shaylevi2, CEO @UnframeAI) & Larissa Schneider (COO @UnframeAI) discuss the complexities of building an enterprise-grade AI platform. Topics include what an AI platform is, the advantages of adoption, and the efficiencies gained.

SHOW: 949

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Topic 1 - Shay & Larissa, welcome to the show!  Give everyone a brief introduction and a little about your background. 

Topic 2 - Today, we’re discussing AI Security and Enterprise Platforms. What are the problems or issues you see with AI development today?

Topic 3 - Is this where an AI platform comes into play? I’m seeing more and more about this term and wondering what it truly means to be a platform. What is your definition of a platform, and what are the advantages?

Topic 4 - Shay, considering your background in APIs and API security, how does that knowledge transfer into this space?

Topic 5 - Larissa, with your background in operations, where do you see the inefficiencies in AI development and lifecycle management of the AI models and the datasets?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about Unframe. Give everyone an overview. Is this a SaaS service? How and where does it fit into your typical AI development stack?


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SHOW: 949

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Topic 1 - Shay & Larissa, welcome to the show!  Give everyone a brief introduction and a little about your background. 

Topic 2 - Today, we’re discussing AI Security and Enterprise Platforms. What are the problems or issues you see with AI development today?

Topic 3 - Is this where an AI platform comes into play? I’m seeing more and more about this term and wondering what it truly means to be a platform. What is your definition of a platform, and what are the advantages?

Topic 4 - Shay, considering your background in APIs and API security, how does that knowledge transfer into this space?

Topic 5 - Larissa, with your background in operations, where do you see the inefficiencies in AI development and lifecycle management of the AI models and the datasets?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about Unframe. Give everyone an overview. Is this a SaaS service? How and where does it fit into your typical AI development stack?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17659530 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1622 Unframe, API, AI Security, Enterprise AI, Platforms, Shay Levi, Larissa Schneider full false The beginning of Cloud 2.0 is here The beginning of Cloud 2.0 is here Are we beginning to see the dawn of a 2nd phase of Cloud Computing, as AI begins to become a workload that impacts every aspect of the previous era of Cloud? Let’s explore…

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CLOUD 1.0 vs. CLOUD 2.0

  • Cloud 1.0: On-demand services, OSS innovation, Core Building Blocks, Affordable Infrastructure with declining costs, 1st and best customers, limited gov’t involvement, varied competition levels, 
  • Cloud 2.0: AI is a now technology, GPU vs. CPU costs, vertical application stacks?, unknown economics, highly funded competition, unknown gov’t involvement, unknown investment into OSS, AI gravity vs. cloud gravity

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CLOUD 1.0 vs. CLOUD 2.0

  • Cloud 1.0: On-demand services, OSS innovation, Core Building Blocks, Affordable Infrastructure with declining costs, 1st and best customers, limited gov’t involvement, varied competition levels, 
  • Cloud 2.0: AI is a now technology, GPU vs. CPU costs, vertical application stacks?, unknown economics, highly funded competition, unknown gov’t involvement, unknown investment into OSS, AI gravity vs. cloud gravity

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17650488 Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1199 Cloud 1.0, Cloud 2.0, OSS Innovation, On-Demand Pricing, AI, Economics, Gov't Involvement, full false AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelpt) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2025.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17621278 Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2533 AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, Anthropic, VC Funding, AI Data Centers, AI Agents full false Is AWS entering their Hybrid phase? Is AWS entering their Hybrid phase? The hardest thing for any growing company to do is manage the transition from hypergrowth to the dual tracks of growth and stability. AWS is entering their Hybrid phase, or the transition from Day 1 to Day 2. How will it go?

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HOW WILL AWS HANDLE DAY 1 AND DAY 2?

  • Has AWS missed the Generative AI transformation?
    • Not investing in GPUs at the same rate as their cloud market share
    • Don’t have a Top 5 Frontier LLM
    • Don’t have a productivity suite to attach AI to (on-going revenue)
    • Don’t have a leading coding-assistant app
    • Don’t have an immediate “acquisition” target (e.g. Anthropic valuation near $150B)
    • AWS isn’t breaking out their AI revenues
  • AWS’s growth has plateaued over the last 6 quarters (around 17%), while Azure, GCP have been growing at 1.5 to 2x, specifically around AI revenues. 
  • AWS is up to 18% of Amazon revenue, and current AWS (CPU-based) is driving the majority of Amazon profits. 
  • Jasay is trying to make AI an add-on to the AWS “building block” model
    • GenAI buying (at this point) looks similar to Shadow IT going to public cloud – it’s not centrally controlled
  • Is AWS focused on GenAI, or moving the other 80-85% of on-premises to their cloud? Can they manage both priorities at the same time? 
  • Can you achieve the same levels of growth if non-GenAI startups aren’t getting funding at the same levels as pre-2022?


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SHOW: 946

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW WILL AWS HANDLE DAY 1 AND DAY 2?

  • Has AWS missed the Generative AI transformation?
    • Not investing in GPUs at the same rate as their cloud market share
    • Don’t have a Top 5 Frontier LLM
    • Don’t have a productivity suite to attach AI to (on-going revenue)
    • Don’t have a leading coding-assistant app
    • Don’t have an immediate “acquisition” target (e.g. Anthropic valuation near $150B)
    • AWS isn’t breaking out their AI revenues
  • AWS’s growth has plateaued over the last 6 quarters (around 17%), while Azure, GCP have been growing at 1.5 to 2x, specifically around AI revenues. 
  • AWS is up to 18% of Amazon revenue, and current AWS (CPU-based) is driving the majority of Amazon profits. 
  • Jasay is trying to make AI an add-on to the AWS “building block” model
    • GenAI buying (at this point) looks similar to Shadow IT going to public cloud – it’s not centrally controlled
  • Is AWS focused on GenAI, or moving the other 80-85% of on-premises to their cloud? Can they manage both priorities at the same time? 
  • Can you achieve the same levels of growth if non-GenAI startups aren’t getting funding at the same levels as pre-2022?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17606824 Sun, 03 Aug 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2306 AWS, Amazon, Andy Jasay, GenAI, Day 1, Day 2, Profitability, Cloud, Market Transitions full false Improving AI Through Data Quality Improving AI Through Data Quality Elliot Shmukler (@eshmu, Co-Founder/CEO @anomalo_hq) talks about the impact of data quality on AI, how unstructured data can be improved, and how monitoring of data lakes can help prevent model drift and give organizations confidence with predictable results.

SHOW: 945

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Topic 1 - Elliot, welcome back! It’s hard to believe it has been 3 years since we spoke! Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - Here’s the problem I see when it comes to AI adoption today. There isn’t an “off the shelf” AI model with an organization's data built in; that’s impossible. So, you must bring this data, often unstructured, to the model, often with mixed results. Do you agree?

Topic 3 - I see data quality in two ways… the quality of the data before ingestion is one way, we want the data to be clean going in. But, we also need a way to detect, mitigate, and do a root cause analysis for quality checks along the way, correct? Give everyone an idea of what this life cycle looks like.

Topic 4 - What are you seeing as the barriers to adoption? Is it the tools, the models, the need for RAG pipelines, the lack of data scientists, and AIOps?

Topic 5 - We have this crossroads where proprietary data makes an organization unique, but exposing that unique data puts the organization at risk. How much of a factor does this play, and how do you advise organizations around this complex intersection

Topic 6 - There is always this concept of predictable results. This answer should be consistent and repeatable. We’ve seen things like model/data drift and hallucinations hinder this concept, leading to a lack of confidence in the results. How do you advise organizations to tackle this lifecycle management and predictability over time?


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SHOW: 945

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SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Elliot, welcome back! It’s hard to believe it has been 3 years since we spoke! Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - Here’s the problem I see when it comes to AI adoption today. There isn’t an “off the shelf” AI model with an organization's data built in; that’s impossible. So, you must bring this data, often unstructured, to the model, often with mixed results. Do you agree?

Topic 3 - I see data quality in two ways… the quality of the data before ingestion is one way, we want the data to be clean going in. But, we also need a way to detect, mitigate, and do a root cause analysis for quality checks along the way, correct? Give everyone an idea of what this life cycle looks like.

Topic 4 - What are you seeing as the barriers to adoption? Is it the tools, the models, the need for RAG pipelines, the lack of data scientists, and AIOps?

Topic 5 - We have this crossroads where proprietary data makes an organization unique, but exposing that unique data puts the organization at risk. How much of a factor does this play, and how do you advise organizations around this complex intersection

Topic 6 - There is always this concept of predictable results. This answer should be consistent and repeatable. We’ve seen things like model/data drift and hallucinations hinder this concept, leading to a lack of confidence in the results. How do you advise organizations to tackle this lifecycle management and predictability over time?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17585204 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1587 Elliot Shmukler, Anomalo, Data Quality, AI, Unstructured Data full false How will Businesses react to AI Agent success? How will Businesses react to AI Agent success? If the AI Agent hype ends up being real, how will businesses manage AI Agents from the perspective of people vs. non-people? 

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WHAT IF AI AGENTS ARE SUCCESSFUL?

  • What are our expectations of AI Agents? 
  • How do we treat AI Agents? 
  • How do we organize AI Agents? 
  • How do we manage AI Agents?
  • Will we have Junior and Senior AI Agents? 
  • Will we see internal competition for managers trying to get AI Agent budget? 
  • Will companies measure % AI Agent for projects? 
  • Will we see managers trying to take their agents with them if they leave a company? How “owns” the agent?

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WHAT IF AI AGENTS ARE SUCCESSFUL?

  • What are our expectations of AI Agents? 
  • How do we treat AI Agents? 
  • How do we organize AI Agents? 
  • How do we manage AI Agents?
  • Will we have Junior and Senior AI Agents? 
  • Will we see internal competition for managers trying to get AI Agent budget? 
  • Will companies measure % AI Agent for projects? 
  • Will we see managers trying to take their agents with them if they leave a company? How “owns” the agent?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17568265 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1321 AI Agent, AI, Tools, Autonomous Systems, Automation, Managers, IC, Agent Ownership full false Building Private GenAI stacks Building Private GenAI stacks Luke Marsden (@lmarsden, CEO @HelixML) talks about Private GenAI. What is it? Why do you need it? We also discuss integration into CI/CD pipelines, the layers of a Private GenAI Stack, and why most organizations are opting for RAG over fine-tuning LLMs.

SHOW: 943

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Luke. Give everyone a brief intro.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with Priavte GenAI. What is it? Why should organizations out there consider it? Why not just use OpenAI GPT’s and fine tune them?

Topic 2a Follow up - Regulatory Compliance - take the opposing forces in the EU for instance to using SaaS based services based in the United States.

Topic 3 - Let’s break down the layers in a typical Private AI stack. I’m seen various ways to represent this such as infrastructure layer, MLOps layer, models, data layer (typically RAG), etc. How do you break up the stack into individual components

Topic 4 - My mind immediately jumps to similarities in the DevOps space. Abstraction layers and components like Docker and containers comes to mind, integration into CI/CD pipelines, etc. I feel like MLOps is it’s own thing with specific tools and workflows. Does this all come together and if so how?

Topic 5 - Also, what does this mean for versioning and lifecycle management of the models and the data?

Topic 6 - We are seeing more and more data pipelines with backed by multiple models, sometimes in multiple locations. How do handle this from both a scheduling and interface standpoint? Is everything hidden behind APIs for instance?


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]]> Luke Marsden (@lmarsden, CEO @HelixML) talks about Private GenAI. What is it? Why do you need it? We also discuss integration into CI/CD pipelines, the layers of a Private GenAI Stack, and why most organizations are opting for RAG over fine-tuning LLMs.

SHOW: 943

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SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Luke. Give everyone a brief intro.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with Priavte GenAI. What is it? Why should organizations out there consider it? Why not just use OpenAI GPT’s and fine tune them?

Topic 2a Follow up - Regulatory Compliance - take the opposing forces in the EU for instance to using SaaS based services based in the United States.

Topic 3 - Let’s break down the layers in a typical Private AI stack. I’m seen various ways to represent this such as infrastructure layer, MLOps layer, models, data layer (typically RAG), etc. How do you break up the stack into individual components

Topic 4 - My mind immediately jumps to similarities in the DevOps space. Abstraction layers and components like Docker and containers comes to mind, integration into CI/CD pipelines, etc. I feel like MLOps is it’s own thing with specific tools and workflows. Does this all come together and if so how?

Topic 5 - Also, what does this mean for versioning and lifecycle management of the models and the data?

Topic 6 - We are seeing more and more data pipelines with backed by multiple models, sometimes in multiple locations. How do handle this from both a scheduling and interface standpoint? Is everything hidden behind APIs for instance?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17549434 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2424 Luke Marsden, HelixML, Private GenAI, CI/CD, RAG, Fine-Tuning LLMs, MLOps full false Should you join an AI Startup? Should you join an AI Startup? If the rewards of a startup are only going to the founders and AI researchers, then what incentives are there for all the other roles? Has AI broken the startup model? 

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WHY WOULD ANYBODY JOIN AN AI STARTUP? 

  • Windsurf, ScaleAI, Inflection and several other AI companies are getting acquihired. 
  • The US DOJ and FTC are scrutinizing acquisitions by large tech companies
  • Large tech companies are able to acquihire without paying for non-founders
  • Not every company will be ChatGPT and grew without massive sales and marketing
  • What would anyone join an AI Startup if you’re not the Founder or AI Researcher? 

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WHY WOULD ANYBODY JOIN AN AI STARTUP? 

  • Windsurf, ScaleAI, Inflection and several other AI companies are getting acquihired. 
  • The US DOJ and FTC are scrutinizing acquisitions by large tech companies
  • Large tech companies are able to acquihire without paying for non-founders
  • Not every company will be ChatGPT and grew without massive sales and marketing
  • What would anyone join an AI Startup if you’re not the Founder or AI Researcher? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17528031 Sun, 20 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1336 Windsurf, OpenAI, Google, Acquihire, Startups, AI Startups, Founders, ScaleAI full false Is Cursor having their Docker moment? Is Cursor having their Docker moment? Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the big changes happening around AI developer-assistants, across Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI and Google. 

SHOW: 941

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #941 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - What happened (basics of the pricing change)?

Topic 2 - How was this communicated? 

Topic 3 - Where was the confusion?

Topic 4 - Wasn’t this inevitable because of huge costs and funding rounds? 

Topic 5 - How do we square the “developers don’t pay for anything” and “AI-native vs. AI-augmented” when developers are still in the loop?

Topic 6 - Does this inevitability mean AI coding-assistants can’t be a standalone business, but need to be in a bundle? 

Topic 7 - WTF Windsurf?


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SHOW: 941

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #941 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.
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  • [FCTR] Try FCTR.io (that's F-C-T-R dot io) free for 60 days. Modern security demands modern solutions. Check out Fctr's Tako AI, the first AI agent for Okta, on their website

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - What happened (basics of the pricing change)?

Topic 2 - How was this communicated? 

Topic 3 - Where was the confusion?

Topic 4 - Wasn’t this inevitable because of huge costs and funding rounds? 

Topic 5 - How do we square the “developers don’t pay for anything” and “AI-native vs. AI-augmented” when developers are still in the loop?

Topic 6 - Does this inevitability mean AI coding-assistants can’t be a standalone business, but need to be in a bundle? 

Topic 7 - WTF Windsurf?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17505978 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2210 Windsurf, Cursor, Anthropic Claude, Coding Assistants, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Acquisitions full false The Importance of Early AI Adoption The Importance of Early AI Adoption In the Enterprise, there is a spectrum forming of aggressive adopters and passive resistors to AI usage. While there are no best practices yet, C-suites are pushing. So what are you waiting for?

SHOW: 940

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SHOW NOTES:


WHEN SHOULD YOU START ENGAGING WITH AI?

  • Nobody wants to be told what to do; and everyone wants guidance on what to do
  • [Experience from watching adoptions in the Enterprise]
  • No job has ever been safe in the long run
  • AI is like every new technology, it has a steep and long learning curve. But the beginning seems pretty easy. 
  • Nobody knows AI best practices at this point
  • Nobody knows good AI KPIs at this point
  • Nobody understands AI costs at this point
  • The “older” generation can build on their existing domain experience
  • The “younger” generation has always figured out new ways to work, be creative
  • Even CEOs aren’t the ultimate boss - the market, boards, peer pressure, etc. - they will push trends, sometimes without all the data

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SHOW: 940

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #940 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.
  • [FCTR] Try FCTR.io (that's F-C-T-R dot io) free for 60 days. Modern security demands modern solutions. Check out Fctr's Tako AI, the first AI agent for Okta, on their website
  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.

SHOW NOTES:


WHEN SHOULD YOU START ENGAGING WITH AI?

  • Nobody wants to be told what to do; and everyone wants guidance on what to do
  • [Experience from watching adoptions in the Enterprise]
  • No job has ever been safe in the long run
  • AI is like every new technology, it has a steep and long learning curve. But the beginning seems pretty easy. 
  • Nobody knows AI best practices at this point
  • Nobody knows good AI KPIs at this point
  • Nobody understands AI costs at this point
  • The “older” generation can build on their existing domain experience
  • The “younger” generation has always figured out new ways to work, be creative
  • Even CEOs aren’t the ultimate boss - the market, boards, peer pressure, etc. - they will push trends, sometimes without all the data

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17496662 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1882 AI, AI Adoption, Measurement, KPIs, Best Practices, Unknown Costs, C-suite mandates, Board pressure, Job concerns full false Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow Julian LaNeve (@JulianLaneve, CTO @astronomerio) discusses data pipelines, Apache Airflow, Astronomer’s managed offering, and the benefits of data pipelines for both developers and operations.

SHOW: 939

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #939 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Julian. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow.  For those unfamiliar, provide an introduction to Apache Airflow and how Airflow manages data pipelines.

Topic 3 - What are the advantages of Apache Airflow vs. others in the space? What are the downsides? How does Airflow fit in with other Apache projects?

Topic 4 - I would imagine this is where Astronomer potentially comes into play. What makes Astonomer different from Airflow? What problems are you trying to solve for both developers and operations folks?

Topic 5 - What does a typical implementation look like? What growing pains do developers typically face when they need to introduce pipelining tools and begin standardization? Is it a scale issue? A complexity of tools issue? Integrations with infrastructure?

Topic 6 - One aspect I typically see with automation is security, especially at scale. What recommendations do you have for developers regarding security, particularly in the context of multi-tenancy, for data pipelines?


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SHOW: 939

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #939 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.
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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Julian. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow.  For those unfamiliar, provide an introduction to Apache Airflow and how Airflow manages data pipelines.

Topic 3 - What are the advantages of Apache Airflow vs. others in the space? What are the downsides? How does Airflow fit in with other Apache projects?

Topic 4 - I would imagine this is where Astronomer potentially comes into play. What makes Astonomer different from Airflow? What problems are you trying to solve for both developers and operations folks?

Topic 5 - What does a typical implementation look like? What growing pains do developers typically face when they need to introduce pipelining tools and begin standardization? Is it a scale issue? A complexity of tools issue? Integrations with infrastructure?

Topic 6 - One aspect I typically see with automation is security, especially at scale. What recommendations do you have for developers regarding security, particularly in the context of multi-tenancy, for data pipelines?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17472479 Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1536 Julian Laneve, Apache Airflow, Data Pipeline, Astronomer full false A Mid-Year Cloud Check-In A Mid-Year Cloud Check-In As we get to the mid-point of 2025, let’s take a look at where the cloud is - what’s doing well, what’s going through some changes, and what might be in store for the rest of 2025. 

SHOW: 938

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #938 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

  • Digital Sovereignty concerns, investments and new laws outside the US 
  • Growth of regional clouds? 
  • Uncertainty in Azure, AWS - employee layoffs, review cycles, focus on non-AI projects/features
  • East Meets West 2025 (keynote presentation) - See slide 27 (GPU share vs Cloud revenue share)
  • Revenues: AWS ($116B run rate); Azure ($107.2B), GCP ($49B), Oracle Cloud ($12B IaaS, $16.8B SaaS), CoreWeave ($1B, since 2022) – OpenAI ($12-13B in 2025)
  • NVIDIA ($130B)
  • Massive Data Center build outs - Stargate ($500B), Meta ($60-65B), Grok/X ($10B)
    • AWS ($100B), Azure ($80B), 
    • Saudi Arabia (up to $100B)

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SHOW: 938

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #938 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • [FCTR] Try FCTR.io (that's F-C-T-R dot io) free for 60 days. Modern security demands modern solutions. Check out Fctr's Tako AI, the first AI agent for Okta, on their website
  • [VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.


SHOW NOTES:

  • Digital Sovereignty concerns, investments and new laws outside the US 
  • Growth of regional clouds? 
  • Uncertainty in Azure, AWS - employee layoffs, review cycles, focus on non-AI projects/features
  • East Meets West 2025 (keynote presentation) - See slide 27 (GPU share vs Cloud revenue share)
  • Revenues: AWS ($116B run rate); Azure ($107.2B), GCP ($49B), Oracle Cloud ($12B IaaS, $16.8B SaaS), CoreWeave ($1B, since 2022) – OpenAI ($12-13B in 2025)
  • NVIDIA ($130B)
  • Massive Data Center build outs - Stargate ($500B), Meta ($60-65B), Grok/X ($10B)
    • AWS ($100B), Azure ($80B), 
    • Saudi Arabia (up to $100B)

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17458187 Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1553 AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, CoreWeave, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Digital Sovereignty, EU, Tariffs full false AI & Cloud Trends for June 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for June 2025 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from June 2025.

SHOW: 937

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #937 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

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SHOW: 937

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #937 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SPONSORS:

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17434420 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2566 Brian Gracely, Brandon Whichard, NVIDIA, AWS, GCP, Azure, Satya Nadella, Andy Jassy, AI-native Apps, EMW, OpenAI, AI Researchers Salaries full false AI-Native Applications vs. AI Add-On Applications AI-Native Applications vs. AI Add-On Applications As AI evolves into the Enterprise, will we see greater uptake of AI-native applications or AI add-on applications? Briandon Whichard (@bwhichard) and Cote (@cote) from Software Defined Talk explore the pros and cons. 

SHOW: 936

SHOW VIDEO: Watch the YouTube Live Recording of SDT Episode 525

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SHOW NOTES:

This week, we try a shorter format inspired by the Dithering podcast. The conversation digs into the difference between apps built with AI from the ground up and those with AI bolted on after the fact.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of SDT Episode 525

RUNDOWN


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]]> As AI evolves into the Enterprise, will we see greater uptake of AI-native applications or AI add-on applications? Briandon Whichard (@bwhichard) and Cote (@cote) from Software Defined Talk explore the pros and cons. 

SHOW: 936

SHOW VIDEO: Watch the YouTube Live Recording of SDT Episode 525

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

This week, we try a shorter format inspired by the Dithering podcast. The conversation digs into the difference between apps built with AI from the ground up and those with AI bolted on after the fact.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of SDT Episode 525

RUNDOWN


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17411998 Sun, 29 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1131 Brandon Whichard, Cote, SDT, Cursor, Co-Pilot, AI Add-On, AI Native, Workflows full false Trustworthy AI Agents Trustworthy AI Agents Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo, CEO/Founder @HasuraQL) discusses the importance of reliability and trustworthiness for both generative and agentic AI. We discuss the pitfalls in existing data pipelines and how to enhance the results.

SHOW: 935

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #935 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Tanmai. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is Reliable and Trustworthy AI Agents. First off, what’s the problem we’re solving for here (define reliability and trustworthiness)? Are we solving for hallucinations? Reliability? Connecting private and Enterprise data to models with fine-tuning or RAG?

Topic 3 - How is reliability or trustworthiness measured? I would imagine this isn’t black and white, but maybe a bit more subjective?

Topic 4 - How do Agentic and GenAI differ, if at all, with this model? I would think that since Gen AI lends itself more to the creative side and Agent AI is very deterministic, the approaches to solving the problem might be different. Thoughts?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about data pipelines. Today, many organizations take an off-the-shelf frontier or foundational model and then apply a RAG pipeline to it for customization. Sometimes fine-tuning is involved, but in my experience, this is the exception rather than the rule. What is wrong with that architecture today? How is this less reliable?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about Hasura and PromptQL. As I understand it, you are decoupling query planning from execution, thereby creating a more deterministic AI workflow. Now… that’s a mouthful. Can you break down what this means and explain how the architecture differs?


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]]> Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo, CEO/Founder @HasuraQL) discusses the importance of reliability and trustworthiness for both generative and agentic AI. We discuss the pitfalls in existing data pipelines and how to enhance the results.

SHOW: 935

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #935 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Tanmai. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is Reliable and Trustworthy AI Agents. First off, what’s the problem we’re solving for here (define reliability and trustworthiness)? Are we solving for hallucinations? Reliability? Connecting private and Enterprise data to models with fine-tuning or RAG?

Topic 3 - How is reliability or trustworthiness measured? I would imagine this isn’t black and white, but maybe a bit more subjective?

Topic 4 - How do Agentic and GenAI differ, if at all, with this model? I would think that since Gen AI lends itself more to the creative side and Agent AI is very deterministic, the approaches to solving the problem might be different. Thoughts?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about data pipelines. Today, many organizations take an off-the-shelf frontier or foundational model and then apply a RAG pipeline to it for customization. Sometimes fine-tuning is involved, but in my experience, this is the exception rather than the rule. What is wrong with that architecture today? How is this less reliable?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about Hasura and PromptQL. As I understand it, you are decoupling query planning from execution, thereby creating a more deterministic AI workflow. Now… that’s a mouthful. Can you break down what this means and explain how the architecture differs?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17393211 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2345 AI Agents, PromptQL, Hasura, RAG, Tanmai Gopal, Agentic AI, Reliability, Trustworthy full false The Rapid Change of Cloud Dynamics The Rapid Change of Cloud Dynamics Are the dynamics of the hyperscale cloud providers changing? Will the leaders of the last decade continue for the next 3-5 years, or the next decade? Let’s explore how the market is now rapidly changing.

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TECHNOLOGY WAVES CHANGE MARKET DYNAMICS; INCUMBENTS DON’T ALWAYS LEAD

  • Revenues: AWS ($62B, 2021), Azure ($60B, 2021), GCP ($19B, 2021) 
  • Revenues (run rate): AWS ($130B, 2025), Azure ($108B, 2025), GCP ($50B, 2025) 
  • AWS is on 3rd CEO since pandemic; market questioning their AI strategy
  • Azure + OpenAI alignment strategy went from strategic to questioned
  • Google start-stop AI strategy, but coming together; but company breakup looming
  • Apple AI strategy seems completely unknown (Siri,Apple Intelligence, devices, models?)
  • Oracle seems to be rebounding around Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • New hypercloud AI providers emerging? The Amazon/AWS 20%

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]]> Are the dynamics of the hyperscale cloud providers changing? Will the leaders of the last decade continue for the next 3-5 years, or the next decade? Let’s explore how the market is now rapidly changing.

SHOW: 934

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SHOW NOTES:


TECHNOLOGY WAVES CHANGE MARKET DYNAMICS; INCUMBENTS DON’T ALWAYS LEAD

  • Revenues: AWS ($62B, 2021), Azure ($60B, 2021), GCP ($19B, 2021) 
  • Revenues (run rate): AWS ($130B, 2025), Azure ($108B, 2025), GCP ($50B, 2025) 
  • AWS is on 3rd CEO since pandemic; market questioning their AI strategy
  • Azure + OpenAI alignment strategy went from strategic to questioned
  • Google start-stop AI strategy, but coming together; but company breakup looming
  • Apple AI strategy seems completely unknown (Siri,Apple Intelligence, devices, models?)
  • Oracle seems to be rebounding around Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • New hypercloud AI providers emerging? The Amazon/AWS 20%

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17376022 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1620 AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, AI, NVIDIA full false Expanding AI Agents with MCP Servers & API Platforms Expanding AI Agents with MCP Servers & API Platforms Simon Yu (Co-Founder @SpeakeasyDev) discusses the rise of MCP servers, API integration into AI systems, including SDK generation, and the emergence of the Agentic web.

SHOW: 933

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #933 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Simon. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - API tooling and platforms for AI has become the hot topic this year. Of course, Agentic AI has made significant contributions to this. What trends do you see that we need to pay attention to? What problems are organizations trying to solve?

Topic 3 - Let’s dig into MCP Servers. The interest in MCP has taken off. At the highest level, why do they exist?

Topic 4 - MCP servers and all the recent announcements around an Agentic Web have me thinking… Do we need to prepare for an Internet where AI agents talk to each other? We had humans and GUIs (web frontends), then we saw the rise of APIs. Is this a third wave or an evolution of the API wave?

Topic 5 - How do SDKs and things like AI API tooling play into all of this? API tools to generate SDKs or AI documentation aren’t new. How does the abstraction of AI change this process?

Topic 6 - In our experience, API-level integrations are challenging to productize. Sometimes it comes down to something as simple as who is going to pay for it, and developers often have a voice and a seat at the table, but don’t have the budget. What has been your experience? 

Topic 7 - How does the business side of the house see an advantage to this? What metrics tend to matter and are measurable?


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]]> Simon Yu (Co-Founder @SpeakeasyDev) discusses the rise of MCP servers, API integration into AI systems, including SDK generation, and the emergence of the Agentic web.

SHOW: 933

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #933 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Simon. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - API tooling and platforms for AI has become the hot topic this year. Of course, Agentic AI has made significant contributions to this. What trends do you see that we need to pay attention to? What problems are organizations trying to solve?

Topic 3 - Let’s dig into MCP Servers. The interest in MCP has taken off. At the highest level, why do they exist?

Topic 4 - MCP servers and all the recent announcements around an Agentic Web have me thinking… Do we need to prepare for an Internet where AI agents talk to each other? We had humans and GUIs (web frontends), then we saw the rise of APIs. Is this a third wave or an evolution of the API wave?

Topic 5 - How do SDKs and things like AI API tooling play into all of this? API tools to generate SDKs or AI documentation aren’t new. How does the abstraction of AI change this process?

Topic 6 - In our experience, API-level integrations are challenging to productize. Sometimes it comes down to something as simple as who is going to pay for it, and developers often have a voice and a seat at the table, but don’t have the budget. What has been your experience? 

Topic 7 - How does the business side of the house see an advantage to this? What metrics tend to matter and are measurable?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17358102 Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400 1591 Simon Yu, Speakeasy, MCP, AI, Agentic AI, SDKs full false Father's Day and First Jobs Father's Day and First Jobs As Father's Day rolls around, we explore some tales from people taking on their first professional jobs, and how those lessons can relate to managers of newer hires.

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SOMETIMES WE FORGET HOW CHALLENGING THAT FIRST JOB WAS

  • Sometimes your first job(s) are just cogs in a machine - you work, but you don’t really care
  • A tale of two first job searches and surrounding activities
  • [Tale 1] Are you qualified for a job? Do you know how to do all the required things?
  • “I’m about to do this first task, and I’m very nervous”
  • “They keep giving me more things to do, and asking if I want more things to do”
  • “Just run with it, own it”
  • We meet 1:1 every week. Sometimes they miss/cancel the meeting. 
  • Understanding the entrepreneur’s mindset and challenges
  • [Tale 2] The fork in the road, and the road less travelled. 
  • The job that doesn’t pay as well, but provides the necessary experience. 

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SOMETIMES WE FORGET HOW CHALLENGING THAT FIRST JOB WAS

  • Sometimes your first job(s) are just cogs in a machine - you work, but you don’t really care
  • A tale of two first job searches and surrounding activities
  • [Tale 1] Are you qualified for a job? Do you know how to do all the required things?
  • “I’m about to do this first task, and I’m very nervous”
  • “They keep giving me more things to do, and asking if I want more things to do”
  • “Just run with it, own it”
  • We meet 1:1 every week. Sometimes they miss/cancel the meeting. 
  • Understanding the entrepreneur’s mindset and challenges
  • [Tale 2] The fork in the road, and the road less travelled. 
  • The job that doesn’t pay as well, but provides the necessary experience. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17315278 Sun, 15 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1175 Fathers, First Jobs, Responsibilities, Plan B, Desire to Succeed full false The State of Cloud Native for 2025 The State of Cloud Native for 2025 Tobi Knaup (@superguenter, VP/GM of Cloud Native @Nutanix) talks about the evolution of the cloud-native ecosystem, the intersection of AI and Kubernetes, and expectations of the next few years.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show! Full disclosure for everyone out there, I worked for Tobi at Nutanix. Give everyone a brief introduction and a little about your background.

Topic 2 - This is a throwback for our long-time listeners. We had Ben Hindman on episode #211 almost 10 years ago, when D2IQ was Mesosphere, and we also spoke to Dave Lester, who was at Twitter back in 2014.  I’m not going to ask you to catch everyone up on 10 years of your company and the history… but I will encourage everyone to go back and listen to that podcast. It is an excellent snapshot of the early days of cloud native and containers. Today, we will talk a bit about the state of cloud native. The most recent KubeCon EU was a few months ago. What were your thoughts around the event and the current state of the industry? 

Topic 3 - What are the most prominent challenges organizations face today with Cloud Native adoption?  You hear about the complexity, you hear about Kubernetes is a platform to build platforms… still true?

Topic 4 - Where do you think Cloud Native goes in the next 2-3 years? What technologies or design patterns (besides AI, we’ll talk about that later) evolve, and where does the next round of adoption come from?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about storage and data services quickly. Data services for K8s is messy, really messy at times. Give everyone an overview of the problem at scale and the challenges, especially in multi-cloud environments, which I’m finding more and more.

Topic 6 - I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention AI and its impact in the space. AI came along and sucked all the air out of the room for a time. How do you think about AI today, now that the dust has settled a bit? Is it just an “app” to run on top? How will AI impact cloud native longer term?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show! Full disclosure for everyone out there, I worked for Tobi at Nutanix. Give everyone a brief introduction and a little about your background.

Topic 2 - This is a throwback for our long-time listeners. We had Ben Hindman on episode #211 almost 10 years ago, when D2IQ was Mesosphere, and we also spoke to Dave Lester, who was at Twitter back in 2014.  I’m not going to ask you to catch everyone up on 10 years of your company and the history… but I will encourage everyone to go back and listen to that podcast. It is an excellent snapshot of the early days of cloud native and containers. Today, we will talk a bit about the state of cloud native. The most recent KubeCon EU was a few months ago. What were your thoughts around the event and the current state of the industry? 

Topic 3 - What are the most prominent challenges organizations face today with Cloud Native adoption?  You hear about the complexity, you hear about Kubernetes is a platform to build platforms… still true?

Topic 4 - Where do you think Cloud Native goes in the next 2-3 years? What technologies or design patterns (besides AI, we’ll talk about that later) evolve, and where does the next round of adoption come from?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about storage and data services quickly. Data services for K8s is messy, really messy at times. Give everyone an overview of the problem at scale and the challenges, especially in multi-cloud environments, which I’m finding more and more.

Topic 6 - I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention AI and its impact in the space. AI came along and sucked all the air out of the room for a time. How do you think about AI today, now that the dust has settled a bit? Is it just an “app” to run on top? How will AI impact cloud native longer term?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17320139 Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1404 Tobi Knaup, CNCF, Cloud-native, Kubernetes, DCOS, Mesosphere, Kubernetes, AI full false There Ain't Gonna Be Any Middle Anymore There Ain't Gonna Be Any Middle Anymore As we try and predict the future, we explore the possibilities of technology augmenting or replacing the middle of the bell curve. What has history taught us, and where do we expect it to repeat itself or at least rhyme?

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MOST OF US ARE THE MIDDLE TODAY….BUT WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?

  • I’d like to give you free intelligence. Later it might cost something, but it’ll be available
  • If you choose not to engage with it, your job prospects might be limited in the future
  • There ain’t gonna be any middle anymore - how does that relate to AI?
  • “Hollowing out the middle”
  • We can’t force people to use AI, but it’s going to be in the tools you use daily
  • You probably have a choice now
  • AI won’t have binary impacts on everyone (good/bad), but it’ll have impacts
  • I understand that we don’t understand everyone else’s context, but we do have historical context

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MOST OF US ARE THE MIDDLE TODAY….BUT WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?

  • I’d like to give you free intelligence. Later it might cost something, but it’ll be available
  • If you choose not to engage with it, your job prospects might be limited in the future
  • There ain’t gonna be any middle anymore - how does that relate to AI?
  • “Hollowing out the middle”
  • We can’t force people to use AI, but it’s going to be in the tools you use daily
  • You probably have a choice now
  • AI won’t have binary impacts on everyone (good/bad), but it’ll have impacts
  • I understand that we don’t understand everyone else’s context, but we do have historical context

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17296473 Sun, 08 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1122 Pearl Jam, Middle, Hollowed Out, AI, Getting Ahead, Getting Left Behind, Choices full false AI & Cloud Trends for May 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for May 2025 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from May 2025, including Google I/O, Microsoft Build, OpenAI, and Jony Ive. 

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]]> Buzzsprout-17277976 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2865 Cloud, AI, Jony Ive, Sam Altman, Io, OpenAI, NVIDIA, AWS, Coding Assistants, AI Agents, Secure OS, full false Sam, Jony, McGuffin and Vaporware Sam, Jony, McGuffin and Vaporware Is it ever a good time for a company to announce vaporware? Let’s discuss the pros and cons of pre-announcements, vaporware, and the strategy of products that may or may not ever exist.  

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IS IT EVER A GOOD TIME TO PRE-ANNOUNCE SOMETHING? OR VAPORWARE ON PURPOSE?

  • Russ Hanneman (Silicon Valley) - “No Revenue”
  • Set a big ambition for the company
  • Distract the market from current company challenges
  • Distract your competitors to chase something where they don’t have strengths
  • Probe the market for ideas - sort of like a “leak”
  • Get the market to pump your valuation, so you can take other actions
  • Stall your customers from potentially buying a competitive offer

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IS IT EVER A GOOD TIME TO PRE-ANNOUNCE SOMETHING? OR VAPORWARE ON PURPOSE?

  • Russ Hanneman (Silicon Valley) - “No Revenue”
  • Set a big ambition for the company
  • Distract the market from current company challenges
  • Distract your competitors to chase something where they don’t have strengths
  • Probe the market for ideas - sort of like a “leak”
  • Get the market to pump your valuation, so you can take other actions
  • Stall your customers from potentially buying a competitive offer

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17258094 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1772 Sam Altman, Jony Ive, Io, OpenAI, Vaporware, McGuffin, AI, Futures, Strategy full false Preventing AI Hallucinations Preventing AI Hallucinations Anand Kannappan (@anandnk24, CEO @PatronusAI) talks about evaluating AI models for hallucinations, managing data quality, automating the process, and optimizing models. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Anand. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is Preventing AI Model Hallucinations. Before we dig into that, I wanted to ask about your time as Lead Data Scientist at Meta. What was it like to be early into that organization, and what did you take away from your time there? 

Topic 3 - Ok, let’s dig into model evaluations and hallucinations. Let’s start at the beginning. How do model hallucinations come about?

Topic 4 - When evaluating models for hallucinations, how does a developer or a data scientist know fact from fiction? Due to its size, complexity, and number of parameters, it’s not feasible to simply fact-check and manually verify inputs to outputs. How is this process evaluated and automated with some level of confidence? Additionally, numerous benchmarks are available. What are your thoughts on the usefulness of the benchmarks?

Topic 5 - How does the concept of data quality play into this? How would we know when a model was given insufficient or improper data vs. a hallucination

Topic 6 - We often hear about how frontier models are running out of training data, and increasingly, synthetic data is being used. Does this impact hallucinations in any way?

Topic 7 - The last item I wanted to ask you about, Partonus AI, also pertains to model optimization. Can you explain that process?


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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Anand. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is Preventing AI Model Hallucinations. Before we dig into that, I wanted to ask about your time as Lead Data Scientist at Meta. What was it like to be early into that organization, and what did you take away from your time there? 

Topic 3 - Ok, let’s dig into model evaluations and hallucinations. Let’s start at the beginning. How do model hallucinations come about?

Topic 4 - When evaluating models for hallucinations, how does a developer or a data scientist know fact from fiction? Due to its size, complexity, and number of parameters, it’s not feasible to simply fact-check and manually verify inputs to outputs. How is this process evaluated and automated with some level of confidence? Additionally, numerous benchmarks are available. What are your thoughts on the usefulness of the benchmarks?

Topic 5 - How does the concept of data quality play into this? How would we know when a model was given insufficient or improper data vs. a hallucination

Topic 6 - We often hear about how frontier models are running out of training data, and increasingly, synthetic data is being used. Does this impact hallucinations in any way?

Topic 7 - The last item I wanted to ask you about, Partonus AI, also pertains to model optimization. Can you explain that process?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17237744 Wed, 28 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1671 Anand Kannappan, PatronusAI, AI Models, Hallucination, Data Quality, Meta, Model Optimization full false AI and the 95% vs 5% debate AI and the 95% vs 5% debate The industry is debating whether AI should be viewed as augmenting or replacing human-centric tasks. But we don’t yet have a framework to discuss the technical and business impacts of that spectrum of decisions.  

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HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF HUMANS WITH AI SYSTEMS?

  • What do we think AI systems should be capable of?
  • What do we think human systems should be capable of?
  • We know how to quantify error, but do we really know how to quantify error?
  • Almost every question about AI comes down to augment vs. replace, and yet humans tend to skew towards the replace angle. 
  • We like the thought of humans in the loop, but often don’t want to be bothered to interact with humans
  • We haven’t yet created a framework to think about the human +/- AI involvement, because we haven’t really created it for general-purpose automation yet either. 

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HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF HUMANS WITH AI SYSTEMS?

  • What do we think AI systems should be capable of?
  • What do we think human systems should be capable of?
  • We know how to quantify error, but do we really know how to quantify error?
  • Almost every question about AI comes down to augment vs. replace, and yet humans tend to skew towards the replace angle. 
  • We like the thought of humans in the loop, but often don’t want to be bothered to interact with humans
  • We haven’t yet created a framework to think about the human +/- AI involvement, because we haven’t really created it for general-purpose automation yet either. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17222196 Sun, 25 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1748 Matt Reider, AI, Augment, Replace, Mission-Critical, 95% full false Universal Data Representation for AI Universal Data Representation for AI Joel Christner, (@joelchristner, Founder/CEO at @viewyourdata) discusses the complexities of data management in AI, structured and unstructured data, the importance of RAG pipelines and vector databases. 

SHOW SUMMARY:  Aaron and Joel discusses the complexities of data management in AI, focusing on the concept of universal data representation. They explore the challenges organizations face with structured and unstructured data, the importance of RAG pipelines and vector databases, and the implications of data privacy in regulated industries. The conversation also touches on managing model versions and the emerging patterns in AI tooling that can help enterprises effectively utilize AI technologies.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Joel. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is everything data and how to represent it and embed it into AI systems. First, what is the challenge with data, structured or unstructured, in organizations today and what is behind the concept of Universal Data Representation

Topic 3 - Industry or customer specific data today is big challenge for organziations, especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, etc. The most prevalent solution I am seeing is taking an existing foundational model and then adding a RAG pipeline vs. the cost and time to fine tuning. What are you seeing?

Topic 4 - Even when companies have good data, that doesn’t mean that data makes it into the AI pipeline correctly, this is where the embedding problem and your concept of Universal Data Representation comes into play, correct?

Topic 5 - But, once you get the first model out, then what? How should the data and models be handled over time? How do you create a platform and a continuous feedback loop to improve the results over time?

Topic 6 - What are the most successful use cases you are seeing today with your customers?


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SHOW SUMMARY:  Aaron and Joel discusses the complexities of data management in AI, focusing on the concept of universal data representation. They explore the challenges organizations face with structured and unstructured data, the importance of RAG pipelines and vector databases, and the implications of data privacy in regulated industries. The conversation also touches on managing model versions and the emerging patterns in AI tooling that can help enterprises effectively utilize AI technologies.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Joel. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is everything data and how to represent it and embed it into AI systems. First, what is the challenge with data, structured or unstructured, in organizations today and what is behind the concept of Universal Data Representation

Topic 3 - Industry or customer specific data today is big challenge for organziations, especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, etc. The most prevalent solution I am seeing is taking an existing foundational model and then adding a RAG pipeline vs. the cost and time to fine tuning. What are you seeing?

Topic 4 - Even when companies have good data, that doesn’t mean that data makes it into the AI pipeline correctly, this is where the embedding problem and your concept of Universal Data Representation comes into play, correct?

Topic 5 - But, once you get the first model out, then what? How should the data and models be handled over time? How do you create a platform and a continuous feedback loop to improve the results over time?

Topic 6 - What are the most successful use cases you are seeing today with your customers?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17190778 Wed, 21 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1693 Joe Christner, View, data representation, AI, universal data representation, RAG pipelines, vector databases, data management, data privacy, model versioning, AI tooling, enterprise AI full false Where do Developer-Assistants go next with AI? Where do Developer-Assistants go next with AI? Where does the next phase of AI-assistants for software development go next? Is it an evolution of developer productivity, or a complete rethinking of the barriers and limitations for broader software development? 


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WHERE DO AI DEVELOPER-ASSISTANTS GO NEXT?

  • A year ago it felt like co-pilots were one of the entry point use-cases for AI.
  • Since then we’ve seen numbers say the uplift is 10-20% productivity.
  • Microsoft claims that 20-30% of their code is now written by AIs.
  • We’ve seen many senior developers speakout that it’s not replacement level technology and they don’t trust it.
  • Companies like Cursor have a $9-10B valuation. Windsurf just got purchased for $3B by OpenAI.
  • Microsoft has Co-Pilot (based on OpenAI models). Google and Amazon are rumored to be launching their own.
  • Lots of companies are launching agents (IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.), and lots of agent frameworks now exist. 
  • So where does it go next? Is it just wide-spead adoption of developer productivity? 
    • Is it specialized functions within developer workflows? (e.g. CI/CD, documentation, security evaluations, bug fixes, long-term maintenance, etc.)
    • How far are we from teams being just a few architects, leads, Sr. Devs, and then teams of AI’s (agents, etc.)?
      • Is that a good thing for Sr. Dev personalities that didn’t want to focus on soft-skills?
      • Does that allow for greater experimentation against feature-requests or stories, since they can create more, test more, etc.?
      • Do we start to see companies create skunkworks teams/groups that try to adopt this approach? 
      • Are product managers ready to have zero-backlogs and the demand for new ideas to increase?


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WHERE DO AI DEVELOPER-ASSISTANTS GO NEXT?

  • A year ago it felt like co-pilots were one of the entry point use-cases for AI.
  • Since then we’ve seen numbers say the uplift is 10-20% productivity.
  • Microsoft claims that 20-30% of their code is now written by AIs.
  • We’ve seen many senior developers speakout that it’s not replacement level technology and they don’t trust it.
  • Companies like Cursor have a $9-10B valuation. Windsurf just got purchased for $3B by OpenAI.
  • Microsoft has Co-Pilot (based on OpenAI models). Google and Amazon are rumored to be launching their own.
  • Lots of companies are launching agents (IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.), and lots of agent frameworks now exist. 
  • So where does it go next? Is it just wide-spead adoption of developer productivity? 
    • Is it specialized functions within developer workflows? (e.g. CI/CD, documentation, security evaluations, bug fixes, long-term maintenance, etc.)
    • How far are we from teams being just a few architects, leads, Sr. Devs, and then teams of AI’s (agents, etc.)?
      • Is that a good thing for Sr. Dev personalities that didn’t want to focus on soft-skills?
      • Does that allow for greater experimentation against feature-requests or stories, since they can create more, test more, etc.?
      • Do we start to see companies create skunkworks teams/groups that try to adopt this approach? 
      • Are product managers ready to have zero-backlogs and the demand for new ideas to increase?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17182557 Sun, 18 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1517 Developers, AI, Assistants, Co-Pilots, Autonomous Teams, Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor, Windsurf full false Building Customer-First Products Building Customer-First Products Siqi Chen (@blader, CEO/CFO @Runwayco), talks about his journey from JPL developer to Founder of a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) startup. We focus on how to build products that customers crave and how a customer-centric view differs from traditional product management.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Siqi. First, your combination of technical and business/financial background is fascinating. How did you go from coding at NASA to Head of Product at Zynga to CEO/CFO for a finance platform startup? Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - One thing I’ve noticed as a trend in your background is the core concept of building. What has been your philosophy in building products? How do you build products that customers demand?

Topic 3 -  Let’s talk about AI and AGI for a moment. We hear all the time how disruptive this will be. What are your thoughts here, and how do we develop both adaptability and resiliency to new technologies?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk FP&A (financial planning & analysis). Our core listeners out there tend to skew more towards the tech and infrastructure side, but a core theme of this show is always to be learning as much of the business as possible to apply those concepts. As someone with a background in both worlds, plus now running an FP&A startup, what do you wish folks on the technical side of the house knew more about to make their jobs easier?

Topic 5 - We posted a link in the show notes for a video you did on the “overnight success” of Runway. It was a good representation and origin story of how something can go viral with the right mindset and product-market fit. Tell everyone about that as Runway approaches 5 years now. 

Topic 6 - What is your biggest challenge in the FP&A space today? Is it AI? We’ve seen a lot of AI disruption in coding, legal, and other areas requiring deep data pool insights. Is this any different?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Siqi. First, your combination of technical and business/financial background is fascinating. How did you go from coding at NASA to Head of Product at Zynga to CEO/CFO for a finance platform startup? Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - One thing I’ve noticed as a trend in your background is the core concept of building. What has been your philosophy in building products? How do you build products that customers demand?

Topic 3 -  Let’s talk about AI and AGI for a moment. We hear all the time how disruptive this will be. What are your thoughts here, and how do we develop both adaptability and resiliency to new technologies?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk FP&A (financial planning & analysis). Our core listeners out there tend to skew more towards the tech and infrastructure side, but a core theme of this show is always to be learning as much of the business as possible to apply those concepts. As someone with a background in both worlds, plus now running an FP&A startup, what do you wish folks on the technical side of the house knew more about to make their jobs easier?

Topic 5 - We posted a link in the show notes for a video you did on the “overnight success” of Runway. It was a good representation and origin story of how something can go viral with the right mindset and product-market fit. Tell everyone about that as Runway approaches 5 years now. 

Topic 6 - What is your biggest challenge in the FP&A space today? Is it AI? We’ve seen a lot of AI disruption in coding, legal, and other areas requiring deep data pool insights. Is this any different?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17153839 Wed, 14 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1590 Siqi Chen, Runway, FP&A, Customer-Centric Development, Founder, JPL, AI full false WhyQ vs. It is what it is WhyQ vs. It is what it is Tech CEOs are making bold proclamations, from WhyQ to It is what it is. How will companies navigate this spectrum as they seek innovation, accountability and profitability throughout 2025? 

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WHEN DOES WHY BECOME IT IS WHAT IT IS? 

  • Communicating is difficult, especially as the company grows in size (or is remote)
  • Communicating change is difficult, even when communication channels are strong
  • Outside of finance, tech tends to pay at the high end of salaries and perks
  • We’re in an interesting time of challenging economics and pressure from AI 
  • Perks are difficult to pull back, because business success isn’t evenly rewarded
  • Why is positioned as open culture, or strategy, but it’s also about day-to-day behavior
  • It is what it is a decision, but it’s also accountability and continued viability
  • Most leaders are going to have to manage between Why and It is what it is in 2025
  • Most workers are going to have to work between Why and It is what it is in 2025


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WHEN DOES WHY BECOME IT IS WHAT IT IS? 

  • Communicating is difficult, especially as the company grows in size (or is remote)
  • Communicating change is difficult, even when communication channels are strong
  • Outside of finance, tech tends to pay at the high end of salaries and perks
  • We’re in an interesting time of challenging economics and pressure from AI 
  • Perks are difficult to pull back, because business success isn’t evenly rewarded
  • Why is positioned as open culture, or strategy, but it’s also about day-to-day behavior
  • It is what it is a decision, but it’s also accountability and continued viability
  • Most leaders are going to have to manage between Why and It is what it is in 2025
  • Most workers are going to have to work between Why and It is what it is in 2025


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17133736 Sun, 11 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1441 Uber, Amazon, Andy Jassy, CEOs, WhyQ, Culture, Communications, Change full false AI & Cloud Trends for April 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for April 2025 Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from April 2025, including OpenAI, MCP, VibeCoding and Hyperscaler earnings. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17114182 Wed, 07 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1887 Cloud, AI, News, Intel, AMD, OpenAI, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cursor, Windsurf, Tariffs full false The Early AI Journey and Learning Curve The Early AI Journey and Learning Curve As more companies begin to adopt AI into their workforce and day-to-day processes, it will be interesting to watch how their learning curve  is spread across knowledge workers. 


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HOW WILL WE VIEW AN AI AGENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMANS OR “USERS”

  • The low-hanging fruit, simple on-ramp is the key to early AI adoption 
  • Google and Microsoft are already showing revenue increases, likely through the productivity apps bundling
  • Expect prices to increase slowly, but frequently as adoption happens and companies get used to the knowledge worker productivity increases (or expectations)
  • Curious how knowledge workers are adopting, sharing, increasing their learning curve
  • Sharing still seems to be lacking within the AI tools. Not just sharing of an individual task, but sharing of learning curves, best practices, datasets
  • Is there a dataset collection opportunity? This feels like Big Data or Data Lake 5.0. 


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HOW WILL WE VIEW AN AI AGENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMANS OR “USERS”

  • The low-hanging fruit, simple on-ramp is the key to early AI adoption 
  • Google and Microsoft are already showing revenue increases, likely through the productivity apps bundling
  • Expect prices to increase slowly, but frequently as adoption happens and companies get used to the knowledge worker productivity increases (or expectations)
  • Curious how knowledge workers are adopting, sharing, increasing their learning curve
  • Sharing still seems to be lacking within the AI tools. Not just sharing of an individual task, but sharing of learning curves, best practices, datasets
  • Is there a dataset collection opportunity? This feels like Big Data or Data Lake 5.0. 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17095784 Sun, 04 May 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1305 AI, Knowledge Work, AI Journey, Sharing, Discovery, Exploration, Experimentation, Best Practices full false DevOps Meets Platform Engineering DevOps Meets Platform Engineering Mark Freydl (CEO/Founder @codiacio) talks about the challenges of blending IaaC, DevOps and Platform Engineering to drive efficient software development lifecycles.


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Mark. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into the tech, let’s start with the problem. What problem were you seeing in software development that wasn’t being solved with IaaC, Platform Engineering, DevOps, etc.? Where does SDLC fit into this? 

Topic 3 - Have microservices helped or hurt? We hear all the time about the loose coupling of microservices and benefits towards production, but doesn’t that also make it harder to develop? How do you recreate an environment where you are dependent on a bunch of microservices in a development pipeline?

Topic 4 - I get the feeling this is all about removing friction. But where and how? I see Kubernetes as a blessing and curse many times. It’s an awesome application platform, as long as you aren’t the one that has to do the care and feeding on it. Thoughts?

Topic 5 - The goal here I believe is a closed loop system that is beneficial for developers and SRE’s, but how do you balance closed loops vs. extensibility and abstraction of different platforms to the systems that are truly write once.

Topic 6 - How does the culture and relationships in the org have to change to meet the changes in the tech?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Mark. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into the tech, let’s start with the problem. What problem were you seeing in software development that wasn’t being solved with IaaC, Platform Engineering, DevOps, etc.? Where does SDLC fit into this? 

Topic 3 - Have microservices helped or hurt? We hear all the time about the loose coupling of microservices and benefits towards production, but doesn’t that also make it harder to develop? How do you recreate an environment where you are dependent on a bunch of microservices in a development pipeline?

Topic 4 - I get the feeling this is all about removing friction. But where and how? I see Kubernetes as a blessing and curse many times. It’s an awesome application platform, as long as you aren’t the one that has to do the care and feeding on it. Thoughts?

Topic 5 - The goal here I believe is a closed loop system that is beneficial for developers and SRE’s, but how do you balance closed loops vs. extensibility and abstraction of different platforms to the systems that are truly write once.

Topic 6 - How does the culture and relationships in the org have to change to meet the changes in the tech?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17069061 Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1601 Mark Freydl, DevOps, SDLC, Platform Engineering, Codiac, SRE, IaaC full false Five Thoughts on AI Agents Five Thoughts on AI Agents There is a lot of excitement around AI Agents.  Here are five questions we're asking ourselves about how AI Agents will be used and managed. 


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HOW WILL WE VIEW AN AI AGENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMANS OR “USERS”

  • [Who] How is an AI agent represented in the context of a person, a group, an organization? 
  • [What] How will we audit Agent created data or content? Will we need a way to label Agent-created information?
  • [Where] Will we have agents that are focused on non-human-interactions (e.g. optimizations) vs. human-interactions (e.g. empathy)?
  • [When] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?
  • [Why] Why will we choose an Agent (as the implementation) over another form or working on a problem?
  • [How] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?


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HOW WILL WE VIEW AN AI AGENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMANS OR “USERS”

  • [Who] How is an AI agent represented in the context of a person, a group, an organization? 
  • [What] How will we audit Agent created data or content? Will we need a way to label Agent-created information?
  • [Where] Will we have agents that are focused on non-human-interactions (e.g. optimizations) vs. human-interactions (e.g. empathy)?
  • [When] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?
  • [Why] Why will we choose an Agent (as the implementation) over another form or working on a problem?
  • [How] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17050637 Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1137 AI, AI Agents, MCP, A2A, Augmenting, Additive, Empathy full false The Intersection of AI and APIs The Intersection of AI and APIs Taylor Pechacek (Head of Product, API Collaboration Core @getpostman) talks about APIs, AI, and MCP (Model Context Protocol). We cover what is top of mind for developers and what has shifted in the industry recently.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Postman? Tell us a little bit about Postman, for our audience that might not be familiar. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin with some broader concepts - in today’s world, where does a developer interact with software vs. an API - what are the most important things they have to think about?

Topic 3 - What are the standards that are most important for developers these days? Where does OpenAPI Spec fit into that space?

Topic 4 - APIs are now so pervasive. What are the best practices for API usage patterns and governance? What are some of the things that Postman is doing to improve this for developers and companies?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk a little bit about how you’re seeing AI change how developers work, and if/how AI is impacting APIs.

Topic 6 - Help us understand how you expect to see APIs interacting with AI Agents. What will the bigger picture look like for these interactions, and how will they be different than current API interactions?

Topic 7 - Can we finish by talking about MCP (Model Context Protocol) a little bit? This is a new standard that is being adopted by many companies. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Postman? Tell us a little bit about Postman, for our audience that might not be familiar. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin with some broader concepts - in today’s world, where does a developer interact with software vs. an API - what are the most important things they have to think about?

Topic 3 - What are the standards that are most important for developers these days? Where does OpenAPI Spec fit into that space?

Topic 4 - APIs are now so pervasive. What are the best practices for API usage patterns and governance? What are some of the things that Postman is doing to improve this for developers and companies?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk a little bit about how you’re seeing AI change how developers work, and if/how AI is impacting APIs.

Topic 6 - Help us understand how you expect to see APIs interacting with AI Agents. What will the bigger picture look like for these interactions, and how will they be different than current API interactions?

Topic 7 - Can we finish by talking about MCP (Model Context Protocol) a little bit? This is a new standard that is being adopted by many companies. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17023073 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2624 Taylor Pechacek, Postman, OpenAPI Spec, AI, MCP, Developers, API Contracts, APIs full false AI Augmenting vs. Replacing AI Augmenting vs. Replacing Instead of focusing on augmenting existing teams and processes with AI, are we beginning to see more companies looking to replace teams with AI? Will economic pressure increase this likelihood? 

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HUMAN-AUGMENTED vs HUMAN-REPLACEMENT IS A COMPLEX AI STRATEGY

  • Most AI projects today as either augmenting or replacing humans
  • Technology has augmented, shifted or replaced human tasks for a while, this isn’t anything new
  • Management/owners have tried to replace workers with technology for a long time
  • Pricing will tell you something about the goal of the technology (e.g. seat vs. task)
  • Now we’re starting to see the psychology of aligning AI to business goals - augmenting, shifting or replacing
  • The hyperbole of AI funding is to convey direct lines to AI success (whatever success is - AGI, No Coders, No Operations, No Entry-Level, etc..)
  • “How do we replace the employees with AI?”
  • The path to get there isn’t well defined. The politics to get there isn’t defined by technology. 
  • Will the current economic downturn accelerate this line of questioning / strategy? 
  • The Bed Bath and Beyond 20% coupon test. 
  • “The $billion dollar company with one employee.”


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HUMAN-AUGMENTED vs HUMAN-REPLACEMENT IS A COMPLEX AI STRATEGY

  • Most AI projects today as either augmenting or replacing humans
  • Technology has augmented, shifted or replaced human tasks for a while, this isn’t anything new
  • Management/owners have tried to replace workers with technology for a long time
  • Pricing will tell you something about the goal of the technology (e.g. seat vs. task)
  • Now we’re starting to see the psychology of aligning AI to business goals - augmenting, shifting or replacing
  • The hyperbole of AI funding is to convey direct lines to AI success (whatever success is - AGI, No Coders, No Operations, No Entry-Level, etc..)
  • “How do we replace the employees with AI?”
  • The path to get there isn’t well defined. The politics to get there isn’t defined by technology. 
  • Will the current economic downturn accelerate this line of questioning / strategy? 
  • The Bed Bath and Beyond 20% coupon test. 
  • “The $billion dollar company with one employee.”


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-17007179 Sun, 20 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1654 AI, Augmentation, Replacement, AGI, No Developers, Billion-Dollar Companies, Economic Slowdown full false Deep Learning Meets CyberSecurity Deep Learning Meets CyberSecurity Evan Powell (@epowell101, CEO at DeepTempo) talks about the intersection of CyberSecurity, Deep Learning and new AI techniques to improve operational security. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, Evan. It’s hard to believe it’s been over ten years since we last spoke in your StackStorm days. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Today's topic is the intersection of Deep Learning and CyberSecurity. Let’s start at a high level. As someone who has founded several companies, what’s interesting enough in this space for you to jump in?

Topic 3 - I talk to many customers about AI and use cases. If they don’t have a leading use case, I often ask where they have a lot of data, and they want insights data. The needle in the haystack scenario. It could be text, unstructured data, log files, data lakes, just about anything. Is this scenario correct when it comes to CyberSecurity? What are the leading use cases?

Topic 4 - I’ve been reading and hearing how AI has been a boon for hackers; what are your thoughts on the ever-lasting cat-and-mouse game in the security space and how it has evolved with AI?

Topic 5 - Let’s dig into the tech; at DeepTempo’s core, you use Deep Learning and specific foundational models. You wrote a great blog recently on Cybersecurity models. When folks hear the term foundational or frontier model, they think of LLMs and GenAI. How is this different?

Topic 6 - Is this a SaaS model? On-prem? Where does the tech sit and why?


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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, Evan. It’s hard to believe it’s been over ten years since we last spoke in your StackStorm days. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Today's topic is the intersection of Deep Learning and CyberSecurity. Let’s start at a high level. As someone who has founded several companies, what’s interesting enough in this space for you to jump in?

Topic 3 - I talk to many customers about AI and use cases. If they don’t have a leading use case, I often ask where they have a lot of data, and they want insights data. The needle in the haystack scenario. It could be text, unstructured data, log files, data lakes, just about anything. Is this scenario correct when it comes to CyberSecurity? What are the leading use cases?

Topic 4 - I’ve been reading and hearing how AI has been a boon for hackers; what are your thoughts on the ever-lasting cat-and-mouse game in the security space and how it has evolved with AI?

Topic 5 - Let’s dig into the tech; at DeepTempo’s core, you use Deep Learning and specific foundational models. You wrote a great blog recently on Cybersecurity models. When folks hear the term foundational or frontier model, they think of LLMs and GenAI. How is this different?

Topic 6 - Is this a SaaS model? On-prem? Where does the tech sit and why?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16989557 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0400 1643 Evan Powell, CyberSecurity, Deep Learning, GenAI, AI full false Tempering AI Expectations in the Enterprise Tempering AI Expectations in the Enterprise Are companies starting to get concerned that AI isn’t meeting expectations? Concern is a part of any new technology adoption curve, but let’s explore some areas where expectations might not be meeting results. 

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IS THREE YEARS ENOUGH TIME FOR ANY TECHNOLOGY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?

  • Costs are still high, and positive ROI is still evolving
  • The technology stack and standards are still evolving
  • Enterprise expectations are being confused with consumer expectations
  • AI predictions and timelines are overly aggressive
  • How is anymore measuring AI success? 
  • The AI future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed
  • “AI First” strategies are following “Cloud First” strategies - unevenly and distributed
  • Most people don’t like to talk about the augment vs. replace issue

Miscellaneous stuff:

  • ChatGPT is the fasting growing tech ever 
  • AGI will be here at any moment
  • For the first 18+ months, it was only an OpenAI + NVIDIA market
  • All software development will be done by AI
  • There will be $1B companies with 1 person
  • GenAI, Frontier Models, Open Source Models, Agents, etc.
  • Deep Seek, MCP, etc. 


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IS THREE YEARS ENOUGH TIME FOR ANY TECHNOLOGY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?

  • Costs are still high, and positive ROI is still evolving
  • The technology stack and standards are still evolving
  • Enterprise expectations are being confused with consumer expectations
  • AI predictions and timelines are overly aggressive
  • How is anymore measuring AI success? 
  • The AI future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed
  • “AI First” strategies are following “Cloud First” strategies - unevenly and distributed
  • Most people don’t like to talk about the augment vs. replace issue

Miscellaneous stuff:

  • ChatGPT is the fasting growing tech ever 
  • AGI will be here at any moment
  • For the first 18+ months, it was only an OpenAI + NVIDIA market
  • All software development will be done by AI
  • There will be $1B companies with 1 person
  • GenAI, Frontier Models, Open Source Models, Agents, etc.
  • Deep Seek, MCP, etc. 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16967974 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1744 OpenAI, NVIDIA, GenAI, Enterprise Expectations, Consumer Expectations, AI First, Data Quality, DeepSeek, MCP, Agents, AGI, full false AI Agents vs. AI Assistants AI Agents vs. AI Assistants Dan Lee, (@_dan_lee_, CEO Nooks.ai, @JoinNooks) talks about agentic AI vs. AI assistants, their differences, and we explore ROI in this space vs. GenAI and common paths to adoption.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Dan. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is AI Agents vs. Assistants. Let’s start there. Many out there are hearing the terms and will often think an AI Agent is equal to an AI Assistant. What’s the difference?

Topic 3 - One of the big problems I’ve seen with AI adoption vs. hype is the ROI. GenAI hit the scene and brought AI into the mainstream, but the world is quickly moving on to Agentic AI. I’ve mainly seen this play out because the ROI on “chatbots” just isn’t there most of the time and also everyone is still scared for data leaks/privacy and hallucinations.

Topic 4 - We’ll get into Nooks.ai in a bit but before we do, I wanted to point out that your company started prior to the big breakout of GenAI. How did you see the market back then and has LLM’s and transformer models in general changed your approach to AI Assistants?

Topic 5 - When taking customers through the adoption process for AI Assistants, what are the typical steps? How do you go about getting consensus and buy-in from the various orgs in the company? Are there common hurdles folks need to consider?

Topic 6 - With Nooks, you’ve decided to conquer the domain of sales and sales prospecting. What was your thoughts here in deciding where and how to remove friction from sales? Is this decision and thought process transferable to other areas? Any universal considerations?



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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Dan. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is AI Agents vs. Assistants. Let’s start there. Many out there are hearing the terms and will often think an AI Agent is equal to an AI Assistant. What’s the difference?

Topic 3 - One of the big problems I’ve seen with AI adoption vs. hype is the ROI. GenAI hit the scene and brought AI into the mainstream, but the world is quickly moving on to Agentic AI. I’ve mainly seen this play out because the ROI on “chatbots” just isn’t there most of the time and also everyone is still scared for data leaks/privacy and hallucinations.

Topic 4 - We’ll get into Nooks.ai in a bit but before we do, I wanted to point out that your company started prior to the big breakout of GenAI. How did you see the market back then and has LLM’s and transformer models in general changed your approach to AI Assistants?

Topic 5 - When taking customers through the adoption process for AI Assistants, what are the typical steps? How do you go about getting consensus and buy-in from the various orgs in the company? Are there common hurdles folks need to consider?

Topic 6 - With Nooks, you’ve decided to conquer the domain of sales and sales prospecting. What was your thoughts here in deciding where and how to remove friction from sales? Is this decision and thought process transferable to other areas? Any universal considerations?



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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16942778 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1509 GenAI, AI Assistant, AI Agent, Dan Lee, Nooks, LLM, Agentic, AI ROI full false How Things Can Change for the 800lb Gorilla in Tech How Things Can Change for the 800lb Gorilla in Tech How is it possible for the 900lb gorilla of an industry to stumble or fall from it's heights? Let's explore how emerging trends can knock industry leaders off the top of the mountain. 


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SHOW NOTES:

IT’S DIFFICULT TO STAY THE BIGGEST COMPANY FOREVER 

  • Merchant Silicon happened for Networking - Will it happen for AI?
  • Cloud Providers happened - Will the opposite happen for AI? 
  • What unknown or unexpected events will happen over the next 3-5 years?
  • Data Center Power Requirements?
  • Geopolitical Activities?


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SHOW NOTES:

IT’S DIFFICULT TO STAY THE BIGGEST COMPANY FOREVER 

  • Merchant Silicon happened for Networking - Will it happen for AI?
  • Cloud Providers happened - Will the opposite happen for AI? 
  • What unknown or unexpected events will happen over the next 3-5 years?
  • Data Center Power Requirements?
  • Geopolitical Activities?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16923850 Sun, 06 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1525 Cisco, NVIDIA, AI, Merchant Silicon, 900 LB Gorilla, Geopolitical Activities, Data Center Power, full false AI & Cloud Trends for March 2025 AI & Cloud Trends for March 2025 Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from March 2025 including recent M&A activity.

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Recent M&A
  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Recent M&A
  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16903917 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0400 3055 NVIDIA, Intel, AI, Coreweave, VibeCoding, Observability 30, The Wiz, Acquisitions full false That Feeling of Losing Technical Knowledge That Feeling of Losing Technical Knowledge What happens when you consider moving from a technical role to a lesser technical role? What are the trade-offs? What new skills do you need to evolve?

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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT HAPPENS DURING AND AFTER AN ACQUISITION? 

  • Moving from an IC to Leadership role is a complex choice
  • Moving from a technical to a less technical role is a difficult choice
  • What happens if you’re not an expert in the room?
  • What happens when you don’t have all the answers?
  • How do you build your network to keep you informed?
  • The economics of technology are more complicated than you think 

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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT HAPPENS DURING AND AFTER AN ACQUISITION? 

  • Moving from an IC to Leadership role is a complex choice
  • Moving from a technical to a less technical role is a difficult choice
  • What happens if you’re not an expert in the room?
  • What happens when you don’t have all the answers?
  • How do you build your network to keep you informed?
  • The economics of technology are more complicated than you think 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16881218 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1307 Job Changes, Leadership Roles, Technical Skills, Learning to Learn, Network of Knowledge full false Virtualizing Kubernetes Clusters Virtualizing Kubernetes Clusters With Kubecon coming up next week, we speak to Lukas Gentele (@LukasGentele, Co-Founder/ CEO at Loft Labs (@loft_sh)), about virtualizing Kubernetes 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Lukas. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is virtualizing Kubernetes. Let’s get the most obvious question out of the way… Why virtualize k8s? Isn’t this another abstraction layer to manage and more complexity in the stack?

Topic 3 - What are the most common use cases? Combining test/dev and production? 

Topic 4 - How does this impact other parts of the stack? I think about Istio, Rancher, etc. Does the complexity increase or decrease?

Topic 4a - How is the control plane handled vs. the data plane?

Topic 5 - With vm virtualization, a trend developed as the technology matured. In the beginning, consolidation was good, and as the technology supported greater and greater density, a tipping point was reached where fault domains were needed. Where is the virtualization of K8s on this scale?

Topic 6 - A few months ago at KubeCon in Salt Lake City, you announced vCluster Cloud. Are there any hints for our listeners for KubeCon EU?


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SHOW: 909

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Lukas. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is virtualizing Kubernetes. Let’s get the most obvious question out of the way… Why virtualize k8s? Isn’t this another abstraction layer to manage and more complexity in the stack?

Topic 3 - What are the most common use cases? Combining test/dev and production? 

Topic 4 - How does this impact other parts of the stack? I think about Istio, Rancher, etc. Does the complexity increase or decrease?

Topic 4a - How is the control plane handled vs. the data plane?

Topic 5 - With vm virtualization, a trend developed as the technology matured. In the beginning, consolidation was good, and as the technology supported greater and greater density, a tipping point was reached where fault domains were needed. Where is the virtualization of K8s on this scale?

Topic 6 - A few months ago at KubeCon in Salt Lake City, you announced vCluster Cloud. Are there any hints for our listeners for KubeCon EU?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16860784 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1989 Loft Labs, Kubernetes, KubeCon, Lucas Gentele, k8s, vCluster full false Are Acquisitions Making a Comeback? Are Acquisitions Making a Comeback? We’re starting to see some hints that M&A activities might start heating up in the tech sector again. So what should you expect if a company gets acquired? What are some common scenarios and activities to be aware of?

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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT HAPPENS DURING AND AFTER AN ACQUISITION? 

  • Who is acquiring and who is being acquired? Culture, Company Size, GTM approach, etc?
  • Why are they being acquired? New market, adjacent market, integration (1+1=3)
  • Front-end, back-end, integration, acquhire acquisition? 
  • What are the benefits of the acquisition? New technology, key talent, new GTM approach
  • Did the acquirer try to build it themselves first? Leftover perspective? Marketing understanding?
  • Which group within the acquirer did the acquisition? Good alignment?
  • Independence or Integration? What is the initial focus? 
  • What is the learning curve for the new company? Culture, tools, skeletons in closets
  • Retention of key people? Expectations of key people? How long do the leaders stay?

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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT HAPPENS DURING AND AFTER AN ACQUISITION? 

  • Who is acquiring and who is being acquired? Culture, Company Size, GTM approach, etc?
  • Why are they being acquired? New market, adjacent market, integration (1+1=3)
  • Front-end, back-end, integration, acquhire acquisition? 
  • What are the benefits of the acquisition? New technology, key talent, new GTM approach
  • Did the acquirer try to build it themselves first? Leftover perspective? Marketing understanding?
  • Which group within the acquirer did the acquisition? Good alignment?
  • Independence or Integration? What is the initial focus? 
  • What is the learning curve for the new company? Culture, tools, skeletons in closets
  • Retention of key people? Expectations of key people? How long do the leaders stay?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16841746 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1951 Acquisitions, M&A, Go To Market, Adjacency, New Markets, Innovation, Company Culture full false Migrating from Infrastructure as Code Migrating from Infrastructure as Code Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, CEO/Founder @thesysteminit) talks about the evolution and intersection of DevOps 2.0, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and what’s next

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke mid-2023. For those that missed that show, tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - When we last spoke, we talked about DevOps 2.0. Give everyone an update on the state of the industry. DevOps 2.0, IaC, etc. Where are we at in that journey? For instance, what’s broken with IaC in the existing approaches and why a new approach?

Topic 3 - One thing I’ve noticed in research for this topic is the move to visual and UI to conceptualize the environment and the corresponding actions. APIs and command lines will always have a place but what are your thoughts on this trend? I personally fall asleep every time someone gives a talk an industry conference and they pull up the command line for their demo. But, I’m also a visual learner.

Topic 4 - When I’ve thought about both DevOps and IaC in the past, my mind immediately jumps to both complexity and dependencies. What do developers today have to consider and have we made any advances here?

Topic 5 - Are there new metrics for success? With DevOps is was number of code commits, with IaC it was number of seamless deployments and actions. What do development teams look for today as the consider new platforms and tools?

Topic 6 - I can see this being an area that could be impacted by AI in a few ways: 1. the summarization of large amounts of data 2. Digital Twins and simulations and 3. Agentic AI performing tasks based on conditions. What are your thoughts on AI here?

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, what’s the best way to get started?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke mid-2023. For those that missed that show, tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - When we last spoke, we talked about DevOps 2.0. Give everyone an update on the state of the industry. DevOps 2.0, IaC, etc. Where are we at in that journey? For instance, what’s broken with IaC in the existing approaches and why a new approach?

Topic 3 - One thing I’ve noticed in research for this topic is the move to visual and UI to conceptualize the environment and the corresponding actions. APIs and command lines will always have a place but what are your thoughts on this trend? I personally fall asleep every time someone gives a talk an industry conference and they pull up the command line for their demo. But, I’m also a visual learner.

Topic 4 - When I’ve thought about both DevOps and IaC in the past, my mind immediately jumps to both complexity and dependencies. What do developers today have to consider and have we made any advances here?

Topic 5 - Are there new metrics for success? With DevOps is was number of code commits, with IaC it was number of seamless deployments and actions. What do development teams look for today as the consider new platforms and tools?

Topic 6 - I can see this being an area that could be impacted by AI in a few ways: 1. the summarization of large amounts of data 2. Digital Twins and simulations and 3. Agentic AI performing tasks based on conditions. What are your thoughts on AI here?

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, what’s the best way to get started?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16793032 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1997 Adam Jacob, System Initiative, Automation, IaaC, SaaS, DevOps, Digital Twins, Modeling full false Decoding Corporate Communications Decoding Corporate Communications How well does your company handle internal and external corporate communications? Are company town halls a nightmare? How should you engage with them and how can the company manage them better?

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INTERNAL, EXTERNAL AND TEAM COMMUNICATIONS - COULD IT BE BETTER HANDLED?

  • Most internal corporate communications are bland—full of platitudes, at best boring, and at worst, demotivating. How can this be changed? Is any company doing this well?
  • What’s the best way to deliver internal communications? AI-generated emails? Short videos? Live all-hands webinars? Smaller in-person meetings? Does any of this actually work?
  • Southwest’s decision to end free checked bags is yet another example of corporate communication gone wrong.The CEO’s comments seem out of touch—maybe saying less is sometimes more? If you make an unpopular decision, should you avoid compounding the problem with excessive justification?
  • How do you personally process internal communications? Do you listen to all-hands meetings while walking the dog? Limit your consumption? Read summaries? Meditate afterward? What hacks or best practices work?
  • Are executive town halls doomed to fail? Leaders often seem to hold them out of obligation rather than genuine interest. Are we asking too much? Town halls aren’t great for deep discussions, but empty platitudes ring hollow. Is there a better way?

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SHOW NOTES:

INTERNAL, EXTERNAL AND TEAM COMMUNICATIONS - COULD IT BE BETTER HANDLED?

  • Most internal corporate communications are bland—full of platitudes, at best boring, and at worst, demotivating. How can this be changed? Is any company doing this well?
  • What’s the best way to deliver internal communications? AI-generated emails? Short videos? Live all-hands webinars? Smaller in-person meetings? Does any of this actually work?
  • Southwest’s decision to end free checked bags is yet another example of corporate communication gone wrong.The CEO’s comments seem out of touch—maybe saying less is sometimes more? If you make an unpopular decision, should you avoid compounding the problem with excessive justification?
  • How do you personally process internal communications? Do you listen to all-hands meetings while walking the dog? Limit your consumption? Read summaries? Meditate afterward? What hacks or best practices work?
  • Are executive town halls doomed to fail? Leaders often seem to hold them out of obligation rather than genuine interest. Are we asking too much? Town halls aren’t great for deep discussions, but empty platitudes ring hollow. Is there a better way?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16799944 Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0400 2134 full false AI Impacts Across Organizations & Startups AI Impacts Across Organizations & Startups Jon Duren, Sr. Practice Manager, AI & Data @wwt_inc & Druce MacFarlane, Product @Infoblox talks about the intersection of AI, Startups, and Enterprise Trends.

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Topic 1 - Jon and Druce welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick introduction…

Topic 1a - You also have a podcast, tell everyone about that…

Topic 2 - AI has thrown the world of cybersecurity a curveball..   Druce, how are you seeing AI impact the typical conversations you are involved in?

Topic 3 - How is AI affecting start-up companies, thinking beyond all the AI-specific startups, how is AI going to impact the entrepreneur who’s trying to launch a non-AI company?  What should they know and think about AI when starting a new company?

Topic 4 - You both talk to a lot of customers about AI, especially to Enterprise customers. Let’s separate the hype from the practical. Where are organizations typically in their AI journey in early 2025? Have we moved beyond the chatbot yet

Topic 5 - I see several organizations considering AI but struggling with ROI. What are you seeing, and how do you help organizations overcome this hurdle? How long is ROI measured with AI projects? It’s not 3-5 years anymore.

Topic 6 - Is the industry moving too fast? Jon and I have had conversations in the past where organizations just can’t absorb the changes in hardware and models (just a few examples). How can an organization commit to a path that we know will change in 12 months

Topic 7 - Tell everyone where they can find your podcast. Also, If anyone is interested, what’s the best way to get started on their AI journey?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Jon and Druce welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick introduction…

Topic 1a - You also have a podcast, tell everyone about that…

Topic 2 - AI has thrown the world of cybersecurity a curveball..   Druce, how are you seeing AI impact the typical conversations you are involved in?

Topic 3 - How is AI affecting start-up companies, thinking beyond all the AI-specific startups, how is AI going to impact the entrepreneur who’s trying to launch a non-AI company?  What should they know and think about AI when starting a new company?

Topic 4 - You both talk to a lot of customers about AI, especially to Enterprise customers. Let’s separate the hype from the practical. Where are organizations typically in their AI journey in early 2025? Have we moved beyond the chatbot yet

Topic 5 - I see several organizations considering AI but struggling with ROI. What are you seeing, and how do you help organizations overcome this hurdle? How long is ROI measured with AI projects? It’s not 3-5 years anymore.

Topic 6 - Is the industry moving too fast? Jon and I have had conversations in the past where organizations just can’t absorb the changes in hardware and models (just a few examples). How can an organization commit to a path that we know will change in 12 months

Topic 7 - Tell everyone where they can find your podcast. Also, If anyone is interested, what’s the best way to get started on their AI journey?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16776694 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0400 1546 Jon Duren, WWT, Druce MacFarlane, Infoblox, AI, Startups, Enterprise Trends. full false Five Things I Did This Week Five Things I Did This Week Does your management chain know what you’re doing to bring value to your company, your group or just your role? How do you communicate value for accountability, visibility, and promotability?

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DO YOU PROVIDE STATUS, ACCOUNTABILITY, OR DIRECTION ON YOUR WORK ACTIVITIES?

  • Lots of things could be perceived as negative, but how are you finding the positive? 
  • How do you keep track of your work? How do you communicate your work? Are they well aligned to company goals?
  • In tough job markets, accountability is a valuable asset to have
  • How is your management chain communicating the group’s work upward and to other teams? 
  • Do you ask what shouldn’t be done, where something else could occupy that time? 
  • Does management use it as a way to educate others about functions of the business? (cross-team efforts)

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DO YOU PROVIDE STATUS, ACCOUNTABILITY, OR DIRECTION ON YOUR WORK ACTIVITIES?

  • Lots of things could be perceived as negative, but how are you finding the positive? 
  • How do you keep track of your work? How do you communicate your work? Are they well aligned to company goals?
  • In tough job markets, accountability is a valuable asset to have
  • How is your management chain communicating the group’s work upward and to other teams? 
  • Do you ask what shouldn’t be done, where something else could occupy that time? 
  • Does management use it as a way to educate others about functions of the business? (cross-team efforts)

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SHOW: 903

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #903 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

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NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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SHOW: 903

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #903 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16736217 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2202 GenAI, Docker, New CEOs, NVIDIA, Intel, Amazon, IBM, Hashicorp, Developer Co-Pilots full false Bathing in the Confusion around GenAI Bathing in the Confusion around GenAI Right now the news around GenAI seems scattered, all of the place, and confusing. Let’s dig into what’s working, what’s not, and where some future trends are heading. 

SHOW: 902

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #902 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


IF YOU’RE CONFUSED ABOUT AI, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. 

  • There is a ton of AI out there, but it’s not always simple
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, but it’s not always affordable
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and sometimes it blows our mind
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and open source is starting to be disruptive (again)
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and people are trying to forecast a future that changing too fast
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and people are struggling with technology and politics overlapping so much


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]]> Right now the news around GenAI seems scattered, all of the place, and confusing. Let’s dig into what’s working, what’s not, and where some future trends are heading. 

SHOW: 902

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #902 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:


SHOW NOTES:


IF YOU’RE CONFUSED ABOUT AI, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. 

  • There is a ton of AI out there, but it’s not always simple
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, but it’s not always affordable
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and sometimes it blows our mind
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and open source is starting to be disruptive (again)
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and people are trying to forecast a future that changing too fast
  • There’s a ton of AI out there, and people are struggling with technology and politics overlapping so much


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16714316 Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1835 GenAI, Dev Co-Pilots, LLMs, VC Funding, Govt Regulations, Politics, Rapid Change, Not Simple Enough, Not Affordable full false Developer Assistance with Coding Co-Pilots Developer Assistance with Coding Co-Pilots Andrew Filev (@andrewsthoughts, Founder @zencoderai) talks about the state and future of developer coding co-pilots.

SHOW: 901

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #901 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - As someone who built and ran a large organization and continued to invest in other startups, what’s your take on startups and funding in today’s AI frenzy world? In your Wrike days did you ever foresee a time when funding rounds would be bigger than most valuations from years ago? Is this a sustainable investment model?

Topic 3 - One of the leading use cases that came from GenAI and LLM’s is coding co-pilots. It might be the biggest and most profitable use case. What are your thoughts on Coding Co-pilots as whole and the state of the industry?

Topic 4 - What makes a good coding co-pilot? Are their advantages to models trained specifically on coding How does that compare to the frontier LLM’s and their size and abilities?

Topic 5 - We see lots of talk of coding co-pilots potentially hurting the industry. Lots of click bait headlines that coding is going away with agentic AI or Comp Sci degrees and junior employees might not be needed anymore. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 6 - Some argue that by having a co-pilot do the easy work, some developers might get lazy and the underlying fundamentals of development techniques might disappear. Others say this will elevate developers to new levels of productivity. What’s your view?

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, where can they go for more info or to contact you?

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]]> Andrew Filev (@andrewsthoughts, Founder @zencoderai) talks about the state and future of developer coding co-pilots.

SHOW: 901

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #901 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - As someone who built and ran a large organization and continued to invest in other startups, what’s your take on startups and funding in today’s AI frenzy world? In your Wrike days did you ever foresee a time when funding rounds would be bigger than most valuations from years ago? Is this a sustainable investment model?

Topic 3 - One of the leading use cases that came from GenAI and LLM’s is coding co-pilots. It might be the biggest and most profitable use case. What are your thoughts on Coding Co-pilots as whole and the state of the industry?

Topic 4 - What makes a good coding co-pilot? Are their advantages to models trained specifically on coding How does that compare to the frontier LLM’s and their size and abilities?

Topic 5 - We see lots of talk of coding co-pilots potentially hurting the industry. Lots of click bait headlines that coding is going away with agentic AI or Comp Sci degrees and junior employees might not be needed anymore. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 6 - Some argue that by having a co-pilot do the easy work, some developers might get lazy and the underlying fundamentals of development techniques might disappear. Others say this will elevate developers to new levels of productivity. What’s your view?

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, where can they go for more info or to contact you?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16680690 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1834 Andrew Filev, LLM, Coding, Co-Pilot, ZenCoder, GenAI, Developer Assistant full false What is your industry's DeepSeek moment? What is your industry's DeepSeek moment? We reached show #900!! We explore what happens when your industry experiences it’s DeepSeek moment, and how prepared you are across technology, organizational and economic changes. 


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WHAT EVENTS WOULD COMPLETELY CHANGE YOUR INDUSTRY? ARE YOU PREPARED?

  • It’s still playing out, but DeepSeek felt like a reset moment in this AI Journey the industry is having. It forced a lot of people to rethink a number of commonly held beliefs in the industry.
  • We’re not really talking about things like industry consolidation, wars, pandemics, but obviously that has ripple effects. 
  • Interest rates obviously impact every industry, but they tend to change over quarters, not days. 
  • We’ve seen things happen that impact industries temporarily, but don’t necessarily reshape the generally held rules - Oil/Energy, Hybrid/Electric Cars, IT/Cloud, 
  • Internet “reimagined” a number of industries - Media, Advertising, Restaurants, etc.
  • Autonomous driving. Faster drug discovery. Discovery of new materials. 
  • Financial crashes tend to happen about once a decade, when bubbles burst. Is the AI bubble next? 
  • How much could you shift your IT budget in a year?
  • How much could you change/adjust/adapt your workforce in a year?
  • How much could you change the business model of your company in a year?
  • What law or regulation does your company fear the most? 
  • What gov’t decision would most impact your company/industry? 


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SHOW: 900

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #900 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


WHAT EVENTS WOULD COMPLETELY CHANGE YOUR INDUSTRY? ARE YOU PREPARED?

  • It’s still playing out, but DeepSeek felt like a reset moment in this AI Journey the industry is having. It forced a lot of people to rethink a number of commonly held beliefs in the industry.
  • We’re not really talking about things like industry consolidation, wars, pandemics, but obviously that has ripple effects. 
  • Interest rates obviously impact every industry, but they tend to change over quarters, not days. 
  • We’ve seen things happen that impact industries temporarily, but don’t necessarily reshape the generally held rules - Oil/Energy, Hybrid/Electric Cars, IT/Cloud, 
  • Internet “reimagined” a number of industries - Media, Advertising, Restaurants, etc.
  • Autonomous driving. Faster drug discovery. Discovery of new materials. 
  • Financial crashes tend to happen about once a decade, when bubbles burst. Is the AI bubble next? 
  • How much could you shift your IT budget in a year?
  • How much could you change/adjust/adapt your workforce in a year?
  • How much could you change the business model of your company in a year?
  • What law or regulation does your company fear the most? 
  • What gov’t decision would most impact your company/industry? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16675300 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1281 DeepSeek, AI, NVIDIA, Open Source, OpenAI, China, US, Autonomous Driving, Drug Discovery, Alternative Energy, Interest Rates, Pandemic, full false VMware Migrations VMware Migrations Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Chief Product Officer at @Platform9Sys) talks about the current state of the VMware virtualization market, thoughts on migrations, and factors to consider to speed migrations.

SHOW: 899

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #899 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code CLOUDCAST at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/cloudcast 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. For those that don’t know, you are a long time returning guest. It’s been about 7 years since the last time we spoke, and this is also the third time we’ve talked to you and the folks over at Platform9. Before we jump in, tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - Our topic today is VMware Migrations. As we’ve documented many times on the podcast, VMware and its customers are in flux. Many are evaluating whether they should stay or they should go. When you speak to customers considering this, what should they consider?

Topic 3 - In general we keep hearing things like VMWare ELA’s that are no only on 3 year renewal and a price hike of 3x, 5x, even 10x. What are you seeing? Is this a limited window of opportunity as customers make that decision to move off or lock in for another 3 years?

Topic 4 -  I see two sides to this: the business side and the tech side. I see this potentially being much harder on the technical side. While it might be possible to build a business case, the technical lock-in to the hypervisor technology tends to be a factor in conversions. Rebuilding years worth of virtual networking, storage links, etc. How do you advise customers on this today?

Topic 5 - These migrations take time. Sometimes we are talking about installations in the tens of thousands of vms and and the migrations taking months to years to complete. Why would an organization go to the cost and the trouble to switch platforms?

Topic 6 - Let’s say an organization decides to pull the trigger. My immediate thought goes to Day1+ actions and operations. New platforms, new tools, new constructs. VMware installs tend to be very sticky because careers have been built on their product portfolio and expertise around that. Some engineers carry a large number of certifications and have a lot of money and time invested. How do you talk customers through this and help them?

Topic 7 - Let’s close out there. Where can our listeners go for more information?


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]]> Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Chief Product Officer at @Platform9Sys) talks about the current state of the VMware virtualization market, thoughts on migrations, and factors to consider to speed migrations.

SHOW: 899

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #899 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SPONSORS:

  • Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code CLOUDCAST at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/cloudcast 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. For those that don’t know, you are a long time returning guest. It’s been about 7 years since the last time we spoke, and this is also the third time we’ve talked to you and the folks over at Platform9. Before we jump in, tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - Our topic today is VMware Migrations. As we’ve documented many times on the podcast, VMware and its customers are in flux. Many are evaluating whether they should stay or they should go. When you speak to customers considering this, what should they consider?

Topic 3 - In general we keep hearing things like VMWare ELA’s that are no only on 3 year renewal and a price hike of 3x, 5x, even 10x. What are you seeing? Is this a limited window of opportunity as customers make that decision to move off or lock in for another 3 years?

Topic 4 -  I see two sides to this: the business side and the tech side. I see this potentially being much harder on the technical side. While it might be possible to build a business case, the technical lock-in to the hypervisor technology tends to be a factor in conversions. Rebuilding years worth of virtual networking, storage links, etc. How do you advise customers on this today?

Topic 5 - These migrations take time. Sometimes we are talking about installations in the tens of thousands of vms and and the migrations taking months to years to complete. Why would an organization go to the cost and the trouble to switch platforms?

Topic 6 - Let’s say an organization decides to pull the trigger. My immediate thought goes to Day1+ actions and operations. New platforms, new tools, new constructs. VMware installs tend to be very sticky because careers have been built on their product portfolio and expertise around that. Some engineers carry a large number of certifications and have a lot of money and time invested. How do you talk customers through this and help them?

Topic 7 - Let’s close out there. Where can our listeners go for more information?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16649450 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1376 Platform9, VMware migrations, virtualization, Madhura Maskasky full false How will AI impact your IT budget? How will AI impact your IT budget? As AI begins to make its way into the Enterprise, how will the experimentation, adoption and operations of AI impact 2025 and beyond IT budgets? 


SHOW: 898

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #898 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


WHERE WILL IT BUDGETS MOST LIKELY BE IMPACTED BY AI IN 2025-2026?

  • Is your focus on human-augmented capabilities or human-replacement capabilities? 
  • If you’re buying AI as part of SaaS services, will the pricing be seat-based (human-augmented) or usage-based (human-replacement), or some combination of both? 
  • Are you directly paying for AI-capabilities, or is AI being positioned as “free”, but the other services are becoming more expensive?
  • Are you expanding your predictive AI projects (and data-science teams), or primarily focused on GenAI related projects? 
  • Are you buying AI resources from the cloud providers, or from AI-specific hosting providers, or buying GPUs for private-cloud usage? 
  • Are you planning to use standard AI tools, or do you plan to training/align your own models with your data?
  • Do you have a cost-control capability for your AI projects yet?
  • What are your success-criteria for POCs, Experiments, Trials? 
  • Are you upskilling existing staff, or hiring AI-specific staff? Or using external consulting? 


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SHOW: 898

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #898 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


WHERE WILL IT BUDGETS MOST LIKELY BE IMPACTED BY AI IN 2025-2026?

  • Is your focus on human-augmented capabilities or human-replacement capabilities? 
  • If you’re buying AI as part of SaaS services, will the pricing be seat-based (human-augmented) or usage-based (human-replacement), or some combination of both? 
  • Are you directly paying for AI-capabilities, or is AI being positioned as “free”, but the other services are becoming more expensive?
  • Are you expanding your predictive AI projects (and data-science teams), or primarily focused on GenAI related projects? 
  • Are you buying AI resources from the cloud providers, or from AI-specific hosting providers, or buying GPUs for private-cloud usage? 
  • Are you planning to use standard AI tools, or do you plan to training/align your own models with your data?
  • Do you have a cost-control capability for your AI projects yet?
  • What are your success-criteria for POCs, Experiments, Trials? 
  • Are you upskilling existing staff, or hiring AI-specific staff? Or using external consulting? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16613003 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1280 2025, AI, Budgeting, IT, GenAI, Data Science, Predictive AI, Cost Mgmt, POCs, Experiments, Trials full false The Path to Tech Executive Roles The Path to Tech Executive Roles Drew Saur (Founder, Drew Saur Coaching) talks about the state of the job market in 2025, how delivery and measurements have changed, how to stand out, and what to think about when interviewing for a new role, especially at the executive level

SHOW: 897

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #897 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - As someone who helps tech folks with their careers, what is the state of the industry? The news is filled almost daily with layoffs. What advice do you have for folks in 2025?

Topic 3 - Many of our listeners are technical folks who are senior in their careers. Some (like me) struggle to that next step up where the game changes dramatically, and it’s a bit of a deep, dark secret in our industry at times. Tell everyone about that and the jump in thinking

Topic 4 - Brian and I talk to a lot of folks in our industry on an ongoing basis. I feel like the conversations from the last few years can fit in a few buckets but all under a common theme. Many have an idea of where they want to go in the industry or maybe they did and now they aren’t sure due to work from home, changing family dynamics etc. How do you coach folks to find that happy medium. Not everyone gets or wants to be a CEO. What do you balance and how do you balance this

Topic 5 - As we’ve discussed, we met last year and you helped land my with my current role. The tech hiring process, especially for leadership roles has changed in recent years. How should everyone approach the interview process?

Topic 6 - All of this can be overwhelming if approached all at once, what advice do you have on how to break things down and tackle what matters most

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, where can they go for more info or to contact you?

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SHOW: 897

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #897 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - As someone who helps tech folks with their careers, what is the state of the industry? The news is filled almost daily with layoffs. What advice do you have for folks in 2025?

Topic 3 - Many of our listeners are technical folks who are senior in their careers. Some (like me) struggle to that next step up where the game changes dramatically, and it’s a bit of a deep, dark secret in our industry at times. Tell everyone about that and the jump in thinking

Topic 4 - Brian and I talk to a lot of folks in our industry on an ongoing basis. I feel like the conversations from the last few years can fit in a few buckets but all under a common theme. Many have an idea of where they want to go in the industry or maybe they did and now they aren’t sure due to work from home, changing family dynamics etc. How do you coach folks to find that happy medium. Not everyone gets or wants to be a CEO. What do you balance and how do you balance this

Topic 5 - As we’ve discussed, we met last year and you helped land my with my current role. The tech hiring process, especially for leadership roles has changed in recent years. How should everyone approach the interview process?

Topic 6 - All of this can be overwhelming if approached all at once, what advice do you have on how to break things down and tackle what matters most

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, where can they go for more info or to contact you?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16605984 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1534 Tech Executive, Career Coaching, Drew Saur, 2025 Job Market, Interviewing, Tech Jobs full false Welcome to the Bi-Modal Cloud Era Welcome to the Bi-Modal Cloud Era After a decade of Bi-Modal IT discussion, we’ve now reached the era of Bi-Modal Cloud. Balancing traditional CPU-based cloud resources is now clashing with the demands of GPU-based AI cloud needs. Let’s explore!

SHOW: 896

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #896 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BUSINESS HAS TO PRIORITIZE THE LOWER REVENUE PATHS

  • We’ve come full circle after 10+ years
  • Can the clouds make all this CapEx spending work because of other businesses?
  • Wait, is cloud interesting again?
  • What is Bi-Modal Cloud?
  • Is the cash cow still the cash cow?
  • How do cloud providers prioritize cloud vs. AI?
  • How do internal teams rationalize being profitable but unimportant?
  • Stargate might be a crazy idea, but is an AI-cloud a crazy idea? 


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SHOW: 896

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #896 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BUSINESS HAS TO PRIORITIZE THE LOWER REVENUE PATHS

  • We’ve come full circle after 10+ years
  • Can the clouds make all this CapEx spending work because of other businesses?
  • Wait, is cloud interesting again?
  • What is Bi-Modal Cloud?
  • Is the cash cow still the cash cow?
  • How do cloud providers prioritize cloud vs. AI?
  • How do internal teams rationalize being profitable but unimportant?
  • Stargate might be a crazy idea, but is an AI-cloud a crazy idea? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16589005 Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1648 Gartner, Bi-Modal, Cloud, AI. David Linthicum, Revenues vs Growth, Shadow AI full false Cloud & AI News of the Month - January 2025 Cloud & AI News of the Month - January 2025 Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2025 including the new DeepSeek model that is shaking up the industry.

SHOW: 895

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #895 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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]]> Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2025 including the new DeepSeek model that is shaking up the industry.

SHOW: 895

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #895 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16565480 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1851 CNOTM, Deep Seek, Stargate, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX, ChatGPT-Gov, Azure Cloud, Pat Gelsinger full false Shut up and write code! Shut up and write code! It feels like we’ve gone the last 15+ years of tech without really having to directly involve politics in the discussion. But that seems to be coming to an end, in a big way. Let discuss if we can discuss tech without discussing politics. 


SHOW: 894

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #894 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


THE OLD SWIM LANES ARE NO LONGER INDEPENDENT AND ISOLATED

  • Vendors are cloud providers, so they have to be involved in data location, and operating services (or allowing services to operate) - Oracle, Microsoft, 
  • Consumer companies are also enterprise companies - Google, Amazon
  • Companies are involved in 1st Amendment situations - Google, Amazon/WashPost
  • All tech companies are bidding for Gov’t contracts
  • Intel is the target of the US Chips Act - govt subsidy
  • AI overlaps copyright, data sovereignty, govt regulations/restrictions
  • Nation-state funded security attacks


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THE OLD SWIM LANES ARE NO LONGER INDEPENDENT AND ISOLATED

  • Vendors are cloud providers, so they have to be involved in data location, and operating services (or allowing services to operate) - Oracle, Microsoft, 
  • Consumer companies are also enterprise companies - Google, Amazon
  • Companies are involved in 1st Amendment situations - Google, Amazon/WashPost
  • All tech companies are bidding for Gov’t contracts
  • Intel is the target of the US Chips Act - govt subsidy
  • AI overlaps copyright, data sovereignty, govt regulations/restrictions
  • Nation-state funded security attacks


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16549743 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1121 Politics, Vendors, Regulations, Restrictions, Context, AI, US Govt, EU, China full false Modernizing Video Production with AI Modernizing Video Production with AI Tim Huckaby (@TimHuckaby, CTO at Lucihub) talks about building modern AI applications to generate business video, the human vs AI interactions, and the importance of domain expertise.

SHOW: 893

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #893 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - Having seen a lot of technology evolution, how do you think about today’s possibilities with AI?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Lucihub. They deliver video production using AI. Help us understand how their approach is different? (very curious about the interaction of AI and humans in the design of the platform)

Topic 4 - What are the expectations of creators to interact with the AI parts of the system vs. the expectations to interact with humans?

Topic 5 - How are you seeing companies compare the experience of using Lucihub vs. experience they had previously with non-AI agencies?

Topic 6 - Your other passion is fly fishing. Do you find any symmetries between the nurture of fly fishing and your work with technology, or is it the contrast that you need to find a balance in your life?


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SHOW: 893

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #893 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - Having seen a lot of technology evolution, how do you think about today’s possibilities with AI?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Lucihub. They deliver video production using AI. Help us understand how their approach is different? (very curious about the interaction of AI and humans in the design of the platform)

Topic 4 - What are the expectations of creators to interact with the AI parts of the system vs. the expectations to interact with humans?

Topic 5 - How are you seeing companies compare the experience of using Lucihub vs. experience they had previously with non-AI agencies?

Topic 6 - Your other passion is fly fishing. Do you find any symmetries between the nurture of fly fishing and your work with technology, or is it the contrast that you need to find a balance in your life?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16522930 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2265 Tim Huckaby, Lucihub, AI,Video Production, Domain Expertise, Human vs AI full false Big Announcements or BIG Announcements? Big Announcements or BIG Announcements? At a time when many AI and Cloud announcements are happening, how can we determine which ones are important, disruptive, or just me-too? 

SHOW: 892

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #892 Transcript

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REACTING AND PLANNING WHEN SO MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE HAPPENING

  • Why is the announcement happening now?
  • What are the facts of the announcement?
  • How are Enterprises thinking about these announcements?
  • How are Enterprises thinking about how this pace of change impacts their thinking?
  • What are the technology impacts of the announcement?
  • What are the direct economic impacts of the announcement? Secondary impacts?
    • OpenAI profitability?
    • NVIDIA ability to charge premium for leading-edge chips?
    • Pricing for any AI offering (Co-Pilots, etc.)
    • Write-offs of existing GPU/Training investments?


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]]> At a time when many AI and Cloud announcements are happening, how can we determine which ones are important, disruptive, or just me-too? 

SHOW: 892

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #892 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


REACTING AND PLANNING WHEN SO MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE HAPPENING

  • Why is the announcement happening now?
  • What are the facts of the announcement?
  • How are Enterprises thinking about these announcements?
  • How are Enterprises thinking about how this pace of change impacts their thinking?
  • What are the technology impacts of the announcement?
  • What are the direct economic impacts of the announcement? Secondary impacts?
    • OpenAI profitability?
    • NVIDIA ability to charge premium for leading-edge chips?
    • Pricing for any AI offering (Co-Pilots, etc.)
    • Write-offs of existing GPU/Training investments?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16502917 Sun, 26 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1628 Stargate, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Oracle, Softbank, Deepseek, China, AI, Economics full false SaaS Pricing & Startup Monetization SaaS Pricing & Startup Monetization James D. Wilton (@jamesdwilton, Managing Director, @Monevat) talks about pricing strategies for SaaS products and organizations as well as his new book, Capturing Value: The Definitive Guide to Transforming SaaS Pricing and Unshackling Growth

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #891 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - Five evolving pricing models today’s investors and VCs should be aware of

Topic 3 - How to eliminate revenue losses caused by misaligned pricing or unnecessary discounts

Topic 4 - Exploring the science and discipline behind pricing - particularly for ventures with subscription offerings

Topic 5 - The do's and dont's when migrating your current customers to new pricing strategies

Topic 6 - How AI Is redefining SaaS pricing models

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SHOW: 891

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #891 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - Five evolving pricing models today’s investors and VCs should be aware of

Topic 3 - How to eliminate revenue losses caused by misaligned pricing or unnecessary discounts

Topic 4 - Exploring the science and discipline behind pricing - particularly for ventures with subscription offerings

Topic 5 - The do's and dont's when migrating your current customers to new pricing strategies

Topic 6 - How AI Is redefining SaaS pricing models

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16480009 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2048 James D. Wilton, SaaS, Pricing, Startups, Monevate, AI, Pricing Strategies, Pricing Models full false What would an AI-First CIO do? What would an AI-First CIO do? In the 2010s, many CIOs adopted a Cloud-First strategy for building their digital services and skills. So how would a CIO build an AI-First strategy in today’s world?

SHOW: 890

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #890 Transcript

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WHAT CONSIDERATIONS SHOULD GO INTO AN AI-FIRST STRATEGY

  • 3-month, 6-month, 12-month projects
  • What are the AI possibilities?
  • AI Center of Sharing Experiences
  • Base Models vs. Trained/Aligned Models
  • Augment vs. Replacement (or AI Beginning) activities
  • Vendor offering vs. Open Source evolution
  • Cost Modeling and Cost Monitoring
  • The Ecosystem (of the large LLMs) is questionable - will they be viable in 1-2yrs?
  • Security policies - how broad, how strict, how to evaluate? 
  • Data scientists vs. non data scientists?


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]]> In the 2010s, many CIOs adopted a Cloud-First strategy for building their digital services and skills. So how would a CIO build an AI-First strategy in today’s world?

SHOW: 890

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #890 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


WHAT CONSIDERATIONS SHOULD GO INTO AN AI-FIRST STRATEGY

  • 3-month, 6-month, 12-month projects
  • What are the AI possibilities?
  • AI Center of Sharing Experiences
  • Base Models vs. Trained/Aligned Models
  • Augment vs. Replacement (or AI Beginning) activities
  • Vendor offering vs. Open Source evolution
  • Cost Modeling and Cost Monitoring
  • The Ecosystem (of the large LLMs) is questionable - will they be viable in 1-2yrs?
  • Security policies - how broad, how strict, how to evaluate? 
  • Data scientists vs. non data scientists?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16461869 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1873 CIO, AI, ROI, Experimentation, Augment, Replace, Open Source, Vendors, LLMs, Ecosystem full false The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work Brian and Michael Cote (@cote, Co-Host @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about the ethics of using AI at for internal and external facing work.

SHOW: 889

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #889 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - What does your day-to-day use of information look like, and how do you translate that into things you create/publish?

Topic 3 - Where do today’s AI tools come into play for your work? What else would you like them to do?

Topic 4 - Why did you have concerns about the Ethics of using these tools, or the Ethics of the output of these tools? What’s the general rules or sentiment about using AI tools within your company (or people you know)?

Topic 5 - At what point do you think it’s your Ethics problem, and when/why should your company care?

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]]> Brian and Michael Cote (@cote, Co-Host @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about the ethics of using AI at for internal and external facing work.

SHOW: 889

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #889 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - What does your day-to-day use of information look like, and how do you translate that into things you create/publish?

Topic 3 - Where do today’s AI tools come into play for your work? What else would you like them to do?

Topic 4 - Why did you have concerns about the Ethics of using these tools, or the Ethics of the output of these tools? What’s the general rules or sentiment about using AI tools within your company (or people you know)?

Topic 5 - At what point do you think it’s your Ethics problem, and when/why should your company care?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16436795 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2238 Michael Cote, Ethics, AI, ChatGPT, White Collar work, Chatbot, First Drafts, Ideation, Brainstorming, Summaries, Ghostwriting full false Does your CEO know what your group does? Does your CEO know what your group does? Does your boss’ boss know what your group does? How far up the org chart is it before your group is unknown? Let’s look at ways that your group can make sure it has visibility up the ranks of your management team. 

SHOW: 888

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #888 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR CEO DOESN’T KNOW WHAT YOUR GROUP DOES?

  • Elon Musk eliminated 80% of Twitter/X workforce
  • CEOs/CFOs are starting to think about AI in terms of reduced workforce
  • WFH/RTO policies will be an on-going issue for the next few years
  • How does your group align to value-creation at the company?
  • How does your group measure the value they bring to the company?
  • How does your group measure the cost/ROI they bring to the company?
  • How does your group communicate their value upward in the organization?
  • How does your group communicate their value outward in the organization?
  • How do your stakeholders (internal & external) talk about your group?
  • Does your group complain too much? What is your annoyance factor?


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]]> Does your boss’ boss know what your group does? How far up the org chart is it before your group is unknown? Let’s look at ways that your group can make sure it has visibility up the ranks of your management team. 

SHOW: 888

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #888 Transcript

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR CEO DOESN’T KNOW WHAT YOUR GROUP DOES?

  • Elon Musk eliminated 80% of Twitter/X workforce
  • CEOs/CFOs are starting to think about AI in terms of reduced workforce
  • WFH/RTO policies will be an on-going issue for the next few years
  • How does your group align to value-creation at the company?
  • How does your group measure the value they bring to the company?
  • How does your group measure the cost/ROI they bring to the company?
  • How does your group communicate their value upward in the organization?
  • How does your group communicate their value outward in the organization?
  • How do your stakeholders (internal & external) talk about your group?
  • Does your group complain too much? What is your annoyance factor?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16420339 Sun, 12 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1362 CEO, Org Chart, Accountability, Visibility, Internal Communications, External Communications, Stakeholders, ROI, Value-Add full false Career Advice in 2025 Career Advice in 2025 As we start in 2025, we wanted to offer advice on job searching and evaluating roles. The market and the interviewing process have shifted; what do you need to know in 2025 if you seek a new opportunity?

SHOW: 887

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #887 Transcript

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NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

  • Considerations when evaluating a startup vs. a more traditional role
  • Red Flags
  • Considering Burnout
  • How has the macro environment changed funding and employment
  • Networking
  • Keeping a routine

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]]> As we start in 2025, we wanted to offer advice on job searching and evaluating roles. The market and the interviewing process have shifted; what do you need to know in 2025 if you seek a new opportunity?

SHOW: 887

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #887 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

  • Considerations when evaluating a startup vs. a more traditional role
  • Red Flags
  • Considering Burnout
  • How has the macro environment changed funding and employment
  • Networking
  • Keeping a routine

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]]> Buzzsprout-16399518 Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2423 2025, Startups, VC Funding, Burnout, Culture, Networking, Interviews, Red Flags, PMF full false The Cloudcast #886 - Reflections, Resolutions and Beginning 2025 The Cloudcast #886 - Reflections, Resolutions and Beginning 2025 As a new year is upon us, let's make a checklist of the most important areas to focus upon to make Q1 successful and set up the rest of 2025 for success. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #886 Transcript

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SOME TIPS, TRICKS, SUGGESTIONS AND REFLECTIONS AS WE BEGIN YET ANOTHER YEAR

  • General Stuff - Get rid of clutter, set goals, 
  • Health - Make it a daily priority (schedule it, between meetings, every little bit helps)
  • Budgets - What can you do if they aren’t finalized?
  • Skills - If you aren’t growing, you’re regressing. What are you going to focus on?
  • Prioritization - Do you understand them in your company, your group, and you personally?
  • Networking - Are you aligned to the power centers in your business?
  • Justifications - Where are costs and ROI going to be the most scrutinized in your company? 
  • Understand the Game - How is technology impacting your business/role? How is your industry changing?


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]]> As a new year is upon us, let's make a checklist of the most important areas to focus upon to make Q1 successful and set up the rest of 2025 for success. 

SHOW: 886

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #886 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


SOME TIPS, TRICKS, SUGGESTIONS AND REFLECTIONS AS WE BEGIN YET ANOTHER YEAR

  • General Stuff - Get rid of clutter, set goals, 
  • Health - Make it a daily priority (schedule it, between meetings, every little bit helps)
  • Budgets - What can you do if they aren’t finalized?
  • Skills - If you aren’t growing, you’re regressing. What are you going to focus on?
  • Prioritization - Do you understand them in your company, your group, and you personally?
  • Networking - Are you aligned to the power centers in your business?
  • Justifications - Where are costs and ROI going to be the most scrutinized in your company? 
  • Understand the Game - How is technology impacting your business/role? How is your industry changing?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16385283 Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 1929 full false Auth in the Age of AI Agents Auth in the Age of AI Agents Jake Moshenko (@jacobmoshenko, CEO of @AuthZed) talks about the challenges of securing AI interactions, as well as authentication best-practices for AI Agents and RAG patterns.  

SHOW: 885

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #885 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and why you decided to start AuthZed.

Topic 2 - AuthZed is based on technology from Google called Zanzibar. There’s an in-depth research paper, but give us some background on the types of problems it solves and why it was so appealing to you. 

Topic 3 - Authorization is used for every application, but let’s talk about it in the context of AI or AI Agents. This is still a fairly new concept, but what authorization-related challenges do you expect GenAI or AI agents to create for developers and operators?

Topic 4 - Is this space moving so fast that people already realize they’ll likely need something more modern, like Authzed, or are there mistakes they are making today that are going to cause serious red flags soon? 

Topic 5 - What is the typical path for companies or teams to adopt Authzed, and is it something that can start small and grow (or merge with other groups), or does it have to be centralized like at Google? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the more important areas that people building and growing AI systems that need authorization should be keeping an eye on? 


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]]> Jake Moshenko (@jacobmoshenko, CEO of @AuthZed) talks about the challenges of securing AI interactions, as well as authentication best-practices for AI Agents and RAG patterns.  

SHOW: 885

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #885 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 


SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and why you decided to start AuthZed.

Topic 2 - AuthZed is based on technology from Google called Zanzibar. There’s an in-depth research paper, but give us some background on the types of problems it solves and why it was so appealing to you. 

Topic 3 - Authorization is used for every application, but let’s talk about it in the context of AI or AI Agents. This is still a fairly new concept, but what authorization-related challenges do you expect GenAI or AI agents to create for developers and operators?

Topic 4 - Is this space moving so fast that people already realize they’ll likely need something more modern, like Authzed, or are there mistakes they are making today that are going to cause serious red flags soon? 

Topic 5 - What is the typical path for companies or teams to adopt Authzed, and is it something that can start small and grow (or merge with other groups), or does it have to be centralized like at Google? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the more important areas that people building and growing AI systems that need authorization should be keeping an eye on? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16366472 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0500 2225 Jake Moshenko, AuthZed, Authentication, AI, AI Agents, RAG pattern, Google Zanzibar full false 2024 Year-End Review and 2025 Predictions 2024 Year-End Review and 2025 Predictions It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.

SHOW: 884

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #884 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


LINK TO TOPIC DETAILS


Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?

Aaron

  • 2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worse
  • There will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI
  • 2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)

Brian:

  • Gov’t vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)
  • Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?
  • Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)
  • AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?


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]]> It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.

SHOW: 884

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #884 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


LINK TO TOPIC DETAILS


Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?

Aaron

  • 2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worse
  • There will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI
  • 2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)

Brian:

  • Gov’t vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)
  • Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?
  • Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)
  • AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16338484 Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:00:00 -0500 2796 AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, AI, Cloud, US Gov't, Intel, Hashicorp, IBM, CNCF, Open Source, NVIDIA full false Evaluating Market Changing Trends Evaluating Market Changing Trends If AI is going to be the next big trend in tech and impact every aspect of society, how do you go about trying to evaluate where it is today and where it might be in a few years or a decade?


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #883 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


HOW MIGHT YOU CONSIDER THE BEGINNING OF A TECHNOLOGY MARKET SHIFT?

  • What’s the landscape of players in the game?
  • What are the potential moats? (technology, economics, people, political policies, geographic)
  • What are the economics of the technology shift? Where will big changes happen? 
  • What are the usage patterns? Are they well defined? 
  • How long behind the consumer shifts will the enterprise shifts happen? 
  • What behaviors will need to change (significantly) for this to have wide adoption?
  • How might this impact my work, my family, my company, etc.?


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SHOW: 883

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #883 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


HOW MIGHT YOU CONSIDER THE BEGINNING OF A TECHNOLOGY MARKET SHIFT?

  • What’s the landscape of players in the game?
  • What are the potential moats? (technology, economics, people, political policies, geographic)
  • What are the economics of the technology shift? Where will big changes happen? 
  • What are the usage patterns? Are they well defined? 
  • How long behind the consumer shifts will the enterprise shifts happen? 
  • What behaviors will need to change (significantly) for this to have wide adoption?
  • How might this impact my work, my family, my company, etc.?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16316924 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1597 AI, ROI, Economic Impact, Behavioral Changes, Moats, Landscape of the Game, Economic Shifts full false 2024 Year End Mailbag 2024 Year End Mailbag It’s that time of the year… Aaron and Brian answer emails and questions for the second half of the year.

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Question 1 - There was a lot of talk about Broadcom’s changes to VMware at the beginning of the year, but not as much since then. What’s going on in the world of virtualization?

Question 2 - Both of you have talked about working remotely for quite a while. What’s your take on RTO mandates? Any suggestions for remote workers?

Question 3 - Have either of you found any valuable uses of AI in your day-to-day job?

Question 4 - Now that the US elections are over, how do you expect the US Gov’t to be involved with the tech industry (anti-trust, CHIPS ACT, AI regulation, etc..)

Question 5 - AI models and GPUs  seem to get all the attention in the news. Are there other areas of AI that you think are really important but aren’t getting much attention right now?

Question 6 - Are cloud skills still considered valuable? Do certifications matter anymore?

Question 7 - What’s going on in the open source communities like the CNCF?

Question 8 - What surprised you the most this year?

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Question 1 - There was a lot of talk about Broadcom’s changes to VMware at the beginning of the year, but not as much since then. What’s going on in the world of virtualization?

Question 2 - Both of you have talked about working remotely for quite a while. What’s your take on RTO mandates? Any suggestions for remote workers?

Question 3 - Have either of you found any valuable uses of AI in your day-to-day job?

Question 4 - Now that the US elections are over, how do you expect the US Gov’t to be involved with the tech industry (anti-trust, CHIPS ACT, AI regulation, etc..)

Question 5 - AI models and GPUs  seem to get all the attention in the news. Are there other areas of AI that you think are really important but aren’t getting much attention right now?

Question 6 - Are cloud skills still considered valuable? Do certifications matter anymore?

Question 7 - What’s going on in the open source communities like the CNCF?

Question 8 - What surprised you the most this year?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16298892 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2894 Broadcom, VMware, WFH, RTO, AI Tools, Certifications, Cloud Skills, CNCF, Open Source, US Policy full false Does the AI startup ecosystem need Yacht Rock infrastructure? Does the AI startup ecosystem need Yacht Rock infrastructure? In the late 70s and early 80s, a music revolution started because a bunch of talented musicians played on 100s of albums, behind the scenes. Would the AI startup community benefit from a similar infrastructure of experts?


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WHY DON’T WE HAVE EXPERTS BEHIND THE SCENES OF EVERY STARTUP?

  • History of the interactions between bands like Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, Toto, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, etc..
  • Why do VCs allow startups to hire their own back-office people? 
  • Why aren’t there services that offer startup backend services, not just one off SaaS services?
  • AI could be used to scale those services. 


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WHY DON’T WE HAVE EXPERTS BEHIND THE SCENES OF EVERY STARTUP?

  • History of the interactions between bands like Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, Toto, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, etc..
  • Why do VCs allow startups to hire their own back-office people? 
  • Why aren’t there services that offer startup backend services, not just one off SaaS services?
  • AI could be used to scale those services. 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16277289 Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1053 Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Toto, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, Ambrosia full false Reacting to the AWS re:Invent Keynote Reacting to the AWS re:Invent Keynote The 2024 AWS re:Invent happened, with a new CEO, and an appearance by a previous CEO. What were the big announcements, trends and stories coming out of the keynote?

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Overall Takeaways:

  • The new CEO
  • The overall themes
  • Andy Jassy’s appearance

Brian’s Top 5 Takeaways:

  • The focus is now all ARM and GPUs/AI Accelerators (goodbye Intel)
  • AWS is getting back to basics on Cloud - a focus on primitives
  • AWS is trying to get ahead of startup and enterprise usage of GenAI with a focus on Inferencing costs (trying to make it a game of compute costs vs. model capabilities)
  • What are the 1000 GenAI apps that Amazon has built? (Rufus, Robot package loading? NFL Blitz predictor?

Brandon’s Top 5 Takeaways:

  • Amazon is the “Everything Store,” AWS is the “Every Service Store”
  • Garmon is the legacy AWS CEO, Jassy is the AWS AI CEO
  • AWS wants everyone to build a chatbot and/or call center app using AWS Bedrock 
  • The NOVA foundation models are the AWS answer to OpenAI and Anthroptic. 
  • AWS is attempting to build both the models and the AI Chips to run them. Tenuous partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic. Neither was on stage. 
  • AWS will never stop telling us about “Working Backwards”
  • AWS marketing still wants talk about the how rather than the benefit. A long lecture on Nitro and Amazon Aurora DSQL with a lot of discussion about synchronizing clocks.

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SHOW NOTES:

Overall Takeaways:

  • The new CEO
  • The overall themes
  • Andy Jassy’s appearance

Brian’s Top 5 Takeaways:

  • The focus is now all ARM and GPUs/AI Accelerators (goodbye Intel)
  • AWS is getting back to basics on Cloud - a focus on primitives
  • AWS is trying to get ahead of startup and enterprise usage of GenAI with a focus on Inferencing costs (trying to make it a game of compute costs vs. model capabilities)
  • What are the 1000 GenAI apps that Amazon has built? (Rufus, Robot package loading? NFL Blitz predictor?

Brandon’s Top 5 Takeaways:

  • Amazon is the “Everything Store,” AWS is the “Every Service Store”
  • Garmon is the legacy AWS CEO, Jassy is the AWS AI CEO
  • AWS wants everyone to build a chatbot and/or call center app using AWS Bedrock 
  • The NOVA foundation models are the AWS answer to OpenAI and Anthroptic. 
  • AWS is attempting to build both the models and the AI Chips to run them. Tenuous partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic. Neither was on stage. 
  • AWS will never stop telling us about “Working Backwards”
  • AWS marketing still wants talk about the how rather than the benefit. A long lecture on Nitro and Amazon Aurora DSQL with a lot of discussion about synchronizing clocks.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16256363 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2623 AWS, re:Invent, Matt Garmin, Andy Jassy, GenAI, Old Cloud, New Cloud, DSQL, Nova, Gravitron, Bedrock, full false Reviewing "AI Eats the World" Reviewing "AI Eats the World" How are the largest VCs viewing the early stages of the AI Era, from the perspective of investment, technology moats, economics, early adoption and future use-cases.  


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IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?

  • Companies are investing tons of money
  • Breakthrough results haven’t emerged yet (business models, profits)
  • It’s not clear that there is a technology moat; but maybe a capital moat
  • Model training costs are expected to rise 5x to 10x - worse economics??
  • Lots of VC investment and vendor 2nd-order investments
  • LLM costs are creating marginal cost of software (been since the mainframe)
  • Model quality vs. price is improving, but price of the services (e.g. ChatGPT-Pro) is increasing - how much extra value is being delivered?
  • How will open source impact AI? 
  • “If anything in life is certain, semiconductors are cyclical, commodity tech goes to marginal cost, and every new tech produces a bubble.”
  • Today’s GenAI question - is it accurate and useful? How can we tell, and how can it improve (or does it need to)?
  • Start with a simple concept - AI gives us unlimited interns - how can you extrapolate that? How would this have been extrapolated for the original internet (create content, translate language, write code, etc.)
  • Use cases are still not easy to see beyond Chatbots (and variants), Coding Assistants
  • Consulting revenue from GenAI is bigger than technology - and still most/many projects still in trials. 
  • Technology can take a long time to adopt - Cloud still only has 30% of workloads (15yrs old)
  • 66% of CEO’s don’t expect their first GenAI app in production until sometime in 2025, 50% at least 2H of 2025.
  • [Shadow AI] SaaS AI will accelerate adoption, if it follows Cloud pattern - external forces are more motivated to attack business “change” than internal teams
  • [Build vs. Ecosystem] Do the LLM vendors become the application vendors? Where does the LLM start and stop (infra, platform, API, apps, etc.)
  • [Learning from the customers] Do the LLM vendors use their knowledge advantage to build the apps? 
  • GenAI Apps Categories - Make something better, Replace something, Just do the thing
  • “AI is just whatever is wrong/broken now” - How well does AI understand “broken”
  • Will people be the biggest problem in AI progress? 
  • [Decoupling] Looks at global markets for Internet today - ecommerce/retail, food delivery, advertising, media, autonomous driving, 
  • [Elevator Example] Automation gets rid of people
  • No real conclusion


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IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?

  • Companies are investing tons of money
  • Breakthrough results haven’t emerged yet (business models, profits)
  • It’s not clear that there is a technology moat; but maybe a capital moat
  • Model training costs are expected to rise 5x to 10x - worse economics??
  • Lots of VC investment and vendor 2nd-order investments
  • LLM costs are creating marginal cost of software (been since the mainframe)
  • Model quality vs. price is improving, but price of the services (e.g. ChatGPT-Pro) is increasing - how much extra value is being delivered?
  • How will open source impact AI? 
  • “If anything in life is certain, semiconductors are cyclical, commodity tech goes to marginal cost, and every new tech produces a bubble.”
  • Today’s GenAI question - is it accurate and useful? How can we tell, and how can it improve (or does it need to)?
  • Start with a simple concept - AI gives us unlimited interns - how can you extrapolate that? How would this have been extrapolated for the original internet (create content, translate language, write code, etc.)
  • Use cases are still not easy to see beyond Chatbots (and variants), Coding Assistants
  • Consulting revenue from GenAI is bigger than technology - and still most/many projects still in trials. 
  • Technology can take a long time to adopt - Cloud still only has 30% of workloads (15yrs old)
  • 66% of CEO’s don’t expect their first GenAI app in production until sometime in 2025, 50% at least 2H of 2025.
  • [Shadow AI] SaaS AI will accelerate adoption, if it follows Cloud pattern - external forces are more motivated to attack business “change” than internal teams
  • [Build vs. Ecosystem] Do the LLM vendors become the application vendors? Where does the LLM start and stop (infra, platform, API, apps, etc.)
  • [Learning from the customers] Do the LLM vendors use their knowledge advantage to build the apps? 
  • GenAI Apps Categories - Make something better, Replace something, Just do the thing
  • “AI is just whatever is wrong/broken now” - How well does AI understand “broken”
  • Will people be the biggest problem in AI progress? 
  • [Decoupling] Looks at global markets for Internet today - ecommerce/retail, food delivery, advertising, media, autonomous driving, 
  • [Elevator Example] Automation gets rid of people
  • No real conclusion


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16241002 Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2476 Benedict Evans, VC, AI Era, Economics, Use-Cases, Customer Adoption, LLMs, Apps, APIs, full false Cloud News of the Month - November 2024 Cloud News of the Month - November 2024 Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2024 including the breaking news of Pat Gelsinger's Thanksquitting departure from Intel.

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16207508 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2376 Intel, Pat Gelsinger, NVIDIA, Microsoft Insights, AI Scaling, Wiz, Security, Thanksquitting full false The Pros and Cons of Living in Silicon Valley during the AI Boom The Pros and Cons of Living in Silicon Valley during the AI Boom As the AI era emerges, the debate about the best place to live to take advantage of it for your career has started up again. Is Silicon Valley still the best place to live when a new trend starts?

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IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?

  • Amazon, Microsoft, Space X , BYD, TSMC, are not in Silicon Valley

THE PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN SILICON VALLEY DURING A BOOM?

  • Density of ideas
  • Density of people that obsess over technology
  • Work from Office vs. Work from Anywhere
  • Location of customers - and physical vs. digital
  • Ability to make money vs. life changing money
  • Non-work considerations (family, non-work activities, etc.)


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IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?

  • Amazon, Microsoft, Space X , BYD, TSMC, are not in Silicon Valley

THE PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN SILICON VALLEY DURING A BOOM?

  • Density of ideas
  • Density of people that obsess over technology
  • Work from Office vs. Work from Anywhere
  • Location of customers - and physical vs. digital
  • Ability to make money vs. life changing money
  • Non-work considerations (family, non-work activities, etc.)


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16194863 Sun, 01 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1573 Silicon Valley, AI, Innovation, Quality of Life, Startups, Compensation, Equity, Remote Work, Open Source, Geography full false Using GenAI for DevSecOps Using GenAI for DevSecOps Andrew Manoske (@a2d2, VP Products @Kindo)  talks about the intersection of GenAI and DevSecOps, the WhiteRabbitNeo model, and learning adversary behavior.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your current areas of focus.

Topic 2 - You come from a security background. Every conversation we have with security teams is “attackers have more tools, more money and more time”. Is security an almost unwinnable game without a new way of thinking about the equation?

Topic 3 - It seems like AI has the potential to give Security teams (or anyone in IT) more of a chance, if used properly. How are you thinking about giving teams the right security AI powers?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about WhiteRabbitNeo. “WhiteRabbitNeo is uncensored and trained to act like a modern adversary.” What does this mean in practical terms?

Topic 5 - Where is the potential for the right set of AI models + Agents to make a significant impact towards better on-going security?

Topic 6 - There will be lots of things aimed at being AI for Security. How would you tell someone how to sort through what is useful vs. AI-washed or not likely to be useful?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your current areas of focus.

Topic 2 - You come from a security background. Every conversation we have with security teams is “attackers have more tools, more money and more time”. Is security an almost unwinnable game without a new way of thinking about the equation?

Topic 3 - It seems like AI has the potential to give Security teams (or anyone in IT) more of a chance, if used properly. How are you thinking about giving teams the right security AI powers?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about WhiteRabbitNeo. “WhiteRabbitNeo is uncensored and trained to act like a modern adversary.” What does this mean in practical terms?

Topic 5 - Where is the potential for the right set of AI models + Agents to make a significant impact towards better on-going security?

Topic 6 - There will be lots of things aimed at being AI for Security. How would you tell someone how to sort through what is useful vs. AI-washed or not likely to be useful?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16180861 Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1446 Andrew Manoske, DevSecOps, GenAI, Kindo, Security, WhiteRabbitNeo, CyberSecurity full false Searching for the Netflix of the AI Era Searching for the Netflix of the AI Era In the Cloud Era, Netflix was held up as the lighthouse for what was possible with cloud. So who is the Netflix of the AI era, and are we learning enough about AI yet?


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WHAT DID NETFLIX DO FOR THE CLOUD ERA?

  • Provided a face for a new style of doing work
  • Provided validation that a new model could work
  • Encouraged people to explore older, “bad practices”
  • Began to define metrics of what the new world could look like

WHY DO WE NEED A NETFLIX OF THE AI ERA?

  • Because AI can apparently do everything, but what are some specific things?
  • What are the new ways of thinking about old problems?
  • Has it been proven to improve teams, or mostly individuals? 
  • Do we need a Couch to 5k set of use-cases? Starting use-cases
  • Or is AI going to be a big-bang approach?


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WHAT DID NETFLIX DO FOR THE CLOUD ERA?

  • Provided a face for a new style of doing work
  • Provided validation that a new model could work
  • Encouraged people to explore older, “bad practices”
  • Began to define metrics of what the new world could look like

WHY DO WE NEED A NETFLIX OF THE AI ERA?

  • Because AI can apparently do everything, but what are some specific things?
  • What are the new ways of thinking about old problems?
  • Has it been proven to improve teams, or mostly individuals? 
  • Do we need a Couch to 5k set of use-cases? Starting use-cases
  • Or is AI going to be a big-bang approach?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16161112 Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1635 Netflix, GenAI, Best Practices, Big Bang Approach, Old Problems, New Approaches, Couch to 5K full false Building AI Models for IT Operations Building AI Models for IT Operations Sunil Mallya (@sunilmallya, Co-Founder & CTO @_FlipAI) talks about building AI models to help IT Operations teams simplify troubleshooting, incident response and pattern detection. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about your broader view of where IT Operations is today for large companies. What are their biggest challenges, and where are their opportunities for big improvements?

Topic 3 - One of the biggest challenges for IT Operations is so many systems, so many tools, so many data sources and the difficulty of coordinating (troubleshooting, incident response, pattern detection, etc.) across them. Is there a modern approach that’s emerging about how to make this better?

Topic 4 - Where does the potential of AI models come into play here? It is more focused on being able to ask the system for diagnosis, or can it start getting closer to taking independent actions?

Topic 5 - How do you train an AI model with so many different pieces of customer data?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about AI Agents and what they can begin to accomplish within an Enterprise.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about your broader view of where IT Operations is today for large companies. What are their biggest challenges, and where are their opportunities for big improvements?

Topic 3 - One of the biggest challenges for IT Operations is so many systems, so many tools, so many data sources and the difficulty of coordinating (troubleshooting, incident response, pattern detection, etc.) across them. Is there a modern approach that’s emerging about how to make this better?

Topic 4 - Where does the potential of AI models come into play here? It is more focused on being able to ask the system for diagnosis, or can it start getting closer to taking independent actions?

Topic 5 - How do you train an AI model with so many different pieces of customer data?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about AI Agents and what they can begin to accomplish within an Enterprise.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16135442 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1962 Flip, GenAI, LLMs, IT Operations, Troubleshooting, Sunil Mallya, Incident Response, AI Agents full false Times of Uncertainty lead to eras of Creativity Times of Uncertainty lead to eras of Creativity It’s not a reach to say that we’re currently in a time of uncertainty, across technology, economic and political spectrums. But historically, times of uncertainty have often led to unexpected creativity. 

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STUFF THAT FEELS UNCERTAIN OR FRAGMENTED RIGHT NOW

  • Transition of US political parties (regulation, leadership, reaction to the unknown, friend or foe of Silicon Valley)
  • Stock market is somewhat bullish, but credit markets aren’t aligned
  • Social media seems more fragmented (good & bad), so what does this do to information flows, learning, discussions, etc.
  • Speculation is that AI LLM models are starting to plateau
  • Cloud providers aren’t really talking about anything but AI
  • VCs seem to be excited about the potential of acquisitions again, but who?
  • Netflix can’t seem to figure out streaming live TV, at least at scale - but Amazon can?


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STUFF THAT FEELS UNCERTAIN OR FRAGMENTED RIGHT NOW

  • Transition of US political parties (regulation, leadership, reaction to the unknown, friend or foe of Silicon Valley)
  • Stock market is somewhat bullish, but credit markets aren’t aligned
  • Social media seems more fragmented (good & bad), so what does this do to information flows, learning, discussions, etc.
  • Speculation is that AI LLM models are starting to plateau
  • Cloud providers aren’t really talking about anything but AI
  • VCs seem to be excited about the potential of acquisitions again, but who?
  • Netflix can’t seem to figure out streaming live TV, at least at scale - but Amazon can?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16118510 Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1450 Politics, Netflix, Streaming Live TV, Social Media, Bluesky, Threads, Stock Market, Interest Rates, Cloud, AI LLMs full false Multi-Cloud Network Observability Multi-Cloud Network Observability Rosalind Whitley (Dir. Product @Kentikinc) and Ethan Smith (Staff SRE @ An Enterprise Security Company) talk about network observability, the evolution of SRE for networking, flow analysis, and the complexity and tradeoffs or network design and operations at scale.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and the areas you focus on today.

Topic 2 - I want to begin with the complexity of networking, and not just in the sense of routing, etc. Can you walk us through some of the things you have to consider, and potentially tradeoff, as you’re thinking about network design and operations (e.g. performance, security, costs, logging, troubleshooting, etc.)

Topic 3 - Usually there are many teams involved in making a large organization work. How do you collaborate across teams, and what types of technical hurdles get in the way of delivering the service? (maybe discuss logging challenges)

Topic 3a - How has the role of SRE and Network Engineer evolved as we’re now dealing with this new complexity? You have all the normal performance, high availability, observability stuff, but also things like egress costs, etc.

Topic 4 - We talked earlier about the challenge of cost management when running a large SaaS service. What are some of the ways that you explore or model costing behaviors and look to improve them?

Topic 5 - As you’re working in a single cloud (e.g. AWS), there’s often a belief that working only in that ecosystem is the best approach, as everything is integrated or billing is simpler. How did you go about exploring alternatives that worked in your cloud, but gave you more flexibility for your services?

Topic 6 - How do you tend to think about lines of demarcation between your team, the SaaS tooling provider and the cloud provider?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and the areas you focus on today.

Topic 2 - I want to begin with the complexity of networking, and not just in the sense of routing, etc. Can you walk us through some of the things you have to consider, and potentially tradeoff, as you’re thinking about network design and operations (e.g. performance, security, costs, logging, troubleshooting, etc.)

Topic 3 - Usually there are many teams involved in making a large organization work. How do you collaborate across teams, and what types of technical hurdles get in the way of delivering the service? (maybe discuss logging challenges)

Topic 3a - How has the role of SRE and Network Engineer evolved as we’re now dealing with this new complexity? You have all the normal performance, high availability, observability stuff, but also things like egress costs, etc.

Topic 4 - We talked earlier about the challenge of cost management when running a large SaaS service. What are some of the ways that you explore or model costing behaviors and look to improve them?

Topic 5 - As you’re working in a single cloud (e.g. AWS), there’s often a belief that working only in that ecosystem is the best approach, as everything is integrated or billing is simpler. How did you go about exploring alternatives that worked in your cloud, but gave you more flexibility for your services?

Topic 6 - How do you tend to think about lines of demarcation between your team, the SaaS tooling provider and the cloud provider?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16096045 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2435 Kentik, Rosalind Whitnet, Ethan Smith,Network Flows, SRE, Network Engineering, Flow Analysis full false 13 Tech Communication Tips after the Election 13 Tech Communication Tips after the Election While there will be plenty of evaluation of how the 2024 US elections played out, we take a look at 13 tips that we can learn from the campaigns that can be used for tech communications.

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CAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?

  1. It’s very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known name
  2. It’s more difficult to prove “what if” (future) vs. something that already happened
  3. Figure out messaging velocity and variability (change the story vs. stick to the story)
  4. Plans tend to defeat a lack of plans (or vagueness)
  5. Fear is as powerful a motivator as hope/joy/possibilities
  6. Complex topics (eg. democracy, DevOps) are difficult for people to understand, if they aren’t well defined.
  7. People tend to make decision with their wallet, based on their current situation
  8. Are you speaking to a niche audience, or a large audience? 
  9. If your competition defines you, you need to reframe it quickly
  10. If your competition finds a liability, you need to address it quickly
  11. Sometimes small things can be the center of the discussion
  12. Know where your audience is getting their information from (traditional vs. modern channels)
  13. Are you trying to get people to align on an issue, or a set of virtues (align to a group)?


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CAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?

  1. It’s very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known name
  2. It’s more difficult to prove “what if” (future) vs. something that already happened
  3. Figure out messaging velocity and variability (change the story vs. stick to the story)
  4. Plans tend to defeat a lack of plans (or vagueness)
  5. Fear is as powerful a motivator as hope/joy/possibilities
  6. Complex topics (eg. democracy, DevOps) are difficult for people to understand, if they aren’t well defined.
  7. People tend to make decision with their wallet, based on their current situation
  8. Are you speaking to a niche audience, or a large audience? 
  9. If your competition defines you, you need to reframe it quickly
  10. If your competition finds a liability, you need to address it quickly
  11. Sometimes small things can be the center of the discussion
  12. Know where your audience is getting their information from (traditional vs. modern channels)
  13. Are you trying to get people to align on an issue, or a set of virtues (align to a group)?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16078411 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2109 2024 Election, Market Segmentation, Big Ideas, Future vs Now, Fear vs Joy, Liability, Defining Yourself, Plans full false Cloud News of the Month - October 2024 Cloud News of the Month - October 2024 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.


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SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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]]> Buzzsprout-16057814 Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2698 Tesla, Waymo, Intel, ARM, NVIDIA, Cloud Earnings, VC Funding, AI Applications, OpenAI, Microsoft full false Improving Developer Productivity with AI Coding Assistants Improving Developer Productivity with AI Coding Assistants Keri Olson (@ksolson20, VP AI for Code at @IBM) talks about coding assistants across the software development lifecycle, the future of agents, and domain-specific assistants.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on where you focus your time at IBM these days?

Topic 2 - Developer code assistants have become one of the most popular areas of GenAI usage. At a high level, how mature are the technologies that augment developers today?

Topic 3 - Software development has an entire lifecycle (Generate, Complete, Explain, Test, Transform, Document). It’s easy for developers to just plug in a service, but is that often the most effective way to start using GenAI in the software development lifecycle?

Topic 4 - Software developers are notoriously picky about what tools they use and how they use them. GenAI doesn’t “guarantee” outputs. Are there concerns that if different developers or groups use different coding assistants, that it could create more challenges than it helps?

Topic 5 - What is a holistic way to think about code assistants? How much should be actively engaged with developers, how much should be behind the scenes, how much will be automated or agentic in the future?

Topic 6 - In the past, we essentially had “real developers” (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for “citizen developers” on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadn’t identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on where you focus your time at IBM these days?

Topic 2 - Developer code assistants have become one of the most popular areas of GenAI usage. At a high level, how mature are the technologies that augment developers today?

Topic 3 - Software development has an entire lifecycle (Generate, Complete, Explain, Test, Transform, Document). It’s easy for developers to just plug in a service, but is that often the most effective way to start using GenAI in the software development lifecycle?

Topic 4 - Software developers are notoriously picky about what tools they use and how they use them. GenAI doesn’t “guarantee” outputs. Are there concerns that if different developers or groups use different coding assistants, that it could create more challenges than it helps?

Topic 5 - What is a holistic way to think about code assistants? How much should be actively engaged with developers, how much should be behind the scenes, how much will be automated or agentic in the future?

Topic 6 - In the past, we essentially had “real developers” (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for “citizen developers” on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadn’t identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-16015698 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1932 Keri Olson, IBM, Watsonx, Coding Assistants, Writing Tests, Document Code, Code Translation, Ansible full false The Most Audacious Sales Pitch Ever The Most Audacious Sales Pitch Ever When you’re asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So let’s just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 years. Seems simple enough. 

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THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)

  • Biology and Health
  • Neuroscience and Mind
  • Economic Development and Poverty
  • Peace and Governance
  • Work and meaning

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THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)

  • Biology and Health
  • Neuroscience and Mind
  • Economic Development and Poverty
  • Peace and Governance
  • Work and meaning

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15994135 Sat, 26 Oct 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1662 Anthropic, AI, OpenAI, Cure Diseases, Live Twice as Long, Spread Democracy, Improve Climate Change full false A Modern Approach to App Modernization A Modern Approach to App Modernization Edward Hieatt (@edwardhieatt, Chief Customer Officer @mech_orchard) talks about the challenges of app modernization, leveraging AI, and the process to succeed from legacy to modern.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on Mechanical Orchard.

Topic 2 - Many of the MO team come from Pivotal (especially Pivotal Labs), as well as being involved with the Agile Manifesto, Extreme Programming, etc. How did the mission of the company get focus on modernizing existing applications?

Topic 3 - Modernization projects have traditionally been really costly, with a low success rate. Why is now the right time to focus on this area?

Topic 4 - I’m really interested in how MO technology works. It seems like a variation of a digital twin, mixed with some AI capabilities. Give us the big picture of how this is a different approach to modernization.

Topic 5 - How much culture/process change is needed with MO to be successful?

Topic 6 - What do the stages of success look like with your approach to application modernization?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on Mechanical Orchard.

Topic 2 - Many of the MO team come from Pivotal (especially Pivotal Labs), as well as being involved with the Agile Manifesto, Extreme Programming, etc. How did the mission of the company get focus on modernizing existing applications?

Topic 3 - Modernization projects have traditionally been really costly, with a low success rate. Why is now the right time to focus on this area?

Topic 4 - I’m really interested in how MO technology works. It seems like a variation of a digital twin, mixed with some AI capabilities. Give us the big picture of how this is a different approach to modernization.

Topic 5 - How much culture/process change is needed with MO to be successful?

Topic 6 - What do the stages of success look like with your approach to application modernization?

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THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

  • Different types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)
  • Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, Mixed
  • Different types of keynote context - New, Updates, 
  • Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/Panels
  • Other considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions. 

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THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

  • Different types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)
  • Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, Mixed
  • Different types of keynote context - New, Updates, 
  • Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/Panels
  • Other considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions. 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15954306 Sun, 20 Oct 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1777 full false Data Lakehouses & Apache Iceberg Data Lakehouses & Apache Iceberg Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we talked about Data Lakehouses, can you give us a little bit of background on this space, and what the most recent dynamics are around these technologies.

Topic 3 - What are the typical integrations with a Data Lakehouse? How are users/developers typically interacting with Data Lakehouse technologies? [The marketplace for Iceberg catalogs like Nessie and Polaris]

Topic 4 - How does an open data format like Apache Iceberg fit into the bigger picture of data lakehouses, or large scale stores of data?

Topic 5 - How does Dremio enable Iceberg? How does Dremio sit in the intersection of Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh and Data Virtualization trends all of which come from the same fundamental problem, the growing scale of data use cases.

Topic 6 -  We’ve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applications

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we talked about Data Lakehouses, can you give us a little bit of background on this space, and what the most recent dynamics are around these technologies.

Topic 3 - What are the typical integrations with a Data Lakehouse? How are users/developers typically interacting with Data Lakehouse technologies? [The marketplace for Iceberg catalogs like Nessie and Polaris]

Topic 4 - How does an open data format like Apache Iceberg fit into the bigger picture of data lakehouses, or large scale stores of data?

Topic 5 - How does Dremio enable Iceberg? How does Dremio sit in the intersection of Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh and Data Virtualization trends all of which come from the same fundamental problem, the growing scale of data use cases.

Topic 6 -  We’ve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applications

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15933091 Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1715 Alex Merced, Dremio, Apache Iceberg, Data Lakehouse, AI, Big Data, Data Mesh, Data Virtualization full false Will the real AI breakthrough come from Big AI? Will the real AI breakthrough come from Big AI? Are we sure that the next big thing in AI is going to come from OpenAI, or even one of the big cloud providers with $Billions to spend? History tells us that it might come from someone smaller. 

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WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?

  • Internet infrastructure (router) came from Cisco
  • Web Browser / Web Server came from Netscape
  • Mainstream Linux came from Red Hat
  • Social Media came from Twitter, Facebook
  • Cloud came from Amazon
  • Smart Phone came from Apple
  • AI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) 
  • What’s Similar? What’s Different?
  • Funding, Founders, Market Competitors


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WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?

  • Internet infrastructure (router) came from Cisco
  • Web Browser / Web Server came from Netscape
  • Mainstream Linux came from Red Hat
  • Social Media came from Twitter, Facebook
  • Cloud came from Amazon
  • Smart Phone came from Apple
  • AI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) 
  • What’s Similar? What’s Different?
  • Funding, Founders, Market Competitors


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15891295 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2023 AWS, Azure, Google, AI, LLMs, OpenAI, Cisco, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, NVIDIA, Netscape full false Influence Marketing in Emerging Tech Influence Marketing in Emerging Tech Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical products and marketing and the evolution of marketing to reach an increasingly technical audience including the rise of influence marketing.
 
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and start

Topic 3 - Is there a new blueprint being created for how to have conversations about new technologies, or helping people find useful information? [new media | influencers]

Topic 4 - Give us a sense of how crowded the markets are today, and why it’s so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about how projects get paid for - priorities, awareness, etc.

Topic 6 -  What does good and bad look like these days?

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]]> Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical products and marketing and the evolution of marketing to reach an increasingly technical audience including the rise of influence marketing.
 
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and start

Topic 3 - Is there a new blueprint being created for how to have conversations about new technologies, or helping people find useful information? [new media | influencers]

Topic 4 - Give us a sense of how crowded the markets are today, and why it’s so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about how projects get paid for - priorities, awareness, etc.

Topic 6 -  What does good and bad look like these days?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15896489 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:00:00 -0400 2011 Emily Freeman, Forrest Brazeal, Influencer Marketing, Tech Marketing, AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps, full false 5 AI Trends to Keep an Eye on 5 AI Trends to Keep an Eye on The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024. 

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5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

  1. Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?
  2. Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all models
  3. Does OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?
  4. Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?
  5. What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot? 
  6. What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #862 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:



5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

  1. Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?
  2. Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all models
  3. Does OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?
  4. Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?
  5. What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot? 
  6. What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15860420 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1382 LLM vs Database, SLM, LLM, SOTA Models, Frontier Models, NVIDIA GPUs, CoPilot, ChatGPT full false Cloud News of the Month - September 2024 Cloud News of the Month - September 2024 Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #861 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California’s AI Act gets a veto)
  • Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on 
  • Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #861 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California’s AI Act gets a veto)
  • Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on 
  • Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?

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]]> Buzzsprout-15853289 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2651 OpenAI, Google, AWS, Azure, Intel, NVIDIA, ARM, Meta, Docker, Qualcomm, Apple full false Tech Heroes and Imposters Tech Heroes and Imposters Do we put too much emphasis on the leaders of the tech industry and not enough on the millions that support it? 

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THE BIG NAMES GET A LOT OF ATTENTION

  • We talk a lot about how much CEOs make
  • We talk a lot about the CEOs creating/executing strategy (good or bad)
  • We talk a lot about “rockstars” (see: Workday “rockstars” commercials)

BUT DO THE REST OF US ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING OF ANY VALUE?

  • Do the rest of us live the Ricky Bobby life, “if you’re not first, you’re last!”
  • Should we feel bad when we advocate for ourselves, since that’s how the merit/raise system works? 
  • Should we be embarrassed 


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #860 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


THE BIG NAMES GET A LOT OF ATTENTION

  • We talk a lot about how much CEOs make
  • We talk a lot about the CEOs creating/executing strategy (good or bad)
  • We talk a lot about “rockstars” (see: Workday “rockstars” commercials)

BUT DO THE REST OF US ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING OF ANY VALUE?

  • Do the rest of us live the Ricky Bobby life, “if you’re not first, you’re last!”
  • Should we feel bad when we advocate for ourselves, since that’s how the merit/raise system works? 
  • Should we be embarrassed 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15832668 Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1521 LinkedIn, Imposter Syndrome, Heroes, Rockstars full false Modern Identity Verification and Threat Detection Modern Identity Verification and Threat Detection Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a little bit about your background with a quick introduction please.

Topic 2 - You cut your teeth at Square prior to Persona, what lessons did you learn there, and how did your experience there impact what you are doing at Persona?

Topic 3 - We are, of course, seeing an uptick in personal fraud in both our personal and professional lives through identity theft and personal information leaking into the world. If someone has all the proper information, how do you identify this as a false identity?

Topic 4 - How has AI impacted all of this? I would think with the power of GenAI tools, this industry has accelerated dramatically?

Topic 5 - Do we have another arms race on our hands to identify and protect both our personal and professional lives from fraud?

Topic 6 - Is Persona a 3rd party API similar in architecture to Stripe? If I’m an architect in an organization today and I want to get started, how would I do that?

Topic 7 - If there was one thing you wanted people to understand about this, what would it be?

Topic 8 - You have access to a lot of personal data, how is this data handled and secured?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #859 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a little bit about your background with a quick introduction please.

Topic 2 - You cut your teeth at Square prior to Persona, what lessons did you learn there, and how did your experience there impact what you are doing at Persona?

Topic 3 - We are, of course, seeing an uptick in personal fraud in both our personal and professional lives through identity theft and personal information leaking into the world. If someone has all the proper information, how do you identify this as a false identity?

Topic 4 - How has AI impacted all of this? I would think with the power of GenAI tools, this industry has accelerated dramatically?

Topic 5 - Do we have another arms race on our hands to identify and protect both our personal and professional lives from fraud?

Topic 6 - Is Persona a 3rd party API similar in architecture to Stripe? If I’m an architect in an organization today and I want to get started, how would I do that?

Topic 7 - If there was one thing you wanted people to understand about this, what would it be?

Topic 8 - You have access to a lot of personal data, how is this data handled and secured?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15810909 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1355 Rick Song, Persona, IDV, Threat Detection, Identity Verification, GenAI, 3rd-party API full false Will Amazon's new RTO policy reshape tech? Will Amazon's new RTO policy reshape tech? This past week, Amazon announced a new RTO policy that required 5 days a week in the office. What types of impacts could this have on tech workers and the tech industry? 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #858 Transcript

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IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

  • People have adapted their life to working from home
  • People have adapted their families to working from home
  • Daily commutes seem like a poor use of resources

IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

  • Being around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharing
  • RTO is more difficult on certain employee (especially care-giving women)
  • RTO is an effective way to reduce headcount without defined “layoffs”
  • RTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workers


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #858 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

  • People have adapted their life to working from home
  • People have adapted their families to working from home
  • Daily commutes seem like a poor use of resources

IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

  • Being around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharing
  • RTO is more difficult on certain employee (especially care-giving women)
  • RTO is an effective way to reduce headcount without defined “layoffs”
  • RTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workers


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15784065 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1318 Amazon, RTO, WFH, Andy Jassy, Tech Workers full false AI for the Legal industry AI for the Legal industry Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO @ Eve) talks about bringing AI to the legal vertical and the intersection of AI/ML of increased efficiency for legal firms.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #857 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I don’t think of legal. What are the most common use cases?

Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about the tech behind the scenes. Do you use foundational models and then fine-tune them? Do you have your own custom models? What are your thoughts on the current state and future of models for specific industries or verticals?

Topic 4 - Legal is a highly regulated space; how do your customers (law firms) think about data security and compliance? Tell everyone a bit about how all of this works.

Topic 5 - Do your clients use RAG for custom information that needs to be brought into the models? How does all of that work for customer data?

Topic 6 - When I think about legal, I think about two big areas. We covered compliance and the financial side of this, but what about the billing and financial side? How is ROI on legal AI calculated? Where and how does a legal AI help? Is this measured in hours saved, which translates into dollars saved?

Topic 7 - Let’s close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyone’s jobs away. What are your thoughts on how this supplements vs. replace staff?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #857 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I don’t think of legal. What are the most common use cases?

Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about the tech behind the scenes. Do you use foundational models and then fine-tune them? Do you have your own custom models? What are your thoughts on the current state and future of models for specific industries or verticals?

Topic 4 - Legal is a highly regulated space; how do your customers (law firms) think about data security and compliance? Tell everyone a bit about how all of this works.

Topic 5 - Do your clients use RAG for custom information that needs to be brought into the models? How does all of that work for customer data?

Topic 6 - When I think about legal, I think about two big areas. We covered compliance and the financial side of this, but what about the billing and financial side? How is ROI on legal AI calculated? Where and how does a legal AI help? Is this measured in hours saved, which translates into dollars saved?

Topic 7 - Let’s close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyone’s jobs away. What are your thoughts on how this supplements vs. replace staff?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15771688 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1519 AI, Eve, Legal, RAG, full false Understanding the Global differences around Enterprise Cloud Understanding the Global differences around Enterprise Cloud Back from some recent travel, we look at why it’s important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how global regions adopt technology. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #856 Transcript

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LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE US

  • Diffusion of information
  • Currency exchange
  • Government laws, embargoes, tariffs
  • Language and timezone differences
  • Local culture, norms, expectations


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #856 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE US

  • Diffusion of information
  • Currency exchange
  • Government laws, embargoes, tariffs
  • Language and timezone differences
  • Local culture, norms, expectations


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15755659 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1597 International Travel, Government Regulations, Local Customs, Currency Exchange, Information Diffusion full false Cloud News of the Month - August 2024 Cloud News of the Month - August 2024 Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #855 Transcript

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intel’s struggles?
  • Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?
  • Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?
  • Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if it’s offered to you.  

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #855 Transcript

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intel’s struggles?
  • Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?
  • Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?
  • Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if it’s offered to you.  

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15731780 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2613 Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Pat Gelsinger, Jensen Huang, AWS, Matt Garman, Andy Jassy, Cisco, Stock Market Expectations, AI Monetization full false Unstable Pillars for the Next Generation? Unstable Pillars for the Next Generation? The future of search advertising, the future of chips, the future of open source, AI monetization and government regulation of tech are all uncertain. What does that mean for the future?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #854 Transcript

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ARE CORE PILLARS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE?

  • Google and antitrust
  • Intel and chips
  • Open source and licensing
  • AI and monetization
  • Governments and regulation

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #854 Transcript

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ARE CORE PILLARS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE?

  • Google and antitrust
  • Intel and chips
  • Open source and licensing
  • AI and monetization
  • Governments and regulation

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15710840 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1219 Google, Intel, Open Source Software, Govt Regulation, AI Monetization, NVIDIA, OpenAI full false Understanding the Gartner perspective on Cloud (and more) Understanding the Gartner perspective on Cloud (and more) Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform engineering and IaC.

SHOW: 853

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into a broad set of topics today, give us a little bit about your background and what you focus on today.

Topic 2 - The hyperscalers have grown quite large over the last decade, but as we came out of COVID, many of their customers were concerned about the cost of cloud. Are we seeing a new rationalization coming around cloud costs and accountability of costs? 

Topic 3 - We’ve all read the headlines regarding changes to VMware by Broadcom. Alternatives to VMware would be big decisions for many companies. As a neutral independent, how are you framing your thinking about the VMware ecosystem and the decisions being made about the future of virtualization? 

Topic 4 - Over the last decade, we’ve seen so many new technologies. To get value from them, they require more cross-functional collaboration. These days we tend to call that Platform Engineering. How well do you see the evolution of people and processes being adopted, and how much more needs to happen?

Topic 5 - Behind the scenes of every transition over the past decade (Cloud, AI, Cloud-native) is the adoption of automation. This seems like a no-brainer, but actual adoption is lumpy across companies. What are some of the hard parts of automation that aren’t discussed enough? 


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]]> Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform engineering and IaC.

SHOW: 853

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into a broad set of topics today, give us a little bit about your background and what you focus on today.

Topic 2 - The hyperscalers have grown quite large over the last decade, but as we came out of COVID, many of their customers were concerned about the cost of cloud. Are we seeing a new rationalization coming around cloud costs and accountability of costs? 

Topic 3 - We’ve all read the headlines regarding changes to VMware by Broadcom. Alternatives to VMware would be big decisions for many companies. As a neutral independent, how are you framing your thinking about the VMware ecosystem and the decisions being made about the future of virtualization? 

Topic 4 - Over the last decade, we’ve seen so many new technologies. To get value from them, they require more cross-functional collaboration. These days we tend to call that Platform Engineering. How well do you see the evolution of people and processes being adopted, and how much more needs to happen?

Topic 5 - Behind the scenes of every transition over the past decade (Cloud, AI, Cloud-native) is the adoption of automation. This seems like a no-brainer, but actual adoption is lumpy across companies. What are some of the hard parts of automation that aren’t discussed enough? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15691075 Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2867 Paul Delory, Gartner, VMware, Broadcom, Cloud Computing, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Automation, IaC full false Slow Data, Fast Data and Adapting AI models for your business Slow Data, Fast Data and Adapting AI models for your business With so much rapid change happening around AI models, is there a framework for when to build models, train models, fine-tune models, use RAG or something else? Let’s explore…

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HOW SHOULD WE DECIDE WHICH AI MODEL TO USE FOR OUR APPLICATION?

  • Build, buy, use open source, augment with your own data - so many decisions
  • How often do you update models with new data? 

HOW DO WE BRING OUR COMPANY DATA / KNOWLEDGE TO OUR AI MODELS?

  • Large Static Models - Predictive AI
  • LLMs + Slow-Changing Data - Align the Model
  • LLMs + Fast-Changing Data - RAG
  • LLMs + Agent-Learned Data - Agentic AI

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SHOW: 852

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #852 Transcript

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SHOW SPONSOR:

SHOW NOTES:


HOW SHOULD WE DECIDE WHICH AI MODEL TO USE FOR OUR APPLICATION?

  • Build, buy, use open source, augment with your own data - so many decisions
  • How often do you update models with new data? 

HOW DO WE BRING OUR COMPANY DATA / KNOWLEDGE TO OUR AI MODELS?

  • Large Static Models - Predictive AI
  • LLMs + Slow-Changing Data - Align the Model
  • LLMs + Fast-Changing Data - RAG
  • LLMs + Agent-Learned Data - Agentic AI

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15674874 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1272 AI, RAG, LLMs, Agents, Agentic AI, Fine-Tuning, Alignment, Generative AI, Predictive AI full false How DevOps is helping to rethink the need for VPNs with Modern Security How DevOps is helping to rethink the need for VPNs with Modern Security Emrul Islam (Head of Platform Innovation @TwingateHQ) talks about the evolution of remote access, application security, and enabling DevOps teams to drive security transformation.  

SHOW: 851

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #851 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. 

Topic 2 - To properly solve cloud access & security pain points, companies need a tool that works for IT, DevOps, & Security teams

  • What are the challenges when trying to secure cloud access today?
  • What role do each of the stakeholders play in addressing these?
  • How much can technology really help address these challenges?

Topic 3 - How is Twingate architected differently to address these new challenges?

  • How do existing systems work?
  • What sort of architecture is required?

Topic 4 - Why is it a struggle to get these teams aligned on the right solution

  • Is there a disconnect between competing requirements and security?

Topic 5 - What is the opportunity for Devops teams to influence remote access and security architecture?

  • Why automate security?
  • How much can be automated?


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SHOW: 851

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #851 Transcript

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. 

Topic 2 - To properly solve cloud access & security pain points, companies need a tool that works for IT, DevOps, & Security teams

  • What are the challenges when trying to secure cloud access today?
  • What role do each of the stakeholders play in addressing these?
  • How much can technology really help address these challenges?

Topic 3 - How is Twingate architected differently to address these new challenges?

  • How do existing systems work?
  • What sort of architecture is required?

Topic 4 - Why is it a struggle to get these teams aligned on the right solution

  • Is there a disconnect between competing requirements and security?

Topic 5 - What is the opportunity for Devops teams to influence remote access and security architecture?

  • Why automate security?
  • How much can be automated?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15654162 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2061 Twingate, VPN, Remote Access, DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, Security, Networking full false From Kingmakers to co-pilots, what's the future for developers? From Kingmakers to co-pilots, what's the future for developers? Is the market shifting from evaluating software as an economic driver to re-evaluating the cost of software in the context of how AI can improve, augment or replace developers? 

SHOW: 850

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THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)

  • The value of the developer exploded over the last decade
  • Software has reshaped most industries over the last decade

WE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERS

  • Code assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenue
  • Do we have developer “productivity” or “creativity”?
  • Does AI have more impact on legacy code or new code?
  • How does the role of Junior vs. Senior developer change?
  • What happens to System Integrators? 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #850 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)

  • The value of the developer exploded over the last decade
  • Software has reshaped most industries over the last decade

WE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERS

  • Code assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenue
  • Do we have developer “productivity” or “creativity”?
  • Does AI have more impact on legacy code or new code?
  • How does the role of Junior vs. Senior developer change?
  • What happens to System Integrators? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15636082 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1891 Developers, Software, Economy, Kingmakers, AI, Co-Pilot, Augment, Lo-Code, AWS full false The Scale of Cloud Networking The Scale of Cloud Networking Vinay Tripathi (Senior Member of IEEE,  Production Network Engineer @Google) talks about the evolution of backbone networks for the Cloud and Internet, future technologies and career opportunities. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #849 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into cloud networking, let’s talk a little bit about your background and some of the areas you focus on today.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with something big - the anatomy of cloud backbone networks. What is the makeup of a typical cloud backbone network?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique challenges and solutions that you need to think about in terms of scaling, reliability, securing, and maintaining these massive networks, along with the innovative solutions being implemented

Topic 4 - Looking forward, what are some of the emerging trends like intent driven networks, software defined global WAN, and the impact of AI/ML on cloud backbone infrastructure.

Topic 5 - Some people in the networking industry are concerned about the future of network engineers. Career Paths in Cloud Networking: skills and knowledge required for a successful career in this field, along with potential career paths.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into cloud networking, let’s talk a little bit about your background and some of the areas you focus on today.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with something big - the anatomy of cloud backbone networks. What is the makeup of a typical cloud backbone network?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique challenges and solutions that you need to think about in terms of scaling, reliability, securing, and maintaining these massive networks, along with the innovative solutions being implemented

Topic 4 - Looking forward, what are some of the emerging trends like intent driven networks, software defined global WAN, and the impact of AI/ML on cloud backbone infrastructure.

Topic 5 - Some people in the networking industry are concerned about the future of network engineers. Career Paths in Cloud Networking: skills and knowledge required for a successful career in this field, along with potential career paths.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15602084 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2096 Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, Networking, Backbone, Edge, Vinay Tripathi, IEEE, Juniper, Cisco, Automation full false Reflections on the Cloud Evolution - with a special guest Reflections on the Cloud Evolution - with a special guest The summer lull has us reflecting on how the evolution of cloud computing has shaped the existing era that’s trying to figure out AI. With a special guest introduction. 

SHOW: 848

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #848 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST LEADING OFF THE SHOW - AFTER 13 YEARS

WHAT PARTS OF THE CLOUD EVOLUTION HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR TODAY?

  1. [BAD] Shadow IT set Enterprise IT back 5-10 years, with the same responsibilities
  2. [GOOD] Technology experimentation has become the norm, from technologists to business leaders. 
  3. [BAD] We still don’t really know how to measure the cost or return (ROI) of technology spending.
  4. [GOOD] We have a new appreciation for the power of software and software development to change businesses and markets.
  5. [BAD] But we still haven’t figured how to normalize great software development
  6. [GOOD] Open source communities (e.g. CNCF, etc.) provided a blueprint for bringing new innovation to the marketplace
  7. [BAD] We saw how long it took for Cloud to be disruptive, but now that valuations are so high, we haven’t learned patience for new disruptions.
  8. [GOOD] The “cloud” way of doing things has laid the foundation for what might/will come next. 


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #848 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST LEADING OFF THE SHOW - AFTER 13 YEARS

WHAT PARTS OF THE CLOUD EVOLUTION HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR TODAY?

  1. [BAD] Shadow IT set Enterprise IT back 5-10 years, with the same responsibilities
  2. [GOOD] Technology experimentation has become the norm, from technologists to business leaders. 
  3. [BAD] We still don’t really know how to measure the cost or return (ROI) of technology spending.
  4. [GOOD] We have a new appreciation for the power of software and software development to change businesses and markets.
  5. [BAD] But we still haven’t figured how to normalize great software development
  6. [GOOD] Open source communities (e.g. CNCF, etc.) provided a blueprint for bringing new innovation to the marketplace
  7. [BAD] We saw how long it took for Cloud to be disruptive, but now that valuations are so high, we haven’t learned patience for new disruptions.
  8. [GOOD] The “cloud” way of doing things has laid the foundation for what might/will come next. 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15599036 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1336 Cloud Computing, AI, CNCF, Open Source, DevOps, Shadow IT, Enterprise IT, Cloud Costs, Software, Software Development full false Data Center Buildouts for AI Data Center Buildouts for AI Scott Jarnagin (Founder/CEO of Caddis Cloud Solutions (Caddis Cloud Solutions)) talks about the challenges of building modern data centers to handle the growing demands of AI.

SHOW: 847

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #847 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Caddis Cloud, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start  the company.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by looking at the bigger picture intersection of today’s data centers and the growing demand for AI capabilities. How much of a change will current data centers have to go through to be able to support AI at any sort of scale?

Topic 3 - How are cloud providers, hosting companies and enterprises evolving to meet the increased demands driven by AI and other high-intensity computing processes?

Topic 4 - How would you typically advise an enterprise to think about matching the AI needs to the current and future capabilities of the market? How do they make sure their AI plans aren’t going to get sidetracked with the wrong datacenter/cloud choice?

Topic 5 - Are there elements of government development/involvement for datacenter expansion that companies should be aware of as they make future plans around AI?

Topic 6 - How frameworks does Caddis Cloud typically use to help guide companies that are looking at near-term and long-term data center plans

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SHOW: 847

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #847 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Caddis Cloud, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start  the company.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by looking at the bigger picture intersection of today’s data centers and the growing demand for AI capabilities. How much of a change will current data centers have to go through to be able to support AI at any sort of scale?

Topic 3 - How are cloud providers, hosting companies and enterprises evolving to meet the increased demands driven by AI and other high-intensity computing processes?

Topic 4 - How would you typically advise an enterprise to think about matching the AI needs to the current and future capabilities of the market? How do they make sure their AI plans aren’t going to get sidetracked with the wrong datacenter/cloud choice?

Topic 5 - Are there elements of government development/involvement for datacenter expansion that companies should be aware of as they make future plans around AI?

Topic 6 - How frameworks does Caddis Cloud typically use to help guide companies that are looking at near-term and long-term data center plans

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15581556 Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:00:00 -0400 1785 Scott Jarnagin, Caddis Cloud Solutions, AI, Data Centers, Nuclear, Capacity Planning, Government Regulations, AI Cloud Providers, GPUs full false 5 Storylines that will shape Cloud and AI in 2H 2024 5 Storylines that will shape Cloud and AI in 2H 2024 They may not be major stories, but these 5 headlines will play an important role in how AI and the Cloud evolve in the 2H of 2024. 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #846 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


THE ECONOMY WILL BE THE STORY OF 2H 2024 DUE TO THE US ELECTIONS

BUT WILL ANY OF THESE OTHER STORIES GET THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE?

  1. Are VCs going to be out on AI startups?
  2. Will tech antitrust discussions become prominent in the US elections? 
  3. When will we start seeing all the early-2024 AI demos turn into reality?
  4. How much are the hyperscale cloud earnings boosted by AI spend vs. usage?
  5. Will any alternatives to VMware start to show progress in displacing the virtualization leader?


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]]> They may not be major stories, but these 5 headlines will play an important role in how AI and the Cloud evolve in the 2H of 2024. 

SHOW: 846

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #846 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


THE ECONOMY WILL BE THE STORY OF 2H 2024 DUE TO THE US ELECTIONS

BUT WILL ANY OF THESE OTHER STORIES GET THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE?

  1. Are VCs going to be out on AI startups?
  2. Will tech antitrust discussions become prominent in the US elections? 
  3. When will we start seeing all the early-2024 AI demos turn into reality?
  4. How much are the hyperscale cloud earnings boosted by AI spend vs. usage?
  5. Will any alternatives to VMware start to show progress in displacing the virtualization leader?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15562907 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1267 AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, VC Funding, AI, Cloud, Antitrust, US Elections, AI Spending, AI Usage full false Cloud News of the Month - July 2024 Cloud News of the Month - July 2024 Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Aaron Delp (@aarondelp)  and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2024.

SHOW: 845

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #845 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES: 

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - What do you tend to do (at work, or outside work) when things seem overly bad in lots of areas? 
  • Trend 2 - Are people starting to feel like AI is more sizzle (hype) than steak (reality)?
  • Trend 3 - As you’re looking at 2HCY24 now, with all the things that happened in July, are you expecting anything new/different than you thought a couple months ago? 
  • Trend 4 - Are we likely to be in “wait and see” mode for the rest of the year, with all the political uncertainty?  


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SHOW: 845

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #845 Transcript

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES: 

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - What do you tend to do (at work, or outside work) when things seem overly bad in lots of areas? 
  • Trend 2 - Are people starting to feel like AI is more sizzle (hype) than steak (reality)?
  • Trend 3 - As you’re looking at 2HCY24 now, with all the things that happened in July, are you expecting anything new/different than you thought a couple months ago? 
  • Trend 4 - Are we likely to be in “wait and see” mode for the rest of the year, with all the political uncertainty?  


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15541396 Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2510 Intel, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Crowdstrike, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, AI, Cloud, Layoffs full false Technology and Politics Collide Technology and Politics Collide For many years, Silicon Valley was considered to be somewhat apolitical. But the last decade has changed the relationship with governments. What’s causing the changes? 

SHOW: 844

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #844 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


SHOW NOTES:

TECHNOLOGY IS A CRITICAL DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

  • VCs are becoming more visible and vocal in their political agendas
  • Billionaires have the wealth, power and influence of nation states
  • European and APAC tech policy are more defined than US

DOES GROWTH ALLOW YOU TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY OR ACCOUNTABILITY?

  • Has there been an “unwritten” agreement between WashDC and Silicon Valley?
  • Crypto is not just another technology
  • Issues: Antitrust, Taxes, Future of AI, etc.


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SHOW SPONSOR:


SHOW NOTES:


SHOW NOTES:

TECHNOLOGY IS A CRITICAL DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

  • VCs are becoming more visible and vocal in their political agendas
  • Billionaires have the wealth, power and influence of nation states
  • European and APAC tech policy are more defined than US

DOES GROWTH ALLOW YOU TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY OR ACCOUNTABILITY?

  • Has there been an “unwritten” agreement between WashDC and Silicon Valley?
  • Crypto is not just another technology
  • Issues: Antitrust, Taxes, Future of AI, etc.


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15525829 Sun, 04 Aug 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1068 Silicon Valley, US Govt, Washington DC, Venture Capital, Taxes, Crypto, Bitcoin, Unrealized Capital Gains, AI Policy full false The Evolution of Data Platforms The Evolution of Data Platforms Jeff Denworth, (@JeffDenworth, Co-Founder of @VAST_Data) talks about building data platforms for new AI application demands.

SHOW: 843

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #843 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into VAST Data, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start  the company.

Topic 2 - As we talk about datacenter or cloud architectures, right now GPUs are king. This is causing a complete rethinking of data center architectures. But what is this doing to the storage side of the equation?

Topic 3 - To a certain extent (in the context of AI), GPUs are this massive change from CPUs in that cost almost isn’t considered because of the great fear of falling behind in AI model building/usage. But storage has always been a performance+price discussion. Does that discussion still exist when companies must choose all-flash storage to keep up with GPU IO demands?

Topic 4 - We’ve obviously seen a lot of new innovation around GenAI models over the last couple years, but what have you seen from Enterprise companies in terms of real adoption, AI use-cases, etc?

Topic 5 - How are you finding Enterprise companies balancing the current requirements around infrastructure modernization (maybe driven by new VMware licensing, etc.) with AI demands?

Topic 6 - Do you find that data platform teams are having to make many adjustments to their environments or skills, especially since all-flash technology has been around for at least a decade?

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]]> Jeff Denworth, (@JeffDenworth, Co-Founder of @VAST_Data) talks about building data platforms for new AI application demands.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #843 Transcript

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SHOW SPONSOR:


SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into VAST Data, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start  the company.

Topic 2 - As we talk about datacenter or cloud architectures, right now GPUs are king. This is causing a complete rethinking of data center architectures. But what is this doing to the storage side of the equation?

Topic 3 - To a certain extent (in the context of AI), GPUs are this massive change from CPUs in that cost almost isn’t considered because of the great fear of falling behind in AI model building/usage. But storage has always been a performance+price discussion. Does that discussion still exist when companies must choose all-flash storage to keep up with GPU IO demands?

Topic 4 - We’ve obviously seen a lot of new innovation around GenAI models over the last couple years, but what have you seen from Enterprise companies in terms of real adoption, AI use-cases, etc?

Topic 5 - How are you finding Enterprise companies balancing the current requirements around infrastructure modernization (maybe driven by new VMware licensing, etc.) with AI demands?

Topic 6 - Do you find that data platform teams are having to make many adjustments to their environments or skills, especially since all-flash technology has been around for at least a decade?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15500955 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2302 Jeff Denworth, VAST Data, AI, Data Platforms, GPU IO Demand full false Forgetting the Fundamentals of High Availability Forgetting the Fundamentals of High Availability If this past week’s Crowdstrike outage taught us anything, it’s that we seem to have forgotten the basics of how to run highly available environments. But what other critical skills are deteriorating? 

SHOW: 842

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WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

  • Systems are more interconnected and more critical
  • Companies under-staff critical operations
  • Developers are the new kingmakers, but where are all the kings?

PEOPLE DON’T IGNORE STABLE FOUNDATIONS, THEY FORGET ABOUT THEM

  • Not enough people have home labs, or go after certifications
  • The industry highlights the content creators, instead of the builders/fixers
  • There might be an opportunity to restart a focus on foundational skills


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SHOW: 842

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #842 Transcript

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW SPONSOR:

SHOW NOTES:

WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

  • Systems are more interconnected and more critical
  • Companies under-staff critical operations
  • Developers are the new kingmakers, but where are all the kings?

PEOPLE DON’T IGNORE STABLE FOUNDATIONS, THEY FORGET ABOUT THEM

  • Not enough people have home labs, or go after certifications
  • The industry highlights the content creators, instead of the builders/fixers
  • There might be an opportunity to restart a focus on foundational skills


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15484342 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1386 Crowdstrike, High Availability, Networking, Storage, Certifications, Foundational Skills full false Enabling Voice AI in Applications Enabling Voice AI in Applications Scott Stephenson (@deepgramscott, CEO of @deepgram) talks about building Voice AI into your applications.

SHOW: 841

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Deepgram and Voice AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. Many of us have interacted with voice technologies, from Siri to Alexa to various call-center “agents”. From a maturity perspective, where are we in terms of voice-centric interactions with computing systems?

Topic 3 - When businesses think about including computer-aided voice-centric interactions to their applications, what’s the typical thought process for where it makes sense to the business, how it represents their brand, etc.?

Topic 4 - How does Deepgram bring Voice AI to applications? What do developers have to think about when adding Voice AI to an existing application, or to think about building a voice-centric application from the start?

Topic 5 - What are some of the most common use-cases when Voice AI adds new value to the application? What areas are starting to push the edges of possible?

Topic 6 - How do companies usually go about collecting user-feedback about the voice-centric interactions?

Topic 7 - If you look forward a year or two, where do you see Voice AI types of technologies evolving?

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SHOW: 841

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #841 Transcript

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Deepgram and Voice AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. Many of us have interacted with voice technologies, from Siri to Alexa to various call-center “agents”. From a maturity perspective, where are we in terms of voice-centric interactions with computing systems?

Topic 3 - When businesses think about including computer-aided voice-centric interactions to their applications, what’s the typical thought process for where it makes sense to the business, how it represents their brand, etc.?

Topic 4 - How does Deepgram bring Voice AI to applications? What do developers have to think about when adding Voice AI to an existing application, or to think about building a voice-centric application from the start?

Topic 5 - What are some of the most common use-cases when Voice AI adds new value to the application? What areas are starting to push the edges of possible?

Topic 6 - How do companies usually go about collecting user-feedback about the voice-centric interactions?

Topic 7 - If you look forward a year or two, where do you see Voice AI types of technologies evolving?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15463692 Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2178 Deepgram, Voice, Voice AI, GenAI, AI, Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, Scott Stephenson full false Overcoming the Hurdles of Deploying Platforms Overcoming the Hurdles of Deploying Platforms Modern applications require modern platforms and team collaboration to deliver velocity, stability and security. So how do we overcome the hurdles to making platform adoption work? 

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WHY DO PLATFORMS MAKE SENSE FOR MODERN APPLICATIONS?

  • Reduce the cognitive load on application teams
  • Deliver self-service capabilities where it makes sense
  • Deliver consistent services across teams, with efficient operations
  • Reduce costs, reduce snowflakes, etc.

WHAT ARE THE PLATFORM HURDLES, AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM?

  • The jump from initial projects to scalable delivery across apps and teams
  • Application teams wanting snowflake environments
  • Buying and budgeting centers not aligning to platform delivery
  • Getting application team buy-in to platform services
  • Getting cross-functional team alignment and coordination
  • Balancing stability and pace of innovation

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]]> Modern applications require modern platforms and team collaboration to deliver velocity, stability and security. So how do we overcome the hurdles to making platform adoption work? 

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WHY DO PLATFORMS MAKE SENSE FOR MODERN APPLICATIONS?

  • Reduce the cognitive load on application teams
  • Deliver self-service capabilities where it makes sense
  • Deliver consistent services across teams, with efficient operations
  • Reduce costs, reduce snowflakes, etc.

WHAT ARE THE PLATFORM HURDLES, AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM?

  • The jump from initial projects to scalable delivery across apps and teams
  • Application teams wanting snowflake environments
  • Buying and budgeting centers not aligning to platform delivery
  • Getting application team buy-in to platform services
  • Getting cross-functional team alignment and coordination
  • Balancing stability and pace of innovation

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15432003 Sun, 21 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1665 DevOps, Platforms, Platform Engineering, AppDev, DevSecOps, PaaS, IaaS, MLOps full false The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag 2024 has been evolving very quickly for Cloud and AI. So as we get to the mid-year point, we stop and answer many of your mailbag questions. 

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MAILBAG QUESTIONS:

Topic 1 - At this stage of the GenAI era, obviously the “picks and shovels” are winning (e.g. NVIDIA). But beyond that, are there obvious winners and losers, or areas that look more promising?

Topic 2 - In the near-term or long-term, do you think there will be big differentiation in the LLM models, or do they eventually commoditized?

Topic 3 - There is some talk that Amazon (&/or) AWS are behind in GenAI, but obviously they are ahead with cloud. Do you think GenAI offerings will be enough to get companies to move clouds, or will it just be another cloud workload and companies already use multiple clouds?

Topic 4 - Do you have any thoughts about how GenAI (or any AI) will impact IT architectural thinking over the next couple of years?

Topic 5 - Do you think the recent rounds of layoffs, or slow downs in hiring, will have a big impact on IT organizations?

Topic 6 - What happens if GenAI doesn’t turn out to be as successful as so many people are forecasting? What happens to all the other potential technology innovations while that plays out?

Topic 7 - If you were advising someone on a tech career choice in 2024, what type of guidance would you give someone?

Topic 8 - DevOps had a long run as “the IT cultural change” for a while. Do you see any of the other tech/culture trends starting to get more popular (FinOps, Platform Engineering, MLOps, etc.)?

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]]> 2024 has been evolving very quickly for Cloud and AI. So as we get to the mid-year point, we stop and answer many of your mailbag questions. 

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MAILBAG QUESTIONS:

Topic 1 - At this stage of the GenAI era, obviously the “picks and shovels” are winning (e.g. NVIDIA). But beyond that, are there obvious winners and losers, or areas that look more promising?

Topic 2 - In the near-term or long-term, do you think there will be big differentiation in the LLM models, or do they eventually commoditized?

Topic 3 - There is some talk that Amazon (&/or) AWS are behind in GenAI, but obviously they are ahead with cloud. Do you think GenAI offerings will be enough to get companies to move clouds, or will it just be another cloud workload and companies already use multiple clouds?

Topic 4 - Do you have any thoughts about how GenAI (or any AI) will impact IT architectural thinking over the next couple of years?

Topic 5 - Do you think the recent rounds of layoffs, or slow downs in hiring, will have a big impact on IT organizations?

Topic 6 - What happens if GenAI doesn’t turn out to be as successful as so many people are forecasting? What happens to all the other potential technology innovations while that plays out?

Topic 7 - If you were advising someone on a tech career choice in 2024, what type of guidance would you give someone?

Topic 8 - DevOps had a long run as “the IT cultural change” for a while. Do you see any of the other tech/culture trends starting to get more popular (FinOps, Platform Engineering, MLOps, etc.)?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15426505 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2543 AWS, Azure, GCP, GenAI, DevOps, FinOps, NVIDIA, IT Skills full false Is there a Market for Private Cloud AI? Is there a Market for Private Cloud AI? Since the GenAI era took off, most of the discussion has been about AI in the public cloud. But is there a market for AI in the Private Cloud as well? 

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DATA GRAVITY AND BUSINESS CONCERNS ABOUT GEN AI

  • Most large companies keep their data on-premises
  • Companies are concerned about mixing their data with public LLMs
  • Companies are unsure about hallucinations and their quality of their offerings

WHAT WILL THE ENTERPRISE MEASURE FOR GEN AI SUCCESS?

  • Some GenAI projects will measure replacement activities (e.g. chatbots for call centers)
  • The enterprise hasn’t established a baseline for acceptable incorrect information yet
  • Enterprises may use the public cloud GPUs to train or tune private models
  • Enterprises will large the consumer market in usage of GenAI - need to identify use-cases

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]]> Since the GenAI era took off, most of the discussion has been about AI in the public cloud. But is there a market for AI in the Private Cloud as well? 

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DATA GRAVITY AND BUSINESS CONCERNS ABOUT GEN AI

  • Most large companies keep their data on-premises
  • Companies are concerned about mixing their data with public LLMs
  • Companies are unsure about hallucinations and their quality of their offerings

WHAT WILL THE ENTERPRISE MEASURE FOR GEN AI SUCCESS?

  • Some GenAI projects will measure replacement activities (e.g. chatbots for call centers)
  • The enterprise hasn’t established a baseline for acceptable incorrect information yet
  • Enterprises may use the public cloud GPUs to train or tune private models
  • Enterprises will large the consumer market in usage of GenAI - need to identify use-cases

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15399967 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1520 GenAI, AI, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, GPUs, AI Factory, Hardware Acceleration, On-Prem, Customer Data, Enterprise, Private AI full false Scaling Apple Apps with MacStadium Scaling Apple Apps with MacStadium Chris Chapman (CTO at @MacStadium) talks about Mac-centric backend development, DevOps tools chains, and the best ways to take advantage of MacStadium.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into all things MacStadium, give us a little bit of your background, as well as some of your focus areas as CTO of MacStadium

Topic 2 - Everybody I know has an iPhone, and so many people use a Mac (or iPad) as their daily computing device. Help us understand the breadth of companies that use Macs for the backend of their application environments? 

Topic 3 - We spend a lot of time focusing on DevOps and the things people do to run cloud environments. Honestly, it’s a mess of all sorts of tools. Apple has always made the complex seem simple. What does Mac-centric DevOps look like? 

Topic 4 - We know (mostly) where cloud-provider responsibilities stop and customer-responsibilities start in places like AWS. Does that change much in MacStadium?

Topic 5 - You are/were the creator of Orka, virtualization for Macs. Walk us through the basics of how that works, and it seems like it would be extremely powerful when looking at CI pipelines.

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways that companies take advantage of MacStadium?

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]]> Chris Chapman (CTO at @MacStadium) talks about Mac-centric backend development, DevOps tools chains, and the best ways to take advantage of MacStadium.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into all things MacStadium, give us a little bit of your background, as well as some of your focus areas as CTO of MacStadium

Topic 2 - Everybody I know has an iPhone, and so many people use a Mac (or iPad) as their daily computing device. Help us understand the breadth of companies that use Macs for the backend of their application environments? 

Topic 3 - We spend a lot of time focusing on DevOps and the things people do to run cloud environments. Honestly, it’s a mess of all sorts of tools. Apple has always made the complex seem simple. What does Mac-centric DevOps look like? 

Topic 4 - We know (mostly) where cloud-provider responsibilities stop and customer-responsibilities start in places like AWS. Does that change much in MacStadium?

Topic 5 - You are/were the creator of Orka, virtualization for Macs. Walk us through the basics of how that works, and it seems like it would be extremely powerful when looking at CI pipelines.

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways that companies take advantage of MacStadium?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15388851 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1702 Chris Chapman, Apple, iOS, MacOS, MacStadium, DevOps, Virtualization, Orka, CI/CD full false The Challenges of Maintaining Freedoms The Challenges of Maintaining Freedoms In technology, we’re afforded many freedoms that enable us to work, live and play in new ways. But it’s important to reflect on technology freedoms and how they might change in the future.  

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TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES US WITH A LOT OF FREEDOMS

  • Freedom of jobs, of location, or company or group to work with
  • Freedom of technology choices
  • Freedom to choose when to use technology vs. human skills

BUT THE FREEDOMS DON’T ALWAYS COME WITHOUT A PRICE

  • Companies get acquired and technologies go away/discontinued
  • Technologies stop being supported
  • Technologies might get too expensive to continue to use
  • Laws might change how/what technologies can be used
  • Some services are free, in exchange for your data

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TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES US WITH A LOT OF FREEDOMS

  • Freedom of jobs, of location, or company or group to work with
  • Freedom of technology choices
  • Freedom to choose when to use technology vs. human skills

BUT THE FREEDOMS DON’T ALWAYS COME WITHOUT A PRICE

  • Companies get acquired and technologies go away/discontinued
  • Technologies stop being supported
  • Technologies might get too expensive to continue to use
  • Laws might change how/what technologies can be used
  • Some services are free, in exchange for your data

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15371067 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1115 Freedom, WFH, Job Choice, Open Source, Open Standards, Open APIs, Proprietary, Lock-In, Laws full false Cloud News of the Month - June 2024 Cloud News of the Month - June 2024 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss stories in Cloud and AI from June 2024, and then get into spirited discussions about RTO and Tech Exec poaching. 

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - Will the AI boom take a summer vacation?
  • Trend 2 - Have AI expectations set up Enterprise CIOs for a rude awakening?
  • Trend 3 - We’re at the mid-year point. All the cloud providers are focusing on AI. Do you expect that we’ll see a long period of stalled cloud innovation, or do you expect any interesting moves in the 2nd half of the year? 
  • Trend 4 - The big tech companies are now all sitting on record-setting market capitalizations. Do you expect any of them to go on an acquisition spree? 

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SHOW NOTES: 

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - Will the AI boom take a summer vacation?
  • Trend 2 - Have AI expectations set up Enterprise CIOs for a rude awakening?
  • Trend 3 - We’re at the mid-year point. All the cloud providers are focusing on AI. Do you expect that we’ll see a long period of stalled cloud innovation, or do you expect any interesting moves in the 2nd half of the year? 
  • Trend 4 - The big tech companies are now all sitting on record-setting market capitalizations. Do you expect any of them to go on an acquisition spree? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15325930 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:00:00 -0400 3033 Brandon Whichard, AI, Cloud, AWS, Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Apple, RTO, WFH full false Identifying Successful Open Source Projects Identifying Successful Open Source Projects As open source companies and projects enter a transition phase of funding, licensing, community participation, let’s look at the characteristics of successful open source projects. 

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WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN OPEN SOURCE?

  • There are 1000s of widely used open source projects, from Linux to Java to MySQL to Docker to Kubernetes to MongoDB
  • Less projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business models
  • Plenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development model

WHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?

  • Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack
  • Complex projects vs. “it just works”
  • Critical security - Vault
  • Complex data services - MongoDB, Kafka
  • Many companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, Kubernetes
  • Management / Observability Engines - Crossplane, Prometheus
  • Programming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.
  • Cloud services hiding complexity
  • Cloud services stretching across clouds
  • Single vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensing
  • Single vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scale

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WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN OPEN SOURCE?

  • There are 1000s of widely used open source projects, from Linux to Java to MySQL to Docker to Kubernetes to MongoDB
  • Less projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business models
  • Plenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development model

WHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?

  • Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack
  • Complex projects vs. “it just works”
  • Critical security - Vault
  • Complex data services - MongoDB, Kafka
  • Many companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, Kubernetes
  • Management / Observability Engines - Crossplane, Prometheus
  • Programming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.
  • Cloud services hiding complexity
  • Cloud services stretching across clouds
  • Single vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensing
  • Single vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scale

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15334936 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1957 Open Source, Projects, Profitability, Business Model, SaaS, Support, Open Core full false WASM, Developer Experiences and Kubernetes WASM, Developer Experiences and Kubernetes Matt Butcher (@technosophos, CEO at @FermyonTech) talks about the evolution of WASM, the relationship with Kubernetes, and managing Developer Experiences with platforms.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been a couple of years since the last time you were on. Great to have you back. For anyone that didn’t listen to that show, or doesn’t know you, give us a quick update on your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the Web Assembly community and the work around the open source project. Where does it stand today, what are the main focus areas?

Topic 3 - Fermyon delivers WASM as a PaaS platform and is focused on “serverless” delivery for applications. You’ve got a background in PaaS; what lessons have we learned about PaaS and what’s changed over the years?

Topic 4 - A couple years ago, Web Assembly (WASM) was on the short-list of “Hot” topics at KubeCon, even though it just launched. Fast forward to 2024, and it feels like it’s hard to get visibility on anything that isn’t called AI. How is WASM navigating the CNCF communities these days?

Topic 5 - WASM has an interesting relationship with Kubernetes. How do you think about the relationship? What do people get right, and what do they keep getting wrong?

Topic 6 - What are some of the interesting use-cases people are using WASM for thess days?

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]]> Matt Butcher (@technosophos, CEO at @FermyonTech) talks about the evolution of WASM, the relationship with Kubernetes, and managing Developer Experiences with platforms.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been a couple of years since the last time you were on. Great to have you back. For anyone that didn’t listen to that show, or doesn’t know you, give us a quick update on your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the Web Assembly community and the work around the open source project. Where does it stand today, what are the main focus areas?

Topic 3 - Fermyon delivers WASM as a PaaS platform and is focused on “serverless” delivery for applications. You’ve got a background in PaaS; what lessons have we learned about PaaS and what’s changed over the years?

Topic 4 - A couple years ago, Web Assembly (WASM) was on the short-list of “Hot” topics at KubeCon, even though it just launched. Fast forward to 2024, and it feels like it’s hard to get visibility on anything that isn’t called AI. How is WASM navigating the CNCF communities these days?

Topic 5 - WASM has an interesting relationship with Kubernetes. How do you think about the relationship? What do people get right, and what do they keep getting wrong?

Topic 6 - What are some of the interesting use-cases people are using WASM for thess days?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15313537 Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2713 WASM, Fermyon, Kubernetes, PaaS, Developer Experience, Serverless, Matt Butcher full false DevSecFinPlatMLOps DevSecFinPlatMLOps As we look at the continued expansion of the CNCF Landscape and the end of Cloud 1.0 era, are there any trends or patterns that identify which technology or categories will succeed vs fail? 

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CAN TECHNOLOGY OVERCOME OUR DESIRE TO NOT COLLABORATE?

  • Should technology cross functional areas? 
  • Can technology be successful when crossing functional areas? 

CAN CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SUCCEED? 

  • Service Mesh
  • PaaS / Developer Portals
  • GitOps
  • FinOps
  • XX as code

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CAN TECHNOLOGY OVERCOME OUR DESIRE TO NOT COLLABORATE?

  • Should technology cross functional areas? 
  • Can technology be successful when crossing functional areas? 

CAN CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SUCCEED? 

  • Service Mesh
  • PaaS / Developer Portals
  • GitOps
  • FinOps
  • XX as code

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15294203 Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1629 Cloud, AI, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, DevSecOps, PaaS, GitOps, FinOps, MLOps, Service Mesh full false Zapier + AI integration Zapier + AI integration Reid Robinson (@Reidoutloud_, Lead AI Product Manager @Zapier)  talks about automation, application integrations and how to integrate AI in projects with Zapier

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Reid. Before we get started, tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Zapier.

Topic 2 - Lots of individuals and companies use Zapier for a wide variety of automated tasks and application integrations. Recently, the company has added a number of ways to integrate AI into those workflows. At a high-level, how did you go about thinking about adding AI into the platform?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common AI usage-patterns and integrations that you’re seeing companies build around?

Topic 4 - As Zapier began to integrate with OpenAI (or any 3rd-party LLM), how did you think about it as a source of integration? What did you have to think about regarding filtering, security and hallucinations with ChatGPT?

Topic 5 - We often hear discussions about AI agents interacting with other AI agents to complete tasks, or evolve the outputs of multi-step, complex tasks. Is that an area where we might expect to see things like the new Zapier AI tools playing a role?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started building AI apps around these new integrations and tools?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Reid. Before we get started, tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Zapier.

Topic 2 - Lots of individuals and companies use Zapier for a wide variety of automated tasks and application integrations. Recently, the company has added a number of ways to integrate AI into those workflows. At a high-level, how did you go about thinking about adding AI into the platform?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common AI usage-patterns and integrations that you’re seeing companies build around?

Topic 4 - As Zapier began to integrate with OpenAI (or any 3rd-party LLM), how did you think about it as a source of integration? What did you have to think about regarding filtering, security and hallucinations with ChatGPT?

Topic 5 - We often hear discussions about AI agents interacting with other AI agents to complete tasks, or evolve the outputs of multi-step, complex tasks. Is that an area where we might expect to see things like the new Zapier AI tools playing a role?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started building AI apps around these new integrations and tools?

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THE EARLY 2020s were SHAPED by COVID and FREE CASH

  • VCs were pouring money into startups; “unicorns” were a daily occurrence
  • Many assumed that “today’s normal” would be the “forever normal”
  • Business models were drowned out by technology fascination

DO CURRENT AI ECONOMICS AND FUNDING LEVELS MAKE SENSE?

  • VCs and cloud providers are funding infrastructure like it’s 1997-2000
  • Business models around AI are still being sought out
  • Funding valuations have no basis in anything real, at least not yet
  • Are we near an AI (economic) crash, or at least deflation of the bubble?


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THE EARLY 2020s were SHAPED by COVID and FREE CASH

  • VCs were pouring money into startups; “unicorns” were a daily occurrence
  • Many assumed that “today’s normal” would be the “forever normal”
  • Business models were drowned out by technology fascination

DO CURRENT AI ECONOMICS AND FUNDING LEVELS MAKE SENSE?

  • VCs and cloud providers are funding infrastructure like it’s 1997-2000
  • Business models around AI are still being sought out
  • Funding valuations have no basis in anything real, at least not yet
  • Are we near an AI (economic) crash, or at least deflation of the bubble?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15252477 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1199 Father's Day, AI, 2020s, VC Funding, Unicorns, Decacorns, Business Models, Todays Normal full false Modern Approaches to Continuous Integration Modern Approaches to Continuous Integration Solomon Hykes (@solomonstre, Co-Founder @Dagger_io) talks about the evolution of the container industry, fixing broken CI/CD systems, and modern DevOps.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a number of times over the years and we’ve been overdue to catch up. For the few listeners out there who might not be familiar, give everyone a quick intro and your background with Docker and containers prior to Dagger.

Topic 2 - Dagger has been around for a few years, coming out of stealth in 2022. If I understand Dagger correctly, it is a declarative model to abstract away CI/CD pipelines. What problem are you trying to solve?

Topic 2a - Anytime you add an abstraction layer, you potentially add overhead and complexity. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 3 - Let’s go back to containers quickly. How has Containers as an “industry” changed over the years? How does that relate to what you are trying to do with Dagger?

Topic 3a - What lessons learned from Docker and even back to dotCloud days do you want to bring forward with Dagger?

Topic 4 - What metrics are organizations using to measure the performance and success of Dagger implementations? Is it velocity (number of deployments)? Reduction in friction?

Topic 4a - I get the advantage on the Dev side of DevOps, what’s in it for Ops?

Topic 5 - Dagger has three components, Dagger Engine, Dagger Cloud and Dagger SDK. Walk everyone through the offerings at a high level.


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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a number of times over the years and we’ve been overdue to catch up. For the few listeners out there who might not be familiar, give everyone a quick intro and your background with Docker and containers prior to Dagger.

Topic 2 - Dagger has been around for a few years, coming out of stealth in 2022. If I understand Dagger correctly, it is a declarative model to abstract away CI/CD pipelines. What problem are you trying to solve?

Topic 2a - Anytime you add an abstraction layer, you potentially add overhead and complexity. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 3 - Let’s go back to containers quickly. How has Containers as an “industry” changed over the years? How does that relate to what you are trying to do with Dagger?

Topic 3a - What lessons learned from Docker and even back to dotCloud days do you want to bring forward with Dagger?

Topic 4 - What metrics are organizations using to measure the performance and success of Dagger implementations? Is it velocity (number of deployments)? Reduction in friction?

Topic 4a - I get the advantage on the Dev side of DevOps, what’s in it for Ops?

Topic 5 - Dagger has three components, Dagger Engine, Dagger Cloud and Dagger SDK. Walk everyone through the offerings at a high level.


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15233744 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2177 Solomon Hykes, Docker, Dagger, CI/CD, CNCF, Cloud-native, DevOps full false How Today's AI is like the Early 2010s How Today's AI is like the Early 2010s The introduction of cloud computing brought about a significant change on how we use technology with our businesses. Let’s look at the historical parallels to today’s AI for the Enterprise. (Part 2 of 3)

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WHAT SHAPED THE EARLY 2010s?

  • 2008 financial crash and less money available for technology (uncertainty)
  • Increased frustration with corporate IT organizations (too much “no”)
  • The possibilities of mobile computing and socially connected societies (abundance)

EARLY CLOUD WAS ALL ABOUT BREAKING AWAY FROM CORPORATE IT

  • It’s a new generation of computing, so the future winner is unknown.
  • Many companies are trying to have centralized IT policies - one size fits all
  • Data governance and legal liability is driving corporate policies (education needed)
  • Consumer AI is widely available and applicable to some job functions
  • Executives are starting to talk about “AI First” policies
  • Cloud-native and Cloud-migrated were very different things, with different results


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WHAT SHAPED THE EARLY 2010s?

  • 2008 financial crash and less money available for technology (uncertainty)
  • Increased frustration with corporate IT organizations (too much “no”)
  • The possibilities of mobile computing and socially connected societies (abundance)

EARLY CLOUD WAS ALL ABOUT BREAKING AWAY FROM CORPORATE IT

  • It’s a new generation of computing, so the future winner is unknown.
  • Many companies are trying to have centralized IT policies - one size fits all
  • Data governance and legal liability is driving corporate policies (education needed)
  • Consumer AI is widely available and applicable to some job functions
  • Executives are starting to talk about “AI First” policies
  • Cloud-native and Cloud-migrated were very different things, with different results


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15213759 Sun, 09 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1518 Cloud Computing, AI, GenAI, AI Era, Housing Crisis, VMware, Shadow AI, Shadow IT, Centralized IT, Cloud First, AI First full false Cloud News of the Month - May 2024 Cloud News of the Month - May 2024 Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, from @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from May 2024

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SHOW NOTES: 

Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - Is anyone going to talk about Cloud anymore? 
  • Trend 2 - Is AI a real conversation with Enterprise yet, or does AI need to go through a consumer period first? 
  • Trend 3 - Every large acquisition was deemed a “terrible mistake” within a few months, according to the press - (e.g. Hashicorp, VMware)
  • Trend 4 - Is April to June the new “trade show season”, or will it just be “always on” in the new AI world?

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SHOW NOTES: 

Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - Is anyone going to talk about Cloud anymore? 
  • Trend 2 - Is AI a real conversation with Enterprise yet, or does AI need to go through a consumer period first? 
  • Trend 3 - Every large acquisition was deemed a “terrible mistake” within a few months, according to the press - (e.g. Hashicorp, VMware)
  • Trend 4 - Is April to June the new “trade show season”, or will it just be “always on” in the new AI world?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15180564 Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 3364 AWS, Azure, OpenAI, AI, GenAI, VMware, IBM, Google, Cloud Earnings, GPT-4o full false How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s Let’s put today’s AI era into some historic context by looking at the similarities and parallels to the explosion of the 1st wave of the consumer Internet. (Part 1 of 3)

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WE’RE FASCINATED BY THE IDEA OF TECHNOLOGY CHANGING EVERYTHING

  • 2000s era Internet was going to change everything
  • GenAI is predicted to change everything

MOST TECHNOLOGY’S SHIFT HAPPEN WITH CONSUMERS FIRST

  • GenAI still can’t validate accuracy (e.g. hallucinations)
  • GenAI is still extremely expensive to create, maintain
  • GenAI still doesn’t have a widely-adopted business model
  • Shadow GenAI groups will emerge in the Enterprise
  • People are still mostly thinking about GenAI as a way to offload things they don’t want to do vs. improving their existing skills


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WE’RE FASCINATED BY THE IDEA OF TECHNOLOGY CHANGING EVERYTHING

  • 2000s era Internet was going to change everything
  • GenAI is predicted to change everything

MOST TECHNOLOGY’S SHIFT HAPPEN WITH CONSUMERS FIRST

  • GenAI still can’t validate accuracy (e.g. hallucinations)
  • GenAI is still extremely expensive to create, maintain
  • GenAI still doesn’t have a widely-adopted business model
  • Shadow GenAI groups will emerge in the Enterprise
  • People are still mostly thinking about GenAI as a way to offload things they don’t want to do vs. improving their existing skills


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15177370 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1583 GenAI, Internet, Consumer, Shadow IT, Business Models, Hallucinations, full false Understanding and Advising CIOs Understanding and Advising CIOs Tim Crawford (@tcrawford, CIO Advisor at @AVOAcom) talks about the challenges of the modern CIO, managing stability vs. innovation, and understanding the business value of tech.

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Topic 1 - Tim, welcome back to the show! We’ve been friends for years, and it’s great to get you on today! We will discuss everything at the top of CIOs' minds today. Why don’t you give everyone a quick background on how you became known as the CIO Advisor?

Topic 2 - Before we go into trends over the last few years. Put everyone in a CIO mindset. What do they care about? How do they think about the intersection of technology and business? What keeps them up at night?

Topic 3 - We’ve heard many times CIOs have to balance two things: keeping the lights on (the boring side of the business that is often undifferentiated, and the innovative side that often moves the needle. A CIO’s job is to minimize the former and maximize the latter. Do you agree? How accurate is that statement? 

Topic 4 - I’ll follow that up with a real-world example many organizations might be facing, one we’ve discussed on the show in the past. We’ll discuss VMware on one end of the stable, the keep the lights on model, and AI on the other end as an innovative technology that could differentiate. Let’s talk about VMware first… 

Topic 4b  - Now the other end of the spectrum, AI. Have we reached peak AI washing and craziness? Is the trough of disillusionment coming? How should a CIO think about it?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about economics over the last few years. Zero-interest money has gone away for VCs and startups and we are seeing some big changes on the vendor side. How does this impact the people you talk to?

Topic 6 -  Last topic, you were there and talked about Hashicorp when they rang the bell last week and then were bought 24 hours later. What was that like as someone who was there?


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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Tim, welcome back to the show! We’ve been friends for years, and it’s great to get you on today! We will discuss everything at the top of CIOs' minds today. Why don’t you give everyone a quick background on how you became known as the CIO Advisor?

Topic 2 - Before we go into trends over the last few years. Put everyone in a CIO mindset. What do they care about? How do they think about the intersection of technology and business? What keeps them up at night?

Topic 3 - We’ve heard many times CIOs have to balance two things: keeping the lights on (the boring side of the business that is often undifferentiated, and the innovative side that often moves the needle. A CIO’s job is to minimize the former and maximize the latter. Do you agree? How accurate is that statement? 

Topic 4 - I’ll follow that up with a real-world example many organizations might be facing, one we’ve discussed on the show in the past. We’ll discuss VMware on one end of the stable, the keep the lights on model, and AI on the other end as an innovative technology that could differentiate. Let’s talk about VMware first… 

Topic 4b  - Now the other end of the spectrum, AI. Have we reached peak AI washing and craziness? Is the trough of disillusionment coming? How should a CIO think about it?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about economics over the last few years. Zero-interest money has gone away for VCs and startups and we are seeing some big changes on the vendor side. How does this impact the people you talk to?

Topic 6 -  Last topic, you were there and talked about Hashicorp when they rang the bell last week and then were bought 24 hours later. What was that like as someone who was there?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15156209 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2277 Tim Crawford, AVOA, CIOs, Budgeting, Innovation, Stability, AI, VMware, Hashicorp full false Is Everyone's AI Strategy in Chaos? Is Everyone's AI Strategy in Chaos? When you see the headline “<ex-employee> says <company> AI strategy is in chaos”, what does it really mean? Is any company’s AI strategy NOT in chaos at this point? 

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WE OVERESTIMATE IN 1YR, AND UNDERESTIMATE IN 10YRS


DOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE THEIR AI STRATEGY FIGURED OUT? 

  • NVIDIA
  • Google
  • OpenAI
  • Microsoft / Azure / GitHub
  • Amazon / AWS
  • Meta
  • Apple
  • IBM / Red Hat
  • Oracle
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • VCs
  • Startups


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SHOW NOTES:


WE OVERESTIMATE IN 1YR, AND UNDERESTIMATE IN 10YRS


DOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE THEIR AI STRATEGY FIGURED OUT? 

  • NVIDIA
  • Google
  • OpenAI
  • Microsoft / Azure / GitHub
  • Amazon / AWS
  • Meta
  • Apple
  • IBM / Red Hat
  • Oracle
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • VCs
  • Startups


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15136061 Sun, 26 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2114 NVIDIA, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, Snowflake, Databricks, VCs, Startups full false Using AI to Build Tech Communities Using AI to Build Tech Communities Jonas Rosland (@jonasrosland, Head of Open Source Community @CIQ) talks about using AI tools to accelerate building and communications in Open Source Software (OSS) communities. We also discuss the differences between Community Roles and Dev Rel.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #823

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Topic 1 - Good Afternoon Jonas! Give everyone a quick background on your time building open-source communities and a bit about your foundation. We’ll dig into both areas today.

Topic 2 - We caught up at All Things Open last fall. You gave a fascinating talk on using AI tools to accelerate the building of OSS communities. Give everyone the backstory on how that topic and presentation came to be.

Topic 3 - This may be a dumb question, but DevRel is (still) all the rage. What is the difference between the approach to building OSS communities and the straight-up DevRel teams? How is success tracked in each? Are there solid metrics, or is it “fuzzy”?

Topic 4 - Sadly, as far as I can tell, the session wasn’t recorded. But, for me, the big takeaway was how much dabbling you were doing with the tools and your good and bad experiences. I learned a lot from a practical aspect. But, the AI industry and tools are moving so fast. What’s in your toolbox today and why?

Topic 5 - What are some of the gaps in the tools today? What’s missing?

Topic 6 -  Let’s talk about your side gig. You were part of the founding team and are exec director of a video game preservation society, Hit Save! How did that come to be? What does that entail?


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Topic 1 - Good Afternoon Jonas! Give everyone a quick background on your time building open-source communities and a bit about your foundation. We’ll dig into both areas today.

Topic 2 - We caught up at All Things Open last fall. You gave a fascinating talk on using AI tools to accelerate the building of OSS communities. Give everyone the backstory on how that topic and presentation came to be.

Topic 3 - This may be a dumb question, but DevRel is (still) all the rage. What is the difference between the approach to building OSS communities and the straight-up DevRel teams? How is success tracked in each? Are there solid metrics, or is it “fuzzy”?

Topic 4 - Sadly, as far as I can tell, the session wasn’t recorded. But, for me, the big takeaway was how much dabbling you were doing with the tools and your good and bad experiences. I learned a lot from a practical aspect. But, the AI industry and tools are moving so fast. What’s in your toolbox today and why?

Topic 5 - What are some of the gaps in the tools today? What’s missing?

Topic 6 -  Let’s talk about your side gig. You were part of the founding team and are exec director of a video game preservation society, Hit Save! How did that come to be? What does that entail?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15104371 Wed, 22 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2084 Jonas Rosland, OSS, Communities, AI, DevRel, All Things Open full false Lessons Learned from AWS Leadership Transition Lessons Learned from AWS Leadership Transition After just three years, AWS is making another change at the top of the leadership org-chart. What lessons can we learn from leadership transitions and what might come next?

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #822

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AWS HAS NEW LEADERSHIP. WHY NOW? 

  • Adam Selipsky is out, Matt Garmin is in. What does it mean?
  • Why is AWS making the change now?


WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM SELIPSKY’S 3 YEARS AS AWS CEO

  • Probably don’t take the job immediately after someone is the Nick Saban of tech
  • Don’t be the complete opposite of the previous boss (wings guy vs. wine guy)

[Andy on X] Lead Amazon, married and father of two kids, big sports/music/film fan, experienced buffalo wings eater. Go Kraken!

[Adam on X] Husband & dad. Water skier/tennis player. Fan of Seahawks & Sounders. CEO at #AWS.

  • [Andy Jassy] I’ve always had a lot of respect for Adam, and we met several times to discuss the possibility of coming back to lead AWS. In those conversations, we agreed that if he accepted the role, he’d likely do it for a few years, and that one of the things he’d focus on during that time was helping prepare the next generation of leadership.
  • [Andy Jassy] Matt has an unusually strong set of skills and experiences for his new role. He’s very customer focused, a terrific product leader, inventive, a clever problem-solver, right a lot, has high standards and a meaningful bias for action. 
  • Realize when your job is to lead and inspire vs. producing the weekly report
  • The post-ZIRP CEO of AWS
  • 2021 - $62B, , 2022 - $80B, 2023 - $90B, 2024 - $100+B
  • Lost key people
  • Behind on GenAI vs. other clouds
  • “Wartime CEO” vs. “Peacetime CEO”


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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #822

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SHOW NOTES:


AWS HAS NEW LEADERSHIP. WHY NOW? 

  • Adam Selipsky is out, Matt Garmin is in. What does it mean?
  • Why is AWS making the change now?


WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM SELIPSKY’S 3 YEARS AS AWS CEO

  • Probably don’t take the job immediately after someone is the Nick Saban of tech
  • Don’t be the complete opposite of the previous boss (wings guy vs. wine guy)

[Andy on X] Lead Amazon, married and father of two kids, big sports/music/film fan, experienced buffalo wings eater. Go Kraken!

[Adam on X] Husband & dad. Water skier/tennis player. Fan of Seahawks & Sounders. CEO at #AWS.

  • [Andy Jassy] I’ve always had a lot of respect for Adam, and we met several times to discuss the possibility of coming back to lead AWS. In those conversations, we agreed that if he accepted the role, he’d likely do it for a few years, and that one of the things he’d focus on during that time was helping prepare the next generation of leadership.
  • [Andy Jassy] Matt has an unusually strong set of skills and experiences for his new role. He’s very customer focused, a terrific product leader, inventive, a clever problem-solver, right a lot, has high standards and a meaningful bias for action. 
  • Realize when your job is to lead and inspire vs. producing the weekly report
  • The post-ZIRP CEO of AWS
  • 2021 - $62B, , 2022 - $80B, 2023 - $90B, 2024 - $100+B
  • Lost key people
  • Behind on GenAI vs. other clouds
  • “Wartime CEO” vs. “Peacetime CEO”


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15095696 Sun, 19 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1980 AWS, Amazon, Andy Jassy, Adam Selipsky, Matt Garmin, CEO transition, ZIRP, Leadership full false AI Safety and Regulation AI Safety and Regulation Mark Collier (@sparkycollier, COO @openInfradev) talks about the advantages of open source AI and the intersection of OSS and AI transparency, safety, and potential regulations.

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Topic 1 - Our topic for today is AI Safety and Regulation. I saw our guest speak at All Things Open here in Raleigh late last year and he is also a Cloudcast alumnus having been on the show previously talking about OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation. We’d like to welcome Mark Collier (Chief Operating Officer @ OpenInfra Foundation) for this discussion. Mark, welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - There’s a lot of news today about AI safety and regulation. The industry also seems to be caught up in an AI arms race of who has the bigger model, faster model, etc. OpenAI have become the early category leader but they might have started with good intentions, but, contrary to their name, they aren’t open… at all.  One message in your talk is how open-source software will prevent the coming of the “AI overlords”. Tell everyone a bit of what you mean by this. What is the problem we are facing and many may not even realize it.

Topic 3 - I don’t want to call you old (I think we are about the same age), but you’ve seen some things. You’ve also been around OSS and foundations for a bit now. How can open source solve the problem?

Topic 4 - We hear a lot about AI regulation, but this seems to be a moving target. What is both the current and future state of AI regulation? In my opinion, we haven’t seen a lot of successful regulations to date. We saw recently the EU pass an AI Act. Is this the first of many? The start of a trend?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the “day job”. What’s new with OpenInfra Foundation these days?

Topic 6 -  OpenStack releases are still going strong and you’ve even run out of letters on OpenStack releases and have rolled around on the alphabet and are back to C. This is the 29th release of OpenStack. What’s the news for the Caracal release?

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SHOW: 821

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #821

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is AI Safety and Regulation. I saw our guest speak at All Things Open here in Raleigh late last year and he is also a Cloudcast alumnus having been on the show previously talking about OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation. We’d like to welcome Mark Collier (Chief Operating Officer @ OpenInfra Foundation) for this discussion. Mark, welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - There’s a lot of news today about AI safety and regulation. The industry also seems to be caught up in an AI arms race of who has the bigger model, faster model, etc. OpenAI have become the early category leader but they might have started with good intentions, but, contrary to their name, they aren’t open… at all.  One message in your talk is how open-source software will prevent the coming of the “AI overlords”. Tell everyone a bit of what you mean by this. What is the problem we are facing and many may not even realize it.

Topic 3 - I don’t want to call you old (I think we are about the same age), but you’ve seen some things. You’ve also been around OSS and foundations for a bit now. How can open source solve the problem?

Topic 4 - We hear a lot about AI regulation, but this seems to be a moving target. What is both the current and future state of AI regulation? In my opinion, we haven’t seen a lot of successful regulations to date. We saw recently the EU pass an AI Act. Is this the first of many? The start of a trend?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the “day job”. What’s new with OpenInfra Foundation these days?

Topic 6 -  OpenStack releases are still going strong and you’ve even run out of letters on OpenStack releases and have rolled around on the alphabet and are back to C. This is the 29th release of OpenStack. What’s the news for the Caracal release?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15067700 Wed, 15 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1866 Mark Collier, OpenInfra, CNCF, AI, Safety, Regulation, EU AI Act full false Bringing Open Source to AI Bringing Open Source to AI Happy Mothers Day! And let’s explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI. 

SHOW: 820

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #820

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:


HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMS

  • Call you mom, be good to your wife, and be a role model for the young girls in your life


OPEN SOURCE MEETS AI

  • The big AI question: 1 model, or many models?
  • 2023 was the year of model diversity, and the beginnings of “open” models (Llama 2, Mistral, etc.)
  • Can we make it easier to contribute to an open model?
  • Can we create communities around models?
  • Can we reduce the costs of expensive parts of AI? 
  • How can businesses bring their knowledge to a model, without security concerns about their data? (options like RAG (retrieval augmented generation) exist)


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SHOW: 820

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #820

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"


SHOW NOTES:


HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMS

  • Call you mom, be good to your wife, and be a role model for the young girls in your life


OPEN SOURCE MEETS AI

  • The big AI question: 1 model, or many models?
  • 2023 was the year of model diversity, and the beginnings of “open” models (Llama 2, Mistral, etc.)
  • Can we make it easier to contribute to an open model?
  • Can we create communities around models?
  • Can we reduce the costs of expensive parts of AI? 
  • How can businesses bring their knowledge to a model, without security concerns about their data? (options like RAG (retrieval augmented generation) exist)


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15048562 Sat, 11 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1562 AI, Open Source, RAG, InstructLab, Red Hat, IBM Research, Granite, Contributions full false Front-End Clouds and Web Development Front-End Clouds and Web Development Malte Ubl (@cramforce, CTO @Vercel) talks about Front-End web development and clouds, how AI impacts front-end infrastructure, and impacts to the business.

SHOW: 819

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is front-end development and front-end clouds, and we’ll also explore AI-generated front ends. Our guest is Malte Ubl, CTO at Vercel. Malte, welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background on your time at Vercel and Google Search.

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the start. We hear all the time about front-end developers and back-end developers. What is your definition of a front-end and, more specifically, a front-end cloud?

Topic 3 - What are the most common use cases you see today? What problem are you solving when you talk to organizations?

Topic 4 - How much of a front-end is typically integrated with 3rd party services, and how much is build your own?

Topic 5 - Where does AI fit into this from a developer's perspective? Are we to the point where we can develop a front-end from a prompt?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the business side of this. Do companies typically have a “front-end problem”? If so, what does it look like, and how do they know?

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]]> Malte Ubl (@cramforce, CTO @Vercel) talks about Front-End web development and clouds, how AI impacts front-end infrastructure, and impacts to the business.

SHOW: 819

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is front-end development and front-end clouds, and we’ll also explore AI-generated front ends. Our guest is Malte Ubl, CTO at Vercel. Malte, welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background on your time at Vercel and Google Search.

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the start. We hear all the time about front-end developers and back-end developers. What is your definition of a front-end and, more specifically, a front-end cloud?

Topic 3 - What are the most common use cases you see today? What problem are you solving when you talk to organizations?

Topic 4 - How much of a front-end is typically integrated with 3rd party services, and how much is build your own?

Topic 5 - Where does AI fit into this from a developer's perspective? Are we to the point where we can develop a front-end from a prompt?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the business side of this. Do companies typically have a “front-end problem”? If so, what does it look like, and how do they know?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15032977 Wed, 08 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400 1619 Vercel, AI, Malte Ubl , Front-End, Web Development full false Identifying Leadership Traits to Follow Identifying Leadership Traits to Follow What are the key characteristics and red flags with today’s leaders in the tech industry? How to identify the leadership skills, the team building skills, and the execution skills.

SHOW: 818

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #818

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE LEADERS IN THEIR CAREERS? 

  • Are they a 1st time manager?
  • Have they managed distributed teams? Managed multiple teams?
  • Have they managed a P&L? 
  • Have they had significant success in the past? What was their role?


LEADERSHIP SKILLS, TEAM BUILDING, EXECUTION AND RED FLAGS

  • Are you joining an established “team” or group that’s worked together before?
  • Is the leader repeating a previous success, in a similar or different domain?
  • What motivates the leader? What is their view on competition?
  • What are the leader’s best skills? Do they recognize this? 
  • Does the leader augment their skills with the team around them? Do they recognize this?
  • Does your personality mesh with the team you’re joining, or are you expecting to be a change agent?



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SHOW: 818

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #818

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"


SHOW NOTES:


WHERE ARE THE LEADERS IN THEIR CAREERS? 

  • Are they a 1st time manager?
  • Have they managed distributed teams? Managed multiple teams?
  • Have they managed a P&L? 
  • Have they had significant success in the past? What was their role?


LEADERSHIP SKILLS, TEAM BUILDING, EXECUTION AND RED FLAGS

  • Are you joining an established “team” or group that’s worked together before?
  • Is the leader repeating a previous success, in a similar or different domain?
  • What motivates the leader? What is their view on competition?
  • What are the leader’s best skills? Do they recognize this? 
  • Does the leader augment their skills with the team around them? Do they recognize this?
  • Does your personality mesh with the team you’re joining, or are you expecting to be a change agent?



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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-15000751 Sun, 05 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1462 Leadership, Managers, CEOs, Teams, Culture full false Cloud News of the Month - April 2024 Cloud News of the Month - April 2024 Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024

SHOW: 817

TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES: 

Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcements
  • Trend 2 - We’re starting to see some (early) reality set in with AI
  • Trend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMware and AI discussions

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]]> Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024

SHOW: 817

TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES: 

Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcements
  • Trend 2 - We’re starting to see some (early) reality set in with AI
  • Trend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMware and AI discussions

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14987985 Wed, 01 May 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2586 AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, VMware, Broadcom, Google, Cisco, IBM, Hashicorp, NVIDIA, Datastax, Run.ai, Intel, Apple full false Open Source and Business…sigh Open Source and Business…sigh Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting.  

SHOW: 816

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:  The Cloudcast #816

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:

OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODEL

  • There are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)
  • There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainers

FREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONES

  • Red Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)
  • Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributors
  • Yellow flags:  Foundation owns copyright
  • “There’s the business side and there’s the hippie side of OSS”
  • “I have endless ambitions”
  • “I didn’t build a forever entity”
  • “When is the rug pull going to happen?”
  • If a company takes VC funding, is open source anything more than a marketing vehicle?
  • “Docker figured it out and now they are doing like $100M”. Did they? 
  • When is OSS personal, and when is it a company?
  • Will there never be another Red Hat, or just not another Linux?
  • How much is too much when determining if a company should give things away for free?


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SHOW: 816

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:  The Cloudcast #816

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"


SHOW NOTES:

OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODEL

  • There are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)
  • There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainers

FREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONES

  • Red Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)
  • Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributors
  • Yellow flags:  Foundation owns copyright
  • “There’s the business side and there’s the hippie side of OSS”
  • “I have endless ambitions”
  • “I didn’t build a forever entity”
  • “When is the rug pull going to happen?”
  • If a company takes VC funding, is open source anything more than a marketing vehicle?
  • “Docker figured it out and now they are doing like $100M”. Did they? 
  • When is OSS personal, and when is it a company?
  • Will there never be another Red Hat, or just not another Linux?
  • How much is too much when determining if a company should give things away for free?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14968527 Sun, 28 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1948 open source software, vc funding, free marketing, community, forever entity, hippie open source full false Sizing AI Workloads Sizing AI Workloads John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more.

SHOW: 815

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is sizing and IaaS hosting for AI/ML. We’ve covered a lot of basics lately, today we’re going to dig deeper. There is a surprising amount of depth to AI sizing, and it isn’t just speeds and feeds of GPUs. We’d like to welcome John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) for this discussion. John, welcome to the show

Topic 2 - Let’s start with sizing, I’ve talked to a lot of customers recently with my day job, and it is amazing how deep AI/ML sizing can go. First, you have to size for training/fine-tuning differently than you would for the inference stage. Second, some just think, pick the biggest GPUs you can afford and go. How should your customers approach this? (GPU’s, software dependencies, etc.)

Topic 2a - Follow-up question what are the business side, what are the business parameters that need to be considered? (budget, cost efficiency, latency/response time, timeline, etc.)

Topic 3 - The whole process can be overwhelming and as we mentioned, some organizations may not think of everything. You recently announced a chatbot to help with this exact process, ChatGPU. Tell everyone a bit about that and how it came to be.

Topic 4 - This is almost like a match-making service, correct? Everyone wants an H100, but not everyone needs or can afford an H100.

Topic 5 - How does GPU availability play into all of this? NVIDIA is sold out for something like 2 years at this point; how is that sustainable? Does everything need to run on a “Ferrari class” NVIDIA GPU?

Topic 6 -  What’s next in the IaaS for AI/ML space? What does a next-generation data center for AI/ML look like? Will the Industry move away from GPUs to reduce dependence on NVIDIA?

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]]> John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more.

SHOW: 815

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is sizing and IaaS hosting for AI/ML. We’ve covered a lot of basics lately, today we’re going to dig deeper. There is a surprising amount of depth to AI sizing, and it isn’t just speeds and feeds of GPUs. We’d like to welcome John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) for this discussion. John, welcome to the show

Topic 2 - Let’s start with sizing, I’ve talked to a lot of customers recently with my day job, and it is amazing how deep AI/ML sizing can go. First, you have to size for training/fine-tuning differently than you would for the inference stage. Second, some just think, pick the biggest GPUs you can afford and go. How should your customers approach this? (GPU’s, software dependencies, etc.)

Topic 2a - Follow-up question what are the business side, what are the business parameters that need to be considered? (budget, cost efficiency, latency/response time, timeline, etc.)

Topic 3 - The whole process can be overwhelming and as we mentioned, some organizations may not think of everything. You recently announced a chatbot to help with this exact process, ChatGPU. Tell everyone a bit about that and how it came to be.

Topic 4 - This is almost like a match-making service, correct? Everyone wants an H100, but not everyone needs or can afford an H100.

Topic 5 - How does GPU availability play into all of this? NVIDIA is sold out for something like 2 years at this point; how is that sustainable? Does everything need to run on a “Ferrari class” NVIDIA GPU?

Topic 6 -  What’s next in the IaaS for AI/ML space? What does a next-generation data center for AI/ML look like? Will the Industry move away from GPUs to reduce dependence on NVIDIA?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14945263 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2014 AI, GPU Cloud, John Yue, inference.ai full false The Maintenance Episode The Maintenance Episode For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated? 

SHOW: 814

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #814

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:

IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?

  • Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)
  • The costs of maintenance are real and opportunity
  • Maintenance often goes unappreciated and unseen
  • Naming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos Engineering

TECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCE

  • Should we encourage a lack of maintenance vs. innovation as a priority?
  • Should we encourage active maintenance with lower hard costs?
  • Is there a way to put respect on maintenance? (e.g. OSS maintainers)
  • Do we undervalue maintenance (e.g. Backup/Recovery, DisasterRecovery, etc.)?
  • What maintenance best practices do you use? What are the good and bad of them?

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]]> For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated? 

SHOW: 814

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #814

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"


SHOW NOTES:

IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?

  • Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)
  • The costs of maintenance are real and opportunity
  • Maintenance often goes unappreciated and unseen
  • Naming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos Engineering

TECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCE

  • Should we encourage a lack of maintenance vs. innovation as a priority?
  • Should we encourage active maintenance with lower hard costs?
  • Is there a way to put respect on maintenance? (e.g. OSS maintainers)
  • Do we undervalue maintenance (e.g. Backup/Recovery, DisasterRecovery, etc.)?
  • What maintenance best practices do you use? What are the good and bad of them?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14927311 Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1311 VMware, AWS, EKS, vSphere, Maintenance, Technical Debt, Chaos Engineering, Release Notes full false Synthetic Data for AI Synthetic Data for AI Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI.

SHOW: 813

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is synthetic data. While the concept and need for synthetic data has been around for a long time, it isn’t a topic that typically comes to the forefront and something we haven’t talked about until today. Today is a bit of crossing the streams between developers and testing data and using GenAI to achieve this goal. For this, we’re joined by Kalyan, CEO and Co-Founder of DataCebo. Welcome to the show

Topic 2 - First, for those not familiar, what is synthetic data? What is the use case and need? What problem is it solving today?

Topic 2a - Hopefully, listeners out there are making the connection to the advantages of GenAI for synthetic data, but take us through your original concept at MIT and the history of Synthetic Data Vault (SDV).

Topic 3 - We recently did a show on the security and privacy of training LLMs where we covered the need to mask PII for the training of models for compliance. I can also see bias issues coming into play or maybe training data that doesn’t exist in the real world (weather models example). What are some of the use cases that you’ve seen require synthetic data sets. Are there certain industries (healthcare, financials, etc.) that benefit?

Topic 4 - You were designing this based on GenAI before GenAI was “cool”. How has the rise of LLMs impacted this space?

Topic 5 - If I understand this correctly, organizations would put generative AI on a problem to describe a need for a data set, the model would then evaluate the available data and create a quality synthetic or “fake” dataset. How would the organization verify the quality of the dataset? How would they validate that a synthetic data set is as good as the original data?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about resources for a bit. When I think of GenAI and training, I think of large amounts of hardware and in particular GPU’s that might have limited availability. Is that true here? Also, is this on-prem or in the cloud, or both? 

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]]> Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI.

SHOW: 813

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is synthetic data. While the concept and need for synthetic data has been around for a long time, it isn’t a topic that typically comes to the forefront and something we haven’t talked about until today. Today is a bit of crossing the streams between developers and testing data and using GenAI to achieve this goal. For this, we’re joined by Kalyan, CEO and Co-Founder of DataCebo. Welcome to the show

Topic 2 - First, for those not familiar, what is synthetic data? What is the use case and need? What problem is it solving today?

Topic 2a - Hopefully, listeners out there are making the connection to the advantages of GenAI for synthetic data, but take us through your original concept at MIT and the history of Synthetic Data Vault (SDV).

Topic 3 - We recently did a show on the security and privacy of training LLMs where we covered the need to mask PII for the training of models for compliance. I can also see bias issues coming into play or maybe training data that doesn’t exist in the real world (weather models example). What are some of the use cases that you’ve seen require synthetic data sets. Are there certain industries (healthcare, financials, etc.) that benefit?

Topic 4 - You were designing this based on GenAI before GenAI was “cool”. How has the rise of LLMs impacted this space?

Topic 5 - If I understand this correctly, organizations would put generative AI on a problem to describe a need for a data set, the model would then evaluate the available data and create a quality synthetic or “fake” dataset. How would the organization verify the quality of the dataset? How would they validate that a synthetic data set is as good as the original data?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about resources for a bit. When I think of GenAI and training, I think of large amounts of hardware and in particular GPU’s that might have limited availability. Is that true here? Also, is this on-prem or in the cloud, or both? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14901022 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1558 DataCebo, Synthetic Data, AI, Models, GenAI, GPU, Kalyan Veeramachaneni full false The Fear and Excitement of Learning in a new era The Fear and Excitement of Learning in a new era With the AI Era upon us, the challenge of trying to learn and make sense of the technologies, the business opportunities and the pitfalls is both exciting and equally terrifying.  

SHOW: 812

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #812

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

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SHOW NOTES:

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW IN TECH?

  • Cloud was all new, but not completely
  • The pace of cloud innovation seemed fast, but not in comparison to AI
  • The focus was around one cloud vs. a new source every week

PICK A TOPIC, READ, BE CONFUSED, LOOK FOR CONFIRMATION, RINSE, REPEAT

  • Where to start the learning process? 
  • Where to pick a source of learning?(Coursera, MIT online, blogs/videos/search, etc.)
  • How to determine legitimacy of the sources? 
  • How far to learn before stopping to make sense? 
  • Trying to relate it to something you already know? 
  • How and when to ask questions? 

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SHOW: 812

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #812

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SHOW NOTES:

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW IN TECH?

  • Cloud was all new, but not completely
  • The pace of cloud innovation seemed fast, but not in comparison to AI
  • The focus was around one cloud vs. a new source every week

PICK A TOPIC, READ, BE CONFUSED, LOOK FOR CONFIRMATION, RINSE, REPEAT

  • Where to start the learning process? 
  • Where to pick a source of learning?(Coursera, MIT online, blogs/videos/search, etc.)
  • How to determine legitimacy of the sources? 
  • How far to learn before stopping to make sense? 
  • Trying to relate it to something you already know? 
  • How and when to ask questions? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14885493 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1913 Cloud Computing, AI, Learning, Experimentation, Uncertainty full false Building Media and Streaming Platforms Building Media and Streaming Platforms Brad Winett (President/Co-founder @TrackItCloud) talks about platforms for entertainment and media. Topics include use cases, partnering with AWS, and creation and consulting services. We even dig into AR and VR a bit at the end.

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Topic 1 - Our topic for today is media and entertainment in the cloud. I don’t believe we have ever done a show specifically on this topic, and there are some considerations worth talking about. For today, we have Brad Winett, President and Co-founder at TrackIt. Brad, welcome to the show. Let’s jump right in. The media industry as a whole has undergone major change, just like many others. Most of us see it from the consumer end as a cord-cutter. What made you jump into this market and this industry specifically?

Topic 2 - Platforms and content distribution in the early days of cloud was a differentiator. I think back to Netflix, they initially had a market advantage because they were able to scale better and to more devices than anyone and even open sourced a number of internally developed items and were the AWS poster child. Over time, these user experiences have become the norm. How should people out there think about media platforms? Are we past the days of build your own?

Topic 3 - What about use cases? Media streaming is pretty broad. What does a normal customer look like? Is this big streaming services, smaller companies, etc?

Topic 4 - How much of the tech stack is AWS products and how much of the stack is custom typically? Walk us through what a media streaming stack looks like. How is this different from a SaaS provider providing a turnkey service?

Topic 5 - I know TrackIt is a big AWS partner. Give everyone an overview of the landscape of AWS Partnership these days. Do you provide mainly professional services and consulting?

Topic 6 - Where does open-source software fit into this?

Topic 7 - I feel the standard last question these days is how AI will potentially enhance or impact this is some way.

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SHOW: 811

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is media and entertainment in the cloud. I don’t believe we have ever done a show specifically on this topic, and there are some considerations worth talking about. For today, we have Brad Winett, President and Co-founder at TrackIt. Brad, welcome to the show. Let’s jump right in. The media industry as a whole has undergone major change, just like many others. Most of us see it from the consumer end as a cord-cutter. What made you jump into this market and this industry specifically?

Topic 2 - Platforms and content distribution in the early days of cloud was a differentiator. I think back to Netflix, they initially had a market advantage because they were able to scale better and to more devices than anyone and even open sourced a number of internally developed items and were the AWS poster child. Over time, these user experiences have become the norm. How should people out there think about media platforms? Are we past the days of build your own?

Topic 3 - What about use cases? Media streaming is pretty broad. What does a normal customer look like? Is this big streaming services, smaller companies, etc?

Topic 4 - How much of the tech stack is AWS products and how much of the stack is custom typically? Walk us through what a media streaming stack looks like. How is this different from a SaaS provider providing a turnkey service?

Topic 5 - I know TrackIt is a big AWS partner. Give everyone an overview of the landscape of AWS Partnership these days. Do you provide mainly professional services and consulting?

Topic 6 - Where does open-source software fit into this?

Topic 7 - I feel the standard last question these days is how AI will potentially enhance or impact this is some way.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14860615 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1894 Brad Winett, TrackIt, Streaming Media, Cord Cutting, AWS, full false Will Enterprise AI adoption patterns follow Enterprise Cloud adoption? Will Enterprise AI adoption patterns follow Enterprise Cloud adoption? What will be the adoption patterns for AI within the Enterprise? Will it follow the early days of Cloud Computing, or will new and different patterns emerge? 

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #810 

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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT WERE THE PATTERNS FOR ENTERPRISE IT AND CLOUD?

  • Shadow IT
  • High-scalability or Short-term Projects (and experimentation)
  • Migration via “Cloud First” initiatives
  • Difficult stuff came last

WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT AI vs. CLOUD?

  • CPU to CPU was easier to calculate vs. CPU + GPU
  • Have we learned any lessons about how to value people's productivity?
  • Does Enterprise AI need a Crawl, Walk, Run scenario? Do they need to be sequential and linked? 
  • Are Enterprise AI use-cases well defined? 
  • How long is the Enterprise willing to fail at experiments? 
  • What’s the Enterprise tolerance for GenAI “flaws” (e.g. hallucinations, lack of citations, etc.)
  • Will GenAI rejuvenate Predictive AI projects in the Enterprise? 


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SHOW: 810

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #810 

SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"


SHOW NOTES:

WHAT WERE THE PATTERNS FOR ENTERPRISE IT AND CLOUD?

  • Shadow IT
  • High-scalability or Short-term Projects (and experimentation)
  • Migration via “Cloud First” initiatives
  • Difficult stuff came last

WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT AI vs. CLOUD?

  • CPU to CPU was easier to calculate vs. CPU + GPU
  • Have we learned any lessons about how to value people's productivity?
  • Does Enterprise AI need a Crawl, Walk, Run scenario? Do they need to be sequential and linked? 
  • Are Enterprise AI use-cases well defined? 
  • How long is the Enterprise willing to fail at experiments? 
  • What’s the Enterprise tolerance for GenAI “flaws” (e.g. hallucinations, lack of citations, etc.)
  • Will GenAI rejuvenate Predictive AI projects in the Enterprise? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14838912 Sun, 07 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1693 Enterprise Cloud, Enterprise AI, Use-Cases, Shadow AI, Shadow IT, People Productivity, Experimentation, Resume-Driven-AI full false Cloud News of the Month - March 2024 Cloud News of the Month - March 2024 Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/cloudcast-809-transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024
  • Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partner
  • Trend 3 - NVIDIA held a pretty massive GTC event

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/cloudcast-809-transcript

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024
  • Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partner
  • Trend 3 - NVIDIA held a pretty massive GTC event

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14817451 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 01:00:00 -0400 2004 AI, Cloud, NVIDIA, Amazon, AWS, Microsoft, Open Source Licensing, CNCF, Kubernetes, KubeCon full false The $69B bet against replacement The $69B bet against replacement Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023. 

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BROADCOM IS FITTING VMWARE INTO THEIR BUSINESS MODEL

  • At least with acquisitions, Broadcom has a well-defined set of business metrics they expect from their companies
  • Broadcom acts somewhere like private equity in terms of investment, innovation, revenue generation

IT'S A BOLD STRATEGY BROADCOM, LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR THEM

  • In essence, the bet is that there is no replacement for VMware in the Enterprise
  • The timing is interesting with the shifting of budgets for AI projects
  • It puts customers in a position to pay more for limited upside, but having to distinctly cut other areas of their technology budget (risk the business)
  • Customers have some options, but again they risk the business (e.g. hold off on security patches)
  • Once a company accepts the new pricing, what guarantees are there about no additional big increases in the future? 
  • How much will this impact the longer-term vendor-customer relationship?

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]]> Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023. 

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SHOW NOTES:


BROADCOM IS FITTING VMWARE INTO THEIR BUSINESS MODEL

  • At least with acquisitions, Broadcom has a well-defined set of business metrics they expect from their companies
  • Broadcom acts somewhere like private equity in terms of investment, innovation, revenue generation

IT'S A BOLD STRATEGY BROADCOM, LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR THEM

  • In essence, the bet is that there is no replacement for VMware in the Enterprise
  • The timing is interesting with the shifting of budgets for AI projects
  • It puts customers in a position to pay more for limited upside, but having to distinctly cut other areas of their technology budget (risk the business)
  • Customers have some options, but again they risk the business (e.g. hold off on security patches)
  • Once a company accepts the new pricing, what guarantees are there about no additional big increases in the future? 
  • How much will this impact the longer-term vendor-customer relationship?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14796649 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1661 Broadcom, VMware, Virtualization, AI, Private Equity, CIO Choice full false LLM Security and Privacy LLM Security and Privacy Sean Falconer (@seanfalconer, Head of Dev Relations @SkyflowAPI, Host @software_daily) talks about security and privacy of LLMs and how to prevent PII (personally identifiable information) from leaking out

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Topic 1 - Our topic for today is the security and privacy LLMs. What’s Sean’s origin story?

Topic 2 - Let’s dig into LLM security and privacy. We see this concern a lot on the podcast and we’ve touched on it with various past shows, but we haven’t dug in deep. First, let’s frame the problem. What are we talking about when we talk about LLM security and privacy?

Topic 3 - First, there is a fear that customer PII information might leak out. Second, company IP or confidential into might leak out related to products or offerings. We’ve seen examples of both to date. This could be exposed in the form of integration into a model (query it for the answer) or in the fine-tuning or RAG stage. Either one could lead to compliance issues, lost rev etc. But, that same data at risk is the potential differentiation of the models. How do you both mask the data but take advantage of the data?

Topic 4 - One thing I’ve noticed is many orgs only think about privacy in relation to the fine-tuning stage where they are taking a broad model and making it company specific. It is about much more than that though. Just like standard software development, we have different stages. How is the data collected and stored, how is it used for training and fine-tuning, how is it used after deployment and during interaction stage, etc. How should security and privacy be handled across all phases?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk beyond LLMs for a bit. What about Data Lakes and Data Warehousing? I see this as a problem across all big data, correct?

Topic 6 - How does API security fit into this? Much of what we are talking about is at the storage and retrieval level. But, increasingly we see API issues exposing data. How does that fit in here?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk podcasts, we had Jeff, the previous host of Software Engineering Daily on a few times. How are things over at Software Engineering Daily? Tell everyone a bit about the show.

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]]> Sean Falconer (@seanfalconer, Head of Dev Relations @SkyflowAPI, Host @software_daily) talks about security and privacy of LLMs and how to prevent PII (personally identifiable information) from leaking out

SHOW: 807

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is the security and privacy LLMs. What’s Sean’s origin story?

Topic 2 - Let’s dig into LLM security and privacy. We see this concern a lot on the podcast and we’ve touched on it with various past shows, but we haven’t dug in deep. First, let’s frame the problem. What are we talking about when we talk about LLM security and privacy?

Topic 3 - First, there is a fear that customer PII information might leak out. Second, company IP or confidential into might leak out related to products or offerings. We’ve seen examples of both to date. This could be exposed in the form of integration into a model (query it for the answer) or in the fine-tuning or RAG stage. Either one could lead to compliance issues, lost rev etc. But, that same data at risk is the potential differentiation of the models. How do you both mask the data but take advantage of the data?

Topic 4 - One thing I’ve noticed is many orgs only think about privacy in relation to the fine-tuning stage where they are taking a broad model and making it company specific. It is about much more than that though. Just like standard software development, we have different stages. How is the data collected and stored, how is it used for training and fine-tuning, how is it used after deployment and during interaction stage, etc. How should security and privacy be handled across all phases?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk beyond LLMs for a bit. What about Data Lakes and Data Warehousing? I see this as a problem across all big data, correct?

Topic 6 - How does API security fit into this? Much of what we are talking about is at the storage and retrieval level. But, increasingly we see API issues exposing data. How does that fit in here?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk podcasts, we had Jeff, the previous host of Software Engineering Daily on a few times. How are things over at Software Engineering Daily? Tell everyone a bit about the show.

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14775058 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1569 Sean Falconer, LLMs, Security, Privacy, Skyflow, PII, Software Engineering Daily full false Cloud Fundamentals needed for AI Cloud Fundamentals needed for AI If you’re planning to deploy AI for your business, here’s 5 important capabilities your business needs from the cloud era in order to be successful. 

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IF YOU WANT TO DO AI WELL, YOU NEED TO HAVE DONE CLOUD WELL

  • When we first started doing cloud, the smart people would say, “If you don’t do IT well today, you won’t do cloud well in the future”.
  • The same pattern will repeat itself with AI

5 IMPORTANT CLOUD CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO SUCCEED WITH AI

  1. Automate everything - Make automation mission-critical
  2. Build the right abstractions and flexibilities (e.g. sharing GPUs, Devtools, etc.)
  3. Leverage platforms to bring together Data Science, MLOps and AppDev
  4. Know how much things cost (e.g. FinOps)
  5. Socialize success, and socialize learnings across teams

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


IF YOU WANT TO DO AI WELL, YOU NEED TO HAVE DONE CLOUD WELL

  • When we first started doing cloud, the smart people would say, “If you don’t do IT well today, you won’t do cloud well in the future”.
  • The same pattern will repeat itself with AI

5 IMPORTANT CLOUD CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO SUCCEED WITH AI

  1. Automate everything - Make automation mission-critical
  2. Build the right abstractions and flexibilities (e.g. sharing GPUs, Devtools, etc.)
  3. Leverage platforms to bring together Data Science, MLOps and AppDev
  4. Know how much things cost (e.g. FinOps)
  5. Socialize success, and socialize learnings across teams

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14753021 Sun, 24 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1315 AI, Cloud, Automation, Abstractions, Platforms, MLOps, Data Science, AppDev, FinOps, full false Building an AI Product Company Building an AI Product Company Krish Ramineni (@krishramineni, CEO/Founder of @Firefliesai) talks about what it is like to build an AI product company in both the pre-LLM era as well as post-LLMs. We also discuss privacy and security concerns and AI behind the scenes.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - Our show and listeners tend to be interested and employed in the Enterprise infrastructure and AI/ML space. Some may find it surprising that we are talking today, but we wanted to really dig into how an up-and-coming AI company provides value at scale from individuals all the way to large enterprises. What goes into both building the product as well as taking that product to market? So, let’s start there. You recently posted about “Free AI” on LinkedIn. What was the problem you were trying to solve, and how did that influence the product you built?

Topic 3 - As the foundational models in the industry keep improving and are going multi-modal, do you worry that the LLMs of the world might push out specialized models? How do you think about staying ahead of the curve? How does something like GPU shortages or big companies like Meta purchasing thousands at a time impact your decisions?

Topic 4 - Fireflies.ai is all about the abstraction of the technology away from the user. They have no idea (and shouldn’t) about the back end and everything “behind the curtain”. How do you think about this abstraction layer from a product standpoint?

Topic 5 - Now, let’s talk about PLG vs. traditional Enterprise software sales models. You did another post about that recently. We’ve worked in environments selling both (sometimes at the same time), and they are very different motions. Do you feel both are needed to build an AI company?

Topic 6 - How does Security and compliance with IT departments fit into all of this? I’ve spoken to customers that have a policy of no AI tools at the personal level for instance or maybe client, company and private data might be at risk and only certain tools are vetted and approved. I’ve seen other companies only allow tools licensed by their corp IT. How do you navigate this issue? How does something like GDPR play here?

Topic 7 - Last question, another AI specific concern we hear about is companies training models on user data. What is your thoughts here? How does a company fine tune and train new models and products but keep customer and company privacy from leaking out?

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SHOW: 805

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - Our show and listeners tend to be interested and employed in the Enterprise infrastructure and AI/ML space. Some may find it surprising that we are talking today, but we wanted to really dig into how an up-and-coming AI company provides value at scale from individuals all the way to large enterprises. What goes into both building the product as well as taking that product to market? So, let’s start there. You recently posted about “Free AI” on LinkedIn. What was the problem you were trying to solve, and how did that influence the product you built?

Topic 3 - As the foundational models in the industry keep improving and are going multi-modal, do you worry that the LLMs of the world might push out specialized models? How do you think about staying ahead of the curve? How does something like GPU shortages or big companies like Meta purchasing thousands at a time impact your decisions?

Topic 4 - Fireflies.ai is all about the abstraction of the technology away from the user. They have no idea (and shouldn’t) about the back end and everything “behind the curtain”. How do you think about this abstraction layer from a product standpoint?

Topic 5 - Now, let’s talk about PLG vs. traditional Enterprise software sales models. You did another post about that recently. We’ve worked in environments selling both (sometimes at the same time), and they are very different motions. Do you feel both are needed to build an AI company?

Topic 6 - How does Security and compliance with IT departments fit into all of this? I’ve spoken to customers that have a policy of no AI tools at the personal level for instance or maybe client, company and private data might be at risk and only certain tools are vetted and approved. I’ve seen other companies only allow tools licensed by their corp IT. How do you navigate this issue? How does something like GDPR play here?

Topic 7 - Last question, another AI specific concern we hear about is companies training models on user data. What is your thoughts here? How does a company fine tune and train new models and products but keep customer and company privacy from leaking out?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14725277 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1576 Fireflies, AI, Building an AI Company, GPUs, Training Models, Krish Ramineni full false What if the CNCF was private equity? What if the CNCF was private equity? For years, the CNCF has been the central governance body for cloud-native projects. But are there too many projects now? What if the CNCF was less governance and more like private equity?

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WHY DOESN’T THE CNCF RECOMMEND A CLOUD-NATIVE STACK? 

  • Originally the CNCF was just trying to get projects to use them for governance. 
  • Many people wanted them to “define” a cloud-native stack. 
  • Defining a stack would have held back their business model - accepting projects and adding sponsors

HOW MANY PROJECTS WOULD GET “CNCF APPROVED” IF THEY TOOK A PRIVATE EQUITY APPROACH?

  • CNCF currently has 184 projects, up 4x over the last 4 years. 
  • 14% graduates, 20% incubating, 62% sandbox 
  • Does the CNCF suffer from the “Big Tent” problem that caused so many issues with OpenStack? 
  • KubeCon keynotes are just a list of projects giving status updates - they could be an email. 
  • How many projects should the CNCF sponsor? How many categories should remain?
  • How would a private equity group apply metrics to CNCF projects? 

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WHY DOESN’T THE CNCF RECOMMEND A CLOUD-NATIVE STACK? 

  • Originally the CNCF was just trying to get projects to use them for governance. 
  • Many people wanted them to “define” a cloud-native stack. 
  • Defining a stack would have held back their business model - accepting projects and adding sponsors

HOW MANY PROJECTS WOULD GET “CNCF APPROVED” IF THEY TOOK A PRIVATE EQUITY APPROACH?

  • CNCF currently has 184 projects, up 4x over the last 4 years. 
  • 14% graduates, 20% incubating, 62% sandbox 
  • Does the CNCF suffer from the “Big Tent” problem that caused so many issues with OpenStack? 
  • KubeCon keynotes are just a list of projects giving status updates - they could be an email. 
  • How many projects should the CNCF sponsor? How many categories should remain?
  • How would a private equity group apply metrics to CNCF projects? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14700957 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1373 CNCF, Landscape, Trail Map, Private Equity, Graduated Projects, Unicorns, Open Source full false Integration and Observability of 3rd Party APIs Integration and Observability of 3rd Party APIs Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643, CEO/Founder of @lunardevapi) talks about integrating, controlling, and observability into 3rd party APIs and services. We discuss the trade-offs of integrating a 3rd party API and how it impacts simplicity and potential loss of insight.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - Controlling 3rd party APIs is increasingly becoming an issue for many organizations. As the world gets built on APIs, consumption of another company's APIs to ingest services is critical. But, this leads to all sorts of control and potentially cost issues. Please give everyone an introduction to the problem.

Topic 3 - Does this mean 3rd Party APIs are a tradeoff? Yes, you might be able to integrate APIs for a payment system for instance quickly, or maybe the latest AI SaaS service, but in doing so won’t an organization potentially lose oversight? Where do most organizations run into problems first? This reminds me of the early days of cloud and people leaving instances running and then getting huge bills and not knowing until it was too late. Is this similar?

Topic 4 - We’ve seen a lot of products and companies tackling the issue of internal company APIs, but not 3rd party APIs. Once an organization determines they have a problem, maybe an observability problem, perhaps a cost problem, maybe a compliance issue, etc. how would they get started gaining API observability and control in their org? 

Topic 5 - Is this a solution that sits in traffic flow? Does this potentially introduce latency? Is this almost like a WAF for 3rd party APIs? What kinds of policies or restrictions can be put in place?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common use cases you’ve seen and how do you solve them? What business decisions have to be made if they decide to restrict access in some way?

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]]> Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643, CEO/Founder of @lunardevapi) talks about integrating, controlling, and observability into 3rd party APIs and services. We discuss the trade-offs of integrating a 3rd party API and how it impacts simplicity and potential loss of insight.

SHOW: 803

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - Controlling 3rd party APIs is increasingly becoming an issue for many organizations. As the world gets built on APIs, consumption of another company's APIs to ingest services is critical. But, this leads to all sorts of control and potentially cost issues. Please give everyone an introduction to the problem.

Topic 3 - Does this mean 3rd Party APIs are a tradeoff? Yes, you might be able to integrate APIs for a payment system for instance quickly, or maybe the latest AI SaaS service, but in doing so won’t an organization potentially lose oversight? Where do most organizations run into problems first? This reminds me of the early days of cloud and people leaving instances running and then getting huge bills and not knowing until it was too late. Is this similar?

Topic 4 - We’ve seen a lot of products and companies tackling the issue of internal company APIs, but not 3rd party APIs. Once an organization determines they have a problem, maybe an observability problem, perhaps a cost problem, maybe a compliance issue, etc. how would they get started gaining API observability and control in their org? 

Topic 5 - Is this a solution that sits in traffic flow? Does this potentially introduce latency? Is this almost like a WAF for 3rd party APIs? What kinds of policies or restrictions can be put in place?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common use cases you’ve seen and how do you solve them? What business decisions have to be made if they decide to restrict access in some way?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14680492 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0400 1721 Eyal Solomon, Lunar.dev, APIs, Observability, 3rd-party APIs, Integration, full false The End of the Free Tiers The End of the Free Tiers 2024 is the year of business accountability across all aspects of the software industry. This means that all variations of the free tier are going away in one way or another. 

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WHY DID THE FREE TIER(S) EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE?

  • Why do free tiers exist? Marketing awareness, experimentation, 
  • Why is talking about making money, or profitability considered taboo?
  • Why do we reconcile the love of employees and the hatred of paying for software?

WHAT ARE THE TRADE-OFFS WHEN THE FREE TIER GOES AWAY?

  • Are free tiers and free open source software the same thing?
  • Are “wants” and “value” the same thing? 
  • What should be free in the software world? 
  • Should end-users want the backers of a project or company to be successful?
  • Will VCs continue to back companies that have free tiers, or companies that spend on marketing, or is the game needing new (undefined) rules? 

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WHY DID THE FREE TIER(S) EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE?

  • Why do free tiers exist? Marketing awareness, experimentation, 
  • Why is talking about making money, or profitability considered taboo?
  • Why do we reconcile the love of employees and the hatred of paying for software?

WHAT ARE THE TRADE-OFFS WHEN THE FREE TIER GOES AWAY?

  • Are free tiers and free open source software the same thing?
  • Are “wants” and “value” the same thing? 
  • What should be free in the software world? 
  • Should end-users want the backers of a project or company to be successful?
  • Will VCs continue to back companies that have free tiers, or companies that spend on marketing, or is the game needing new (undefined) rules? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14659092 Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1474 Free Tiers, Buoyant, Red Hat, Builds, PlanetScale, License Changes, Business Accountability full false Cloud News of the Month - February 2024 Cloud News of the Month - February 2024 Welcome to the "second monthly" Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest tech stories and five trends from February 2024.

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Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - Microsoft is branching out from just OpenAI as a partner, as they should
  • Trend 2 - Selling Customer Data for AI training is Suddenly a Revenue Stream (and a source for lawsuits if it isn’t)
  • Trend 3 - Chips are cool again - Everyone wants to go after NVIDIA, including NVIDIA
  • Trend 4 - Google has more downs than ups - Will AI eat the search business?
  • Trend 5 - Hugging Face leads OSS alternative AI but also has bad actors

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Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - Microsoft is branching out from just OpenAI as a partner, as they should
  • Trend 2 - Selling Customer Data for AI training is Suddenly a Revenue Stream (and a source for lawsuits if it isn’t)
  • Trend 3 - Chips are cool again - Everyone wants to go after NVIDIA, including NVIDIA
  • Trend 4 - Google has more downs than ups - Will AI eat the search business?
  • Trend 5 - Hugging Face leads OSS alternative AI but also has bad actors

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14636229 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2918 Cloud Earnings, AI, Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Selling Customer Data full false Anatomy of a Side Hustle Anatomy of a Side Hustle Lots of people want to turn their hobby or passion into a money-making activity, or as the kids call it “a side hustle”. Let’s explore how to do it, and some mistakes to avoid. 

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SO YOU WANT TO MAKE MORE MONEY?

  • When do you decide to make more money? 
  • Is anyone willing to give you money? Is it profitable money?

HOW MUCH MORE ARE YOU WILLING TO WORK?

  • Why are you doing this? What’s the goal? Is there a goal? 
  • Are you doing this with anyone else? Are you aligned? Always aligned? 
  • Are you willing to put in the hours? Does anyone else care about your hours?
  • How much are you willing to invest in order to learn?
  • Are you OK with failing?
  • Do you understand how people make money in your niche?
  • How will you address conflicts of interest? Where do those come from? Do they matter?

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SO YOU WANT TO MAKE MORE MONEY?

  • When do you decide to make more money? 
  • Is anyone willing to give you money? Is it profitable money?

HOW MUCH MORE ARE YOU WILLING TO WORK?

  • Why are you doing this? What’s the goal? Is there a goal? 
  • Are you doing this with anyone else? Are you aligned? Always aligned? 
  • Are you willing to put in the hours? Does anyone else care about your hours?
  • How much are you willing to invest in order to learn?
  • Are you OK with failing?
  • Do you understand how people make money in your niche?
  • How will you address conflicts of interest? Where do those come from? Do they matter?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14618500 Sun, 03 Mar 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1864 full false Observability and Visualizing Data with Grafana Observability and Visualizing Data with Grafana Ronald McCollum (@RonaldMcCollam, Solutions Engineering @GrafanaLabs) talks about updates in the observability space and learning more about Grafana and data visualization.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - We last talked about Grafana back in 2019 and 2020. Observability continues to be a hot topic, how are you seeing the open-source community and open-source tools evolve in this space?

Topic 3 - We always hear about Grafana as a visualization tool. Grafana AND something (Grafana and Prometheus, Grafana and (insert logging/observability tool here). Is that still a fair assessment? Where does Grafana fit in a modern cloud-native observability stack these days?

Topic 4 - When you are speaking to folks out there, where does the data visualization story resonate the most in the organization, and does it become at times political and cultural (meaning cultural changes need to happen)? There can be an ROI/Business case to be made; developers integrations that will need to happen, SRE operations changes, etc. How do you get something that likely spans many different parts of the organization on board?

Topic 5 - Anytime I think about observability I think in two stages. Identification of the problem and resolution of the problem. Some tools address one or the other, and some attempt to do both. Where does Grafana fit on this continuum?

Topic 6 - I have to ask the AI question. How has AI changed or in your opinion will change observability and visualization in the near future?

Topic 7 - You’ve literally written the book on Grafana so this is a softball question. For those who are interested, how would you recommend they get started with Grafana

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - We last talked about Grafana back in 2019 and 2020. Observability continues to be a hot topic, how are you seeing the open-source community and open-source tools evolve in this space?

Topic 3 - We always hear about Grafana as a visualization tool. Grafana AND something (Grafana and Prometheus, Grafana and (insert logging/observability tool here). Is that still a fair assessment? Where does Grafana fit in a modern cloud-native observability stack these days?

Topic 4 - When you are speaking to folks out there, where does the data visualization story resonate the most in the organization, and does it become at times political and cultural (meaning cultural changes need to happen)? There can be an ROI/Business case to be made; developers integrations that will need to happen, SRE operations changes, etc. How do you get something that likely spans many different parts of the organization on board?

Topic 5 - Anytime I think about observability I think in two stages. Identification of the problem and resolution of the problem. Some tools address one or the other, and some attempt to do both. Where does Grafana fit on this continuum?

Topic 6 - I have to ask the AI question. How has AI changed or in your opinion will change observability and visualization in the near future?

Topic 7 - You’ve literally written the book on Grafana so this is a softball question. For those who are interested, how would you recommend they get started with Grafana

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14590646 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1672 Grafana, Ronald McCollum, Observability, Dashboards, Monitoring, SRE, Visualization full false Building a Keynote Presentation Building a Keynote Presentation If you have to build a keynote presentation, or any presentation for a large audience, what are the key areas to focus on? Here’s some tips on story-telling and audience engagement.

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BUILDING THE OVERALL STORY

  • Think of your presentation as a story. It can be hero/villian, preacher approach (tell, tell, tell), an analogy, partially educational. Lots of different approaches work. 
  • Put yourself in the audience’s shoes. Who are they? Would they want to hear your story?
  • What does the audience get out of your talk? 

THE KEY AREAS TO FOCUS ON

  • Are you bringing the right level of energy for the room? Are you educating, or motivating, or introducing new ideas?
  • Are you bringing empathy for your audience, or are you trying to portray confidence/leadership?
  • Are you at the right level for the audience? Technical vs. Business. Prior knowledge required? What about a mixed audience?
  • How are you interacting with the audience? Do they provide any feedback (raising hands, laughing at jokes, applause, etc.)?
  • Plan for 2-3 minutes per slide. Try not to waste any slides. 
  • If you’re introducing new ideas, don’t make people listen AND read at the same time. Keep the visual simple and easy to view. 
  • “Sell” the important parts. Emphasize them. Alter the pace to ensure people get it. 
  • Use data (stats, graphs, charts) that make concepts easier to understand, or better emphasized.
  • Use comparisons - especially with new ideas. 
  • Demonstrations can be valuable, but make sure it’s at the right level for the audience - and that it works (pre-recorded is an option)


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SHOW NOTES:

BUILDING THE OVERALL STORY

  • Think of your presentation as a story. It can be hero/villian, preacher approach (tell, tell, tell), an analogy, partially educational. Lots of different approaches work. 
  • Put yourself in the audience’s shoes. Who are they? Would they want to hear your story?
  • What does the audience get out of your talk? 

THE KEY AREAS TO FOCUS ON

  • Are you bringing the right level of energy for the room? Are you educating, or motivating, or introducing new ideas?
  • Are you bringing empathy for your audience, or are you trying to portray confidence/leadership?
  • Are you at the right level for the audience? Technical vs. Business. Prior knowledge required? What about a mixed audience?
  • How are you interacting with the audience? Do they provide any feedback (raising hands, laughing at jokes, applause, etc.)?
  • Plan for 2-3 minutes per slide. Try not to waste any slides. 
  • If you’re introducing new ideas, don’t make people listen AND read at the same time. Keep the visual simple and easy to view. 
  • “Sell” the important parts. Emphasize them. Alter the pace to ensure people get it. 
  • Use data (stats, graphs, charts) that make concepts easier to understand, or better emphasized.
  • Use comparisons - especially with new ideas. 
  • Demonstrations can be valuable, but make sure it’s at the right level for the audience - and that it works (pre-recorded is an option)


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14521192 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1888 full false Validation and Guardrails for LLMs Validation and Guardrails for LLMs Shreya Rajpal (@ShreyaR, CEO @guardrails_ai ) talks about the need to provide guardrails and validation of LLM’s, along with common use cases and Guardrail AI’s new Hub.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is the validation and accuracy of AI with guardrails. Let’s start with the why… Why do we need guardrails for LLMs today?

Topic 3 - Where and how do you control (maybe validate is a better word) outputs from LLM’s today? What are your thoughts on the best way to validate outputs?

Topic 4 - Will this workflow work with both closed-source (ChatGPT) and opensource (Llama2) models? Would this process apply to training/fine-tuning or more for inference? Would this potentially replace humans in the loop that we see today or is this completely different?

Topic 5 - What are some of the most common early use cases and practical examples? PII detection comes to mind, violation of ethics or laws, off-topic/out of scope, or simply just something the model isn’t designed to provide?

Topic 6 - What happens if it fails? Does this create a loop scenario to try again?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Guardrails AI specifically. Today you offer an open-source marketplace of Validators in the Guardrails Hub, correct? As we mentioned earlier, almost everyone’s implementation and guardrails they want to implement will be different. Is the best way to think about this as building blocks using validators that are pieced together?  Tell everyone a little bit about the offering

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is the validation and accuracy of AI with guardrails. Let’s start with the why… Why do we need guardrails for LLMs today?

Topic 3 - Where and how do you control (maybe validate is a better word) outputs from LLM’s today? What are your thoughts on the best way to validate outputs?

Topic 4 - Will this workflow work with both closed-source (ChatGPT) and opensource (Llama2) models? Would this process apply to training/fine-tuning or more for inference? Would this potentially replace humans in the loop that we see today or is this completely different?

Topic 5 - What are some of the most common early use cases and practical examples? PII detection comes to mind, violation of ethics or laws, off-topic/out of scope, or simply just something the model isn’t designed to provide?

Topic 6 - What happens if it fails? Does this create a loop scenario to try again?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Guardrails AI specifically. Today you offer an open-source marketplace of Validators in the Guardrails Hub, correct? As we mentioned earlier, almost everyone’s implementation and guardrails they want to implement will be different. Is the best way to think about this as building blocks using validators that are pieced together?  Tell everyone a little bit about the offering

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14543187 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1647 LLM, Guard rails, AI, Models full false Experiencing The Sphere in Las Vegas Experiencing The Sphere in Las Vegas Stu Miniman (@stu, Senior Director of Market Insights @RedHat) talks about the experience of The Sphere (@SphereVegas) in Las Vegas

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. I think it’s fair to say that you’re a veteran of Las Vegas. How many times do you think you’ve been out there for tech-event related things? 

Topic 2 - With tech events coming back, and even non-tech events going live again, Las Vegas is going to be a destination for a lot of people around our community. What did you know about The Sphere prior to visiting this past week? 

Topic 3 - Tell us about the basics of The Sphere. How do you get there? Where is it in Las Vegas? What’s the entrance like?

Topic 4 - Beyond the movies or concerts in the stadium, what else is going on in the building? 

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the actual stadium experience. What’s the seating like, what are you seeing, how’s the sound? 

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks for anyone considering a visit to The Sphere? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. I think it’s fair to say that you’re a veteran of Las Vegas. How many times do you think you’ve been out there for tech-event related things? 

Topic 2 - With tech events coming back, and even non-tech events going live again, Las Vegas is going to be a destination for a lot of people around our community. What did you know about The Sphere prior to visiting this past week? 

Topic 3 - Tell us about the basics of The Sphere. How do you get there? Where is it in Las Vegas? What’s the entrance like?

Topic 4 - Beyond the movies or concerts in the stadium, what else is going on in the building? 

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the actual stadium experience. What’s the seating like, what are you seeing, how’s the sound? 

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks for anyone considering a visit to The Sphere? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14503222 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1856 The Sphere, Las Vegas, AWS re:Invent, Concert, Stadium full false APIs and AI Gateways APIs and AI Gateways Marco Palladino (@subnetmarco, CTO/Co-Founder @thekonginc) talks about the evolution of APIs, the need for consolidation and integration of AI APIs, and introduces the AI Gateway.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background at Kong and prior to Kong.

Topic 2 - Now that the world is obsessed with AI and AI Models, what roles do APIs continue to play for applications?

Topic 3 - You’ve lived through the API marketplace days. Do you see a lot of differences between API marketplaces and model marketplaces (e.g. like HuggingFace)?

Topic 4 - You’ve talked recently about the concept of an AI Gateway, somewhat as an evolution of an API Gateway. Walk us through this new concept.

Topic 5 - API Gateways can provide a lot of protection for known things by looking into various headers, security keys, and packet data. Can you imagine AI Gateways being able to have insights into model data to do things like Prompt Control, Hallucination Control, etc.?

Topic 6 - We’ve seen the merging of API Gateways (North/South) and Service Mesh (East/West) traffic as new application patterns emerged. Do you think we’ll see new traffic patterns again with AI traffic and AI model interactions? 

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SHOW: 795

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  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background at Kong and prior to Kong.

Topic 2 - Now that the world is obsessed with AI and AI Models, what roles do APIs continue to play for applications?

Topic 3 - You’ve lived through the API marketplace days. Do you see a lot of differences between API marketplaces and model marketplaces (e.g. like HuggingFace)?

Topic 4 - You’ve talked recently about the concept of an AI Gateway, somewhat as an evolution of an API Gateway. Walk us through this new concept.

Topic 5 - API Gateways can provide a lot of protection for known things by looking into various headers, security keys, and packet data. Can you imagine AI Gateways being able to have insights into model data to do things like Prompt Control, Hallucination Control, etc.?

Topic 6 - We’ve seen the merging of API Gateways (North/South) and Service Mesh (East/West) traffic as new application patterns emerged. Do you think we’ll see new traffic patterns again with AI traffic and AI model interactions? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14499238 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2009 Kong, API Gateway, AI Gateway, Marco Palladino, Security, Authentication full false The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits Big 3 cloud providers investing in AI with cloud credits. $7 trillion dollar big plans. VCs concerned about AI valuations. It feels like a new set of rules are being created. 

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ARE CLOUD CREDITS THE NEW VENTURE CAPITAL?

  • “Microsoft's Q2 2024 earnings report states that AI services contributed 6 percentage points of growth to Azure revenue. This is an increase from 3 percentage points in the previous quarter.” 

KEEP AN EYE ON AI USAGE “TRENDS” FROM THE BIG CLOUD PROVIDERS

  • Is this a problem for VCs? 
  • Is this “good” revenue for the cloud providers?
  • Are they just smart for utilizing an asset that they can monopolize?
  • How to track user-growth (e.g. OpenAI) and cloud-usage-growth (e.g. Big 3)
  • How much will people invest to build an alternative to NVIDIA?

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ARE CLOUD CREDITS THE NEW VENTURE CAPITAL?

  • “Microsoft's Q2 2024 earnings report states that AI services contributed 6 percentage points of growth to Azure revenue. This is an increase from 3 percentage points in the previous quarter.” 

KEEP AN EYE ON AI USAGE “TRENDS” FROM THE BIG CLOUD PROVIDERS

  • Is this a problem for VCs? 
  • Is this “good” revenue for the cloud providers?
  • Are they just smart for utilizing an asset that they can monopolize?
  • How to track user-growth (e.g. OpenAI) and cloud-usage-growth (e.g. Big 3)
  • How much will people invest to build an alternative to NVIDIA?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14477608 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1454 AWS, Azure, GCP, NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI, VCs, BG2 full false Cloud News of the Month Cloud News of the Month Welcome to the inaugural Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest tech stories from January 2024.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Let’s begin with the state of work - employees vs. management.

Topic 2 - Lots of changes finally announced by Broadcom about the new VMware (here, here)

Topic 3 - We’re starting to see the end of the Unicorns of 2021. This feels like it’s going to be a quiet crash.

Topic 4 - The CNCF and Linux foundation released some project velocity numbers. Looks like Kubernetes, GitOps, Telemetry, Backstage are at the top, with some noise around Envoy/Istio/Cilium

Topic 5 - There was a lot of buzz around Basecamp’s numbers for repatriating back to their private cloud.

Topic 6 - AI Speed Round...

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Let’s begin with the state of work - employees vs. management.

Topic 2 - Lots of changes finally announced by Broadcom about the new VMware (here, here)

Topic 3 - We’re starting to see the end of the Unicorns of 2021. This feels like it’s going to be a quiet crash.

Topic 4 - The CNCF and Linux foundation released some project velocity numbers. Looks like Kubernetes, GitOps, Telemetry, Backstage are at the top, with some noise around Envoy/Istio/Cilium

Topic 5 - There was a lot of buzz around Basecamp’s numbers for repatriating back to their private cloud.

Topic 6 - AI Speed Round...

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14454587 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2888 VMware, Broadcom, Unicorns, AI, Repatriation, CNCF Projects, Return to Office full false Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification Some say the Internet has gone to sh*t. Between bundling and unbundling, how does “ensh*tification” happen, and are there ways to prevent or reduce it?

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IN THE DIGITAL WORLD, IT’S EASY TO BUNDLE THINGS TOGETHER

  • The only way to unlock valid is through bundling and unbundling
  • There is a fine line between innovation, growth and platform creep. 
  • Nobody likes when free stuff goes away or gets complicated

CAPITALISM, FREE-ISM, AND ALIGNMENT OF INCENTIVES

  • Expected growth rates are set by the companies. 
  • People in tech are always asking “what’s next?”
  • There’s a difference between early adopters and mainstream


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IN THE DIGITAL WORLD, IT’S EASY TO BUNDLE THINGS TOGETHER

  • The only way to unlock valid is through bundling and unbundling
  • There is a fine line between innovation, growth and platform creep. 
  • Nobody likes when free stuff goes away or gets complicated

CAPITALISM, FREE-ISM, AND ALIGNMENT OF INCENTIVES

  • Expected growth rates are set by the companies. 
  • People in tech are always asking “what’s next?”
  • There’s a difference between early adopters and mainstream


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14433395 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1808 Corey Doctorow, Platforms, Enshitification, Cote, SDT, Technical Debt, Free full false VCs and Open Source and Funding VCs and Open Source and Funding Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about the challenges of VC funding and building profitable companies based on open-source software. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back. You’re almost in the 5 timers club at this point, and a returning guest from our look-ahead shows in 2023. For our new listeners, tell everyone a little bit about yourself

Topic 2 - You recently gave a talk at Monktoberfest about the problem with money in software, specifically open-source software. The crux of it was that VCs require high returns on investments, and software has short windows to gain adoption. 

Topic 3 - Could that talk have been given any time over the last 5+ years, or was it triggered by recent “events” with open source companies (e.g. Hashicorp)?

Topic 4 - Has VC thinking changed about software, given that open source provided essentially early marketing and awareness for “free,” but that comes with user expectations of free (cost) as well? Are there any new ideas about how to build cost-effective software moats?

Topic 5 - There are various “conspiracies” floating around that VCs negotiate “the rug pull” with companies at each funding round. Especially in the early stages (where you focus), how much is the VC focused on getting the idea off the ground vs. the validity of the business model? When does the business model discussion typically start? 

Topic 6 - We’ve said before that there will never be another Enterprise Software company after VMware. Has the era of open-source enterprise startups ended, or does it just need to go through a phase of rediscovery?

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Topic 1 - Welcome back. You’re almost in the 5 timers club at this point, and a returning guest from our look-ahead shows in 2023. For our new listeners, tell everyone a little bit about yourself

Topic 2 - You recently gave a talk at Monktoberfest about the problem with money in software, specifically open-source software. The crux of it was that VCs require high returns on investments, and software has short windows to gain adoption. 

Topic 3 - Could that talk have been given any time over the last 5+ years, or was it triggered by recent “events” with open source companies (e.g. Hashicorp)?

Topic 4 - Has VC thinking changed about software, given that open source provided essentially early marketing and awareness for “free,” but that comes with user expectations of free (cost) as well? Are there any new ideas about how to build cost-effective software moats?

Topic 5 - There are various “conspiracies” floating around that VCs negotiate “the rug pull” with companies at each funding round. Especially in the early stages (where you focus), how much is the VC focused on getting the idea off the ground vs. the validity of the business model? When does the business model discussion typically start? 

Topic 6 - We’ve said before that there will never be another Enterprise Software company after VMware. Has the era of open-source enterprise startups ended, or does it just need to go through a phase of rediscovery?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14408885 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2009 Aneel Lakhani, VC Funding, Open Source, Business Models, Growth full false Harnessing AI for Enterprise Adoption Harnessing AI for Enterprise Adoption Every company is trying to figure out how to harness the power of AI. Let’s look at some frameworks to accelerate innovation, allow for experimentation, and manage long-term success.

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GETTING STARTED AND ESTABLISHING THE FUNDAMENTALS

  • Does the business have an existing Data Science team? 
  • Does the business have an existing culture of experimentation?
  • What is the business trying to change or improve? 

EARLY SUCCESS, MATURITY MODELS, AND ENTERPRISE COMPLEXITIES

  • Aligning AI Strategy With Business Goals
  • Cultivating An AI-Friendly Culture
  • Skills And Expertise
  • Ethics And Trust
  • Data Management And Protection


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GETTING STARTED AND ESTABLISHING THE FUNDAMENTALS

  • Does the business have an existing Data Science team? 
  • Does the business have an existing culture of experimentation?
  • What is the business trying to change or improve? 

EARLY SUCCESS, MATURITY MODELS, AND ENTERPRISE COMPLEXITIES

  • Aligning AI Strategy With Business Goals
  • Cultivating An AI-Friendly Culture
  • Skills And Expertise
  • Ethics And Trust
  • Data Management And Protection


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14387452 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1937 AI, Business Alignment, AI Models, Ethics and Trust, Skills and Culture, Experimentation full false Wiring the Winning Organization Wiring the Winning Organization Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim, Author, Organizational Operations Researcher) talks about the challenges of organizing a team, group, or company to be successful in simple and complex tasks.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back. It’s been way too long. What have you been up to lately? Tell us a little bit about your co-author and where the research for this book came from.

Topic 2 - This is a different type of book than The Phoenix Project or Unicorn Project, in that it seems more about managerial structure and research than the inspirational story-telling of past books. Is this addressing a different audience, or you felt that it needed a different framework to make the biggest impact?

Topic 3 - At the core of the book are three concepts, amplification (where are the problems) which results in slowificaion (create space for problem solving) and simplification (make problems themselves easier to solve). Walk us through each of these.

Topic 4 - As I was reading this book, the thing that jumped out at me the most was the importance of alignment between problem scope, how teams or individuals were aligned, and how much flexibility could be given to different parts of the problem/solution.

Topic 5 - The Phoenix and Unicorn Projects inspired a generation of IT professionals to be the champion of the change in their organization. What feedback have you gotten from the readers of Wiring the Winning Organization so far?

Topic 6 - These days everyone wants learnings to be quick and with immediate results. Is there a TikTok version of the learnings from this book that anyone could use immediately?

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Topic 1 - Welcome back. It’s been way too long. What have you been up to lately? Tell us a little bit about your co-author and where the research for this book came from.

Topic 2 - This is a different type of book than The Phoenix Project or Unicorn Project, in that it seems more about managerial structure and research than the inspirational story-telling of past books. Is this addressing a different audience, or you felt that it needed a different framework to make the biggest impact?

Topic 3 - At the core of the book are three concepts, amplification (where are the problems) which results in slowificaion (create space for problem solving) and simplification (make problems themselves easier to solve). Walk us through each of these.

Topic 4 - As I was reading this book, the thing that jumped out at me the most was the importance of alignment between problem scope, how teams or individuals were aligned, and how much flexibility could be given to different parts of the problem/solution.

Topic 5 - The Phoenix and Unicorn Projects inspired a generation of IT professionals to be the champion of the change in their organization. What feedback have you gotten from the readers of Wiring the Winning Organization so far?

Topic 6 - These days everyone wants learnings to be quick and with immediate results. Is there a TikTok version of the learnings from this book that anyone could use immediately?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14362312 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2223 Gene Kim, DevOps, Organizational Structure, Wiring the Winning Organization full false Technology Shifts vs. Drifts Technology Shifts vs. Drifts Lots of trends happen in technology, but which ones of them are significant changes vs. just adjacencies to previous trends. Let’s explore technology shifts vs. drifts. 

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WHAT IS A SHIFT AND WHAT IS A DRIFT?

  • What is a Shift? What is a Drift?
  • Does it obviously help you save money?
  • Does it obviously help you make money?
  • Does it just seem to replace something else in a new way?

HOW IMPORTANT IS OBVIOUS ECONOMIC IMPACT? 

  • Is “We can respond to the business faster” just code for “We’re not sure what the impact will be?” How many new ideas happen per year?
  • Why aren’t TCO or ROI more obvious with every new technology?
  • Mainframe (shift), Mini (drift), PC (drift?), Mobile (drift?), Virtualization (shift), Serverless (drift), Kubernetes (drift), AI (shift)
  • The shift vs. drift is sometimes dependent on the user/use-case

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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT IS A SHIFT AND WHAT IS A DRIFT?

  • What is a Shift? What is a Drift?
  • Does it obviously help you save money?
  • Does it obviously help you make money?
  • Does it just seem to replace something else in a new way?

HOW IMPORTANT IS OBVIOUS ECONOMIC IMPACT? 

  • Is “We can respond to the business faster” just code for “We’re not sure what the impact will be?” How many new ideas happen per year?
  • Why aren’t TCO or ROI more obvious with every new technology?
  • Mainframe (shift), Mini (drift), PC (drift?), Mobile (drift?), Virtualization (shift), Serverless (drift), Kubernetes (drift), AI (shift)
  • The shift vs. drift is sometimes dependent on the user/use-case

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14341167 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1453 full false AWS vs. Azure AWS vs. Azure Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about comparing AWS vs Azure, evaluating alternatives and what changes over the next 3-5 years.

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Topic 1 - Depending on what metric we use (revenue, Gartner MQ, CAPEX spending, headlines), it’s starting to seem like AWS and Azure are pretty neck and neck. Do you see much difference between those two clouds?

Topic 2 - Gartner’s summary boils down to “AWS is better at infrastructure” and “Azure is better at developer services”. If you’re a customer, how do you choose between those ends of the spectrum, or are you mostly choosing both services?

Topic 3 - AWS claims to be the more secure cloud. Aside from some stability issues in various regions (or either AWS or Azure), are there really any indications that one cloud is “more secure” than the other? Don’t they mostly put the burden on the customer and their applications?

Topic 4 - Did you see any distinct usage trends for companies choosing AWS vs. Azure? We’ve seen somewhere between 10-15% of apps move to the cloud (lift & shift?) over the last 10+ years and growth rates are slowing. Can either significantly move that number without some big changes, or is it just a slow, gradual growth?

Topic 5 - We’ve talked a lot about AI recently. How much do you think the AI strategies of AWS vs Azure will impact bigger usage decisions?

Topic 6 - AWS is still #1 and Azure is #2. Is there anything over the next 3-4 years that could shakeup that order?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Depending on what metric we use (revenue, Gartner MQ, CAPEX spending, headlines), it’s starting to seem like AWS and Azure are pretty neck and neck. Do you see much difference between those two clouds?

Topic 2 - Gartner’s summary boils down to “AWS is better at infrastructure” and “Azure is better at developer services”. If you’re a customer, how do you choose between those ends of the spectrum, or are you mostly choosing both services?

Topic 3 - AWS claims to be the more secure cloud. Aside from some stability issues in various regions (or either AWS or Azure), are there really any indications that one cloud is “more secure” than the other? Don’t they mostly put the burden on the customer and their applications?

Topic 4 - Did you see any distinct usage trends for companies choosing AWS vs. Azure? We’ve seen somewhere between 10-15% of apps move to the cloud (lift & shift?) over the last 10+ years and growth rates are slowing. Can either significantly move that number without some big changes, or is it just a slow, gradual growth?

Topic 5 - We’ve talked a lot about AI recently. How much do you think the AI strategies of AWS vs Azure will impact bigger usage decisions?

Topic 6 - AWS is still #1 and Azure is #2. Is there anything over the next 3-4 years that could shakeup that order?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14323690 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2138 AWS, Azure, Security, AI, Developers, Infrastructure, CAPEX, Gartner full false Is 2024 the Year of Accountability? Is 2024 the Year of Accountability? Return to Office, Layoffs, Acquisitions,and Shareholder Accountability are dominating the worker-level discussions in early 2024. Let’s dig into what’s really happening. 

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WHY IS ALL OF THIS HAPPENING NOW?

  • This is similar to the 2022-2023 transition (unexpected + fast)
  • Companies are quick to cut and slow to restart/accelerate
  • Companies often overestimate needs and under-estimate fixes
  • There are new competitive dynamics happening all over tech
  • There will be lots of bankruptcy and acquisitions in 2024

2024 WILL BE A YEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITY

  • The pendulum of workers vs management is swinging back to management
  • 15 minutes of “blame management” fame might be short lived
  • Business doesn’t necessarily work like Reddit trends
  • Focus on alignment to revenues, customer success
  • Focus on results, not excuses
  • Actively look for efficiencies and inefficiencies

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SHOW NOTES:


WHY IS ALL OF THIS HAPPENING NOW?

  • This is similar to the 2022-2023 transition (unexpected + fast)
  • Companies are quick to cut and slow to restart/accelerate
  • Companies often overestimate needs and under-estimate fixes
  • There are new competitive dynamics happening all over tech
  • There will be lots of bankruptcy and acquisitions in 2024

2024 WILL BE A YEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITY

  • The pendulum of workers vs management is swinging back to management
  • 15 minutes of “blame management” fame might be short lived
  • Business doesn’t necessarily work like Reddit trends
  • Focus on alignment to revenues, customer success
  • Focus on results, not excuses
  • Actively look for efficiencies and inefficiencies

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14304511 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 1525 AWS, GCP, Layoffs, Acquisitions, Unicorns, Silent Sacking, VMware, Broadcom full false 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about surviving the annual planning process and Q1 goals, KPIs, politics, priorities, etc

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Topic 1 - The new year is upon us. What sorts of strategies do you use (or have you used) to deal with the onslaught of 2024 planning, Q1 goals/KPIs, etc.? Are you a fast-starter or trying to lay low?

Topic 2 - What are some of the ways that you’ve seen people deal with the annual goals that seem overwhelming (or hard to project) in January? 

Topic 3 - What are the biggest pitfalls for being too aggressive too early in 2024? What are the biggest upsides for being aggressive?

Topic 4 - Even though the calendar flips in December, it doesn’t mean everything starts over (or starts new). How do you deal with the projects that have completely different priorities on January 1st vs. December 31st?

Topic 5 - Who are the key people you’re trying to align with in Q1? Is it managers, or finance, or strategy people….or someone else? 

Topic 6 - Any big disasters to avoid in Q1 that can ruin the rest of the year? 

Topic 7 - Final thoughts on winning at the beginning of the year?


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Topic 1 - The new year is upon us. What sorts of strategies do you use (or have you used) to deal with the onslaught of 2024 planning, Q1 goals/KPIs, etc.? Are you a fast-starter or trying to lay low?

Topic 2 - What are some of the ways that you’ve seen people deal with the annual goals that seem overwhelming (or hard to project) in January? 

Topic 3 - What are the biggest pitfalls for being too aggressive too early in 2024? What are the biggest upsides for being aggressive?

Topic 4 - Even though the calendar flips in December, it doesn’t mean everything starts over (or starts new). How do you deal with the projects that have completely different priorities on January 1st vs. December 31st?

Topic 5 - Who are the key people you’re trying to align with in Q1? Is it managers, or finance, or strategy people….or someone else? 

Topic 6 - Any big disasters to avoid in Q1 that can ruin the rest of the year? 

Topic 7 - Final thoughts on winning at the beginning of the year?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14282776 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2631 Annual Budgets, Q1, Kickoffs, Quotas, KPIs, Priorities, New Management, Goals full false Is Cloud just a feature now? Is Cloud just a feature now? More than a decade into cloud, is cloud just a feature of the systems we build these days? What else might become features in the near future? 

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IS THE CLOUD JUST A FEATURE NOW?

  • On-demand pricing
  • On-demand resources
  • Someone else manages it for you
  • API access to systems
  • A wide breadth of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services

WHAT MIGHT BECOME A FEATURE OF MODERN SYSTEMS?

  • DevOps becomes integrated Co-Pilots via LLMs
  • FinOps gets built into the systems, like vMotion from VMware
  • Pre-Testing, Pre-Planning gets built in (like System Initiative)
  • Chaos engineering gets built-in
  • Collaboration gets built-in
  • The OS becomes like containers and gets deterministic
  • Upgrades are built-in
  • Training, Docs, Examples are built-in

LESSONS LEARNED

  • The cross the chasm adoption isn’t just for a specific technology, it’s for bigger systems too
  • Rarely does the new thing completely replace the old thing (mobile excluded)
  • Innovation will need to continue to be creative (e.g. open source, pricing, etc.)
  • “Failures” are usually just incremental steps

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SHOW: 784

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  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
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  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 

SHOW NOTES:

IS THE CLOUD JUST A FEATURE NOW?

  • On-demand pricing
  • On-demand resources
  • Someone else manages it for you
  • API access to systems
  • A wide breadth of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services

WHAT MIGHT BECOME A FEATURE OF MODERN SYSTEMS?

  • DevOps becomes integrated Co-Pilots via LLMs
  • FinOps gets built into the systems, like vMotion from VMware
  • Pre-Testing, Pre-Planning gets built in (like System Initiative)
  • Chaos engineering gets built-in
  • Collaboration gets built-in
  • The OS becomes like containers and gets deterministic
  • Upgrades are built-in
  • Training, Docs, Examples are built-in

LESSONS LEARNED

  • The cross the chasm adoption isn’t just for a specific technology, it’s for bigger systems too
  • Rarely does the new thing completely replace the old thing (mobile excluded)
  • Innovation will need to continue to be creative (e.g. open source, pricing, etc.)
  • “Failures” are usually just incremental steps

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14264953 Sun, 07 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0500 2141 Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps, FinOps, AI, Upgrades, Chaos Engineering, Pre-Testing full false 2024 Look Ahead - Using AI to Enable Personal Productivity 2024 Look Ahead - Using AI to Enable Personal Productivity Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle, Founder @peripety_labs) about enabling AI to drive personal productivity, AI experimentation and AIOps soft skills.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Give our audience a little bit of your background and what you focus on now with Peripety Labs?

Topic 2 - If you’re a business leader today, where are you focusing your priorities in terms of taking advantage of AI to improve the business?

Topic 3 - If you’re a knowledge worker today, where are you focusing your priorities in terms of taking advantage of AI to improve your job?

Topic 4 - What’s a good way to think about experimentation with AI vs. trying to start measuring results now? Any tips to help companies or workers accelerate their learning curves?

Topic 5 - What are some of the biggest misconceptions you’re seeing across the industry right now around AI? Concerns, fears, anti-patterns, etc. 

Topic 6 - We’re learned over many years (and technology trends) that the most successful ones align technology and people/culture/organization. What are the AI alignments of people and technology that are most needed? 


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]]> Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle, Founder @peripety_labs) about enabling AI to drive personal productivity, AI experimentation and AIOps soft skills.

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  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Give our audience a little bit of your background and what you focus on now with Peripety Labs?

Topic 2 - If you’re a business leader today, where are you focusing your priorities in terms of taking advantage of AI to improve the business?

Topic 3 - If you’re a knowledge worker today, where are you focusing your priorities in terms of taking advantage of AI to improve your job?

Topic 4 - What’s a good way to think about experimentation with AI vs. trying to start measuring results now? Any tips to help companies or workers accelerate their learning curves?

Topic 5 - What are some of the biggest misconceptions you’re seeing across the industry right now around AI? Concerns, fears, anti-patterns, etc. 

Topic 6 - We’re learned over many years (and technology trends) that the most successful ones align technology and people/culture/organization. What are the AI alignments of people and technology that are most needed? 


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14238013 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500 2103 AI, Mark Hinkle, AI Use Cases, Personal Productivity, Experimentation, AIOps, Soft Skills full false 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Predictions 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Predictions @AaronDelp and @BGracely talk about the biggest stories, trends and events of cloud in 2023, and some predictions for 2024.

SHOW: 782

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SHOW NOTES:

THE BASICS:

  • Our second 2M listens show 
  • Thank you to all our sponsors throughout the year (Datadog, CloudZero, Cisco Panoptica, Section, Fix the Internet, Sysdig, DoIT, Eaton, theCUBE, CNCF, Upland Software, Equinix, Red Hat, Cloudfix, GCore, Kosli)

2023 PREDICTIONS: 

AARON’S PREDICTIONS:

  • A Hyperscaler that isn’t 1 or 2 throws in the towel - We start to see consolidation in the category
  • Platform Engineering hits its Trough of Disillusionment
  • Compact, OSS, specialized AI models will become the standard for anything not in the cloud (on device, datacenter, edge)
  • A new category emerges - AI Customization for the masses (Data Science as a Service) - intersection of ITOps and AI

BRIAN’S PREDICTIONS:

  • We’ll see the 1st 500M-user AI service
  • AI economics start to change (smaller models, non-GPU chips)
  • 40-50 former unicorns ($1B valuations from 2020-22) get acquired 
  • Every product adds an AI / LLM capability to simplify usage

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

THE BASICS:

  • Our second 2M listens show 
  • Thank you to all our sponsors throughout the year (Datadog, CloudZero, Cisco Panoptica, Section, Fix the Internet, Sysdig, DoIT, Eaton, theCUBE, CNCF, Upland Software, Equinix, Red Hat, Cloudfix, GCore, Kosli)

2023 PREDICTIONS: 

AARON’S PREDICTIONS:

  • A Hyperscaler that isn’t 1 or 2 throws in the towel - We start to see consolidation in the category
  • Platform Engineering hits its Trough of Disillusionment
  • Compact, OSS, specialized AI models will become the standard for anything not in the cloud (on device, datacenter, edge)
  • A new category emerges - AI Customization for the masses (Data Science as a Service) - intersection of ITOps and AI

BRIAN’S PREDICTIONS:

  • We’ll see the 1st 500M-user AI service
  • AI economics start to change (smaller models, non-GPU chips)
  • 40-50 former unicorns ($1B valuations from 2020-22) get acquired 
  • Every product adds an AI / LLM capability to simplify usage

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14192325 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0500 3667 AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Broadcom, CNCF full false The Industry Fallout from OpenAI 2023 The Industry Fallout from OpenAI 2023 Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk) talk about the November OpenAI drama and how it potentially impacts the entire AI industry in 2024.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Post-mortem - what do we know about what happened with the almost coup at OpenAI? What speculation (rumors) have been the loudest? 

Topic 2 - What are the biggest unknowns?

  • How is it possible that Sam Altman didn’t/doesn’t have a significant amount of equity in OpenAI and still remain so powerful? 
  • How is it possible that Microsoft invested this much in OpenAI without having more understanding?
  • How much of a mistake did the board make in assuming their concerns about Sam would be removed with a single firing? 
  • How much does Microsoft get diluted by the latest round of funding (if it happens)?


Topic 2a - What are going to be the biggest concerns and enticements for customers looking at different models to use? Is it ease of use? A single model? Privacy and security?

Topic 2b - Who cracks the code on simplification and personalization? OpenAI with customer GPT’s? OSS models with fine-tuning/RAG?

Topic 3 - Is it possible that the OpenAI model (e.g. GPT-4, or Q*) will continue to be considerably better than all the other existing and emerging models? Do small language models take over? Do specialized models trained on private licensed data become a differentiator?

Topic 4 - Who is driving AI at Google? Is it within GCP, or is there now a commercial side of Google Brain / Deepmind?

Topic 5 - Who is driving AI at Amazon/AWS? How did AWS get into a position where it seems to have so little control over its models?

Topic 6 - Where will the control over AI reside (in the technology stack)? 

Topic 7 - Will the AI “wars” be more chaotic that the Cloud “wars” of the last decade? Will we see war-time CEOs? Will we see more irrational decisions?

Topic 8 - Will AI-specific clouds emerge? Will data-specific clouds emerge? Will model-specific clouds emerge? 

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SHOW: 781

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Post-mortem - what do we know about what happened with the almost coup at OpenAI? What speculation (rumors) have been the loudest? 

Topic 2 - What are the biggest unknowns?

  • How is it possible that Sam Altman didn’t/doesn’t have a significant amount of equity in OpenAI and still remain so powerful? 
  • How is it possible that Microsoft invested this much in OpenAI without having more understanding?
  • How much of a mistake did the board make in assuming their concerns about Sam would be removed with a single firing? 
  • How much does Microsoft get diluted by the latest round of funding (if it happens)?


Topic 2a - What are going to be the biggest concerns and enticements for customers looking at different models to use? Is it ease of use? A single model? Privacy and security?

Topic 2b - Who cracks the code on simplification and personalization? OpenAI with customer GPT’s? OSS models with fine-tuning/RAG?

Topic 3 - Is it possible that the OpenAI model (e.g. GPT-4, or Q*) will continue to be considerably better than all the other existing and emerging models? Do small language models take over? Do specialized models trained on private licensed data become a differentiator?

Topic 4 - Who is driving AI at Google? Is it within GCP, or is there now a commercial side of Google Brain / Deepmind?

Topic 5 - Who is driving AI at Amazon/AWS? How did AWS get into a position where it seems to have so little control over its models?

Topic 6 - Where will the control over AI reside (in the technology stack)? 

Topic 7 - Will the AI “wars” be more chaotic that the Cloud “wars” of the last decade? Will we see war-time CEOs? Will we see more irrational decisions?

Topic 8 - Will AI-specific clouds emerge? Will data-specific clouds emerge? Will model-specific clouds emerge? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14177653 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0500 3641 OpenAI, Microsoft, Generative AI, ChatGPT, AWS, GCP, NVIDIA, Open Source full false 2023 End of Year Mailbag 2023 End of Year Mailbag Aaron and Brian answer mailbag questions from the community about the future of open source, future of VMware, the Big 3 Clouds and how AI will impact the next era of cloud.

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Q1: What are the bigger picture dynamics happening around open source?

Q2: Lots of companies talk about wanting to modernize applications, but it seems really complicated? Is there anything on the horizon to make it easier?

Q3: What have you seen as the most important things to make modernization work well? 

Q4: Do you have any thoughts about Broadcom taking over VMware? 

Q5: Has anything really changed in the dynamics between the three big cloud providers, or do you expect AWS to just stay in the lead for the foreseeable future?

Q6: During the Phases of Cloud shows, you talked about it beginning to start a new phase of the cloud. What expectations do you have for the next phase?

Q7: There have been a bunch of AI shows lately. If I’m not a Data Scientist, should I bother listening to those shows? 

Q8: A bunch of us at work are experimenting with various AI technologies, but we’re being told by our employer that it might violate some legal issues and expose some work data. Any thoughts?

Q9: Do you have any plans to do any Cloudcast Basics series about some of the AI technologies?


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]]> Aaron and Brian answer mailbag questions from the community about the future of open source, future of VMware, the Big 3 Clouds and how AI will impact the next era of cloud.

SHOW: 780

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Q1: What are the bigger picture dynamics happening around open source?

Q2: Lots of companies talk about wanting to modernize applications, but it seems really complicated? Is there anything on the horizon to make it easier?

Q3: What have you seen as the most important things to make modernization work well? 

Q4: Do you have any thoughts about Broadcom taking over VMware? 

Q5: Has anything really changed in the dynamics between the three big cloud providers, or do you expect AWS to just stay in the lead for the foreseeable future?

Q6: During the Phases of Cloud shows, you talked about it beginning to start a new phase of the cloud. What expectations do you have for the next phase?

Q7: There have been a bunch of AI shows lately. If I’m not a Data Scientist, should I bother listening to those shows? 

Q8: A bunch of us at work are experimenting with various AI technologies, but we’re being told by our employer that it might violate some legal issues and expose some work data. Any thoughts?

Q9: Do you have any plans to do any Cloudcast Basics series about some of the AI technologies?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14159216 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2617 Broadcom, VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP, Open Source, App Modernization, Shadow AI, full false SaaS Analytics and Dashboards SaaS Analytics and Dashboards Karel Callens (@KarelCallens, CEO/Founder @luzmo_official) talks about the importance of SaaS Analytics and how to build dashboards into SaaS services while maintaining security and compliance

SHOW: 779

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SHOW SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Karel, tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Luzmo (formally Cumul.io)

Topic 2 - Our topic today is SaaS Analytics. Let’s start with SaaS as an industry. We’ve covered the rise of SaaS here on the show over the years, but we haven’t really dug into the operations and analytics side in the past. Why is there a need for SaaS analytics? What problem are we trying to solve?

Topic 3 - How does the concept of data visualization come into play when building out SaaS? What are the benefits, and what are we saving? Is this time to value? Service cost

Topic 4 - How does data locality and regulations in the industry impact this? Take GDPR or CCPA, for example. Are they working as intended?

Topic 5 - What are the most common use cases you see with your customers today

Topic 6 - Are there limits or best practices to data exposure in a service? Just because you can expose something doesn’t mean you should. How do you recommend organizations tackle the proper balance?

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]]> Karel Callens (@KarelCallens, CEO/Founder @luzmo_official) talks about the importance of SaaS Analytics and how to build dashboards into SaaS services while maintaining security and compliance

SHOW: 779

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Karel, tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Luzmo (formally Cumul.io)

Topic 2 - Our topic today is SaaS Analytics. Let’s start with SaaS as an industry. We’ve covered the rise of SaaS here on the show over the years, but we haven’t really dug into the operations and analytics side in the past. Why is there a need for SaaS analytics? What problem are we trying to solve?

Topic 3 - How does the concept of data visualization come into play when building out SaaS? What are the benefits, and what are we saving? Is this time to value? Service cost

Topic 4 - How does data locality and regulations in the industry impact this? Take GDPR or CCPA, for example. Are they working as intended?

Topic 5 - What are the most common use cases you see with your customers today

Topic 6 - Are there limits or best practices to data exposure in a service? Just because you can expose something doesn’t mean you should. How do you recommend organizations tackle the proper balance?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14138553 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1513 Karel Callens, SaaS, SaaS Analytics, Dashboards, Security, GDPR full false How AWS has evolved on Day 2 How AWS has evolved on Day 2 What were the major announcements at 2023 AWS re:Invent? What did we learn about their AI strategy? What did we learn about how they continue to evolve the business?

SHOW: 778

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  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend
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SHOW NOTES:


AWS MANAGES THE TRANSITION FROM ONE CLOUD ERA TO THE NEXT 

  • Reviewing AWS’ AI strategy
  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud in AWS
  • Further alignment with Anthropic
  • AWS Q
  • Cost Optimization Hub
  • Memory-optimized Graviton 4 ARM compute nodes
  • zero-ETL integration for a number of database and data-ingestion platforms
  • Aurora Limitless Database
  • IBM DB2 comes to AWS
  • Project Kuiper - Satellite Internet

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SHOW: 778

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app


SHOW NOTES:


AWS MANAGES THE TRANSITION FROM ONE CLOUD ERA TO THE NEXT 

  • Reviewing AWS’ AI strategy
  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud in AWS
  • Further alignment with Anthropic
  • AWS Q
  • Cost Optimization Hub
  • Memory-optimized Graviton 4 ARM compute nodes
  • zero-ETL integration for a number of database and data-ingestion platforms
  • Aurora Limitless Database
  • IBM DB2 comes to AWS
  • Project Kuiper - Satellite Internet

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14118405 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2056 AWS, re:Invent, Day 2, Andy Jassy, AI Era, Adam Selipsky full false LLMOps & Conversational Intelligence for AI LLMOps & Conversational Intelligence for AI GUEST: Alex Kvamme (@KwameKvamme, CEO @GetPathlight) talks about using AI to unlock market insights from discussions with customers and partners.

SHOW: 777

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SHOW SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Alex, Tell us a bit about your background.

Topic 2 - What is the concept of conversational intelligence and how does it apply to most organizations today? What problem is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - I would think there is a trade off between time and resources to get to a customer issue vs. the value of that insight. How does an organization weigh the opportunity cost? How do you keep the insights generated from being overwhelming

Topic 4 - Let’s move from the concept to practical. Where is the data in most organizations today that will yield results and solve problems? How would you suggest folks get started and what use case are they likely to implement first? Is this data that humans either can’t or won’t get too because it is an enormous amount or maybe too tedious to pay for?

Topic 5 - How does all of this work under the hood? Is this one model or multiple models working in parallel? Is there a framework for the operations and lifecycle managed by an organization?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about what it takes to get an LLM into production. The the rise of LLM’s and foundational models such as Llama2, there is an interest for organizations to use LLM’s, but going from concept to production still has a high barrier to entry. It’s easy to download a model, it’s much harder to either fine-tune it or set up RAG with a vector database for your specific use case. Would you agree and what are your thoughts?

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]]> GUEST: Alex Kvamme (@KwameKvamme, CEO @GetPathlight) talks about using AI to unlock market insights from discussions with customers and partners.

SHOW: 777

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Alex, Tell us a bit about your background.

Topic 2 - What is the concept of conversational intelligence and how does it apply to most organizations today? What problem is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - I would think there is a trade off between time and resources to get to a customer issue vs. the value of that insight. How does an organization weigh the opportunity cost? How do you keep the insights generated from being overwhelming

Topic 4 - Let’s move from the concept to practical. Where is the data in most organizations today that will yield results and solve problems? How would you suggest folks get started and what use case are they likely to implement first? Is this data that humans either can’t or won’t get too because it is an enormous amount or maybe too tedious to pay for?

Topic 5 - How does all of this work under the hood? Is this one model or multiple models working in parallel? Is there a framework for the operations and lifecycle managed by an organization?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about what it takes to get an LLM into production. The the rise of LLM’s and foundational models such as Llama2, there is an interest for organizations to use LLM’s, but going from concept to production still has a high barrier to entry. It’s easy to download a model, it’s much harder to either fine-tune it or set up RAG with a vector database for your specific use case. Would you agree and what are your thoughts?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14089265 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1806 Alex Kvamme, LLMOps, Conversational Intelligence, LLM, Pathlight, RAG full false From Cloud to Cloud-native to COVID From Cloud to Cloud-native to COVID How did the modern cloud evolve from the earliest days of AWS to today’s AI boom? What roles did open source, mobile apps, microservices and the sharing economy play?

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  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend

SHOW NOTES:


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SHOW: 776

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend

SHOW NOTES:


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14076225 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2946 Mobile, Sharing Economy, Cloud, Cloud-native, COVID, Acquisitions, Crypto, Cloud-first full false Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success. 

SHOW: 775

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show and back to the show. Gary, tell us about your background and what areas you focus on at Google Cloud these days. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about language, specifically the gaps in language (and understanding) between engineering teams and finance teams. What works today and where are the biggest gaps and challenges?

Topic 3 - One of the challenges of Cloud billing, and hence FinOps, is the 100s or 1000s or line-items. What are they for? How are they changing? What are some of the things/tools out there to make sense of all of this spend? (e.g. visualization, tagging, etc.)

Topic 4 - We’re all familiar with budgeting (pre-activity) and complaints about project/cost overruns (post-activity), but what are some of the things happening mid-project, or on-going to avoid the surprises or overruns?

Topic 5 - How much of these on-going changes/tracking is done by the engineering teams and how much is being done by finance teams? 

Topic 6 - Can you share with us examples of how companies have evolved with good FinOps principles and hygiene in place? 

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]]> Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success. 

SHOW: 775

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show and back to the show. Gary, tell us about your background and what areas you focus on at Google Cloud these days. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about language, specifically the gaps in language (and understanding) between engineering teams and finance teams. What works today and where are the biggest gaps and challenges?

Topic 3 - One of the challenges of Cloud billing, and hence FinOps, is the 100s or 1000s or line-items. What are they for? How are they changing? What are some of the things/tools out there to make sense of all of this spend? (e.g. visualization, tagging, etc.)

Topic 4 - We’re all familiar with budgeting (pre-activity) and complaints about project/cost overruns (post-activity), but what are some of the things happening mid-project, or on-going to avoid the surprises or overruns?

Topic 5 - How much of these on-going changes/tracking is done by the engineering teams and how much is being done by finance teams? 

Topic 6 - Can you share with us examples of how companies have evolved with good FinOps principles and hygiene in place? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14052395 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2238 DoIT, Google Cloud, Cost Management, FinOps, Culture, Budgeting full false Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud How did the 2001 dotCom bubble burst lead to the 2008 housing crisis and how did it impact the technology markets?  And the OpenAI Coup-oops!

SHOW: 774

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SHOW NOTES:

A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE OPEN AI COUP ATTEMPT

  • Sam Altman (CEO) got fired, then returned

HOW DID DOTCOM BUBBLE LEAD TO HOUSING CRASH AND CLOUD?

  • Google made Internet advertising available to every business
  • SaaS companies emerge, to replace core business functions
  • The “sharing economy” took off (music, pictures, blogs, etc.)
  • Shadow IT caused problems for Corporate IT

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A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE OPEN AI COUP ATTEMPT

  • Sam Altman (CEO) got fired, then returned

HOW DID DOTCOM BUBBLE LEAD TO HOUSING CRASH AND CLOUD?

  • Google made Internet advertising available to every business
  • SaaS companies emerge, to replace core business functions
  • The “sharing economy” took off (music, pictures, blogs, etc.)
  • Shadow IT caused problems for Corporate IT

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14032460 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2327 OpenAI, Housing Bubble, Google, Ads, Wikipedia, Sharing Economy, AWS, Azure, GCP, Shadow IT full false Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering Can you still call them the FAANG companies considering Facebook is now Meta and Google is now Alphabet? Maybe it’s MAANA now?! Elliott Clark (CEO/Founder, Batteries Included) talks about creating a Platform Engineering org and building an IDP before it was cool.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Elliott, you have some great experiences at Cloudera and Meta/Facebook that shaped you moving out to start your own thing at Batteries Included. Give everyone a brief background please.

Topic 2 - You were building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and doing Platform Engineering before it was cool. Tell everyone a little about the need and how it came to be at Meta/Facebook.

Topic 3 - I think it’s probably important to talk about the origin stories for this. What was the problem to solve? How was it solved? What was the final “product” and how was it used?

Topic 3a - Anything you would have done differently?

Topic 4 - We always hear stories about the FAANG companies and the scale they operate in. But, we hear mixed things about if following those practices are a good idea. Some say we should use them because we know it is repeatable at scale. Others say the practices are only relevant at those companies and most organizations don’t need that level of complexity. Thoughts? What are the pros and cons?

Topic 5 - What are your thoughts on the current and future state of Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms? There seems to be a tension between being prescriptive or opinionated enough for operations to scale vs. developers needing to use the tools they know and love to be as productive as possible. Thoughts?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about Open Source. Many have heard about Backstage when it comes to Platform Engineering and we’ve even talked about it on this show before. What are your thoughts around building these platforms on OSS. Also, any thoughts on OSS being cost prohibitive?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Elliott, you have some great experiences at Cloudera and Meta/Facebook that shaped you moving out to start your own thing at Batteries Included. Give everyone a brief background please.

Topic 2 - You were building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and doing Platform Engineering before it was cool. Tell everyone a little about the need and how it came to be at Meta/Facebook.

Topic 3 - I think it’s probably important to talk about the origin stories for this. What was the problem to solve? How was it solved? What was the final “product” and how was it used?

Topic 3a - Anything you would have done differently?

Topic 4 - We always hear stories about the FAANG companies and the scale they operate in. But, we hear mixed things about if following those practices are a good idea. Some say we should use them because we know it is repeatable at scale. Others say the practices are only relevant at those companies and most organizations don’t need that level of complexity. Thoughts? What are the pros and cons?

Topic 5 - What are your thoughts on the current and future state of Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms? There seems to be a tension between being prescriptive or opinionated enough for operations to scale vs. developers needing to use the tools they know and love to be as productive as possible. Thoughts?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about Open Source. Many have heard about Backstage when it comes to Platform Engineering and we’ve even talked about it on this show before. What are your thoughts around building these platforms on OSS. Also, any thoughts on OSS being cost prohibitive?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-14014951 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1558 Elliott Clark, Batteries Included, IDP, Self-Service, Platform Engineering full false 2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey 2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey What happened in the lead-up to the Internet Bubble burst of 2001? What went right, what went wrong, and what lessons did we learn? (Part 1 of 3)

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Original Tweet that inspired the show: https://x.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1719827334834913283?s=20

“Looking for recommendations: what’s the best book ever written about the dotcom bubble? Specifically looking for something that captures the emotions of that time as well as the mechanics”

THE BROWSER, THE NETWORKS, THE CARRIERS AND POSSIBILITIES

  • Information was freely exposed to the Internet (and Intranets)
  • It was Digital Transformation 1.0 era - Everything on the Internet 
  • The New Industrial Revolution
  • Lots of focus on new Online Purchasing
  • Lots of focus on new Telecommunications services (VoIP, VoD, etc.)
  • Lots of focus on new media partnerships

EVERYTHING ALWAYS GOES UP, EVERYDAY, RIGHT? 

  • Massive network build outs
  • Lots of Engineers and MBAs moved out to Silicon Valley
  • Every startup built their own data-centers, networks, applications, etc.
  • IPOs were happening every week
  • Telecom vendors vs. Internet/Networking vendors
  • Stock prices going up $1-2 per day

LESSONS LEARNED:

  • Infrastructure has to match the ambitions
  • Business models always come back to revenues and profitability
  • Each wave can create the new big winners (and losers)
  • Understand Manias vs. Fundamentals (where in the wave are we?)
  • Stupid money eventually finds a bottom

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Original Tweet that inspired the show: https://x.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1719827334834913283?s=20

“Looking for recommendations: what’s the best book ever written about the dotcom bubble? Specifically looking for something that captures the emotions of that time as well as the mechanics”

THE BROWSER, THE NETWORKS, THE CARRIERS AND POSSIBILITIES

  • Information was freely exposed to the Internet (and Intranets)
  • It was Digital Transformation 1.0 era - Everything on the Internet 
  • The New Industrial Revolution
  • Lots of focus on new Online Purchasing
  • Lots of focus on new Telecommunications services (VoIP, VoD, etc.)
  • Lots of focus on new media partnerships

EVERYTHING ALWAYS GOES UP, EVERYDAY, RIGHT? 

  • Massive network build outs
  • Lots of Engineers and MBAs moved out to Silicon Valley
  • Every startup built their own data-centers, networks, applications, etc.
  • IPOs were happening every week
  • Telecom vendors vs. Internet/Networking vendors
  • Stock prices going up $1-2 per day

LESSONS LEARNED:

  • Infrastructure has to match the ambitions
  • Business models always come back to revenues and profitability
  • Each wave can create the new big winners (and losers)
  • Understand Manias vs. Fundamentals (where in the wave are we?)
  • Stupid money eventually finds a bottom

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13995762 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 3244 full false Intro to Vector Databases Intro to Vector Databases Jeff Huber (@jeffreyhuber, Founder/CEO @trychroma) talks vector databases, data integration, RAG, Embedded models, and AI integration.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Chroma.

Topic 2 - Our audience, like many out there, is learning AI as fast as they can. So, let’s start with a few basic concepts. What is a vector database, and why is it important to AI?

Topic 3 - Does this only help foundational models? What goes into the integration into a model, and can this be used with any model?

Topic 4 - Is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) possible without a vector database?

Topic 5 - What are the trade-offs between fine-tuning a model (adding the data in) vs. RAG (keeping the data external)?

Topic 6 - What else is needed to create an “AI Stack”?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Chroma. First off, there is the OSS project which has been a huge success. Over 3 million downloads and 9.5k Github stars and inclusion into some 10k plus projects. Tell everyone a little bit about Chroma and what makes it different. You recently also announced a major milestone, over one million instances running

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Chroma.

Topic 2 - Our audience, like many out there, is learning AI as fast as they can. So, let’s start with a few basic concepts. What is a vector database, and why is it important to AI?

Topic 3 - Does this only help foundational models? What goes into the integration into a model, and can this be used with any model?

Topic 4 - Is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) possible without a vector database?

Topic 5 - What are the trade-offs between fine-tuning a model (adding the data in) vs. RAG (keeping the data external)?

Topic 6 - What else is needed to create an “AI Stack”?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Chroma. First off, there is the OSS project which has been a huge success. Over 3 million downloads and 9.5k Github stars and inclusion into some 10k plus projects. Tell everyone a little bit about Chroma and what makes it different. You recently also announced a major milestone, over one million instances running

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13975124 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1551 Foundational Models,Chroma,Vector Database,AI,RAG,Embedding full false Is AI the new Oppenheimer event? Is AI the new Oppenheimer event? AI is reaching the point where there is wild speculation, potential regulations, and opinions on if it will destroy humanity. So how does anyone make sense of all of it?

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ARE WE UNDER OR OVER REACTING TO THE AI POSSIBILITIES?

  • Oppenheimer said the possibility of destruction was “near zero”
  • OpenAI research said it’s 10-20% chance of human destruction

WHAT ARE THE OPEN, REGULATIVE AND STRUCTURAL GUARDRAILS OF AI

  • What is good or bad with AI?
  • Should societal concerns be considered? By whom?
  • Should environmental concerns be considered? By whom?


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ARE WE UNDER OR OVER REACTING TO THE AI POSSIBILITIES?

  • Oppenheimer said the possibility of destruction was “near zero”
  • OpenAI research said it’s 10-20% chance of human destruction

WHAT ARE THE OPEN, REGULATIVE AND STRUCTURAL GUARDRAILS OF AI

  • What is good or bad with AI?
  • Should societal concerns be considered? By whom?
  • Should environmental concerns be considered? By whom?


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13952659 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1388 Generative AI, Oppenheimer, Regulation, Risk Management, Bias, Techno-Optimist full false Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create AtomicJar

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. We hear more and more about shifting everything left. In this case we are talking about potentially shifting testing left. What problem are we trying to solve and everything comes at a cost, what are the tradeoffs?

Topic 3 - We hear all the time that adoption of changes to a development practice is part culture and part technology. What is the hook that gets folks interested in investing time and resources into better testing practices?

Topic 4 - Are the tests integrated into the code? How seamless is this into existing CI/CD pipelines or an organization's DevOps practice on average?

Topic 5 - From a business perspective, how are the advantages typically measured? More deployments, less defects, etc

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the OSS project Testcontainers a bit. What is it? How did it come about? How are folks using this concept of throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, and web browsers, for instance. Is this all in Docker containers?

Topic 7 - There’s also testing in the cloud with a SaaS service (Testcontiners Cloud). What is the origin story behind this and how are folks using it today? Is this a replacement for say Docker Desktop?

Topic 8 - For those out there that are interested? How would they get started?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create AtomicJar

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. We hear more and more about shifting everything left. In this case we are talking about potentially shifting testing left. What problem are we trying to solve and everything comes at a cost, what are the tradeoffs?

Topic 3 - We hear all the time that adoption of changes to a development practice is part culture and part technology. What is the hook that gets folks interested in investing time and resources into better testing practices?

Topic 4 - Are the tests integrated into the code? How seamless is this into existing CI/CD pipelines or an organization's DevOps practice on average?

Topic 5 - From a business perspective, how are the advantages typically measured? More deployments, less defects, etc

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the OSS project Testcontainers a bit. What is it? How did it come about? How are folks using this concept of throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, and web browsers, for instance. Is this all in Docker containers?

Topic 7 - There’s also testing in the cloud with a SaaS service (Testcontiners Cloud). What is the origin story behind this and how are folks using it today? Is this a replacement for say Docker Desktop?

Topic 8 - For those out there that are interested? How would they get started?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13914885 Wed, 08 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1788 Eli Aleyner, AtomicJar, TestContainers, Developers, CI/CD, Docker full false The Challenges of Pre-Announcements The Challenges of Pre-Announcements Your favorite product just announced something new and you’re upset. Why didn’t they tell you about it ahead of time? Why didn’t they ask for your feedback? How does a launch work?

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WHY DID THEY ANNOUNCE IT NOW? 

  • What is being announced? 
  • How impactful is the announcement? (private, public markets, partnerships)
  • How strategic is the announcement?
  • Why didn’t they give anybody a heads-up?

WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND THE SCENES? WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS & ALTERNATIVES?

  • Who (or what groups) are involved with an announcement? 
  • Who is trusted and not trusted? What rules or guidelines are in place?
  • How does the media involvement work? 
  • What if you leak it ahead of time to gauge feedback and reactions?
  • What if you screw it up? 
  • Can you walk it back or change it? 

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SHOW NOTES:

WHY DID THEY ANNOUNCE IT NOW? 

  • What is being announced? 
  • How impactful is the announcement? (private, public markets, partnerships)
  • How strategic is the announcement?
  • Why didn’t they give anybody a heads-up?

WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND THE SCENES? WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS & ALTERNATIVES?

  • Who (or what groups) are involved with an announcement? 
  • Who is trusted and not trusted? What rules or guidelines are in place?
  • How does the media involvement work? 
  • What if you leak it ahead of time to gauge feedback and reactions?
  • What if you screw it up? 
  • Can you walk it back or change it? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13905206 Sun, 05 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2012 full false Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days at Outshift by Cisco.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the security challenges that come with modern applications and cloud environments. 

Topic 3 - The classic challenges of security have always been too many tools, not enough people, lots of misconfigurations, tons of red on the dashboard. Are there new approaches that are trying to address these challenges?

Topic 4 - Talk to us about this concept of “Attack Path Analysis”. What is it? What is it trying to accomplish that we didn’t/couldn’t do before?

Topic 5 - How does Panoptica address many of these challenges? How does it integrate with the many areas of the entire picture, from IaC to CI/CD to Observability?

Topic 6 - What are some differences that DevOps teams might experience by using Attack Path Analysis?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days at Outshift by Cisco.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the security challenges that come with modern applications and cloud environments. 

Topic 3 - The classic challenges of security have always been too many tools, not enough people, lots of misconfigurations, tons of red on the dashboard. Are there new approaches that are trying to address these challenges?

Topic 4 - Talk to us about this concept of “Attack Path Analysis”. What is it? What is it trying to accomplish that we didn’t/couldn’t do before?

Topic 5 - How does Panoptica address many of these challenges? How does it integrate with the many areas of the entire picture, from IaC to CI/CD to Observability?

Topic 6 - What are some differences that DevOps teams might experience by using Attack Path Analysis?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13884411 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2209 Tim Miller, Outshift by Cisco, Security, Attack Path, DevOps, Multi-Cloud, CSPM full false A New Perspective on The Cloudcast A New Perspective on The Cloudcast Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules. 

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SHOW NOTES:

BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTING

  • Commutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less important
  • VC funding is slowing down, people are more focused on results vs. “new”
  • AI is a regular part of the conversation, but how much is too much?

WHAT WILL CLOUDCAST 2.0 LOOK LIKE? 

  • Moving to three shows a week: Sunday Perspective, Tuesday Umbrellas & Sunnies, Thursday On The Horizon
  • Cloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the Month
  • Bring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionality
  • Bring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)
  • More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & Brian
  • Better balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do Today
  • Do you want us to do Video?
  • Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?

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SHOW NOTES:

BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTING

  • Commutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less important
  • VC funding is slowing down, people are more focused on results vs. “new”
  • AI is a regular part of the conversation, but how much is too much?

WHAT WILL CLOUDCAST 2.0 LOOK LIKE? 

  • Moving to three shows a week: Sunday Perspective, Tuesday Umbrellas & Sunnies, Thursday On The Horizon
  • Cloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the Month
  • Bring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionality
  • Bring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)
  • More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & Brian
  • Better balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do Today
  • Do you want us to do Video?
  • Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13864693 Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1402 full false Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS.

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  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)
  • Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it
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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.

Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWS

Topic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?

Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?

Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’t

Topic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?

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SHOW: 765

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)
  • Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it
  • 20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.

Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWS

Topic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?

Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?

Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’t

Topic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13840472 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2268 Shannon Williams, Darren Sheppard, Acorn, PaaS, AppDev, AWS full false Lessons Learned from a Decade of CNCF Projects Lessons Learned from a Decade of CNCF Projects As Docker talks about their successes and failures after 10 years, what lessons can be learned by open source companies, projects and foundations over the past decade.

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IT’S HARD TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

  • Docker was the transition between OpenStack (bad foundation) and Kubernetes (CNCF)
  • Was Docker a Community or a Cult? How did Leadership work?
  • Docker was stuck between VMware and Developers

WHAT HAS THE INDUSTRY LEARNED FROM THE DOCKER DAYS?

  • Customers and communities are very hesitant to adopt another single-vendor offering
  • Could Docker have succeeded as a “free” implementation?
  • As much as DevOps and PlatformEngineering are happening, it’s tough to have an “in between” technology (used by both Infra and AppDev)
  • It’s OK to adapt your monetization model, but it’s not OK to not have one
  • Open source can’t be the driving force of a business. It’s not a charity. 
  • If somebody offers you $3B, maybe consider taking it….


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  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.


SHOW NOTES:


IT’S HARD TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

  • Docker was the transition between OpenStack (bad foundation) and Kubernetes (CNCF)
  • Was Docker a Community or a Cult? How did Leadership work?
  • Docker was stuck between VMware and Developers

WHAT HAS THE INDUSTRY LEARNED FROM THE DOCKER DAYS?

  • Customers and communities are very hesitant to adopt another single-vendor offering
  • Could Docker have succeeded as a “free” implementation?
  • As much as DevOps and PlatformEngineering are happening, it’s tough to have an “in between” technology (used by both Infra and AppDev)
  • It’s OK to adapt your monetization model, but it’s not OK to not have one
  • Open source can’t be the driving force of a business. It’s not a charity. 
  • If somebody offers you $3B, maybe consider taking it….


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13820975 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2037 CNCF, Docker, Open Source, Containers, Kubernetes, AWS, VMware full false Inside Open Source Software Inside Open Source Software Joe Curley (VP/GM Software & Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (@arungupta, VP/GM Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosystems.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Joe and Arun, give everyone a brief background please.

Topic 2 - For many of our listeners, they may not equate Intel with Software and Open Source. Can you give everyone some background on how the intersection of Intel and Open Ecosystems came to be and your involvement today? What’s in it for developers

Topic 3 - How does Open Source Software fit into Intel’s broader software strategy

Topic 4 - What are the trends you are seeing in OSS and how does that impact Intel? How does that impact organizations today?

Topic 5 - What kind of investments does Intel make into Open Source and Open Tools? There is Intel’s oneAPI for instance…

Topic 6 - Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere, how does AI fit into Intel’s hardware and software vision and strategy?

Topic 7 - Any final closing thoughts on the future and what to expect from Intel in the future?

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)
  • Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it
  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • 20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Joe and Arun, give everyone a brief background please.

Topic 2 - For many of our listeners, they may not equate Intel with Software and Open Source. Can you give everyone some background on how the intersection of Intel and Open Ecosystems came to be and your involvement today? What’s in it for developers

Topic 3 - How does Open Source Software fit into Intel’s broader software strategy

Topic 4 - What are the trends you are seeing in OSS and how does that impact Intel? How does that impact organizations today?

Topic 5 - What kind of investments does Intel make into Open Source and Open Tools? There is Intel’s oneAPI for instance…

Topic 6 - Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere, how does AI fit into Intel’s hardware and software vision and strategy?

Topic 7 - Any final closing thoughts on the future and what to expect from Intel in the future?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13794401 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2010 Intel, Open Source Software, Joe Curley, Arun Gupta, Open Ecosystems full false Where Will the Next Software Business Model Come From? Where Will the Next Software Business Model Come From? Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the next few years? 

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  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
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  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
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  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend

SHOW NOTES:

ARE THERE ANY VALID SOFTWARE BUSINESS MODELS LEFT?

  • Software business models keep running into road blocks
  • VC funding is slowing down, and interest rates are rising
  • Can OSS as marketing survive? 

WILL THE NEXT GENERATION PAY FOR SOFTWARE, IN ANY WAY? 

  • SaaS seems to work, if you can survive the burn rate to capture customers.
  • Is SaaS too expensive? Will variations emerge?
  • Any changing models (free to fee, open core, etc.) disenfranchise the users
  • OSS is getting less funding
  • Gaming is tied to engines and app stores
  • Will AI open up new business models? New licensing models?

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]]> Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the next few years? 

SHOW: 762

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend

SHOW NOTES:

ARE THERE ANY VALID SOFTWARE BUSINESS MODELS LEFT?

  • Software business models keep running into road blocks
  • VC funding is slowing down, and interest rates are rising
  • Can OSS as marketing survive? 

WILL THE NEXT GENERATION PAY FOR SOFTWARE, IN ANY WAY? 

  • SaaS seems to work, if you can survive the burn rate to capture customers.
  • Is SaaS too expensive? Will variations emerge?
  • Any changing models (free to fee, open core, etc.) disenfranchise the users
  • OSS is getting less funding
  • Gaming is tied to engines and app stores
  • Will AI open up new business models? New licensing models?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13779309 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1279 full false Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup Anish Bishen (Chief Data Architect @Sliide), Jay Rawal (Head of DevOps @Sliide), Ieva Jonaityte (TAM @DoIT) talk about scaling infrastructure and data services at a rapidly growing startup, with FinOps enabled. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and your focus areas today. 

Topic 2 - Sliide delivers a platform that allows Carriers and OEMs to deliver unique digital experiences to customers. Tell us about the architecture behind the platform and some of the bigger challenges you have in delivering those services at scale.

Topic 3 - When delivering services for mobile, there are tons of variables involved (user-experience, bandwidth management, backend data collection, analytics, etc.). What do you think about the tradeoffs in terms of costs vs. experience?

Topic 4 - DId you look at the cost optimizations as a one-time project, or is a FInOps focus now part of your on-going planning and operations? How does that function work with the rest of the platform team?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working with the DoIT team to help optimize the platform and overall costs. How did you decide to work with DoIT to augment your team, and what were some of the core areas you focused on? 

Topic 6 - What lessons learned would you pass along to other platform teams? 

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SHOW: 761

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All Things Open 2023 is making 5 free passes + a 20% discount available to the Cloudcast community! More than 150 speakers and 175 sessions will be featured in downtown Raleigh October 15-17.

SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and your focus areas today. 

Topic 2 - Sliide delivers a platform that allows Carriers and OEMs to deliver unique digital experiences to customers. Tell us about the architecture behind the platform and some of the bigger challenges you have in delivering those services at scale.

Topic 3 - When delivering services for mobile, there are tons of variables involved (user-experience, bandwidth management, backend data collection, analytics, etc.). What do you think about the tradeoffs in terms of costs vs. experience?

Topic 4 - DId you look at the cost optimizations as a one-time project, or is a FInOps focus now part of your on-going planning and operations? How does that function work with the rest of the platform team?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working with the DoIT team to help optimize the platform and overall costs. How did you decide to work with DoIT to augment your team, and what were some of the core areas you focused on? 

Topic 6 - What lessons learned would you pass along to other platform teams? 

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13751640 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2334 full false Navigating the Annual Review Navigating the Annual Review With many companies doing annual reviews this time of year, we go through some guidance, tips and tricks and strategies for navigating reviews with your manager, and reviews with your teams. 

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW TO MANAGE THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

  • The annual review is a year-long project, but most people only focus on the 3-4 weeks around it.
  • It’s about what you do, but it’s also about what you do that’s visible beyond your team.
  • Know how your company measures success and structures rewards/promotions/recognition.

THE GOOD, BAD AND THE UGLY OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW

  • HR controls the process, and your manager generally doesn’t want to deal with it.
  • Most companies allocate a strict budget, which is top-down. 
  • Most companies grade on a broad bell curve; most people end up in the middle. 
  • It’s good to understand concepts like grade levels and mid-points of compensation.
  • “Pay transparency” is probably not what you think.
  • Some (not all) bosses aren’t thinking about your career, so you need to own it
  • Promotions usually take a few cycles to happen. Ask around to understand that process. 
  • For example, don’t expect the startup CEO to give you the best advice for your career, their interests may diverge from yours, asking more experience people how they do X may result in outdated advice.


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]]> With many companies doing annual reviews this time of year, we go through some guidance, tips and tricks and strategies for navigating reviews with your manager, and reviews with your teams. 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

HOW TO MANAGE THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

  • The annual review is a year-long project, but most people only focus on the 3-4 weeks around it.
  • It’s about what you do, but it’s also about what you do that’s visible beyond your team.
  • Know how your company measures success and structures rewards/promotions/recognition.

THE GOOD, BAD AND THE UGLY OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW

  • HR controls the process, and your manager generally doesn’t want to deal with it.
  • Most companies allocate a strict budget, which is top-down. 
  • Most companies grade on a broad bell curve; most people end up in the middle. 
  • It’s good to understand concepts like grade levels and mid-points of compensation.
  • “Pay transparency” is probably not what you think.
  • Some (not all) bosses aren’t thinking about your career, so you need to own it
  • Promotions usually take a few cycles to happen. Ask around to understand that process. 
  • For example, don’t expect the startup CEO to give you the best advice for your career, their interests may diverge from yours, asking more experience people how they do X may result in outdated advice.


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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13735405 Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2185 full false DevOps Automated Governance DevOps Automated Governance Mike Long (CEO @_kosli) talks about the challenges of enabling Governance and Compliance into DevOps teams and processes

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All Things Open 2023 is making 5 free passes + a 20% discount available to the Cloudcast community! More than 150 speakers and 175 sessions will be featured in downtown Raleigh October 15-17.

Put Generative AI to Work Virtual Conference, 3 Free passes are available! Email us (address below). Once those are gone, use CLOUDCAST40 for 40% off!
 
SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about building software for businesses. Lots of people have read the Phoenix Project, and yet most companies still struggle to deploy software fast enough. Where are the bottlenecks today?

Topic 3 - What about Governance or Compliance or Auditing as functions? Can you help the audience understand their purpose and what those groups/functions do?

Topic 4 - Software development seems to boil down to lots of impedance mismatches due to managing risk (testing, security, compliance, etc.). How does Kosli play a role in trying to improve those mismatches?

Topic 5 - DevOps Automated Governance. What is it, how is it implemented, what benefits do companies get from it?

Topic 6 - Kosli technology is often described as “a flight recorder for your runtime environments”. Is the recorder primarily for the auditors, or does it become part of operations?

'Topic 7 - How do companies typically get started using Kosli? Does it have to be all at once, are is there a typical Crawl-Walk-Run model?

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SHOW: 759

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

All Things Open 2023 is making 5 free passes + a 20% discount available to the Cloudcast community! More than 150 speakers and 175 sessions will be featured in downtown Raleigh October 15-17.

Put Generative AI to Work Virtual Conference, 3 Free passes are available! Email us (address below). Once those are gone, use CLOUDCAST40 for 40% off!
 
SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about building software for businesses. Lots of people have read the Phoenix Project, and yet most companies still struggle to deploy software fast enough. Where are the bottlenecks today?

Topic 3 - What about Governance or Compliance or Auditing as functions? Can you help the audience understand their purpose and what those groups/functions do?

Topic 4 - Software development seems to boil down to lots of impedance mismatches due to managing risk (testing, security, compliance, etc.). How does Kosli play a role in trying to improve those mismatches?

Topic 5 - DevOps Automated Governance. What is it, how is it implemented, what benefits do companies get from it?

Topic 6 - Kosli technology is often described as “a flight recorder for your runtime environments”. Is the recorder primarily for the auditors, or does it become part of operations?

'Topic 7 - How do companies typically get started using Kosli? Does it have to be all at once, are is there a typical Crawl-Walk-Run model?

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]]> Massive Studios Buzzsprout-13712870 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2091 Mike Long, Kosli, DevOps, Governance, Compliance full false Technology Enthusiast Lost at Sea Technology Enthusiast Lost at Sea Today we explore what to do when you’re stuck at a career crossroads between being technically valuable and managerial or leadership valuable. How to consider the tradeoffs.

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SHOW NOTES:

I BROKE INTO THE INDUSTRY THROUGH A TECHNOLOGY TRACK, BUT I BROUGHT MORE TO THE TABLE

  • Lots of people reach a crossroads when they decide to move from technically-focused to manager-focused. 
  • They often struggle because their identity of technical skills feels like it’s slipping away, and they aren’t sure of their identity. 
  • Being a manager can often be unsatisfying and some people want to go back to the technology path.

NOW I’M FINDING THAT I’M GOOD AT MANAGING, BUT I DON’T KNOW IF IT BRINGS ME JOY

  • Gain an understanding of the career ladders for both a technical path and a managerial path (or other paths in between).
  • Try and determine what it’ll take to get to several levels higher than you are today (extra schooling, extra certifications, developer technical skills, travel, etc.)
  • Make a list of the things that are most important to you, and what you’re OK with not prioritizing as a negative. (Location, Salary, Opportunity, Title, Job Risk, etc.)
  • Figure out what parts of the current path don’t motivate you. Can a mentor help? Can you offset that with enjoyment from other parts of the role? 
  • Sometimes you need to leave a specific job/company, but do that with the “next job” in mind (not the “move job”)
  • Early in your career you’ll move jobs for opportunity/money/title, but unknown managers. Later in your career you’ll move to work with specific people. Find those people. 


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]]> Today we explore what to do when you’re stuck at a career crossroads between being technically valuable and managerial or leadership valuable. How to consider the tradeoffs.

SHOW: 758

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

I BROKE INTO THE INDUSTRY THROUGH A TECHNOLOGY TRACK, BUT I BROUGHT MORE TO THE TABLE

  • Lots of people reach a crossroads when they decide to move from technically-focused to manager-focused. 
  • They often struggle because their identity of technical skills feels like it’s slipping away, and they aren’t sure of their identity. 
  • Being a manager can often be unsatisfying and some people want to go back to the technology path.

NOW I’M FINDING THAT I’M GOOD AT MANAGING, BUT I DON’T KNOW IF IT BRINGS ME JOY

  • Gain an understanding of the career ladders for both a technical path and a managerial path (or other paths in between).
  • Try and determine what it’ll take to get to several levels higher than you are today (extra schooling, extra certifications, developer technical skills, travel, etc.)
  • Make a list of the things that are most important to you, and what you’re OK with not prioritizing as a negative. (Location, Salary, Opportunity, Title, Job Risk, etc.)
  • Figure out what parts of the current path don’t motivate you. Can a mentor help? Can you offset that with enjoyment from other parts of the role? 
  • Sometimes you need to leave a specific job/company, but do that with the “next job” in mind (not the “move job”)
  • Early in your career you’ll move jobs for opportunity/money/title, but unknown managers. Later in your career you’ll move to work with specific people. Find those people. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13690108 Sun, 01 Oct 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2536 full false Will a New Cloud Emerge? Will a New Cloud Emerge? Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely discuss the possibility of another major cloud provider emerging as the economy changes and new application workloads begin to take shape. 

SHOW: 757

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Do you remember back when AWS was starting to take off, and Simon Wardley used to talk about how IBM or HP or Cisco or EMC/VMware should have been the ones building the utility cloud services? 

Topic 2 - We’re now at a stage when all anyone can talk about is AI (Generative AI, LLMs, etc.) and GPUs. So which one is more powerful, the Models/Data or the Infrastructure?

Topic 3 - Is it possible that NVIDIA could start building their own cloud? Do they potentially want to own a more vertical experience? 

Topic 4 - Obviously the buildout costs are enormous, but are they that much different from what the Big 3 are trying to do in retrofitting existing data centers, or hiring to build their own mini-Nuclear reactors?

Topic 5 - Who could potentially be a partner to NVIDIA in building out this type of cloud in the near-term? (Equinix, national governments, cities-of-the-future, sovereign wealth funds, etc.)

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]]> Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely discuss the possibility of another major cloud provider emerging as the economy changes and new application workloads begin to take shape. 

SHOW: 757

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Do you remember back when AWS was starting to take off, and Simon Wardley used to talk about how IBM or HP or Cisco or EMC/VMware should have been the ones building the utility cloud services? 

Topic 2 - We’re now at a stage when all anyone can talk about is AI (Generative AI, LLMs, etc.) and GPUs. So which one is more powerful, the Models/Data or the Infrastructure?

Topic 3 - Is it possible that NVIDIA could start building their own cloud? Do they potentially want to own a more vertical experience? 

Topic 4 - Obviously the buildout costs are enormous, but are they that much different from what the Big 3 are trying to do in retrofitting existing data centers, or hiring to build their own mini-Nuclear reactors?

Topic 5 - Who could potentially be a partner to NVIDIA in building out this type of cloud in the near-term? (Equinix, national governments, cities-of-the-future, sovereign wealth funds, etc.)

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13670305 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 2302 NVIDIA, AWS, Azure, GCP, New Cloud, GPUs, AI, New Architecture full false Every company is a Hardware company Every company is a Hardware company What happens when every software company needs to be a hardware company first? And how are leading VC firms potentially predicting that the 2000s will be repeating themselves?

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SHOW NOTES:


BACK IN THE DOT COM DAYS, WE ASSUMED THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE INTERNET

  • Let's remember how we transitioned from the late 1990s to the early 2000s
  • VCs used to have a $50M "hardware tax" on investments
  • Cloud and Low Interest Rates changed everything
  • New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models

NOW WE ASSUME THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE AI (and GPUs)

  • Interest rates have come back up to 2001 levels
  • VCs are back to paying the "hardware tax", and aren't happy
  • New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models
  • Let's see if history repeats itself.


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SHOW: 756

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SHOW SPONSORS:


SHOW NOTES:


BACK IN THE DOT COM DAYS, WE ASSUMED THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE INTERNET

  • Let's remember how we transitioned from the late 1990s to the early 2000s
  • VCs used to have a $50M "hardware tax" on investments
  • Cloud and Low Interest Rates changed everything
  • New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models

NOW WE ASSUME THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE AI (and GPUs)

  • Interest rates have come back up to 2001 levels
  • VCs are back to paying the "hardware tax", and aren't happy
  • New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models
  • Let's see if history repeats itself.


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13644294 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2330 full false Training and Labeling Foundational AI Models Training and Labeling Foundational AI Models Alex Ratner (@ajratner, CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about labeling and training of LLMs. We go over Foundational Models and how to take an “off the shelf” model and fine-tune it for private use.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke two years ago. A lot has changed so we thought it would be a great time to talk about updates. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with when we last spoke. We talked a lot about data scientists and how data labeling works for training LLM’s. For those that aren’t familiar, can you give everyone a quick intro to data labeling and why it is important for training?

Topic 3 - When we last spoke, LLM weren't as mainstream as they are today. How has this impacted how you think about AI/ML in general? What are the big challenges for LLM today that you see?

Topic 4 - Many organizations are trying “off the shelf” models but this may or may not be a good idea. On one side they don’t have to build a model but on the other they still have to fine tune it to their specific needs and use case. What are your recommendations for organizations to get started and be as effective as possible?

Topic 5 - In addition to organization specific models, are teams building purpose built models for specific functions (i.e. are they running multiple models each with a different task?) How does labeling and training come into play here?

Topic 6 - Another challenge I’m seeing is security and data privacy concerns. What do folks getting started need to be aware of to make sure company data is safe?


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]]> Alex Ratner (@ajratner, CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about labeling and training of LLMs. We go over Foundational Models and how to take an “off the shelf” model and fine-tune it for private use.

SHOW: 755

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
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  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE


SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke two years ago. A lot has changed so we thought it would be a great time to talk about updates. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with when we last spoke. We talked a lot about data scientists and how data labeling works for training LLM’s. For those that aren’t familiar, can you give everyone a quick intro to data labeling and why it is important for training?

Topic 3 - When we last spoke, LLM weren't as mainstream as they are today. How has this impacted how you think about AI/ML in general? What are the big challenges for LLM today that you see?

Topic 4 - Many organizations are trying “off the shelf” models but this may or may not be a good idea. On one side they don’t have to build a model but on the other they still have to fine tune it to their specific needs and use case. What are your recommendations for organizations to get started and be as effective as possible?

Topic 5 - In addition to organization specific models, are teams building purpose built models for specific functions (i.e. are they running multiple models each with a different task?) How does labeling and training come into play here?

Topic 6 - Another challenge I’m seeing is security and data privacy concerns. What do folks getting started need to be aware of to make sure company data is safe?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13618235 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2024 Alex Ratner, Snorkel, AI, Training Models, Foundational Models, Tagging full false A Proposal for OSS Longevity A Proposal for OSS Longevity As OSS projects continue to look for ways to balance community, sustainability and profitability, let’s explore some alternative considerations for companies and communities. 

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OPEN SOURCE HAS BECOME CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUSINESSES

  • Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Java are all mission-critical to businesses. 
  • Cloud providers have disrupted the previous OSS models - operationalize vs. contributions
  • How to pay contributors?
  • How to avoid unpredictable changes to licensing?
  • How to provide better transparency to customers and communities?

DO OSS PROJECT NEED MORE STRUCTURE TO SUCCEED OR SUSTAIN?

  • Establish “types” of projects: Business, Community, Any - Years to Action
  • Establish some timelines around various types of projects
  • Patents have a timeline to explore - can there be OSS licenses that have timelines
  • Government tax credits for paying OSS contributors
  • Should governance foundations create forks at established times?
  • Should groups like CNCF be more active in recruiting forks after a period of time?

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


OPEN SOURCE HAS BECOME CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUSINESSES

  • Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Java are all mission-critical to businesses. 
  • Cloud providers have disrupted the previous OSS models - operationalize vs. contributions
  • How to pay contributors?
  • How to avoid unpredictable changes to licensing?
  • How to provide better transparency to customers and communities?

DO OSS PROJECT NEED MORE STRUCTURE TO SUCCEED OR SUSTAIN?

  • Establish “types” of projects: Business, Community, Any - Years to Action
  • Establish some timelines around various types of projects
  • Patents have a timeline to explore - can there be OSS licenses that have timelines
  • Government tax credits for paying OSS contributors
  • Should governance foundations create forks at established times?
  • Should groups like CNCF be more active in recruiting forks after a period of time?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13605022 Sun, 17 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2119 full false Automating Developer Security and Compliance Automating Developer Security and Compliance Matt Spitz (@mattspitz, Head of Engineering at @TrustVanta) talks about the challenges of developer security and compliance. 

SHOW: 753

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. What made you join Vanta and did your experience at Dropbox factor into this decision?

Topic 2 - Our topic today is developer security and compliance. Let’s start by helping our listeners understand the problem. We hear all the time about developers wanting to go fast. Things like security and compliance can be an afterthought. Do you agree and is this the root of the problem or is it something else?

Topic 3 - Most organizations, especially smaller orgs or startups just getting going, they just want to get to MVP, what advice to you have for them in building security and compliance into their CI/CD pipelines so this becomes more programmatic?

Topic 4 - Security is certainly one angle, but probably just as important, if not more so is compliance. To make it slightly more difficult, compliance can mean many different things based on geography (SOC in US for instance). How do organizations staff for this and keep up with regulation changes? Or, maybe on the flip side, is this a common area where they are understaffed and need outside assistance?

Topic 5 - In security and compliance worlds there is often the concept of identification and discovery as one part, but remediation as the second part. Where and how does Vanta work with organizations to solve for both vectors?

Topic 6 - Automation, especially into CI/CD pipelines seems like a no-brainer here, but I would also add is this an area where AI/ML will come into play in the future?

Topic 7 - If folks want to dig in and learn more, how do you suggest they get started?

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]]> Matt Spitz (@mattspitz, Head of Engineering at @TrustVanta) talks about the challenges of developer security and compliance. 

SHOW: 753

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. What made you join Vanta and did your experience at Dropbox factor into this decision?

Topic 2 - Our topic today is developer security and compliance. Let’s start by helping our listeners understand the problem. We hear all the time about developers wanting to go fast. Things like security and compliance can be an afterthought. Do you agree and is this the root of the problem or is it something else?

Topic 3 - Most organizations, especially smaller orgs or startups just getting going, they just want to get to MVP, what advice to you have for them in building security and compliance into their CI/CD pipelines so this becomes more programmatic?

Topic 4 - Security is certainly one angle, but probably just as important, if not more so is compliance. To make it slightly more difficult, compliance can mean many different things based on geography (SOC in US for instance). How do organizations staff for this and keep up with regulation changes? Or, maybe on the flip side, is this a common area where they are understaffed and need outside assistance?

Topic 5 - In security and compliance worlds there is often the concept of identification and discovery as one part, but remediation as the second part. Where and how does Vanta work with organizations to solve for both vectors?

Topic 6 - Automation, especially into CI/CD pipelines seems like a no-brainer here, but I would also add is this an area where AI/ML will come into play in the future?

Topic 7 - If folks want to dig in and learn more, how do you suggest they get started?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13581120 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2019 Matt Spitz, TrustVanta, Developer Security, Compliance full false Digital Transformation meets its Liability moment Digital Transformation meets its Liability moment As digital transformations are happening to major industries, we’ve moved into an era where legal issues could become more prevalent than the technologies. 

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SHOW NOTES:


BREAK THE LAW NOW, AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS LATER?

  • From ride-sharing to crypto to generative AI, the gray areas of the law or property ownership are at the center of the major digital transformations
  • The open source community is debating what is proper licensing, and should licensing ever change?
  • Are we at the beginning of LegalOps or LiabilityOps?

IS THE LIABILITY IN BUSINESS MODEL, IP, PRIVACY, FRAUD OR CORRUPTION

  • What are companies liable for? Fair-use of data? AI Models? AI recommendations? AI actions? 
  • What laws do cloud providers need to be concerned about? 
  • What do customers need to be concerned about?
  • What do systems-integrators need to be concerned about?


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]]> As digital transformations are happening to major industries, we’ve moved into an era where legal issues could become more prevalent than the technologies. 

SHOW: 752

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


BREAK THE LAW NOW, AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS LATER?

  • From ride-sharing to crypto to generative AI, the gray areas of the law or property ownership are at the center of the major digital transformations
  • The open source community is debating what is proper licensing, and should licensing ever change?
  • Are we at the beginning of LegalOps or LiabilityOps?

IS THE LIABILITY IN BUSINESS MODEL, IP, PRIVACY, FRAUD OR CORRUPTION

  • What are companies liable for? Fair-use of data? AI Models? AI recommendations? AI actions? 
  • What laws do cloud providers need to be concerned about? 
  • What do customers need to be concerned about?
  • What do systems-integrators need to be concerned about?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13565395 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1770 full false Updates to Infrastructure as Code Updates to Infrastructure as Code Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Co-Founder/CEO @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of infrastructure as code, the challenges of multi-cloud, and applying Generative AI to Ops.

SHOW: 751

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. What made you found Pulumi and you have an extensive developer background at Microsoft as well.

Topic 2 - Pulumi’s been in the market for 6+ years and we first spoke 4 years ago. Has the IaC space “settled down”? Do you consider it still emerging, evolving, or mature at this point?

Topic 3 - We’re seeing a lot of organizations manage resources and infrastructure across multiple clouds. What are the big challenges of multiple vs. single clouds?

Topic 4 - Another big trend is of course Generative AI. You recently announced Pulumi Insights. Can you tell everyone about how this came to be and the problem you are trying to solve?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about culture quickly. How do organizations, especially large organizations with many groups and tools, standardize tools and processes? What are the big hurdles that need to be overcome?

Topic 6 - OSS has been in the news lately, especially around the Terraform project. What are your thoughts on OSS and its place in IaC both today and going forward?

Topic 7 - We see you have a big webinar coming up. It looks to be a great place to dig in and get started. Tell everyone about it for those out there that want to know more.

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]]> Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Co-Founder/CEO @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of infrastructure as code, the challenges of multi-cloud, and applying Generative AI to Ops.

SHOW: 751

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. What made you found Pulumi and you have an extensive developer background at Microsoft as well.

Topic 2 - Pulumi’s been in the market for 6+ years and we first spoke 4 years ago. Has the IaC space “settled down”? Do you consider it still emerging, evolving, or mature at this point?

Topic 3 - We’re seeing a lot of organizations manage resources and infrastructure across multiple clouds. What are the big challenges of multiple vs. single clouds?

Topic 4 - Another big trend is of course Generative AI. You recently announced Pulumi Insights. Can you tell everyone about how this came to be and the problem you are trying to solve?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about culture quickly. How do organizations, especially large organizations with many groups and tools, standardize tools and processes? What are the big hurdles that need to be overcome?

Topic 6 - OSS has been in the news lately, especially around the Terraform project. What are your thoughts on OSS and its place in IaC both today and going forward?

Topic 7 - We see you have a big webinar coming up. It looks to be a great place to dig in and get started. Tell everyone about it for those out there that want to know more.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13536942 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1902 Joe Duffy, Pulumi, IaC, Terraform, Multi-Cloud, Open Source full false The Labor Day episode about Tech Labor The Labor Day episode about Tech Labor As we celebrate Labor Day (at least in the US), a few labor-centric topics are starting to dominate the headlines - Return to Office (RTO) and AI Augmentation. Let’s discuss how they might play out. 

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GO TO THE OFFICE, WORK FROM HOME, OR SOME SORT OF HYBRID?

  • Why is the RTO being pushed? (Innovation, Collaboration, Teambuilding, Cost of Buildings, etc.)
  • Does either side (Labor vs. Mgmt) have leverage?
  • How will people talk about AI-driven productivity?

AI IS PROMISING TO DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY, BUT AT WHOSE COST? 

  • Should you go into the office?
  • What are the benefits of being in the office? (proximity to power, more collaboration, visibility)
  • Should you lean into AI augmenting or replacing a job function? 
  • Will AI go after basic jobs, middle jobs or unique jobs? 

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SHOW: 750

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


GO TO THE OFFICE, WORK FROM HOME, OR SOME SORT OF HYBRID?

  • Why is the RTO being pushed? (Innovation, Collaboration, Teambuilding, Cost of Buildings, etc.)
  • Does either side (Labor vs. Mgmt) have leverage?
  • How will people talk about AI-driven productivity?

AI IS PROMISING TO DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY, BUT AT WHOSE COST? 

  • Should you go into the office?
  • What are the benefits of being in the office? (proximity to power, more collaboration, visibility)
  • Should you lean into AI augmenting or replacing a job function? 
  • Will AI go after basic jobs, middle jobs or unique jobs? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13516429 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1785 full false Economics & Optimization of AI/ML Economics & Optimization of AI/ML Luis Ceze (@luisceze, Founder/CEO @OctoML) talks about barriers to entry for AI & ML, the economics of funding, training, fine tuning, inferencing and optimizations.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have an interesting background with roots in both VC markets and academia. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Generative AI is now all the rage. But as more people dig into AI/ML in general, they find out quickly there are a few barriers to entry. Let’s address some of them as you have an extensive history here. The first barrier I believe most people hit is complexity. The tools to ingest data into models and deployment of models has improved but what about the challenges implementing that into production applications? How do folks overcome this first hurdle?

Topic 3 - The next hurdle I think most organizations hit is where to place the models. Where to train them, where to fine tune them and where to run them could be the same or different places. Can you talk a bit about placement of models? Also, as a follow up, how does GPU shortages play into this and can models be fine tuned to work around this?

Topic 4 - Do you see the AI/ML dependence on GPU’s continuing into the future? Will there be an abstraction layer or another technology coming that will allow the industry to move away from GPU’s from more mainstream applications?

Topic 5 - The next barrier but very related to the previous one is cost. There are some very real world tradeoffs between cost and performance when it comes to AI/ML. What cost factors need to be considered besides hardware costs? Data ingestion and data gravity comes to mind as a hidden cost that can add up quickly if not properly considered. Another one is latency. Maybe you arrive at an answer but at a slower rate that is more economical. How do organizations optimize for cost?

Topic 6 - Do most organizations tend to use an “off the shelf model” today? Maybe an open source model that they train with their private data? I would expect this to be the fastest way to production, why build your own model when the difference is in your data? How does data privacy factor into this scenario?

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]]> Luis Ceze (@luisceze, Founder/CEO @OctoML) talks about barriers to entry for AI & ML, the economics of funding, training, fine tuning, inferencing and optimizations.

SHOW: 749

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have an interesting background with roots in both VC markets and academia. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Generative AI is now all the rage. But as more people dig into AI/ML in general, they find out quickly there are a few barriers to entry. Let’s address some of them as you have an extensive history here. The first barrier I believe most people hit is complexity. The tools to ingest data into models and deployment of models has improved but what about the challenges implementing that into production applications? How do folks overcome this first hurdle?

Topic 3 - The next hurdle I think most organizations hit is where to place the models. Where to train them, where to fine tune them and where to run them could be the same or different places. Can you talk a bit about placement of models? Also, as a follow up, how does GPU shortages play into this and can models be fine tuned to work around this?

Topic 4 - Do you see the AI/ML dependence on GPU’s continuing into the future? Will there be an abstraction layer or another technology coming that will allow the industry to move away from GPU’s from more mainstream applications?

Topic 5 - The next barrier but very related to the previous one is cost. There are some very real world tradeoffs between cost and performance when it comes to AI/ML. What cost factors need to be considered besides hardware costs? Data ingestion and data gravity comes to mind as a hidden cost that can add up quickly if not properly considered. Another one is latency. Maybe you arrive at an answer but at a slower rate that is more economical. How do organizations optimize for cost?

Topic 6 - Do most organizations tend to use an “off the shelf model” today? Maybe an open source model that they train with their private data? I would expect this to be the fastest way to production, why build your own model when the difference is in your data? How does data privacy factor into this scenario?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13495091 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2155 full false Considerations for Enterprise AI Considerations for Enterprise AI Let’s talk through some of the challenges that Enterprises will have with AI - from data location to GPU location, to model biases, to data privacy to training vs. execution.

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SHOW NOTES:


ARE THERE EXPECTATIONS OF “OLD AI” vs. “NEW AI”?

  • Are business leaders thinking about unique AI applications and use-cases, or just “ChatGPT-everything”?
  • Formal data scientists vs. citizen data scientists?
  • Will this just be an application, or have an impact on every aspect of a business and the IT industry?

WILL ENTERPRISE AI BE DIFFERENT THAN CONSUMER AI? 

  • The industry is actively working on a broad set of models that can be used for different use-cases. 
  • It's commonly accepted that AI models need to be trained near the sources of data. 
  • Many businesses are concerned about including their company data into these public models
  • Many businesses will want to deploy tuned models and applications in data center, public cloud and edge environments. 
  • New AI applications will be required to meet security, regulatory and compliance standards, like other business applications. 


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]]> Let’s talk through some of the challenges that Enterprises will have with AI - from data location to GPU location, to model biases, to data privacy to training vs. execution.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


ARE THERE EXPECTATIONS OF “OLD AI” vs. “NEW AI”?

  • Are business leaders thinking about unique AI applications and use-cases, or just “ChatGPT-everything”?
  • Formal data scientists vs. citizen data scientists?
  • Will this just be an application, or have an impact on every aspect of a business and the IT industry?

WILL ENTERPRISE AI BE DIFFERENT THAN CONSUMER AI? 

  • The industry is actively working on a broad set of models that can be used for different use-cases. 
  • It's commonly accepted that AI models need to be trained near the sources of data. 
  • Many businesses are concerned about including their company data into these public models
  • Many businesses will want to deploy tuned models and applications in data center, public cloud and edge environments. 
  • New AI applications will be required to meet security, regulatory and compliance standards, like other business applications. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13476933 Sun, 27 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2086 full false Streaming alternatives to Kafka Streaming alternatives to Kafka Yaniv Ben Hemo (@yanivbh1, Founder/CEO at @memphis_Dev) talks about Memphis Cloud, an alternative architecture to delivering streaming data for applications.  

SHOW: 747

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Memphis.Dev

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. Most folks will want to know why a streaming alternative. Isn’t Kafka good enough? What challenges did you personally encounter?

Topic 3 - In reviewing the architecture, it mentions differences between a broker and a streaming stack. Can you elaborate on what that means? What components are typically needed for a proper data streaming solution?

Topic 4 - One of the common issues with Kafka I hear about is operations complexity over time. It isn’t uncommon that the more a system scales, the more complex it is to operate and also maybe the harder it is to get insights and mine for key data for instance. Have you seen this in your experience?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk use cases. How do you envision organizations using Memphis Cloud? What problems are you trying to solve in the market? Is Memphis Cloud a SaaS offering? How would it be implemented in an organization?

Topic 6 - The data management side of all of this to always be problematic. Where and how is the data managed? What does the lifecycle of the data look like and what design considerations went into this aspect?

Topic 7 - When building large distributed streaming systems, I’m sure there are trade offs and optimizations of features to consider. What are you optimizing for and what are the design tradeoffs developers need to consider?


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]]> Yaniv Ben Hemo (@yanivbh1, Founder/CEO at @memphis_Dev) talks about Memphis Cloud, an alternative architecture to delivering streaming data for applications.  

SHOW: 747

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Memphis.Dev

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. Most folks will want to know why a streaming alternative. Isn’t Kafka good enough? What challenges did you personally encounter?

Topic 3 - In reviewing the architecture, it mentions differences between a broker and a streaming stack. Can you elaborate on what that means? What components are typically needed for a proper data streaming solution?

Topic 4 - One of the common issues with Kafka I hear about is operations complexity over time. It isn’t uncommon that the more a system scales, the more complex it is to operate and also maybe the harder it is to get insights and mine for key data for instance. Have you seen this in your experience?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk use cases. How do you envision organizations using Memphis Cloud? What problems are you trying to solve in the market? Is Memphis Cloud a SaaS offering? How would it be implemented in an organization?

Topic 6 - The data management side of all of this to always be problematic. Where and how is the data managed? What does the lifecycle of the data look like and what design considerations went into this aspect?

Topic 7 - When building large distributed streaming systems, I’m sure there are trade offs and optimizations of features to consider. What are you optimizing for and what are the design tradeoffs developers need to consider?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13454783 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2213 Yaniv Ben Hemo, Memphis Cloud, Kafka, Streaming, Data full false What is AWS after crossing the Chasm? What is AWS after crossing the Chasm? As the competitive cloud landscape is shifting, let’s take a look at some possibilities of what AWS might look like after they cross the chasm. 

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IF ONLY 10-15% OF APPS ARE IN THE CLOUD, HAVE WE CROSSED THE CHASM?

  • AWS is $85B/yr business, after 17 years
  • AWS claims that 10-15% of IT is in the cloud
  • AWS has attracted startups, and mostly competes against legacy IT companies

AWS MOATS AND WHAT MIGHT COME NEXT?

  • Amazon/AWS has always made large CAPEX investments
  • AWS claims to have the largest farm of GPUs, and ARM servers
  • Open source projects are moving to licensing that reduces competition from AWS
  • AWS growth rate has been slowing since Q4 2021
  • Innovation? Application Portfolio? Pricing vs. Profitability?
  • AWS has done limited acquisitions and partners are kept at arms-length (vs. OpenAI / MSFT)
  • AWS seems to be behind in the AI race, although still very early in the market maturity
  • AWS doesn’t have a large set of “owned/branded” applications
  • What does a future AWS look like that is mostly infrastructure? 


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IF ONLY 10-15% OF APPS ARE IN THE CLOUD, HAVE WE CROSSED THE CHASM?

  • AWS is $85B/yr business, after 17 years
  • AWS claims that 10-15% of IT is in the cloud
  • AWS has attracted startups, and mostly competes against legacy IT companies

AWS MOATS AND WHAT MIGHT COME NEXT?

  • Amazon/AWS has always made large CAPEX investments
  • AWS claims to have the largest farm of GPUs, and ARM servers
  • Open source projects are moving to licensing that reduces competition from AWS
  • AWS growth rate has been slowing since Q4 2021
  • Innovation? Application Portfolio? Pricing vs. Profitability?
  • AWS has done limited acquisitions and partners are kept at arms-length (vs. OpenAI / MSFT)
  • AWS seems to be behind in the AI race, although still very early in the market maturity
  • AWS doesn’t have a large set of “owned/branded” applications
  • What does a future AWS look like that is mostly infrastructure? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13435293 Sun, 20 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1801 full false Understanding Machine Learning Features and Platforms Understanding Machine Learning Features and Platforms Gaetan Castelein (@gaetcast, VP Marketing at @tectonai) talks about the complexities of building AI models, features and deploying AI into production for real-time applications. 


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some terminology. A lot of our listeners might be relatively new to Machine Learning. I’m still coming up to speed and I actually spent more time than usual just wrapping my head around the concepts and terms and piecing them all together. What is a feature? Why is it important? How many features does ChatGPT 3 have or ChatGPT4?

Topic 3 - How is a feature different from a model? Both are needed, why?

Topic 4 - I’ve always wondered exactly what a data scientist does. Is this where the term Feature Engineering comes into play? Who turns the data into features and picks the appropriate model? 

Topic 5 - Early Machine Learning was analytical ML (offline/batch), correct? How is that different from operational ML (online/batch) and real-time ML?

Topic 6 - Now that we have all that out of the way. What is a Feature Platform? How does it integrate into an organization’s existing Devops workflows and/or CI/CD pipelines? (Features as Code) How is it different from a Feature Store?

Topic 7 - How do you know if the features + model yield a good result? How is prediction accuracy typically measured?

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  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some terminology. A lot of our listeners might be relatively new to Machine Learning. I’m still coming up to speed and I actually spent more time than usual just wrapping my head around the concepts and terms and piecing them all together. What is a feature? Why is it important? How many features does ChatGPT 3 have or ChatGPT4?

Topic 3 - How is a feature different from a model? Both are needed, why?

Topic 4 - I’ve always wondered exactly what a data scientist does. Is this where the term Feature Engineering comes into play? Who turns the data into features and picks the appropriate model? 

Topic 5 - Early Machine Learning was analytical ML (offline/batch), correct? How is that different from operational ML (online/batch) and real-time ML?

Topic 6 - Now that we have all that out of the way. What is a Feature Platform? How does it integrate into an organization’s existing Devops workflows and/or CI/CD pipelines? (Features as Code) How is it different from a Feature Store?

Topic 7 - How do you know if the features + model yield a good result? How is prediction accuracy typically measured?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13402542 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2852 Gaetan Castelein, Tecton, Real-time applications, AI, Machine Learning, Pipelines full false Cloud and Software Economics Cloud and Software Economics If every company has become a software company, is it still easy to be a profitable software company? Lots of things are changing around the economics of software.

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BEING A SOFTWARE COMPANY - JUST BUILD A MOAT

  • Are we sure every company wants to become a software company?
  • Lots of software licensing changes in the news
  • Making money as a software business, at scale, is difficult

PEOPLE DON’T LIKE MOATS AROUND THEIR SOFTWARE

  • Open source is good for collaboration
  • Open source could be good for marketing
  • Software margins attract VCs
  • Open source mostly hates software margins
  • What happens to all the software companies funded by VCs over the last 3 yrs?

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BEING A SOFTWARE COMPANY - JUST BUILD A MOAT

  • Are we sure every company wants to become a software company?
  • Lots of software licensing changes in the news
  • Making money as a software business, at scale, is difficult

PEOPLE DON’T LIKE MOATS AROUND THEIR SOFTWARE

  • Open source is good for collaboration
  • Open source could be good for marketing
  • Software margins attract VCs
  • Open source mostly hates software margins
  • What happens to all the software companies funded by VCs over the last 3 yrs?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13392101 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1570 full false Trends in API Security Trends in API Security Filip Verloy (@filipv, Field CTO at @NonameSecurity) talks about the latest trends in API security, how you could be a victim of a Moveit attack, and more

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  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve worked together in the past at previous companies, it’s great to catch up again. For those out there that don’t know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and how you got involved in API security.

Topic 2 - We keep hearing about APIs and API security but in a roundabout way. We hear on tech news that data has been leaked, customer accounts and info got out. There have been many high profile, well known instances. What often isn’t reported is the way in which the breaches happen. More times than not it is API’s and improper security, correct?

Topic 3 - What are the most common problems you see in organizations? What problems do folks bring you in to solve? Why isn’t a WAF (web application firewall) enough?

Topic 4 - Security, no matter the type, can be a tough sell sometimes. It’s hard to do an ROI on something that hasn’t happened for instance. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 5 - As a followup, who is the audience that has the budget? CISO’s don’t typically come from a developer background, true?

Topic 6 - What are the typical steps on a journey towards securing APIs. Where do most folks start (assuming nothing, maybe a WAF at best) and how far does it go. Identification, automated remediation, etc.

Topic 7 - It seems every industry is being impacted in some way by AI/ML. How do you see this playing a role in the future of API security?

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  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
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  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve worked together in the past at previous companies, it’s great to catch up again. For those out there that don’t know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and how you got involved in API security.

Topic 2 - We keep hearing about APIs and API security but in a roundabout way. We hear on tech news that data has been leaked, customer accounts and info got out. There have been many high profile, well known instances. What often isn’t reported is the way in which the breaches happen. More times than not it is API’s and improper security, correct?

Topic 3 - What are the most common problems you see in organizations? What problems do folks bring you in to solve? Why isn’t a WAF (web application firewall) enough?

Topic 4 - Security, no matter the type, can be a tough sell sometimes. It’s hard to do an ROI on something that hasn’t happened for instance. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 5 - As a followup, who is the audience that has the budget? CISO’s don’t typically come from a developer background, true?

Topic 6 - What are the typical steps on a journey towards securing APIs. Where do most folks start (assuming nothing, maybe a WAF at best) and how far does it go. Identification, automated remediation, etc.

Topic 7 - It seems every industry is being impacted in some way by AI/ML. How do you see this playing a role in the future of API security?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13373703 Wed, 09 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2290 Filip Verloy, Noname Security), API Security, Moveit attacks, CISO, WAF full false The PizzaHut and TacoBell of Platforms The PizzaHut and TacoBell of Platforms Does it ever feel like all the technologies are just things layered on top of each other? Does it ever feel like platforms are a combination of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell? 

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WHEN EVERYTHING IS A PLATFORM, FOR PLATFORM ENGINEERING TEAMS

  • Is everything really now on the shoulders of the Platform Engineering team?
  • Are all platform engineering teams all combined together?

BE CAREFUL ABOUT CREATING THINGS WITH NO MEANING

  • “It still stands as the best summary of the state of living we call Now imaginable. No business or brand means anything, no meaning cannot be bundled for the purpose of the sales team, nothing is too special that it can’t be balled up into a late night chaos meal thrown straight into the mouth of drunken capitalism.” - Holly Anderson and Spencer Hall, Channel 6


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WHEN EVERYTHING IS A PLATFORM, FOR PLATFORM ENGINEERING TEAMS

  • Is everything really now on the shoulders of the Platform Engineering team?
  • Are all platform engineering teams all combined together?

BE CAREFUL ABOUT CREATING THINGS WITH NO MEANING

  • “It still stands as the best summary of the state of living we call Now imaginable. No business or brand means anything, no meaning cannot be bundled for the purpose of the sales team, nothing is too special that it can’t be balled up into a late night chaos meal thrown straight into the mouth of drunken capitalism.” - Holly Anderson and Spencer Hall, Channel 6


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13356857 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1177 full false What's Happening with SuperCloud? What's Happening with SuperCloud? Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) gives an update on the status of SuperClouds and talks about the recent SuperCloud 3 event. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You cover everything, but where are your main focuses these days?

Topic 2 - For anyone that’s new to Cloudcast, or new to this concept of SuperCloud (which has evolved over time), give us the high-level overview of the concept.

Topic 3 - Let’s dive right into SuperCloud, since you just finished the SuperCloud 3 event. What were the big trends within the event?

Topic 4 - The new focus on AI seems to have shown a new light on the location of data, and how well isolated data (and models) are from other companies. How do you see the concept of SuperCloud playing with new AI demands around data locality? 

Topic 5 - It seems like nobody is going to be able to afford the CAPEX required to do AI (GPUs) at scale except the big three hyperclouds. They are all going through various levels of economic challenges. Do you expect to see infrastructure becoming an AI bottleneck soon? 

Topic 6 - Are you seeing any companies or technologies breaking away from the pack with regard to the SuperCloud capabilities? 

Topic 7 - Where are you focusing on the next SuperCloud event and research? 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You cover everything, but where are your main focuses these days?

Topic 2 - For anyone that’s new to Cloudcast, or new to this concept of SuperCloud (which has evolved over time), give us the high-level overview of the concept.

Topic 3 - Let’s dive right into SuperCloud, since you just finished the SuperCloud 3 event. What were the big trends within the event?

Topic 4 - The new focus on AI seems to have shown a new light on the location of data, and how well isolated data (and models) are from other companies. How do you see the concept of SuperCloud playing with new AI demands around data locality? 

Topic 5 - It seems like nobody is going to be able to afford the CAPEX required to do AI (GPUs) at scale except the big three hyperclouds. They are all going through various levels of economic challenges. Do you expect to see infrastructure becoming an AI bottleneck soon? 

Topic 6 - Are you seeing any companies or technologies breaking away from the pack with regard to the SuperCloud capabilities? 

Topic 7 - Where are you focusing on the next SuperCloud event and research? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13334200 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2304 full false The Future of Software? The Future of Software? What does the future of the software business look like? How much of an impact will SaaS and AI have on the profitability of software? 

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SOME VCs ARE QUESTIONING IF SOFTWARE IS A GOOD BUSINESS

  • VCs are concerned about the rate of return (and cash-flow) or software.
  • Is the future of open source software always SaaS offerings? Have we seen enough success with that model to say it’s a viable future business model?

WHAT ARE THE EVOLVING DYNAMICS OF THE SOFTWARE BUSINESS?

  • Is SaaS too fragmented, or will aggregated platforms emerge?
  • How much will AI add to the costs (or COGS) of software? 
  • If software (especially SaaS) is bought by end-users or teams, will they appreciate AI automation vs. concern about jobs?
  • How does the pricing of SaaS evolve? Is it still per-seat, if AI can reduce the number of seats?
  • Are there channels for PLG software? 
  • If every company is a software company, is software becoming a commodity?


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SOME VCs ARE QUESTIONING IF SOFTWARE IS A GOOD BUSINESS

  • VCs are concerned about the rate of return (and cash-flow) or software.
  • Is the future of open source software always SaaS offerings? Have we seen enough success with that model to say it’s a viable future business model?

WHAT ARE THE EVOLVING DYNAMICS OF THE SOFTWARE BUSINESS?

  • Is SaaS too fragmented, or will aggregated platforms emerge?
  • How much will AI add to the costs (or COGS) of software? 
  • If software (especially SaaS) is bought by end-users or teams, will they appreciate AI automation vs. concern about jobs?
  • How does the pricing of SaaS evolve? Is it still per-seat, if AI can reduce the number of seats?
  • Are there channels for PLG software? 
  • If every company is a software company, is software becoming a commodity?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13315025 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1543 full false Building Large AI Models Building Large AI Models Dr. Ronen Dar (Co-Founder/ CTO of @runailabs) talks about the challenges of running compute infrastructure for AI, the GPU ecosystem, sizing LLMs and more. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Run:ai.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the challenges of running AI applications. What unique characteristics and requirements do AI applications have?

Topic 3 - Most AI applications run on GPUs. How do things change when using GPUs vs. CPUs to power AI applications? What is needed to get the most out of GPUs?

Topic 4 - As environments grow larger, what is needed to scale-up environments, both in terms of scheduling applications and managing the underlying GPU infrastructure?

Topic 5 - GPUs are not only expensive resources, but also in high-demand. How are companies doing capacity planning with GPUs? What struggles are you seeing companies have as they manage planning for AI projects?

Topic 6 - Are the new Large Language Models (LLMs) much different in size than AI models of the past? 

Topic 7 - How well is the industry prepared to deal with the new interest in AI from across the industry? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Run:ai.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the challenges of running AI applications. What unique characteristics and requirements do AI applications have?

Topic 3 - Most AI applications run on GPUs. How do things change when using GPUs vs. CPUs to power AI applications? What is needed to get the most out of GPUs?

Topic 4 - As environments grow larger, what is needed to scale-up environments, both in terms of scheduling applications and managing the underlying GPU infrastructure?

Topic 5 - GPUs are not only expensive resources, but also in high-demand. How are companies doing capacity planning with GPUs? What struggles are you seeing companies have as they manage planning for AI projects?

Topic 6 - Are the new Large Language Models (LLMs) much different in size than AI models of the past? 

Topic 7 - How well is the industry prepared to deal with the new interest in AI from across the industry? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13289037 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2669 Dr. Ronen Dar, AI, Run AI Labs, Kubernetes, LLM, GPUs full false Free or Fee is Often Complicated Free or Fee is Often Complicated Some recent events in the tech industry have questioned the spirit of open source, the value of contributions, and the standards that various entities should be held to. This is not a new concept, and it’s often complicated.

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THE TECH WORLD HAS A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH FREE

  • This past week I didn’t think about tech very often
  • But coincidentally the world I was in had a historic overlap with some discussions in the tech world.

FREE IS GOOD RIGHT? WHAT ABOUT WHEN IT’S DEEMED TO BE NOT GOOD?

  • When do we determine that free is a good thing or a bad thing?
  • When do we determine that work or contributions are valuable? Or invaluable?
  • Are there always good actors and bad actors when something of value is involved?

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THE TECH WORLD HAS A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH FREE

  • This past week I didn’t think about tech very often
  • But coincidentally the world I was in had a historic overlap with some discussions in the tech world.

FREE IS GOOD RIGHT? WHAT ABOUT WHEN IT’S DEEMED TO BE NOT GOOD?

  • When do we determine that free is a good thing or a bad thing?
  • When do we determine that work or contributions are valuable? Or invaluable?
  • Are there always good actors and bad actors when something of value is involved?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13269674 Sun, 23 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1691 full false Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services Addison Huddy (@addisonhuddy, Sr Dir of PM @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of cloud-based Kafka platforms, and how this might reshape how all OSS software moves into the cloud.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Confluent.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with Confluent Cloud. What happens when you take an open source project and make it a cloud service?

Topic 3 - After many years of learning, Confluent decided to build Kora. Walk us through that design process and the goals of this new 10x Kafka-compatible service. 

Topic 4 - As I’m looking through the capabilities of Kora (see below), can you give us a sense of how these compare to the previous Confluent Cloud?

Topic 5 - Kora remains compatible with existing Kafka. How did you go about essentially maintaining the API/protocol while essentially re-writing the entire backend of the system?

Topic 6 - Obviously you can’t speak for other open source projects, but given what Confluent has learned with Kora, do expect to see other companies potentially trying to build cloud-specific versions? (e.g. Kubernetes)

Topic 7 - What sort of feedback do you get from users of the Kora system vs. the previous Confluent Cloud?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Confluent.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with Confluent Cloud. What happens when you take an open source project and make it a cloud service?

Topic 3 - After many years of learning, Confluent decided to build Kora. Walk us through that design process and the goals of this new 10x Kafka-compatible service. 

Topic 4 - As I’m looking through the capabilities of Kora (see below), can you give us a sense of how these compare to the previous Confluent Cloud?

Topic 5 - Kora remains compatible with existing Kafka. How did you go about essentially maintaining the API/protocol while essentially re-writing the entire backend of the system?

Topic 6 - Obviously you can’t speak for other open source projects, but given what Confluent has learned with Kora, do expect to see other companies potentially trying to build cloud-specific versions? (e.g. Kubernetes)

Topic 7 - What sort of feedback do you get from users of the Kora system vs. the previous Confluent Cloud?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13246599 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2719 Addison Huddy, Kafka, Confluent, Cloud-native, Kora Engine, Data Streaming full false Higher Quality Outputs are Expected Higher Quality Outputs are Expected Higher interest rates, fragmented platforms, WFH uncertainty, VC funding declines, generational blending and technology shifts are going to force a new level of quality to be demanded by businesses. 

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“THAT’S A ZERO INTEREST RATE PROBLEM, BRO!”

  • The power dynamics have changed and continue to change (money, location, communications, etc.)
  • Dumb money is getting harder to find, hence ideas need to be better and execution needs to be better

EXPECTATIONS OF HIGHER QUALITY ARE GOING TO RISE SIGNIFICANTLY

  • The unicorn boom of 2020-2022 will face a reckoning by the end of 2023 or mid-2024
  • VC funding is getting harder to obtain 
  • Higher interest rates are going to create higher (internal) hurdle rates within companies
  • Social media channels are fragmenting
  • Working collaboratively is getting more difficult because of both WFH fragmentation and generational fragmentation
  • Collaboration will be needed to teach what is expected and acceptable
  • AI is going to create a new level of “commodity” of tasks and product capabilities
  • Customers are going to have new pricing power as they watch vendor sales slow down


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“THAT’S A ZERO INTEREST RATE PROBLEM, BRO!”

  • The power dynamics have changed and continue to change (money, location, communications, etc.)
  • Dumb money is getting harder to find, hence ideas need to be better and execution needs to be better

EXPECTATIONS OF HIGHER QUALITY ARE GOING TO RISE SIGNIFICANTLY

  • The unicorn boom of 2020-2022 will face a reckoning by the end of 2023 or mid-2024
  • VC funding is getting harder to obtain 
  • Higher interest rates are going to create higher (internal) hurdle rates within companies
  • Social media channels are fragmenting
  • Working collaboratively is getting more difficult because of both WFH fragmentation and generational fragmentation
  • Collaboration will be needed to teach what is expected and acceptable
  • AI is going to create a new level of “commodity” of tasks and product capabilities
  • Customers are going to have new pricing power as they watch vendor sales slow down


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13229201 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1335 full false Database Monitoring & Observability Database Monitoring & Observability Jonathan Morin (Product Lead @datadoghq) & Jason Manson-Hing (Product Manager) talk about emerging trends in Database monitoring and observability. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Snowflake.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about database monitoring. There are so many types of databases these days (SQL, Graph, Time-Series, Document, etc.), are the concepts for database monitoring the same across any database, or does the system need specific domain expertise? 

Topic 3 - Given the importance of database performance for the overall application experience, do you find that DBAs (or application developers) are thinking about their monitoring strategy earlier in the DB design process? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the most common database challenges to monitor and troubleshoot (e.g. root problems, performance)? What are some of the most difficult to troubleshoot (e.g. AlwaysOn Availability groups)? 

Topic 5 - How much time and effort is typically spent monitoring/troubleshooting DB problems in real-time vs. looking at historical trends and trying to either troubleshoot issues or predict how things might behave in the future? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the things that can be done to find the right balance between resources being dedicated to application-database processing vs. database-monitoring processing? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Snowflake.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about database monitoring. There are so many types of databases these days (SQL, Graph, Time-Series, Document, etc.), are the concepts for database monitoring the same across any database, or does the system need specific domain expertise? 

Topic 3 - Given the importance of database performance for the overall application experience, do you find that DBAs (or application developers) are thinking about their monitoring strategy earlier in the DB design process? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the most common database challenges to monitor and troubleshoot (e.g. root problems, performance)? What are some of the most difficult to troubleshoot (e.g. AlwaysOn Availability groups)? 

Topic 5 - How much time and effort is typically spent monitoring/troubleshooting DB problems in real-time vs. looking at historical trends and trying to either troubleshoot issues or predict how things might behave in the future? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the things that can be done to find the right balance between resources being dedicated to application-database processing vs. database-monitoring processing? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13202354 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2090 Jonathan Morin, Jason Manson-Hing, Datadog, Monitoring, Observability, Database full false An Analogy for App Modernization An Analogy for App Modernization Just as ChatGPT gave AI a simple user interface, Meta’s new Thread application is going to make it easy to explain app modernization to your management team. 

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IT’S GETTING OBVIOUS THAT TWITTER IS STRUGGLING AND YOU’D LIKE SOMETHING BETTER

  • It’s an important tool, but it’s not keeping up with the needs of the modern world
  • The alternatives all seems to have more questions than answers
  • But the pain is enough to consider modernization options

BUT WHAT ALL IS INVOLVED IN MOVING TO A MODERNIZED VERSION OF THE APP?

  • Let’s evaluate what’s there today. Do we see the good or what’s missing?
  • What can it replace today? What can’t it replace? 
  • What’s the roadmap? Will the roadmap ever replace all that’s missing? 
  • What’s important to us? Can we quantify it instead of just making it emotional?
  • How long do we need to live with the alternative, potentially in parallel?
  • What’s the learning curve? Can you re-training the user-base?
  • How do you migrate data? How much data will you lose? 
  • How do you know if this will be successful when you start the modernization?

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IT’S GETTING OBVIOUS THAT TWITTER IS STRUGGLING AND YOU’D LIKE SOMETHING BETTER

  • It’s an important tool, but it’s not keeping up with the needs of the modern world
  • The alternatives all seems to have more questions than answers
  • But the pain is enough to consider modernization options

BUT WHAT ALL IS INVOLVED IN MOVING TO A MODERNIZED VERSION OF THE APP?

  • Let’s evaluate what’s there today. Do we see the good or what’s missing?
  • What can it replace today? What can’t it replace? 
  • What’s the roadmap? Will the roadmap ever replace all that’s missing? 
  • What’s important to us? Can we quantify it instead of just making it emotional?
  • How long do we need to live with the alternative, potentially in parallel?
  • What’s the learning curve? Can you re-training the user-base?
  • How do you migrate data? How much data will you lose? 
  • How do you know if this will be successful when you start the modernization?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13186344 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 02:00:00 -0400 1580 full false 2023 MidYear Update 2023 MidYear Update Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about the major trends in the 1st half of 2023, plus some predictions for the rest of 2023.

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Topic 1 - What are your Top 3 biggest stories/trends so far in 2023?

Topic 2 - What is your take on each of the Big 3 cloud providers in 2023?

Topic 3 - How long do you think this Platform Engineering era will last? Is it the new DevOps, or something else?

Topic 4 - Will this Cloud Cost Management trend just become a normal part of deploying to the public cloud, or become too burdensome and companies will keep apps in their Private Cloud?

Topic 5 - How do you see the current AI hype playing out in the Enterprise? Is it more impactful for developers, or operations, or back-office groups? Anything that you are really interested in yet?

Topic 6 - What has been your biggest surprise of the year, so far in 2023

Topic 7 - Any early predictions about the 2nd half of 2023? 

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Topic 1 - What are your Top 3 biggest stories/trends so far in 2023?

Topic 2 - What is your take on each of the Big 3 cloud providers in 2023?

Topic 3 - How long do you think this Platform Engineering era will last? Is it the new DevOps, or something else?

Topic 4 - Will this Cloud Cost Management trend just become a normal part of deploying to the public cloud, or become too burdensome and companies will keep apps in their Private Cloud?

Topic 5 - How do you see the current AI hype playing out in the Enterprise? Is it more impactful for developers, or operations, or back-office groups? Anything that you are really interested in yet?

Topic 6 - What has been your biggest surprise of the year, so far in 2023

Topic 7 - Any early predictions about the 2nd half of 2023? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13148006 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 3499 full false Kudos to Kelsey Hightower Kudos to Kelsey Hightower Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) announced his retirement from Google this week. What comes next is unknown, but let’s take a few moments to appreciate the lessons he passed along to everyone.

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THE WORLD IS FULL OF SMART PEOPLE - BUT NOT ALL SMART IDEAS GET COMMUNICATED

  • Lots of people in the DevRel world want(ed) to be like Kelsey Hightower
  • He was a little bit like Keiser Sozer; he left a small footprint behind.

HOW DID KELSEY HIGHTOWER MAKE AN IMPACT ON YOUR TECH CAREER?

  • He spoke from a position of authority, that he created and demonstrated
  • He believed that community was bigger (and more important) than company
  • He seemed to believe in the rule of “2 vs 1” - listen more than talk
  • He didn’t take himself too seriously
  • He connected with crowds of people, and individual people
  • He highlighted the good more often than he criticized the bad
  • He was always demonstrating the art of the possible


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THE WORLD IS FULL OF SMART PEOPLE - BUT NOT ALL SMART IDEAS GET COMMUNICATED

  • Lots of people in the DevRel world want(ed) to be like Kelsey Hightower
  • He was a little bit like Keiser Sozer; he left a small footprint behind.

HOW DID KELSEY HIGHTOWER MAKE AN IMPACT ON YOUR TECH CAREER?

  • He spoke from a position of authority, that he created and demonstrated
  • He believed that community was bigger (and more important) than company
  • He seemed to believe in the rule of “2 vs 1” - listen more than talk
  • He didn’t take himself too seriously
  • He connected with crowds of people, and individual people
  • He highlighted the good more often than he criticized the bad
  • He was always demonstrating the art of the possible


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13141652 Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1844 full false Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan, Director of Product @SnowflakeDB) talks about bringing apps to data, how orgs manage AI/ML, and the “enterprise” needs of Generative AI. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Snowflake.

Topic 2 - For those not familiar, give us a high-level overview of the breadth of services that the Snowflake Data Cloud provides?

Topic 3 - Challenges and patterns for orgs making data science / ML “real” in their company

Topic 4 - Evolution of data cloud platforms and emerging pattern of “bringing apps to the data” - the why and the how

Topic 5 - Generative AI / LLMs for enterprise - peeling back the hype, enterprise considerations, tech opportunities.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Equinix Global Data Centers and Networking 
  • Learn more and signup at https://deploy.equinix.com/. Use the coupon code CLOUDCAST to get $500 in credits to get started.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Snowflake.

Topic 2 - For those not familiar, give us a high-level overview of the breadth of services that the Snowflake Data Cloud provides?

Topic 3 - Challenges and patterns for orgs making data science / ML “real” in their company

Topic 4 - Evolution of data cloud platforms and emerging pattern of “bringing apps to the data” - the why and the how

Topic 5 - Generative AI / LLMs for enterprise - peeling back the hype, enterprise considerations, tech opportunities.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13121536 Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2038 full false Passions, Emotions, Friendships and Teams Passions, Emotions, Friendships and Teams For most people, you're not always associated with a winning team.  But for those moments when you are, it's so important to embrace it, enjoy it, and share it, because it often doesn't last long. 

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SOME PASSIONS GET INSIDE YOU AT A YOUNG AGE

  • When I was a young kid, I loved the College World Series. 

SOMETIMES YOU WIN, SOMETIMES YOU LOSE, SOMETIMES YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW

  • My team has historically been slightly better than average, but it was my team. 
  • This year, they were incredible. Record-setting. The best in the country.
  • And the players all seemed to be good people. And the coaches are good people. 
  • And the coach made sure to bring all of us along on the ride. 
  • Most people are associated with teams that are generally above average.
  • We need to savor the great moments, no matter how long they last, because sometimes they end quickly. 
  • Bring others along for the ride when things are good. 

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SOME PASSIONS GET INSIDE YOU AT A YOUNG AGE

  • When I was a young kid, I loved the College World Series. 

SOMETIMES YOU WIN, SOMETIMES YOU LOSE, SOMETIMES YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW

  • My team has historically been slightly better than average, but it was my team. 
  • This year, they were incredible. Record-setting. The best in the country.
  • And the players all seemed to be good people. And the coaches are good people. 
  • And the coach made sure to bring all of us along on the ride. 
  • Most people are associated with teams that are generally above average.
  • We need to savor the great moments, no matter how long they last, because sometimes they end quickly. 
  • Bring others along for the ride when things are good. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13094795 Sun, 25 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1670 full false Second Wave of DevOps Second Wave of DevOps Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, Founder/CEO of @thesysteminit)  talks about the potential for DevOps 2.0. What’s new, what needs to be started from scratch, and the formation of new ecosystems.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - Before we dive into the announcements from today, let’s go back in time a little bit. What worked well at Chef, what worked well with DevOps 1.0, and what was broken?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about your philosophy with DevOps 2.0. What’s new, what needs to be started from scratch, and how do you see the ecosystem potentially forming around this new model?

Topic 4 - Walk us through the new system. Obviously demos and visuals will be available, but paint us a picture or a day (or week/month) with this new model?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working on this for a few years, and we suspect you’re getting feedback from people you trust and potential users. What sort of feedback are you hearing? What didn’t you expect to hear?

Topic 6 - What’s the best way for people to get started?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - Before we dive into the announcements from today, let’s go back in time a little bit. What worked well at Chef, what worked well with DevOps 1.0, and what was broken?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about your philosophy with DevOps 2.0. What’s new, what needs to be started from scratch, and how do you see the ecosystem potentially forming around this new model?

Topic 4 - Walk us through the new system. Obviously demos and visuals will be available, but paint us a picture or a day (or week/month) with this new model?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working on this for a few years, and we suspect you’re getting feedback from people you trust and potential users. What sort of feedback are you hearing? What didn’t you expect to hear?

Topic 6 - What’s the best way for people to get started?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13075559 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2966 Adam Jacob, DevOps, System Initiative, DevOps 2.0 full false Nobody wants to own Security Nobody wants to own Security Developers don’t want to be told “NO” by the Security team. They also don’t want to be responsible for security. Is Shift Left the right or wrong answer?

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THANK YOU TO ALL THE DADS OUT THERE ON FATHER’S DAY

  • Happy Father’s Day!

WHAT’S THE RIGHT ANSWER TO DEVELOPERS AND SECURITY?

  • Every IT survey places Security in the Top 3 priorities, year after year
  • Who is actually able to measure the value of good vs bad security?
  • The independent IT group called Security is frequently disliked
  • DevSecOps, Shift-Left and Secure Supply Chain has been invented to fix this
  • Developers generally don’t want to think about security, because it impacts their productivity and measured KPIs
  • Is this a platform problem, or CI/CD problem, or compliance/standards problem?
  • Will the challenge of security force more groups/companies to move away from microservices in the future? 

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THANK YOU TO ALL THE DADS OUT THERE ON FATHER’S DAY

  • Happy Father’s Day!

WHAT’S THE RIGHT ANSWER TO DEVELOPERS AND SECURITY?

  • Every IT survey places Security in the Top 3 priorities, year after year
  • Who is actually able to measure the value of good vs bad security?
  • The independent IT group called Security is frequently disliked
  • DevSecOps, Shift-Left and Secure Supply Chain has been invented to fix this
  • Developers generally don’t want to think about security, because it impacts their productivity and measured KPIs
  • Is this a platform problem, or CI/CD problem, or compliance/standards problem?
  • Will the challenge of security force more groups/companies to move away from microservices in the future? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13051798 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1276 full false Developer Security Developer Security Randall Degges (@rdegges, Head DevRel & Community @snyksec) talks about best practices of how to integrate security into application development environments.  

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  • Learn more and signup at https://deploy.equinix.com/. Use the coupon code CLOUDCAST to get $500 in credits to get started. 

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - The intersection of development and security has become a hot topic in recent years. How did the issues start and what are the most common vulnerabilities or issues you run into?

Topic 3 - Security can really exist anywhere and we constantly hear about shifting left. When we are talking about developers and security, where in the process and pipelines should people, process and tools get involved?

Topic 4 - I know API security has become quite well known and is a common area, what are other areas developers need to consider? With the rise of AI, how does this impact?

Topic 5 - There is a big difference between discovery and remediation. How should developers address this?

Topic 6 - What is the difference between Snyk Open Source and the company?

Topic 7 - How do you convince both security and development teams to adopt a common platform? Is this a challenge and how do you overcome issues? 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Equinix Global Data Centers and Networking 
  • Learn more and signup at https://deploy.equinix.com/. Use the coupon code CLOUDCAST to get $500 in credits to get started. 

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - The intersection of development and security has become a hot topic in recent years. How did the issues start and what are the most common vulnerabilities or issues you run into?

Topic 3 - Security can really exist anywhere and we constantly hear about shifting left. When we are talking about developers and security, where in the process and pipelines should people, process and tools get involved?

Topic 4 - I know API security has become quite well known and is a common area, what are other areas developers need to consider? With the rise of AI, how does this impact?

Topic 5 - There is a big difference between discovery and remediation. How should developers address this?

Topic 6 - What is the difference between Snyk Open Source and the company?

Topic 7 - How do you convince both security and development teams to adopt a common platform? Is this a challenge and how do you overcome issues? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13035511 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2144 Randall Degges, Security, Developers, Snyk, API, Open Source full false The Hollowing Out of the Software Middle The Hollowing Out of the Software Middle 'Software companies taste like chicken,' says private-equity mogul. 'They’re selling different products, but 80% of what they do is pretty much the same'

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THE MARKET USUALLY ONLY SUPPORTS THREE OPTIONS

  • Walking around KubeCon,nearly every segment had 6-10 companies offering solutions
  • Markets can’t sustain more 3 in any category (Market Leader, Market Follower, Cheaper Option)
  • The Market can’t understand the differentiation of the 6-10 company market; 80% of the functionality is the same.
  • We’re coming out of Unicornpalozza (2019-2022)

OPEN SOURCE AND SAAS HAVE HOLLOWED OUT THE MIDDLE OF SOFTWARE

  • Open source typically highlights the creator, largest contributor to a project
  • Beyond that, open source is “integration” companies, or “lifecycle” companies
  • Large companies (or platforms) can buy up the “feature” companies to fill in their gaps
  • Companies in the middle have to build sales and marketing around mostly undifferentiated messaging or products.
  • SaaS allows companies to leverage product-led-growth, and micro-target to specific use-cases. 
  • The successful middle (mid-sized, decent growth) will get picked off by PE
  • The unsuccessful middle (great tech, bad execution) may get picked off by large vendors
  • The unsuccessful middle (average tech, bad execution) will go under


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THE MARKET USUALLY ONLY SUPPORTS THREE OPTIONS

  • Walking around KubeCon,nearly every segment had 6-10 companies offering solutions
  • Markets can’t sustain more 3 in any category (Market Leader, Market Follower, Cheaper Option)
  • The Market can’t understand the differentiation of the 6-10 company market; 80% of the functionality is the same.
  • We’re coming out of Unicornpalozza (2019-2022)

OPEN SOURCE AND SAAS HAVE HOLLOWED OUT THE MIDDLE OF SOFTWARE

  • Open source typically highlights the creator, largest contributor to a project
  • Beyond that, open source is “integration” companies, or “lifecycle” companies
  • Large companies (or platforms) can buy up the “feature” companies to fill in their gaps
  • Companies in the middle have to build sales and marketing around mostly undifferentiated messaging or products.
  • SaaS allows companies to leverage product-led-growth, and micro-target to specific use-cases. 
  • The successful middle (mid-sized, decent growth) will get picked off by PE
  • The unsuccessful middle (great tech, bad execution) may get picked off by large vendors
  • The unsuccessful middle (average tech, bad execution) will go under


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-13016997 Sun, 11 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1554 full false The Economics & Beyond of Object Storage The Economics & Beyond of Object Storage Jon Toor (CMO @CloudianStorage) talks about the history and evolution of object storage, the rise of enterprise class object storage, and the changing economics of cloud storage.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Jon. Tell us a little bit about your background. Your career and Cloudian parallel in many ways.

Topic 2 - Cloudian has been around since before object storage was cool. We first heard about Cloudian back in the OpenStack and early AWS S3 days. Object storage has come a long way. Can you help everyone frame where we were and where we are today?

Topic 3 - We’ve seen the rise of Enterprise class, S3 compatible object storage for use cases like hybrid cloud, data sovereignty, and more recently analytics such as data lakehouses. Where are you seeing implementations these days as we’ve moved beyond basic, simple storage behind cloud backends.  

Topic 4 - With the recent changes to the world economy, how much does economics come into conversations around the design of solutions. There’s often a healthy tension between what is technically possible and what is economically feasible. How does that design conversation play out lately?

Topic 5 - We used to talk about “Data Gravity” all the time. The concept for those unfamiliar is that data has a certain weight and attracts more data to existing sources and becomes hard to move over time. We haven’t talked about it as much in recent years and we are seeing the rise of hybrid and multicloud solutions but folks often don’t think about access to the data. Where are folks building large data sets? What are they using them for? Are they ever moving them?

Topic 6 - Last question, Cloudian is well known for their partnerships, alliances and solutions. You partner with hardware companies, software companies, backup companies, public clouds, etc. It’s quite a mix. Has this been a factor in Cloudian’s longevity and tell everyone a little bit about how this came to be and how important you see this for the future. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Jon. Tell us a little bit about your background. Your career and Cloudian parallel in many ways.

Topic 2 - Cloudian has been around since before object storage was cool. We first heard about Cloudian back in the OpenStack and early AWS S3 days. Object storage has come a long way. Can you help everyone frame where we were and where we are today?

Topic 3 - We’ve seen the rise of Enterprise class, S3 compatible object storage for use cases like hybrid cloud, data sovereignty, and more recently analytics such as data lakehouses. Where are you seeing implementations these days as we’ve moved beyond basic, simple storage behind cloud backends.  

Topic 4 - With the recent changes to the world economy, how much does economics come into conversations around the design of solutions. There’s often a healthy tension between what is technically possible and what is economically feasible. How does that design conversation play out lately?

Topic 5 - We used to talk about “Data Gravity” all the time. The concept for those unfamiliar is that data has a certain weight and attracts more data to existing sources and becomes hard to move over time. We haven’t talked about it as much in recent years and we are seeing the rise of hybrid and multicloud solutions but folks often don’t think about access to the data. Where are folks building large data sets? What are they using them for? Are they ever moving them?

Topic 6 - Last question, Cloudian is well known for their partnerships, alliances and solutions. You partner with hardware companies, software companies, backup companies, public clouds, etc. It’s quite a mix. Has this been a factor in Cloudian’s longevity and tell everyone a little bit about how this came to be and how important you see this for the future. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12991031 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2174 Jon Toor, Cloudian, Object Storage, Economics, Storage full false How to Build a Tech ROI Model How to Build a Tech ROI Model They get requested all the time; a technology ROI model. But how do you build one, what does it tell you, and how are they relevant for technology purchases? 

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WHY ARE MANAGERS ALWAYS ASKING FOR THE ROI?

  • Businesses, and IT groups, always have more projects than they have budget
  • How do they prioritize which projects to work on? Which ones to ignore?
  • People higher up don’t understand tech, but they understand finance.

WHY ISN’T ROI EASIER TO CALCULATE? AND DOES ANYONE CARE LATER ON?

  • ROI could be about making money, saving money, or reducing risk.
  • ROI Basics: Revenues, Costs, Time
  • Tech ROI is mostly a scoping activity - what are we including in the calculation?
  • Tech ROI could be short-term or long-term.
  • Finance Stuff: CAPEX, OPEX, Depreciation, Time-Value-of-Money, IRR, Hurdle Rate
  • Good ROI vs. Bad ROI?  
  • Basics: Build a “Before and After” Model
  • Stuff included in ROI calculations: Expected Revenues, Expected Costs (all of them: technology, people, changes, etc.), Cost Savings/Eliminations, Productivity Improvements, Experience Improvements (Assumptions, Storytelling) 
  • What if the decision-makers aren’t around when the ROI timeline ends?


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WHY ARE MANAGERS ALWAYS ASKING FOR THE ROI?

  • Businesses, and IT groups, always have more projects than they have budget
  • How do they prioritize which projects to work on? Which ones to ignore?
  • People higher up don’t understand tech, but they understand finance.

WHY ISN’T ROI EASIER TO CALCULATE? AND DOES ANYONE CARE LATER ON?

  • ROI could be about making money, saving money, or reducing risk.
  • ROI Basics: Revenues, Costs, Time
  • Tech ROI is mostly a scoping activity - what are we including in the calculation?
  • Tech ROI could be short-term or long-term.
  • Finance Stuff: CAPEX, OPEX, Depreciation, Time-Value-of-Money, IRR, Hurdle Rate
  • Good ROI vs. Bad ROI?  
  • Basics: Build a “Before and After” Model
  • Stuff included in ROI calculations: Expected Revenues, Expected Costs (all of them: technology, people, changes, etc.), Cost Savings/Eliminations, Productivity Improvements, Experience Improvements (Assumptions, Storytelling) 
  • What if the decision-makers aren’t around when the ROI timeline ends?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12973201 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2067 full false DevOps, OSS Communities & WASM in the Public Cloud DevOps, OSS Communities & WASM in the Public Cloud Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout, Principal PM @Azure) & Ralph Squillace (@ralph_squillace, Principal PM @Azure) talk about DevOps, Public Cloud involvement with OSS communities, CNCF, WASM and OSS Communities. 

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Topic 1 - Bridget, welcome back! It's been over 7 years since you were last on the show! Ralph, welcome to the show! 

Topic 2 - Bridget, let’s talk about your journey. You were involved with Arrested DevOps Podcast & DevOps Days.  Your career has changed a bit from the Developer Advocate path into the PM side. Tell us a little bit about that.

Topic 3 -  For those that aren’t familiar, tell everyone about OSS @ Azure. How does Azure work with the Linux Foundation and the CNCF?

Topic 4 - Ralph, let’s talk about Web Assembly a bit. How did you get involved? How does Web Assembly fit into the bigger Azure architecture? How does it compare to Azure Functions?

Topic 5 - We last talked about WASM probably in the summer last year. Momentum appears to have picked up dramatically judging by interest at recent KubeCon events. From your perspective, how has the space evolved and changed in the last 12 months?

Topic 6 - How is Web Assembly different from the past promises of PaaS? What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases that have evolved?

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Topic 1 - Bridget, welcome back! It's been over 7 years since you were last on the show! Ralph, welcome to the show! 

Topic 2 - Bridget, let’s talk about your journey. You were involved with Arrested DevOps Podcast & DevOps Days.  Your career has changed a bit from the Developer Advocate path into the PM side. Tell us a little bit about that.

Topic 3 -  For those that aren’t familiar, tell everyone about OSS @ Azure. How does Azure work with the Linux Foundation and the CNCF?

Topic 4 - Ralph, let’s talk about Web Assembly a bit. How did you get involved? How does Web Assembly fit into the bigger Azure architecture? How does it compare to Azure Functions?

Topic 5 - We last talked about WASM probably in the summer last year. Momentum appears to have picked up dramatically judging by interest at recent KubeCon events. From your perspective, how has the space evolved and changed in the last 12 months?

Topic 6 - How is Web Assembly different from the past promises of PaaS? What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases that have evolved?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12950231 Wed, 31 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 3130 Bridget Kromhout, Ralph Squillace, Azure, OSS communities, CNCF, WASM, PaaS, DevOps full false AI is the new Bi-Modal IT AI is the new Bi-Modal IT As AI begins to go mainstream in IT, we’re now at the stage where projects will either be AI-enabled or not, creating the new Bi-Modal IT for the 2020s.  

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EVERY VENDOR NOW HAS A PATH TO AI-INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES

  • When cloud emerged in 2010s, IT projects became Bi-Modal (technology & people)
  • Projects become classified as fast vs slow, old vs new
  • Groups  become classified as fast vs slow, old vs new

WILL AI-ENABLED CAPABILITIES CHANGE HOW AI PROJECTS ARE MEASURED?

  • Expect AI to be asked about for every IT project, by leadership
  • Expect to see AI being pushed into every IT project
  • Every vendor is going to highlight the AI integrations in their products
  • Start learning how the economics change if IT is potentially part of a project
  • Expect people-reduction to be a real consideration with AI projects

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EVERY VENDOR NOW HAS A PATH TO AI-INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES

  • When cloud emerged in 2010s, IT projects became Bi-Modal (technology & people)
  • Projects become classified as fast vs slow, old vs new
  • Groups  become classified as fast vs slow, old vs new

WILL AI-ENABLED CAPABILITIES CHANGE HOW AI PROJECTS ARE MEASURED?

  • Expect AI to be asked about for every IT project, by leadership
  • Expect to see AI being pushed into every IT project
  • Every vendor is going to highlight the AI integrations in their products
  • Start learning how the economics change if IT is potentially part of a project
  • Expect people-reduction to be a real consideration with AI projects

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12932772 Sun, 28 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1157 full false The Rise of Platform Engineering The Rise of Platform Engineering Luca Galante (@luca_cloud, Product @humanitec_com & PlatformCon Organizer) talks about the latest trends in Platform Engineering, what to expect at PlatformCon 2023, and how to get engaged and join the community.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Luca, how did you get involved with Platform Engineering and how did PlatformCon come into being? 

Topic 2 - Platform Engineering is having its moment. There is a lot being written about Platform Engineering and a lot of customers, companies and vendors are all jumping on board. As someone who was there at the beginning, why do you think this happened? What was the need filled and the main problem solved?


Topic 3 - We often hear about IDP’s (Internal Developer Platforms) associated with Platform Engineering, often as the “product” or outcome. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 4 - Every “hype cycle” eventually hits the dreaded trough of disillusionment. Momentum moves from excitement (Backstage as an example) into the “getting things done” stage and often complexity gets in the way. Do you see that happening here and how should the community address this?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about PlatformCon. What is it and what should folks expect? Was 2022 the first year? How did it go? Any lessons learned you are bringing to 2023? 

Topic 6 - You’re also heavily involved with the Platform Engineering Slack Community. I think you recently passed over 12k members if I remember correctly. How did that get started and what do you think contributed to such growth in such a short amount of time?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Luca, how did you get involved with Platform Engineering and how did PlatformCon come into being? 

Topic 2 - Platform Engineering is having its moment. There is a lot being written about Platform Engineering and a lot of customers, companies and vendors are all jumping on board. As someone who was there at the beginning, why do you think this happened? What was the need filled and the main problem solved?


Topic 3 - We often hear about IDP’s (Internal Developer Platforms) associated with Platform Engineering, often as the “product” or outcome. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 4 - Every “hype cycle” eventually hits the dreaded trough of disillusionment. Momentum moves from excitement (Backstage as an example) into the “getting things done” stage and often complexity gets in the way. Do you see that happening here and how should the community address this?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about PlatformCon. What is it and what should folks expect? Was 2022 the first year? How did it go? Any lessons learned you are bringing to 2023? 

Topic 6 - You’re also heavily involved with the Platform Engineering Slack Community. I think you recently passed over 12k members if I remember correctly. How did that get started and what do you think contributed to such growth in such a short amount of time?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12891477 Wed, 24 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2469 Platform Engineering, Luca Galante, PlatformCon, Internal Developer Platform, IDP full false The Cloud-Native Trough of Disillusionment The Cloud-Native Trough of Disillusionment Are some of the flaws of the Cloud-native ecosystem and architectures starting to get exposed? Or is this just the natural evolution of new technologies?

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THE CLOUD-NATIVE MOVEMENT WAS BUILD ON A FEW PRINCIPLES

  • Public Cloud would be the dominant place to run apps
  • Public Cloud would be cheaper to build/operate than DIY or on-premises
  • Just use open source software
  • Build new applications with microservices
  • Multi-cloud is not a real thing anyone will do

IT’S VERY RARE THAT ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TECHNOLOGY

  • CNCF / KubeConEU just had 10,000 people in attendance
  • We’re seeing backlash against some of the modern technologies as “one-size fits-all”.
  • We’re seeing cloud-cost-optimization becoming a focus area
  • We saw layoffs, and we continue to see companies not invest in internal skills
  • One story doesn’t make a trends (but it is easy to repeat)
  • From lulls and economic downturns have historically come great technology advances
  • Companies value experience and expertise


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THE CLOUD-NATIVE MOVEMENT WAS BUILD ON A FEW PRINCIPLES

  • Public Cloud would be the dominant place to run apps
  • Public Cloud would be cheaper to build/operate than DIY or on-premises
  • Just use open source software
  • Build new applications with microservices
  • Multi-cloud is not a real thing anyone will do

IT’S VERY RARE THAT ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TECHNOLOGY

  • CNCF / KubeConEU just had 10,000 people in attendance
  • We’re seeing backlash against some of the modern technologies as “one-size fits-all”.
  • We’re seeing cloud-cost-optimization becoming a focus area
  • We saw layoffs, and we continue to see companies not invest in internal skills
  • One story doesn’t make a trends (but it is easy to repeat)
  • From lulls and economic downturns have historically come great technology advances
  • Companies value experience and expertise


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12886119 Sun, 21 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1554 full false Simplifying FinOps for AI Workloads in the Cloud Simplifying FinOps for AI Workloads in the Cloud Sam Clark (Technical Account Manager, @doitint) and Miguel Mendao (CTO @Recognyte) talk about managing the cloud costs of AI services, FinOps implementations, and spinning out new business services. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds, 

Topic 2 - We’ve spoken several times on the show about tools to control cloud cost management, but we don’t spend much time talking about the process of how companies decide it’s time to make it a focus area. Let’s talk about what thresholds tend to trigger customers to make cost management a focus area. 

Topic 3 -  Is cost management something that companies can think about ahead of time, or do they usually need to get past the excitement of being able to do things dynamically in the cloud first? 

Topic 4 - Do you find that there are unique things in different clouds that customers should focus on around cost management? For example, you spend a lot of time with Google Cloud. 

Topic 5 - Can you tell us some more about DoIT Flexsave, and maybe how it differs from some of the other types of cloud cost management tools out there? Are there typical savings that companies might expect to see? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best practices that DoIT uses with customers that are at different stages of cloud cost management, and want to get their bill under control?

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SHOW SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds, 

Topic 2 - We’ve spoken several times on the show about tools to control cloud cost management, but we don’t spend much time talking about the process of how companies decide it’s time to make it a focus area. Let’s talk about what thresholds tend to trigger customers to make cost management a focus area. 

Topic 3 -  Is cost management something that companies can think about ahead of time, or do they usually need to get past the excitement of being able to do things dynamically in the cloud first? 

Topic 4 - Do you find that there are unique things in different clouds that customers should focus on around cost management? For example, you spend a lot of time with Google Cloud. 

Topic 5 - Can you tell us some more about DoIT Flexsave, and maybe how it differs from some of the other types of cloud cost management tools out there? Are there typical savings that companies might expect to see? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best practices that DoIT uses with customers that are at different stages of cloud cost management, and want to get their bill under control?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12864062 Wed, 17 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2713 DoIT International, Miguel Mendao, Recognyte, AI, FinOps, SaaS, PropTech, Google Cloud full false Recognizing the Adults in the Room Recognizing the Adults in the Room Can we take the lessons we learned from our mothers (on Mothers Day), and apply some of those lessons to the known challenges of generative AI?   

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DON’T FORGET TO CALL YOUR MOTHER, OR SUPPORT YOUR MOTHER

  • How did your mother support or encourage you?
  • What lessons from your mother do you carry forward to this day?
  • How often do you keep in touch with your mother?

EMBRACE CREATIVITY, AND DON’T BE AFRAID TO PARTNER WITH AN EXPERIENCED

  • Knowing if output from tools like ChatGPT are correct will often require domain expertise (at broad levels and nuanced levels). How to get that experience? 
  • How will you do onboarding to new roles, with new hires without domain experience? 
  • Thoughtful adults realize that they often don’t understand new trends, and will ask younger people to explain it. They embrace the unknown if it can be explained.

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SHOW NOTES:


DON’T FORGET TO CALL YOUR MOTHER, OR SUPPORT YOUR MOTHER

  • How did your mother support or encourage you?
  • What lessons from your mother do you carry forward to this day?
  • How often do you keep in touch with your mother?

EMBRACE CREATIVITY, AND DON’T BE AFRAID TO PARTNER WITH AN EXPERIENCED

  • Knowing if output from tools like ChatGPT are correct will often require domain expertise (at broad levels and nuanced levels). How to get that experience? 
  • How will you do onboarding to new roles, with new hires without domain experience? 
  • Thoughtful adults realize that they often don’t understand new trends, and will ask younger people to explain it. They embrace the unknown if it can be explained.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12842849 Sun, 14 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1203 full false Nautobot Network Source of Truth Nautobot Network Source of Truth Jason Edelman (@jedelman8, Founder/CTO @networktocode) talks about the challenges of managing complex networks in a world of DevOps and automation.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show Jason. Tell us a little bit about your journey with Network to Code, and your focus these days.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about network automation and how it’s evolved over the years. Give a sense of the scope of complexity that companies are facing these days. 

Topic 3 - How has the concept of a CMDB for the network, or Network Source of Truth emerged to provide a more centralized view of all aspects of the network? 

Topic 4 - How does the Nautobot framework work? What type of team or skill sets typically build and maintain it? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the typical problems that Nautobot is able to solve for companies? 

Topic 6 - How does Network to Code engage with companies to get their Nautobot environments running? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show Jason. Tell us a little bit about your journey with Network to Code, and your focus these days.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about network automation and how it’s evolved over the years. Give a sense of the scope of complexity that companies are facing these days. 

Topic 3 - How has the concept of a CMDB for the network, or Network Source of Truth emerged to provide a more centralized view of all aspects of the network? 

Topic 4 - How does the Nautobot framework work? What type of team or skill sets typically build and maintain it? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the typical problems that Nautobot is able to solve for companies? 

Topic 6 - How does Network to Code engage with companies to get their Nautobot environments running? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12800191 Wed, 10 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1743 Jason Edelman, Network to Code, Nautobot, Network Automation, Network Source of Truth, DevOps full false How AI will impact Cloud-Native How AI will impact Cloud-Native AI is at the center of many tech conversations these days. How will it potentially impact the Cloud-native ecosystem now, and into the future?  

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HOW WILL AI PLAY A ROLE IN CLOUD-NATIVE IT AND DEVELOPMENT?

  • Who will build models?
  • Where will the data/model be located?
  • Does the vendor vs. open source dynamic change when data models are involved? 
  • What risks need to be mitigated?

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR (MOSTLY EVERYBODY). EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT ON THE SHOW.

  • Writing documentation
  • Configuration generation
  • Configuration Best-Practices - Interactions with Docs | Consulting Systems
  • Interactive Support - Bots, ChatOps, etc
  • AIOps - Self-correcting, self-adjusting systems
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Log Interpretation and Remediation
  • Writing Code | Pair Programming  

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HOW WILL AI PLAY A ROLE IN CLOUD-NATIVE IT AND DEVELOPMENT?

  • Who will build models?
  • Where will the data/model be located?
  • Does the vendor vs. open source dynamic change when data models are involved? 
  • What risks need to be mitigated?

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR (MOSTLY EVERYBODY). EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT ON THE SHOW.

  • Writing documentation
  • Configuration generation
  • Configuration Best-Practices - Interactions with Docs | Consulting Systems
  • Interactive Support - Bots, ChatOps, etc
  • AIOps - Self-correcting, self-adjusting systems
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Log Interpretation and Remediation
  • Writing Code | Pair Programming  

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12789557 Sun, 07 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1724 full false Behind the Scenes of a Major OSS Release Behind the Scenes of a Major OSS Release Leonard Pahlke (@LeonardPahlke, CNCF Ambassador & K8s 1.26 Release Team Lead) talks about the behind the scenes activities of releasing a major open source project.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Leonard, this is another in a series on getting involved with the community. How did you get started with the CNCF and Kubernetes?

Topic 2 - What made you get started with the Open Source Software & the CNCF? If you had to recommend a path for someone to get started, would you advise them to follow the same path or a different path?

Topic 3 - It appears you started through the shadow program in Kubernetes 1.23 and worked your way up to Release Team Lead for 1.26. Tell everyone a little bit about the program and your experience. Are you going to do it again?

Topic 4 - I would imagine getting a new version of a  large project like Kubernetes out the door is a lot of work and coordination of a lot of people. How did you handle that?

Topic 5 - Not all CNCF projects are as big as Kubernetes. How are the release cycles on smaller projects handled? Less Governance, Less Community Involvement, etc.

Topic 6 - You are the Co-Chair CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability, tell everyone a little about that and your goals and motivations there.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Leonard, this is another in a series on getting involved with the community. How did you get started with the CNCF and Kubernetes?

Topic 2 - What made you get started with the Open Source Software & the CNCF? If you had to recommend a path for someone to get started, would you advise them to follow the same path or a different path?

Topic 3 - It appears you started through the shadow program in Kubernetes 1.23 and worked your way up to Release Team Lead for 1.26. Tell everyone a little bit about the program and your experience. Are you going to do it again?

Topic 4 - I would imagine getting a new version of a  large project like Kubernetes out the door is a lot of work and coordination of a lot of people. How did you handle that?

Topic 5 - Not all CNCF projects are as big as Kubernetes. How are the release cycles on smaller projects handled? Less Governance, Less Community Involvement, etc.

Topic 6 - You are the Co-Chair CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability, tell everyone a little about that and your goals and motivations there.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12772940 Wed, 03 May 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1920 Leonard Pahlke, CNCF, Kubernetes, Contributor, Release Process full false Kubernetes Community and Career Building Kubernetes Community and Career Building Steve Buchanan (@buchatech, Principal PM @Azure,  Author @Pluralsight) talks about his journey in Kubernetes community, building a personal brand through education and sharing, content creation and maintaining a healthy work life balance

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Topic 1 - Today we are going to be talking about careers and Kubernetes. Steve, welcome to the show! You have a super fascinating career journey, can you give everyone a quick introduction?

Topic 2 - I heard you over on the Kubernetes Unpacked podcast. First off, it’s hard to keep up with everything you are doing in the community these days. What is your current focus and passion? Have you reached 20 courses on Pluralsight yet?!

Topic 3 - How do you balance the day job (Program Manager for AKS) and the nights and weekends (PluralSight courses, blogging, podcasts, etc.)? Besides learning and sharing, what benefits are you seeing with this approach?

Topic 4 - I believe your journey parallels our journey here. We started the podcast to learn and give back to the community. Prior to the podcast, blogging was the big thing (we are completely aging ourselves I know) but I think it is safe to say blogging isn’t a primary source today. How would you recommend folks new to the industry get started sharing their journey? Where is the most “bang for your buck” these days?   

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Kubernetes and specifically AKS, what are customers finding new and interesting? What are the leading solutions and integrations you see combined with AKS? How do you create a “stack” in AKS (GitHub Actions, Azure Container Registry, etc.)

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Topic 1 - Today we are going to be talking about careers and Kubernetes. Steve, welcome to the show! You have a super fascinating career journey, can you give everyone a quick introduction?

Topic 2 - I heard you over on the Kubernetes Unpacked podcast. First off, it’s hard to keep up with everything you are doing in the community these days. What is your current focus and passion? Have you reached 20 courses on Pluralsight yet?!

Topic 3 - How do you balance the day job (Program Manager for AKS) and the nights and weekends (PluralSight courses, blogging, podcasts, etc.)? Besides learning and sharing, what benefits are you seeing with this approach?

Topic 4 - I believe your journey parallels our journey here. We started the podcast to learn and give back to the community. Prior to the podcast, blogging was the big thing (we are completely aging ourselves I know) but I think it is safe to say blogging isn’t a primary source today. How would you recommend folks new to the industry get started sharing their journey? Where is the most “bang for your buck” these days?   

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Kubernetes and specifically AKS, what are customers finding new and interesting? What are the leading solutions and integrations you see combined with AKS? How do you create a “stack” in AKS (GitHub Actions, Azure Container Registry, etc.)

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12719684 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2515 Steve Buchanan, Azure, Open Source, Pluralsight, Kubernetes community, full false Reviewing KubeConEU 2023 Reviewing KubeConEU 2023 KubeConEU 2023 in Amsterdam had over 10,000 attendees. What were the highlights and new trends happening in the CNCF ecosystem? 

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10,000 ATTENDEES, 58% OF THEM ARE NEW TO CNCF

  • Thank you to the CNCF for the Media pass to the event.
  • 10,000 people in attendance. Lots of energy. 
  • Showers in Europe - why?  

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR (MOSTLY EVERYBODY). EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT ON THE SHOW.

  • Kubernetes is mainstream for this audience. Now they are dealing with next-gen challenges beyond Kubernetes.
  • Lots of Observability usage (and vendors)
  • Lots of cloud cost-management (vendors), and talk that cloud providers would start pushing that message in 2023.
  • Service mesh drew a lot of interest. Between Ambient Mesh, Ciliium Mesh and Linkerd
  • Large European customers seem to be slightly behind the rest of the world in terms of adoption, but they were eager to engage at this point in time. 
  • Data sovereignty (local countries) is a big concern in Europe, so it was interesting to hear how companies are dealing with those regulations.
  • This is a strange show to get a sense from developers. WASM seems to be going through its Java phases. 

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10,000 ATTENDEES, 58% OF THEM ARE NEW TO CNCF

  • Thank you to the CNCF for the Media pass to the event.
  • 10,000 people in attendance. Lots of energy. 
  • Showers in Europe - why?  

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR (MOSTLY EVERYBODY). EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT ON THE SHOW.

  • Kubernetes is mainstream for this audience. Now they are dealing with next-gen challenges beyond Kubernetes.
  • Lots of Observability usage (and vendors)
  • Lots of cloud cost-management (vendors), and talk that cloud providers would start pushing that message in 2023.
  • Service mesh drew a lot of interest. Between Ambient Mesh, Ciliium Mesh and Linkerd
  • Large European customers seem to be slightly behind the rest of the world in terms of adoption, but they were eager to engage at this point in time. 
  • Data sovereignty (local countries) is a big concern in Europe, so it was interesting to hear how companies are dealing with those regulations.
  • This is a strange show to get a sense from developers. WASM seems to be going through its Java phases. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12702715 Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1450 full false Fax to the Future Fax to the Future Shawn Freligh (SVP/GM, Content Lifecycle Automation @UplandSoftware) talks about cloud delivery, AI and Security in managing document workflows and fax integrations.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Shawn. Tell us a little bit about your background

Topic 2 - How does technology like fax maintain a foothold in the market? How has fax technology evolved, in other words “survived?

Topic 3 - AI is a big topic in today’s market. Can fax benefit from current trends in AI?

Topic 4 - Security is of course top of mind for everyone – how do you view the security around fax?

Topic 5 - What markets are still reliant on fax technology and why?

Topic 6 - How do fax and digital transformation come together?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Shawn. Tell us a little bit about your background

Topic 2 - How does technology like fax maintain a foothold in the market? How has fax technology evolved, in other words “survived?

Topic 3 - AI is a big topic in today’s market. Can fax benefit from current trends in AI?

Topic 4 - Security is of course top of mind for everyone – how do you view the security around fax?

Topic 5 - What markets are still reliant on fax technology and why?

Topic 6 - How do fax and digital transformation come together?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12679655 Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1971 Shawn Freligh, Upland, FAX, Document Management, Cloud, AI, ECM full false How Incumbents Thrive and Survive How Incumbents Thrive and Survive How much of an impact has Digital Transformation really had on major markets? How often do unicorns disrupt incumbents? Let’s dig into the data over the last 30 years. 

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CHANGE COMES SLOW AT FIRST, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN (or does it?)

  • Since 1995, 40% have stayed, 50% have merged/sold, 7-8% dropped out, and 50% of existing move up into F500.
  • The Blockbuster, Nokia and Kodak stories are outliers. 

THE USER EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED, BUT THE COMPANIES BEHIND IT HAVEN’T AS MUCH

  • Disruption is about more than just newer/better technology
  • Existing brand relationships, trust, physical locations, supply-chains, partner-networks all play a key role for incumbents
  • Everyone is investing in digital transformation, for various reasons - user experience, data analysis, cost cutting, etc.
  • Four paths as an incumbent - [1] Fight back, [2] Double down, [3] Retrench, [4] Move away

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CHANGE COMES SLOW AT FIRST, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN (or does it?)

  • Since 1995, 40% have stayed, 50% have merged/sold, 7-8% dropped out, and 50% of existing move up into F500.
  • The Blockbuster, Nokia and Kodak stories are outliers. 

THE USER EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED, BUT THE COMPANIES BEHIND IT HAVEN’T AS MUCH

  • Disruption is about more than just newer/better technology
  • Existing brand relationships, trust, physical locations, supply-chains, partner-networks all play a key role for incumbents
  • Everyone is investing in digital transformation, for various reasons - user experience, data analysis, cost cutting, etc.
  • Four paths as an incumbent - [1] Fight back, [2] Double down, [3] Retrench, [4] Move away

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12646202 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1902 full false SBOM and Software Supply Chain SBOM and Software Supply Chain Rob Szumski (@robszumski, Founder/CEO @Edgebitio) talks about the evolution of software supply chains, SBOMs, and managing software dependencies in the age of cloud-native apps.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Rob. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to start Edgebit.

Topic 2 - SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) has become a big topic, especially around the cloud-native community. Software and security have been around a long time, why the uptick in discussions around SBOM now? 

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the day-in-the-life of a typical team these days. Where are there holes in their current toolset and how are things potentially improving? 

Topic 4 - Tell us about Edgebit. Where does Edgebit play a role in the Software Supply Chain? 

Topic 5 - Edgebit take a broad view of a company’s software landscape, but a narrow view of action. Less of a boil the ocean approach. How do you find this approach is appreciated by developers vs. security teams? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways you expect to see the SBOM and Software Supply Chain over the next year? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Rob. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to start Edgebit.

Topic 2 - SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) has become a big topic, especially around the cloud-native community. Software and security have been around a long time, why the uptick in discussions around SBOM now? 

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the day-in-the-life of a typical team these days. Where are there holes in their current toolset and how are things potentially improving? 

Topic 4 - Tell us about Edgebit. Where does Edgebit play a role in the Software Supply Chain? 

Topic 5 - Edgebit take a broad view of a company’s software landscape, but a narrow view of action. Less of a boil the ocean approach. How do you find this approach is appreciated by developers vs. security teams? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways you expect to see the SBOM and Software Supply Chain over the next year? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12634143 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1737 Rob Szumski, SBOM, Software Supply Chain, Edgebit, SPDX, VDR, VEX full false A Framework for Making Sense of AI Chaos A Framework for Making Sense of AI Chaos AI is either having its 15 minutes of fame, or completely reshaping every aspect of technology (and maybe every aspect of life), right now. How is everyone comprehending this shift? 

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NEW TECHNOLOGY TRENDS USUALLY COME OUT OF DOWNTURNS

  • SaaS came out of the Internet bubble burst
  • Cloud came out of the Housing bubble burst
  • AI isn’t new, but usable AI is coming out of COVID

HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF NEW +  CHAOS + UNCERTAINTY

  • There’s lots of ways to dive in - learn the basics, build some intro applications, etc.
  • Follow the money, and find the frauds
  • Figure out the ecosystem and how to be involved
  • Figure out what might be sustainable vs. just being a wrapper
  • Don’t get overwhelmed by everything at once. Pick something that interests you, or applies to your job (or a side hustle)

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NEW TECHNOLOGY TRENDS USUALLY COME OUT OF DOWNTURNS

  • SaaS came out of the Internet bubble burst
  • Cloud came out of the Housing bubble burst
  • AI isn’t new, but usable AI is coming out of COVID

HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF NEW +  CHAOS + UNCERTAINTY

  • There’s lots of ways to dive in - learn the basics, build some intro applications, etc.
  • Follow the money, and find the frauds
  • Figure out the ecosystem and how to be involved
  • Figure out what might be sustainable vs. just being a wrapper
  • Don’t get overwhelmed by everything at once. Pick something that interests you, or applies to your job (or a side hustle)

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12615228 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1544 full false The Evolution of SaaS Business Models The Evolution of SaaS Business Models Jamin Ball (@jaminball, Partner @ Altimeter Capital, author Clouded Judgement) talks about SaaS business models, common SaaS terminology in judging financials, models for multiples, the impact of interest rates, vision vs. product

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Topic 1 - Welcome to our guest co-host, Brandon Whichard. Jamin, can you give everyone a quick introduction?

Topic 2 - We’ve been huge fans of the Clouded Judgment Substack since inception in 2020. We regularly reference it during our weekly cloud news and recommend it as required reading for anyone interested in the business side of SaaS. What motivated you to start the substack?

Topic 3 - Can you start with SaaS financial terminology. We hear terms like ARR, customer churn, NTM, EV, LTM, etc. For those new to this, what terms matter the most and why? What picture are you trying to construct about the business from these financial values?

Topic 4 -  One of the sections of your newsletter is “multiples”, can you explain what multiples are and why you use Revenue Multiple as a valuation framework? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this framework? What other frameworks could be used?

Topic 5 - Everyone is talking about the rise of interest rates, how do interest rates affect multiples and valuation? Why should we care about this? Why should employees at SaaS companies know about this? SaaS business models were on an up and to the right trend for a number of years but we’ve recently seen some ups and downs. What are your thoughts on the current and future state of SaaS as an industry sector?

Topic 6 - The newsletter is very focused on financial metrics, how do you as an investor balance these metrics vs. product vision? How much revenue does a company need for this to become value? What metrics should an early startup focus on?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to our guest co-host, Brandon Whichard. Jamin, can you give everyone a quick introduction?

Topic 2 - We’ve been huge fans of the Clouded Judgment Substack since inception in 2020. We regularly reference it during our weekly cloud news and recommend it as required reading for anyone interested in the business side of SaaS. What motivated you to start the substack?

Topic 3 - Can you start with SaaS financial terminology. We hear terms like ARR, customer churn, NTM, EV, LTM, etc. For those new to this, what terms matter the most and why? What picture are you trying to construct about the business from these financial values?

Topic 4 -  One of the sections of your newsletter is “multiples”, can you explain what multiples are and why you use Revenue Multiple as a valuation framework? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this framework? What other frameworks could be used?

Topic 5 - Everyone is talking about the rise of interest rates, how do interest rates affect multiples and valuation? Why should we care about this? Why should employees at SaaS companies know about this? SaaS business models were on an up and to the right trend for a number of years but we’ve recently seen some ups and downs. What are your thoughts on the current and future state of SaaS as an industry sector?

Topic 6 - The newsletter is very focused on financial metrics, how do you as an investor balance these metrics vs. product vision? How much revenue does a company need for this to become value? What metrics should an early startup focus on?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12585614 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2478 Jamin Ball, SaaS, Altimeter Capital, Clouded Judgement, Business Models, Interest Rates full false Free Lunches Don't Last for Long Free Lunches Don't Last for Long Free is great, until it isn’t. Now that the unicorn buffet of VC funding has less cheap money, expect to see more announcements about free stuff no longer being free.  

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FREE AS IN BEER, FREE AS IN PUPPIES, FREE AS IN LUNCH

  • Vendored open source software is free, until it isn’t

BE CAREFUL WHEN YOUR DEPENDENCIES ARE BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE’S COSTS

  • It’s hard to ask for money when something has been free forever. 
  • Vendors will screw this up now and into the future
  • VCs love free marketing, but don’t love on-going costs without returns
  • Set your expectations right about “free” software. It might change without notice.

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FREE AS IN BEER, FREE AS IN PUPPIES, FREE AS IN LUNCH

  • Vendored open source software is free, until it isn’t

BE CAREFUL WHEN YOUR DEPENDENCIES ARE BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE’S COSTS

  • It’s hard to ask for money when something has been free forever. 
  • Vendors will screw this up now and into the future
  • VCs love free marketing, but don’t love on-going costs without returns
  • Set your expectations right about “free” software. It might change without notice.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12561152 Sun, 02 Apr 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1615 full false Open Telemetry Open Telemetry Gordon Radlein (@maascamp, Engineering Director at @Datadoghq) talks about the evolution of Open Telemetry (OTel), Logging, Metrics and Observability.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Gordon. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you’re focused on these days at Datadog?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - help us connect the dots between Telemetry and Logs and Metrics and Observability. And how does the Open Telemetry (OTel) project fit into the bigger picture?

Topic 3 - Telemetry has always been a tradeoff between how much data to collect and how much data can be processed. How do you see companies using Telemetry today? Does it usually depend on the company size, or the complexity of the application? 

Topic 4 - How does Datadog offer Open Telemetry to customers today? Has that evolved over time, as the standard has evolved? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the new trends happening around Open Telemetry 

Topic 6 - You’ve been around quite a bit of very large-scale infrastructure in your career. What are some of the tips that you’d give anybody trying to build out or scale their observability environments? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Gordon. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you’re focused on these days at Datadog?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - help us connect the dots between Telemetry and Logs and Metrics and Observability. And how does the Open Telemetry (OTel) project fit into the bigger picture?

Topic 3 - Telemetry has always been a tradeoff between how much data to collect and how much data can be processed. How do you see companies using Telemetry today? Does it usually depend on the company size, or the complexity of the application? 

Topic 4 - How does Datadog offer Open Telemetry to customers today? Has that evolved over time, as the standard has evolved? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the new trends happening around Open Telemetry 

Topic 6 - You’ve been around quite a bit of very large-scale infrastructure in your career. What are some of the tips that you’d give anybody trying to build out or scale their observability environments? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12538101 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0400 2384 full false Stop Investing in IT Skills Stop Investing in IT Skills The managers vs. workers leverage pendulum is swinging back again. Will management continue investing in IT Skills, or hollow out the IT future? 

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WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE GREAT RESIGNATION AND QUIET QUITTING?

  • Economic changes put the leverage back into management’s hands
  • Everything gets re-evaluated when budgets get tightened
  • Managers look to offload accountability to external sources

HOW TO COMMUNICATE VALUE vs PRODUCTIVITY vs COST SAVINGS

  • Many companies look at AI as a 1:1 replacement for tasks and people vs. looking at it to augment people. 
  • Companies outsourced IT in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hollowing out IT. Will that become a new trend in the 2020s again? 
  • Today’s engineers see things like low-code as not being viable, but see AI as being a way to augment their work (not replace it). 
  • Do companies know how to determine what isn’t differentiated vs. requiring creativity or can create differentiation? 
  • Workers have had quite a bit of freedom of movement for the last 10+ years. Will that continue into the next decade? How much does the remote-work trend impact this?
  • Gartner expects 75% of needed IT roles will go unfulfilled by 2030 (up from 25% in 2023)
  • Big companies (e.g. Amazon)  are pushing back on remote-work demands from workers.

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WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE GREAT RESIGNATION AND QUIET QUITTING?

  • Economic changes put the leverage back into management’s hands
  • Everything gets re-evaluated when budgets get tightened
  • Managers look to offload accountability to external sources

HOW TO COMMUNICATE VALUE vs PRODUCTIVITY vs COST SAVINGS

  • Many companies look at AI as a 1:1 replacement for tasks and people vs. looking at it to augment people. 
  • Companies outsourced IT in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hollowing out IT. Will that become a new trend in the 2020s again? 
  • Today’s engineers see things like low-code as not being viable, but see AI as being a way to augment their work (not replace it). 
  • Do companies know how to determine what isn’t differentiated vs. requiring creativity or can create differentiation? 
  • Workers have had quite a bit of freedom of movement for the last 10+ years. Will that continue into the next decade? How much does the remote-work trend impact this?
  • Gartner expects 75% of needed IT roles will go unfulfilled by 2030 (up from 25% in 2023)
  • Big companies (e.g. Amazon)  are pushing back on remote-work demands from workers.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12515091 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1683 full false Cost-Efficient Scale-Out Cloud Storage Cost-Efficient Scale-Out Cloud Storage Gleb Budman (@GlebBudman, CEO/Co-Founder of @Backblaze) talks about the evolution of cloud storage, the shift from on-prem to cloud, best practices and the rise of ransomware.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You started Backblaze in 2007, just a year after AWS S3 launched. What made you decide to start a storage company when EMC, HP and NetApp dominated with big enterprise boxes, and S3 seemed like a weird new thing for Amazon sellers? 

Topic 2 - Over the last couple of years, it feels like there has been a shift in how companies think about “the cloud”. We’re seeing more specialty clouds. How do you see this trend playing out in the market?

Topic 3 - You’ve been through multiple stages of how the cloud has evolved. Where do you see us now in terms of cloud evolution, and what are some of the things you see coming on the horizon?  

Topic 4 - Backblaze is well known for disrupting both the cost of cloud storage, but also how storage systems are built. Given today’s economic climate, are you seeing more companies demand more flexibility &/or efficiency on how they store data?  

Topic 5 - We continue to see ransomware attacks across all industries. Is this leading companies to rethink their backup and disaster-recovery strategies?

Topic 6 - From a storage perspective, do you see bottlenecks emerging about how this appetite for more and more data will eventually run into problems?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You started Backblaze in 2007, just a year after AWS S3 launched. What made you decide to start a storage company when EMC, HP and NetApp dominated with big enterprise boxes, and S3 seemed like a weird new thing for Amazon sellers? 

Topic 2 - Over the last couple of years, it feels like there has been a shift in how companies think about “the cloud”. We’re seeing more specialty clouds. How do you see this trend playing out in the market?

Topic 3 - You’ve been through multiple stages of how the cloud has evolved. Where do you see us now in terms of cloud evolution, and what are some of the things you see coming on the horizon?  

Topic 4 - Backblaze is well known for disrupting both the cost of cloud storage, but also how storage systems are built. Given today’s economic climate, are you seeing more companies demand more flexibility &/or efficiency on how they store data?  

Topic 5 - We continue to see ransomware attacks across all industries. Is this leading companies to rethink their backup and disaster-recovery strategies?

Topic 6 - From a storage perspective, do you see bottlenecks emerging about how this appetite for more and more data will eventually run into problems?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12476801 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1960 Backblaze, Gleb Budman, Cloud Storage, Cost Savings, AWS S3, Data Backup full false 3 Trends Shaping the Madness of March 3 Trends Shaping the Madness of March March comes in like a lion, but goes out like a lamb. Let’s explore 3 storylines that might have long-ranging implications for cloud. 

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THERE’S A LOT TO KEEP UP WITH RIGHT NOW

  • All the good TV shows are coming out with new episodes (many the last season)
  • The banking industry may or may not be very brittle right now
  • The weather is getting better - springtime is near
  • MarchMadness - NCAA Basketball is happening

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

  • Microsoft bringing AI to productivity tools is going to shift the focus to more strategic thinking, but also being able to know what’s right vs. just “work”
  • Are you spending time thinking about the various ways that you can make this new easy-to-use, non-data-scientists-driven AI work in your environment? 
  • The US Gov’t is trying to build a cloud strategy that is security-first. Is that possible? Will this bring up the debate about the cloud as a national utility? Security speed vs. agility speed? 
  • Corey Quinn highlights an important aspect of the cloud that isn’t always obvious to people - they leverage their control of the network (inter-region and external) to shape the competitive landscape. 

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THERE’S A LOT TO KEEP UP WITH RIGHT NOW

  • All the good TV shows are coming out with new episodes (many the last season)
  • The banking industry may or may not be very brittle right now
  • The weather is getting better - springtime is near
  • MarchMadness - NCAA Basketball is happening

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

  • Microsoft bringing AI to productivity tools is going to shift the focus to more strategic thinking, but also being able to know what’s right vs. just “work”
  • Are you spending time thinking about the various ways that you can make this new easy-to-use, non-data-scientists-driven AI work in your environment? 
  • The US Gov’t is trying to build a cloud strategy that is security-first. Is that possible? Will this bring up the debate about the cloud as a national utility? Security speed vs. agility speed? 
  • Corey Quinn highlights an important aspect of the cloud that isn’t always obvious to people - they leverage their control of the network (inter-region and external) to shape the competitive landscape. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12467280 Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1707 full false Backstage & Internal Developer Portals Backstage & Internal Developer Portals Martina Iglesias Fernández (@martina_if, CTO)  & David Tuite (@dtuite, CEO of @Roadiehq) talk about the rise of Internal Developer Portals, the problems they solve, the creation of Backstage and IDP’s as a SaaS service.

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Topic 1 - David & Martina, Welcome to the show. Please give everyone a brief introduction and how you got started with Backstage and internal development portals.

Topic 2 - Backstage was spun out of Spotify and is now a CNCF project. What problems were developers seeing and what is the origin story of Backstage?

Topic 3 - What were the immediate and long term advantages of consolidating the development experience on the Backstage platform?  

Topic 4 -  There is always a healthy tension with development platforms. How do you balance between setting standards to consolidate and providing freedom of choice?

Topic 5 - One of the common takeaways we have seen recently is that the IDP is the output product of Platform Engineering. Do you agree with this statement and what has your experience shown? Is this more about a set of common standards and automation or about a “product” such as an IDP.

Topic 6 - Why does an IDP succeed or fail?

Topic 7- Backstage doesn’t have a reputation of being the easiest to configure or operate. Is this where Backstage as a service comes in? What are the advantages and disadvantages to Backstage as a Service?

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Topic 1 - David & Martina, Welcome to the show. Please give everyone a brief introduction and how you got started with Backstage and internal development portals.

Topic 2 - Backstage was spun out of Spotify and is now a CNCF project. What problems were developers seeing and what is the origin story of Backstage?

Topic 3 - What were the immediate and long term advantages of consolidating the development experience on the Backstage platform?  

Topic 4 -  There is always a healthy tension with development platforms. How do you balance between setting standards to consolidate and providing freedom of choice?

Topic 5 - One of the common takeaways we have seen recently is that the IDP is the output product of Platform Engineering. Do you agree with this statement and what has your experience shown? Is this more about a set of common standards and automation or about a “product” such as an IDP.

Topic 6 - Why does an IDP succeed or fail?

Topic 7- Backstage doesn’t have a reputation of being the easiest to configure or operate. Is this where Backstage as a service comes in? What are the advantages and disadvantages to Backstage as a Service?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12440651 Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0400 1847 Martina Iglesias Fernández, David Tuite, Roadie, Backstage, Internal Developer Portal, Spotify full false Understanding How a Bank can Fail Understanding How a Bank can Fail This past week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by banking regulators. Let’s understand the basics of how this happened and why it matters to the tech industry. 

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HOW CAN A BANK WITH SO MUCH MONEY SHUT DOWN?

  • Banks never hold all the money that they have on the books as deposits
  • Banks manage a portfolio of investments
  • Banks try and manage the portfolio within certain ratios
  • Banks have regulations

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

  • Basics Part I - Systems built on Trust, Regulations to Enforce Actions
  • Basics Part II - What is SVB?, Deposits vs. Investments, Leverage, Interest Rates
  • Higher interest rates increases the risk of existing investments
  • Valuations vs. Valuations on Paper
  • Insurance, Diversified Portfolio
  • Cloud Analogies - Single vs. Multi-Cloud, Shared Resources Risks, Profitability of a Service, Best Practices vs. Practicality, Rising Costs (or Shortages) 

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HOW CAN A BANK WITH SO MUCH MONEY SHUT DOWN?

  • Banks never hold all the money that they have on the books as deposits
  • Banks manage a portfolio of investments
  • Banks try and manage the portfolio within certain ratios
  • Banks have regulations

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

  • Basics Part I - Systems built on Trust, Regulations to Enforce Actions
  • Basics Part II - What is SVB?, Deposits vs. Investments, Leverage, Interest Rates
  • Higher interest rates increases the risk of existing investments
  • Valuations vs. Valuations on Paper
  • Insurance, Diversified Portfolio
  • Cloud Analogies - Single vs. Multi-Cloud, Shared Resources Risks, Profitability of a Service, Best Practices vs. Practicality, Rising Costs (or Shortages) 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12419177 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2355 full false 2023 Look Ahead for Developers 2023 Look Ahead for Developers James Governor (@monkchips, Co-Founder @Redmonk) talks about Developer experience in 2023. Topics include trends, platforms, languages and culture.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You are a rockstar in the developer world, and maybe unknown in the infrastructure world. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - [Developers as a Whole]  In 2023, do you think about developers any differently than you did in 2018 or 2021? Do you think about developers in terms of things they get done, or the types of work they do (front-end, back-end, mobile, data-science, etc.), or something else?

Topic 3 - [Trends] What are the big developer-centric trends that you are tracking or really have your interest? AI? Hosting services? Database services? WASM?  

Topic 4 - [Platforms]  Will we ever find that PaaS pot-of-golf at the end of the rainbow, or is the dream of platforms just a unicorn? Or do we have to realize that successful platforms are all micro-platforms? 

Topic 5 - [Languages] Redmonk famously tracks development languages every six months. It feels like there are only two trends - what stays the same, and the language that is the new hotness. Do languages really matter?  

Topic 6 - [Culture] Lots of people talk about changing a company’s culture to better serve the needs of developers. Do you have any examples of where that has worked, or best practices? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You are a rockstar in the developer world, and maybe unknown in the infrastructure world. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - [Developers as a Whole]  In 2023, do you think about developers any differently than you did in 2018 or 2021? Do you think about developers in terms of things they get done, or the types of work they do (front-end, back-end, mobile, data-science, etc.), or something else?

Topic 3 - [Trends] What are the big developer-centric trends that you are tracking or really have your interest? AI? Hosting services? Database services? WASM?  

Topic 4 - [Platforms]  Will we ever find that PaaS pot-of-golf at the end of the rainbow, or is the dream of platforms just a unicorn? Or do we have to realize that successful platforms are all micro-platforms? 

Topic 5 - [Languages] Redmonk famously tracks development languages every six months. It feels like there are only two trends - what stays the same, and the language that is the new hotness. Do languages really matter?  

Topic 6 - [Culture] Lots of people talk about changing a company’s culture to better serve the needs of developers. Do you have any examples of where that has worked, or best practices? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12395392 Wed, 08 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2505 James Governor, Redmonk, Developers, DevOps, WASM, AI/ML, PaaS, full false Lessons Learned from 3yrs of COVID Lessons Learned from 3yrs of COVID It’s now been 3 years since the world was disrupted by COVID-19. How has the tech industry been impacted, changed, and altered? 

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GOOD PREDICTIONS, BAD PREDICTIONS, AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

  • How long the pandemic would last
  • How much this would accelerate cloud adoption
  • How efficient remote work would make companies
  • The future of in-person events vs. virtual events

GOOD HABITS, BAD HABITS, AND LESSONS LEARNED

  • Too many companies assumed that late 2020 through early 2022 would be the new normal 
  • The cloud providers all grew very fast, but none of them launched industry-changing new services, and have since laid off people
  • SaaS services did not figure out how to be more profitable, and have laid off people
  • Remove work hasn’t become more efficient, and it’s not creating new management / teamwork / collaboration challenges
  • We’ve created very unusual and awkward human interactions, and tried to normalize them
  • A new round of layoffs and economic uncertainty will end up creating another new set of behaviors - still TBD.

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GOOD PREDICTIONS, BAD PREDICTIONS, AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

  • How long the pandemic would last
  • How much this would accelerate cloud adoption
  • How efficient remote work would make companies
  • The future of in-person events vs. virtual events

GOOD HABITS, BAD HABITS, AND LESSONS LEARNED

  • Too many companies assumed that late 2020 through early 2022 would be the new normal 
  • The cloud providers all grew very fast, but none of them launched industry-changing new services, and have since laid off people
  • SaaS services did not figure out how to be more profitable, and have laid off people
  • Remove work hasn’t become more efficient, and it’s not creating new management / teamwork / collaboration challenges
  • We’ve created very unusual and awkward human interactions, and tried to normalize them
  • A new round of layoffs and economic uncertainty will end up creating another new set of behaviors - still TBD.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12376595 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1633 full false Edge, InterConnects & CoLo Edge, InterConnects & CoLo Zachary Smith (@zsmithnyc, Head of Edge Infrastructure @Equinix) talks about Edge Computing, the evolution of CoLocation, Cloud Interconnects and Emerging Trends.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Equinix?

Topic 2 - Equinix is in a very interesting position in the market, because you have visibility to so many different trends - cloud interconnects, edge computing, application migrations, etc. As we move into 2023, what are some of the trends that you’re keeping an eye on?

Topic 3 - You focus on Edge computing. It seems like a very fragmented market (many definitions, many use-cases, many business models). How do you think about the breadth of Edge? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the trends you’re seeing from the big cloud providers, and how does it impact different size businesses? 

Topic 5 - You also have a focus on bare metal computing. Is that still primarily a performance-centric play in the market, or are there new trends happening that expand what bare metal can be a part of?

Topic 6 - Going forward, what role do you see the global Co-Location providers planning in Cloud, or Edge, or other major trends over the next 5+ years? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Equinix?

Topic 2 - Equinix is in a very interesting position in the market, because you have visibility to so many different trends - cloud interconnects, edge computing, application migrations, etc. As we move into 2023, what are some of the trends that you’re keeping an eye on?

Topic 3 - You focus on Edge computing. It seems like a very fragmented market (many definitions, many use-cases, many business models). How do you think about the breadth of Edge? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the trends you’re seeing from the big cloud providers, and how does it impact different size businesses? 

Topic 5 - You also have a focus on bare metal computing. Is that still primarily a performance-centric play in the market, or are there new trends happening that expand what bare metal can be a part of?

Topic 6 - Going forward, what role do you see the global Co-Location providers planning in Cloud, or Edge, or other major trends over the next 5+ years? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12350239 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2186 Zachary Smith, Equinix, CoLocation, Edge Computing, Cloud Interconnects full false The Ala Carte Internet is Coming The Ala Carte Internet is Coming The economics of the Internet are changing as the foundational ad-driven model is being disrupted. How will this impact the cost of things we’ve long enjoyed for free on the Internet?

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THE EVOLUTION OF HOW THE INTERNET WAS PAID FOR

  • Original Internet - Funded by the US Gov’t (ARPANET)
  • Walled Gardens - AOL, Compuserve
  • The Rise of Web Browsers, Search Engines and the Open Internet
  • The Rise of Consumer Broadband and Over-the-Top Services
  • Advertising as the dominant business model, and building moats

THE DISRUPTION OF THE AD-CENTRIC INTERNET AND ITS IMPACTS

  • Google moats for ads/search - Maps, Gmail, Android, Weather, Flights, Stocks, etc.
  • Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple have build huge ad businesses
  • Apple is disrupting mobile advertising with ATT
  • Microsoft is disrupting search with ChatGPT (and OpenAI)

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SHOW NOTES:

THE EVOLUTION OF HOW THE INTERNET WAS PAID FOR

  • Original Internet - Funded by the US Gov’t (ARPANET)
  • Walled Gardens - AOL, Compuserve
  • The Rise of Web Browsers, Search Engines and the Open Internet
  • The Rise of Consumer Broadband and Over-the-Top Services
  • Advertising as the dominant business model, and building moats

THE DISRUPTION OF THE AD-CENTRIC INTERNET AND ITS IMPACTS

  • Google moats for ads/search - Maps, Gmail, Android, Weather, Flights, Stocks, etc.
  • Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple have build huge ad businesses
  • Apple is disrupting mobile advertising with ATT
  • Microsoft is disrupting search with ChatGPT (and OpenAI)

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12327227 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1692 full false Cloud-Native Security & Usage Cloud-Native Security & Usage Michael Isbitski (@michaelisbitski, Director Cybersecurity Strategy @sysdig) talks about about Sysdig's 2023 Cloud Native Security and Usage Report. The latest trends, interesting findings and the latest on Cloud Native Security

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Sysdig?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the 2023 report. This is something that Sysdig has run for many years. What are some of the major Container Security and Usage trends you’re seeing this year (2022 to 2023)? 

  • Report is unique as it looks at real-world data or more than a billion containers 
  • 6th report, each year we build on the data collected previously 
  • Beyond the speed of containers and usage data, we also looked at things people care about right now 
    • Where are there cost savings 
    • How are we doing with implementing zero trust
    • Where can we save time and reduce risk

Topic 3 - It seems like preparedness for attacks, via vulnerabilities, is on the rise? Why do you think we’re seeing things getting worse, rather than better?   

Topic 4 - Talk to us about some of the best practices for managing all the vulnerabilities, and how to think about prioritization - such as Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Topic 5 - It appears that Zero Trust is a big buzzword, but maybe companies have zero trust in zero trust. Did this surprise you? What do you think is causing this?

Topic 6 - What are some of the operational best practices that you’re seeing companies doing to help mitigate these ever growing security threats? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Sysdig?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the 2023 report. This is something that Sysdig has run for many years. What are some of the major Container Security and Usage trends you’re seeing this year (2022 to 2023)? 

  • Report is unique as it looks at real-world data or more than a billion containers 
  • 6th report, each year we build on the data collected previously 
  • Beyond the speed of containers and usage data, we also looked at things people care about right now 
    • Where are there cost savings 
    • How are we doing with implementing zero trust
    • Where can we save time and reduce risk

Topic 3 - It seems like preparedness for attacks, via vulnerabilities, is on the rise? Why do you think we’re seeing things getting worse, rather than better?   

Topic 4 - Talk to us about some of the best practices for managing all the vulnerabilities, and how to think about prioritization - such as Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Topic 5 - It appears that Zero Trust is a big buzzword, but maybe companies have zero trust in zero trust. Did this surprise you? What do you think is causing this?

Topic 6 - What are some of the operational best practices that you’re seeing companies doing to help mitigate these ever growing security threats? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12298907 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2457 Sysdig, Michael Isbitski, 2023 Container Security and Usage Report, CVSS, Kubernetes full false Here Comes the anti-Cloud Crowd Here Comes the anti-Cloud Crowd Public cloud usage. Cloud-native application development. Developer relations. In a down economy, everything gets questioned. Expect a lot of naysayers and doubters. 

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THE CURVE IS BENDING DOWN, SO QUESTION EVERYTHING

  • The public cloud is no longer economically viable
  • Distributed systems are not practical
  • Kubernetes is now too difficult to use
  • Developer relations (DevRel) is no longer needed by vendors

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EARLY ADOPTERS AND MAINSTREAM

  • Early adopters typically have a specific problem they are trying to solve
  • Near-term and long-term goals don’t always align
  • The ROI of technology doesn’t always happen immediately
  • Resume-driven-development is a real thing in good times
  • Economic downturns shine a light on practicality and profitability
  • Greed is a factor in good times and bad times

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THE CURVE IS BENDING DOWN, SO QUESTION EVERYTHING

  • The public cloud is no longer economically viable
  • Distributed systems are not practical
  • Kubernetes is now too difficult to use
  • Developer relations (DevRel) is no longer needed by vendors

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EARLY ADOPTERS AND MAINSTREAM

  • Early adopters typically have a specific problem they are trying to solve
  • Near-term and long-term goals don’t always align
  • The ROI of technology doesn’t always happen immediately
  • Resume-driven-development is a real thing in good times
  • Economic downturns shine a light on practicality and profitability
  • Greed is a factor in good times and bad times

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12279635 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1731 full false Data Lakehouses and Apache Hudi Data Lakehouses and Apache Hudi Kyle Weller (@KyleJWeller, Head of Product @onehousehq) talks about the latest trends in  OSS Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and the evolution to “Data Lakehouses” with Apache Hudi

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Onehouse?

Topic 2 - Your focus is on an emerging open source project, Apache Hudi. Before we dive into the project and technologies, we’re always interested in the background of what drove the creation of new projects. What problems existed before Hudi? 

Topic 3 - Let’s dive into Hudi. Data lakes, Delta Lakes, Lake houses, Icebergs. What is going on with all these water metaphors?  

Topic 4 - Hudi is focused on streaming data lakes. What are some of the things (types of applications) that need a streaming data lake? Where do transactions come into play? Where do data warehouse capabilities come into play?

Topic 5 - Stitching together open source projects and platforms can be complicated. How does the Onehouse platform simplify all of this for either data scientists or platform teams?

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how companies are using Onehouse and Hudi today? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Onehouse?

Topic 2 - Your focus is on an emerging open source project, Apache Hudi. Before we dive into the project and technologies, we’re always interested in the background of what drove the creation of new projects. What problems existed before Hudi? 

Topic 3 - Let’s dive into Hudi. Data lakes, Delta Lakes, Lake houses, Icebergs. What is going on with all these water metaphors?  

Topic 4 - Hudi is focused on streaming data lakes. What are some of the things (types of applications) that need a streaming data lake? Where do transactions come into play? Where do data warehouse capabilities come into play?

Topic 5 - Stitching together open source projects and platforms can be complicated. How does the Onehouse platform simplify all of this for either data scientists or platform teams?

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how companies are using Onehouse and Hudi today? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12254864 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1859 Kyle Weller, Onehouse, Apache Hudi, Data Lake, Lake House, Streaming Data full false Takeaways from the Latest Cloud Earnings Takeaways from the Latest Cloud Earnings Now that AWS, Azure, GCP earnings are slowing down across the board, let’s look at what this could mean in the near-term and long-term. 

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THE GROWTH OF CLOUD PROVIDERS IS BEGINNING TO SLOW DOWN

  • The cloud providers are still growing at a high rate
  • But the rate of grow, and CAPEX investment is slowing down
  • Is this the new normal?

WHAT’S CAUSING THE SLOW DOWN?

  • Increased interest rates, so slower overall spending across tech
  • Cloud cost optimization tools and company-wide programs
  • Enterprise companies managing to post-COVID “new normals”
  • SaaS companies cutting back, especially VC-funded companies
  • Lots of tech layoffs 
  • Concern about Google (and Azure?) being profitable?
  • Will the new AI wars disrupt the focus of the cloud companies?
  • Will we see services cut back by the cloud providers?
  • Companies now have an opportunity to renegotiate costs?

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SHOW NOTES:


THE GROWTH OF CLOUD PROVIDERS IS BEGINNING TO SLOW DOWN

  • The cloud providers are still growing at a high rate
  • But the rate of grow, and CAPEX investment is slowing down
  • Is this the new normal?

WHAT’S CAUSING THE SLOW DOWN?

  • Increased interest rates, so slower overall spending across tech
  • Cloud cost optimization tools and company-wide programs
  • Enterprise companies managing to post-COVID “new normals”
  • SaaS companies cutting back, especially VC-funded companies
  • Lots of tech layoffs 
  • Concern about Google (and Azure?) being profitable?
  • Will the new AI wars disrupt the focus of the cloud companies?
  • Will we see services cut back by the cloud providers?
  • Companies now have an opportunity to renegotiate costs?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12236055 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1828 full false Composable Data Analytics Composable Data Analytics Josh Patterson (@datametrician, Co-Founder & CEO @VoltronData) talks about the concept of composable data analytics and how it benefits our industry. What is it, why should be using it, and how to get started.

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Topic 1 - Hello Josh and welcome to the show. You have a very diverse and interesting background. Can you give everyone a quick introduction? As a follow up, tell everyone a little bit about your experience as Presidential Innovation Fellow.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into Voltron Data, we need to tell everyone about Apache Arrow. Business and organizations tend to be overwhelmed by big data. Everything from the volume, to the tools, to the lack of data scientists and practitioners. Can you give everyone an overview of Arrow, how it came to be, what problem does it solve? 

Topic 3 - Arrow has companies like Snowflake, NetFlix, Meta, Databricks, Google and Microsoft all adopting it. Our listeners will be more familiar with Snowflake & Databricks and their business models, what makes Voltron Data different? How are you building a company on top of OSS?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about communities and standards. I’ve seen various numbers on Arrow and monthly downloads, always in the tens of millions per month. Your focus appears to be providing services for Arrow and other Apache projects to simplify open source for those that don’t have the skills or time, while also working towards the goal of community standards. Is that correct?

Topic 5 - How will open source standards for data help the data analytics industry move faster? Is this a process problem? A data set problem? A tools problem?

Topic 6 - Data Analytics has a reputation for a high barrier to entry. If our listeners are interested, how can they get started?

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Topic 1 - Hello Josh and welcome to the show. You have a very diverse and interesting background. Can you give everyone a quick introduction? As a follow up, tell everyone a little bit about your experience as Presidential Innovation Fellow.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into Voltron Data, we need to tell everyone about Apache Arrow. Business and organizations tend to be overwhelmed by big data. Everything from the volume, to the tools, to the lack of data scientists and practitioners. Can you give everyone an overview of Arrow, how it came to be, what problem does it solve? 

Topic 3 - Arrow has companies like Snowflake, NetFlix, Meta, Databricks, Google and Microsoft all adopting it. Our listeners will be more familiar with Snowflake & Databricks and their business models, what makes Voltron Data different? How are you building a company on top of OSS?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about communities and standards. I’ve seen various numbers on Arrow and monthly downloads, always in the tens of millions per month. Your focus appears to be providing services for Arrow and other Apache projects to simplify open source for those that don’t have the skills or time, while also working towards the goal of community standards. Is that correct?

Topic 5 - How will open source standards for data help the data analytics industry move faster? Is this a process problem? A data set problem? A tools problem?

Topic 6 - Data Analytics has a reputation for a high barrier to entry. If our listeners are interested, how can they get started?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12202293 Wed, 08 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2200 Josh Patterson, Voltron Data, Data Analytics, Apache Arrow, Snowflake, Databricks full false Everybody Gets Fired, Eventually Everybody Gets Fired, Eventually The tech industry is going through an employment level downturn at the moment, so what should you do? What shouldn’t you do? 

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LAYOFFS ARE NEVER FUN, AND THEY HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTS

  • Hiring tends to happen in waves, and layoffs happen in blasts
  • Sometimes layoffs happen for solid reasons, and sometimes for emotional reasons

HOW TO NAVIGATE A LAYOFF, OR BEING AROUND AFTER A LAYOFF

  • Eventually, everybody gets fired - whether they should or not
  • Try not to make it too emotional, which is initially difficult
  • Companies never really take ownership, but they can be compassionate
  • Allow yourself to go through the grieving process
  • Decide if you still want to stay in the tech industry
  • Stay active in life - get up, find a routine, stay healthy, make a plan each day
  • Begin looking while you have financial buffers
  • Find something creative - build things
  • Stay active with your skills - volunteer, side projects, etc.
  • Stay active with your networks
  • At some point, be realistic - family needs, sunk costs, titles, etc.

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  • Did you know that 87% of container images in production include a high or critical vulnerability? No wonder prioritization is difficult. Download the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage report to dig into the state of cloud and container usage.
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  • Have an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? Let us solve it for you! Visit strata.io/cloudcast to share your toughest IAM challenge and receive a set of AirPods Pro.
  • Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.
  • Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!

SHOW NOTES:


LAYOFFS ARE NEVER FUN, AND THEY HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTS

  • Hiring tends to happen in waves, and layoffs happen in blasts
  • Sometimes layoffs happen for solid reasons, and sometimes for emotional reasons

HOW TO NAVIGATE A LAYOFF, OR BEING AROUND AFTER A LAYOFF

  • Eventually, everybody gets fired - whether they should or not
  • Try not to make it too emotional, which is initially difficult
  • Companies never really take ownership, but they can be compassionate
  • Allow yourself to go through the grieving process
  • Decide if you still want to stay in the tech industry
  • Stay active in life - get up, find a routine, stay healthy, make a plan each day
  • Begin looking while you have financial buffers
  • Find something creative - build things
  • Stay active with your skills - volunteer, side projects, etc.
  • Stay active with your networks
  • At some point, be realistic - family needs, sunk costs, titles, etc.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12182303 Sun, 05 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1851 full false 2023 Look Ahead with the CNCF 2023 Look Ahead with the CNCF Chris Aniszczyk (@cra, CTO of @CloudNativeFdn) talks about the evolution of CNCF projects, major cloud-native trends, and managing the intersection of projects, users and vendors.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and what does a CTO of a foundation like the CNCF do? 

Topic 2 - What does the CNCF do these days, and what should various stakeholders, partners and consumers of CNCF “things” (projects, events, training, etc.) expect from the CNCF? 

Topic 3 - The CNCF has a number of ways to represent technologies under its governance - Landscape, Technology Radar, etc. As the CTO, how do you think about all the different ways there are to solve problems using CNCF technologies? 

Topic 4 - How much do you worry about the economy slowing down, in the sense of it impacting VC funding for companies that might be at the core of projects (especially new projects). Does the CNCF need a certain amount of volume of projects to provide value, or are you mostly focused on doing good governance to the projects in front of you?

Topic 5 - As the CTO of the CNCF, do you feel like there are “core” projects that need more of your attention because of how many other projects have dependencies? Or are there key concepts that you try to infuse into projects, knowing how interconnected they become?

Topic 6 - Every technologist has their areas of interest.  You recently did a post on your predictions for 2023 that everyone should check out. What are some of yours as you look out at 2023?  

Topic 7 - What are some of the new things that the CNCF is working on this year? 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and what does a CTO of a foundation like the CNCF do? 

Topic 2 - What does the CNCF do these days, and what should various stakeholders, partners and consumers of CNCF “things” (projects, events, training, etc.) expect from the CNCF? 

Topic 3 - The CNCF has a number of ways to represent technologies under its governance - Landscape, Technology Radar, etc. As the CTO, how do you think about all the different ways there are to solve problems using CNCF technologies? 

Topic 4 - How much do you worry about the economy slowing down, in the sense of it impacting VC funding for companies that might be at the core of projects (especially new projects). Does the CNCF need a certain amount of volume of projects to provide value, or are you mostly focused on doing good governance to the projects in front of you?

Topic 5 - As the CTO of the CNCF, do you feel like there are “core” projects that need more of your attention because of how many other projects have dependencies? Or are there key concepts that you try to infuse into projects, knowing how interconnected they become?

Topic 6 - Every technologist has their areas of interest.  You recently did a post on your predictions for 2023 that everyone should check out. What are some of yours as you look out at 2023?  

Topic 7 - What are some of the new things that the CNCF is working on this year? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12158889 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2960 Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF, Open Source, Landscape, Technology Radar full false New Technologies are Difficult to Explain New Technologies are Difficult to Explain While we all live in a world of constantly emerging and evolving technologies, sometimes new technologies are so different from the past that they are just difficult to explain the first time. 

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LETS CONNECT THE DOTS BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIES

  • Introducing Cloud-native technologies to non Cloud-native people
  • Trying to figure out a Tesla Model 3 from the rental agency without the manual

HOW TO EXPLAIN NEW THINGS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE

  • What experiences do people have about the previous generation of technology?
  • Do you need to explain why the new technologies exist?
  • Do you need to explain why the new choices were made with the new technologies?
  • Do you frustrate people because the things they expect are different or missing?
  • Should you use analogies or comparisons to explain things? 

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SHOW NOTES:

LETS CONNECT THE DOTS BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIES

  • Introducing Cloud-native technologies to non Cloud-native people
  • Trying to figure out a Tesla Model 3 from the rental agency without the manual

HOW TO EXPLAIN NEW THINGS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE

  • What experiences do people have about the previous generation of technology?
  • Do you need to explain why the new technologies exist?
  • Do you need to explain why the new choices were made with the new technologies?
  • Do you frustrate people because the things they expect are different or missing?
  • Should you use analogies or comparisons to explain things? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12136567 Sun, 29 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1991 full false 2023 Look Ahead to FinOps 2023 Look Ahead to FinOps Matt Ray (@mattray, Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) talks about the evolution of FinOps, alignment between Eng and Finance, and FinOps best practices. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus on Cloud Cost Management today.

Topic 2 - The cloud has been around for more than a decade. Why does it seem like Cloud Cost Management has suddenly become such a big topic of discussion over the last couple years - is it mostly the pandemic and economy (interest rates), or more driven by end-user behaviors….or both? 

Topic 3 - What do best practices for Cost Management look like today? It is mostly about having the right monitoring tools, or is it how groups are organized, or something else?

Topic 4 - How in the world can any finance person understand the nuances of all the services that are available in the cloud, and how they might impact both architecture and ultimately the bill? Who needs to be educating them? 

Topic 5 - How do most companies engage around cost management? Does it start with cost management tools and then bring in consultants (e.g. Corey Quinn) if they can’t figure things out? Or is it the CFO getting heavy-handed and setting strict policies? 

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about OpenCost. 

Topic 7 - Given all the variables involved, can you be useful in the cloud cost management space if they don’t have a strong background in building applications or architecture? 

Topic 8 - What are some of the areas of cloud cost management that are most interesting to you today? 

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]]> Matt Ray (@mattray, Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) talks about the evolution of FinOps, alignment between Eng and Finance, and FinOps best practices. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus on Cloud Cost Management today.

Topic 2 - The cloud has been around for more than a decade. Why does it seem like Cloud Cost Management has suddenly become such a big topic of discussion over the last couple years - is it mostly the pandemic and economy (interest rates), or more driven by end-user behaviors….or both? 

Topic 3 - What do best practices for Cost Management look like today? It is mostly about having the right monitoring tools, or is it how groups are organized, or something else?

Topic 4 - How in the world can any finance person understand the nuances of all the services that are available in the cloud, and how they might impact both architecture and ultimately the bill? Who needs to be educating them? 

Topic 5 - How do most companies engage around cost management? Does it start with cost management tools and then bring in consultants (e.g. Corey Quinn) if they can’t figure things out? Or is it the CFO getting heavy-handed and setting strict policies? 

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about OpenCost. 

Topic 7 - Given all the variables involved, can you be useful in the cloud cost management space if they don’t have a strong background in building applications or architecture? 

Topic 8 - What are some of the areas of cloud cost management that are most interesting to you today? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12113144 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2267 Matt Ray, FinOps, Open Cost, Cloud Cost Management full false Self Service and Org Charts Self Service and Org Charts Does any technology make sense if the organization surrounding it is misaligned? Let’s look at some examples of the right and wrong ways to align the technology organization with business results. 

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GREAT SLIDES AND DEMOS DON’T ALWAYS WORK IN THE REAL WORLD

  • Platforms vs. Services. 
  • Centers of Excellence vs. Centralized Services vs. Distributed Services
  • Who makes the initial investment? Incremental investments? Who owns maintenance? 
  • Business Goals? Technical Goals? 

THINGS THAT WORK AND THINGS THAT OFTEN BREAK

  • What problem is trying to be solved? Does the consumer understand how to measure value received? 
  • How are things funded? How does expansion happen? How do changes happen?
  • How are things measured? How well are measurements aligned?
  • Self-Service vs. APIs vs SLA’d Services (fixed services vs. reusable services)
  • Are platforms centralized vs. group-by-group? 
  • Short-term goals vs. long-term goals?

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SHOW NOTES:

 

GREAT SLIDES AND DEMOS DON’T ALWAYS WORK IN THE REAL WORLD

  • Platforms vs. Services. 
  • Centers of Excellence vs. Centralized Services vs. Distributed Services
  • Who makes the initial investment? Incremental investments? Who owns maintenance? 
  • Business Goals? Technical Goals? 

THINGS THAT WORK AND THINGS THAT OFTEN BREAK

  • What problem is trying to be solved? Does the consumer understand how to measure value received? 
  • How are things funded? How does expansion happen? How do changes happen?
  • How are things measured? How well are measurements aligned?
  • Self-Service vs. APIs vs SLA’d Services (fixed services vs. reusable services)
  • Are platforms centralized vs. group-by-group? 
  • Short-term goals vs. long-term goals?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12062379 Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2116 full false 2023 Look Ahead to VC Funding 2023 Look Ahead to VC Funding Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about life as a VC, upcoming trends to look out for, and what to expect with rising interest rates in 2023.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back. You’re almost in the 5 timers club at this point and a returning guest from our look ahead shows in 2022. For our new listeners, tell everyone a little bit about yourself

Topic 2 - We covered a lot of VC basics in last year's show, link above for those that missed it. We still get a lot of questions around VC funding and VC’s in general. What’s the elevator pitch version of what you do day to day as a VC? Also, how is Crane different from say some of the traditional Sand Hill Road VC’s

Topic 3 - Since we spoke last year, what’s changed? What market patterns have you noticed? Have investment and “exit” strategies changed?

Topic 4 - Investment advisors always tell clients to take a long view of markets, because their horizon for things like retirement or college savings, are long term. Do VCs tend to take round–to-round viewpoints of customers, or longer-term (like 5-7yrs) of their investments?

Topic 5 -  Last year we talked about the cost of investments (expectations of valuations) being high (cheap money, lots of competition). Given the changes in the economy, do you expect that we’ll see big changes in investments, valuations, etc..? 

Topic 6 - At a macro level, what is interesting to you in 2023? What are you researching these days?

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]]> Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about life as a VC, upcoming trends to look out for, and what to expect with rising interest rates in 2023.

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  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back. You’re almost in the 5 timers club at this point and a returning guest from our look ahead shows in 2022. For our new listeners, tell everyone a little bit about yourself

Topic 2 - We covered a lot of VC basics in last year's show, link above for those that missed it. We still get a lot of questions around VC funding and VC’s in general. What’s the elevator pitch version of what you do day to day as a VC? Also, how is Crane different from say some of the traditional Sand Hill Road VC’s

Topic 3 - Since we spoke last year, what’s changed? What market patterns have you noticed? Have investment and “exit” strategies changed?

Topic 4 - Investment advisors always tell clients to take a long view of markets, because their horizon for things like retirement or college savings, are long term. Do VCs tend to take round–to-round viewpoints of customers, or longer-term (like 5-7yrs) of their investments?

Topic 5 -  Last year we talked about the cost of investments (expectations of valuations) being high (cheap money, lots of competition). Given the changes in the economy, do you expect that we’ll see big changes in investments, valuations, etc..? 

Topic 6 - At a macro level, what is interesting to you in 2023? What are you researching these days?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12063849 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2448 Aneel Lakhani, VC Funding, Crane VC, Inflation, Venture Capital full false The Decisions that VMware made The Decisions that VMware made VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition. How did they get here?

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  • Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!

SHOW NOTES:

 

HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWN

  • VMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, and operated as an “independent” entity, but how independent was it really?
  • What might VMware have become if they weren’t owned by an infrastructure company?

HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS

  • What happens if VMware is allowed to be spun out from EMC? How much did it impact growth? How much did it impact innovation?
  • What happens if Paul Maritz doesn’t acquire all the companies that tried to become Microsoft? 
  • What happens if VMware didn’t spinout Pivotal, and instead delivered a more vertical software stack?
  • What happens if Pat Gelsinger doesn’t buy Nicira, and instead focuses on the public cloud offerings 4 years earlier? (AWS revenues by year)
  • Why didn’t VMware define the integrated computing model (e.g. Cisco UCS)? 
  • What happens if VMware (or Pivotal) had adopted Kubernetes in 2015 instead of 2019? 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.
  • Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!

SHOW NOTES:

 

HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWN

  • VMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, and operated as an “independent” entity, but how independent was it really?
  • What might VMware have become if they weren’t owned by an infrastructure company?

HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS

  • What happens if VMware is allowed to be spun out from EMC? How much did it impact growth? How much did it impact innovation?
  • What happens if Paul Maritz doesn’t acquire all the companies that tried to become Microsoft? 
  • What happens if VMware didn’t spinout Pivotal, and instead delivered a more vertical software stack?
  • What happens if Pat Gelsinger doesn’t buy Nicira, and instead focuses on the public cloud offerings 4 years earlier? (AWS revenues by year)
  • Why didn’t VMware define the integrated computing model (e.g. Cisco UCS)? 
  • What happens if VMware (or Pivotal) had adopted Kubernetes in 2015 instead of 2019? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12045550 Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1877 full false 2023 Look Ahead to AI/ML 2023 Look Ahead to AI/ML Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, host @twimlai podcast) talks about the evolution of AI & ML in 2023, and the possibilities of ChatGPT.

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  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • Eaton Homepage
  • Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Hi Sam. Welcome back to the show. Before we get into today’s discussions, tell us a little bit about the breadth of things you’re doing over at TWIMLAI and how people can get involved?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the recent headlines - Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. For those of us that aren’t around this everyday, it feels like some big leaps in useability. Did we see a big jump in AI at the end of 2022, or was this just good UI design, or something else?

Topic 3 - ChatGPT - Give us the basics, and then what are some of the more interesting things you’re hearing people start to talk about with technology like this.

Topic 4 - The last time you were on, we talked about how “the goal posts tend to shift” about what we think of as powerful AI. Do you see any areas of AI getting close to becoming a big shift in terms of ease-of-use, or being hidden/embedded in other technologies?

Topic 5 - There are various reports about GPUs being harder to get these days. There is also speculation that the cost of AI processing has been going up. What are you seeing in terms of cost of processing vs. useful outcomes lately? 

Topic 6 - What’s the “getting started” curve look like for companies that want/need to add or integrate AI & ML into their applications? What’s the barrier to entry and has it changed in the last few years? What are some numbers you hear about cost of engineers, sizes of datasets, number of experiments and models needed to run, etc.? 

Topic 7 - What are some of the things you’re really looking forward to in 2023, whether it’s technology or trends or something else?

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SHOW: 684

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • Eaton Homepage
  • Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Hi Sam. Welcome back to the show. Before we get into today’s discussions, tell us a little bit about the breadth of things you’re doing over at TWIMLAI and how people can get involved?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the recent headlines - Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. For those of us that aren’t around this everyday, it feels like some big leaps in useability. Did we see a big jump in AI at the end of 2022, or was this just good UI design, or something else?

Topic 3 - ChatGPT - Give us the basics, and then what are some of the more interesting things you’re hearing people start to talk about with technology like this.

Topic 4 - The last time you were on, we talked about how “the goal posts tend to shift” about what we think of as powerful AI. Do you see any areas of AI getting close to becoming a big shift in terms of ease-of-use, or being hidden/embedded in other technologies?

Topic 5 - There are various reports about GPUs being harder to get these days. There is also speculation that the cost of AI processing has been going up. What are you seeing in terms of cost of processing vs. useful outcomes lately? 

Topic 6 - What’s the “getting started” curve look like for companies that want/need to add or integrate AI & ML into their applications? What’s the barrier to entry and has it changed in the last few years? What are some numbers you hear about cost of engineers, sizes of datasets, number of experiments and models needed to run, etc.? 

Topic 7 - What are some of the things you’re really looking forward to in 2023, whether it’s technology or trends or something else?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-12019065 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2723 Sam Charrington, TWIAML, ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, AI, ML full false How Microsoft Evolved How Microsoft Evolved The evolution of Microsoft under Satya Nadella provides a blueprint for how to transition companies from one focus to another.  

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  • Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!
  • CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings

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HOW MICROSOFT EVOLVED FROM A CLOSED SW COMPANY TO CLOUD COMPANY

  • 2001: $31B, 2007: $62B, 2014: $88B, 2019: $153B, 2022: $198B
  • 90+ acquisitions since 2014
  • Office 365, Gaming (XBox), GitHub, LinkedIn

HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS

  • 2001: XBox, Office 365
  • 2008: Azure
  • 2017: Microsoft Teams
  • 2018: GitHub
  • Be patient: Many of Microsoft’s investments required 10+ years to grow
  • Buy new capabilities: Acquisitions
  • Break the limitations to expand markets: Move to cross-platform support (Office on MacOS, SQL on Linux, Linux in Aure, Bing with Google) - see Red Hat with RHEL, IBM with IBM Cloud or Mainframe, Cisco with SW+Hardware
  • Embrace new business models: SaaS services, pay-as-you-go Cloud services
  • Invest for the Future: Microsoft has caught up to Google in CAPEX spending

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SHOW: 683

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.
  • Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!
  • CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings

SHOW NOTES:


HOW MICROSOFT EVOLVED FROM A CLOSED SW COMPANY TO CLOUD COMPANY

  • 2001: $31B, 2007: $62B, 2014: $88B, 2019: $153B, 2022: $198B
  • 90+ acquisitions since 2014
  • Office 365, Gaming (XBox), GitHub, LinkedIn

HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS

  • 2001: XBox, Office 365
  • 2008: Azure
  • 2017: Microsoft Teams
  • 2018: GitHub
  • Be patient: Many of Microsoft’s investments required 10+ years to grow
  • Buy new capabilities: Acquisitions
  • Break the limitations to expand markets: Move to cross-platform support (Office on MacOS, SQL on Linux, Linux in Aure, Bing with Google) - see Red Hat with RHEL, IBM with IBM Cloud or Mainframe, Cisco with SW+Hardware
  • Embrace new business models: SaaS services, pay-as-you-go Cloud services
  • Invest for the Future: Microsoft has caught up to Google in CAPEX spending

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11999896 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 1745 full false 2023 Look Ahead to Platform Engineering 2023 Look Ahead to Platform Engineering Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle Founder & CEO @rackngo) talks about how Platform Engineering has evolved from DevOps and SRE and how it aligns to Cloud Platforms.

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  • Eaton Homepage
  • Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!
  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.


SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it was great to see you in person at events recently. What have you been focusing on the last couple of years?

Topic 2 - There’s been a lot of discussion about Platform Engineering over the last 6+ months. You’ve been around this space for a while. We’re trying to understand if PE is different from DevOps or SRE or Cloud Platform in the past, or an evolution. Is PE just a common platform maintained with reusable tools, regardless of the infrastructure? 

Topic 3 - I’ve heard people say that Cloud Platform and Platform Engineering are colleagues. where one owns/operates the platform, and the other is the “product manager” to the application teams. Is this realistic? 

Topic 4 - What does “good” look like for Platform Engineering? Is the goal a frictionless developer experience? Are developer consistency and efficiency valid goals? Are there KPIs or Metrics that “good” teams are striving towards? 

Topic 5 -  Any interesting technologies that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable? 

Topic 6 - Any team dynamics that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable? 

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SHOW: 682

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Eaton Homepage
  • Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!
  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.


SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it was great to see you in person at events recently. What have you been focusing on the last couple of years?

Topic 2 - There’s been a lot of discussion about Platform Engineering over the last 6+ months. You’ve been around this space for a while. We’re trying to understand if PE is different from DevOps or SRE or Cloud Platform in the past, or an evolution. Is PE just a common platform maintained with reusable tools, regardless of the infrastructure? 

Topic 3 - I’ve heard people say that Cloud Platform and Platform Engineering are colleagues. where one owns/operates the platform, and the other is the “product manager” to the application teams. Is this realistic? 

Topic 4 - What does “good” look like for Platform Engineering? Is the goal a frictionless developer experience? Are developer consistency and efficiency valid goals? Are there KPIs or Metrics that “good” teams are striving towards? 

Topic 5 -  Any interesting technologies that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable? 

Topic 6 - Any team dynamics that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11973062 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:00:00 -0500 2379 Rob Hirshfeld, RackN, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE full false 2022 Year-End Mailbag 2022 Year-End Mailbag You asked, we answered. A year-end mailbag of the best of the questions we received from our community in 2022.

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Q1: The cloud has created a lot of big shifts over the last 10 years. Are there any “big winners” over the last 10 years that you see being disrupted anytime soon?

Q2: Why do you think so many people got crypto/Web3 wrong in 2022?

Q3: Why don’t you guys cover more about application modernizations and migrations? Isn’t that a huge part of IT groups portfolio and budgets?

Q4: Has the shift to wide-spread remote work been a good thing or a bad thing? 

Q5: What advice would you give to someone in their 20s, 30s or 40s that would help them for the next 5yrs or 10yrs?

Q6: These economic shifts are freaking me out a little bit. How should I think about them?

Q7: I got to thinking about some of the new AI news (OpenAI, ChatGPT, etc.) that’s been coming out and it seems like a big deal. Will it be as big as it potentially seems?

Q8; Why do you think Andy Jassy took the Amazon CEO job, which seems like a lot of headaches, when the AWS job was going so well?

Q9: What do you wish you had done with your careers, assuming you could go back and change something(s)?

Q10: What are you thankful for this year?

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SHOW NOTES:

Q1: The cloud has created a lot of big shifts over the last 10 years. Are there any “big winners” over the last 10 years that you see being disrupted anytime soon?

Q2: Why do you think so many people got crypto/Web3 wrong in 2022?

Q3: Why don’t you guys cover more about application modernizations and migrations? Isn’t that a huge part of IT groups portfolio and budgets?

Q4: Has the shift to wide-spread remote work been a good thing or a bad thing? 

Q5: What advice would you give to someone in their 20s, 30s or 40s that would help them for the next 5yrs or 10yrs?

Q6: These economic shifts are freaking me out a little bit. How should I think about them?

Q7: I got to thinking about some of the new AI news (OpenAI, ChatGPT, etc.) that’s been coming out and it seems like a big deal. Will it be as big as it potentially seems?

Q8; Why do you think Andy Jassy took the Amazon CEO job, which seems like a lot of headaches, when the AWS job was going so well?

Q9: What do you wish you had done with your careers, assuming you could go back and change something(s)?

Q10: What are you thankful for this year?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11937823 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2986 full false A Perspective on Perspectives A Perspective on Perspectives Last Sunday Perspective of the year, so let’s look at how we put together the perspectives, and why it can be a valuable framework for evaluation and decision-making.

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW TO CREATE A PERSPECTIVE

  • Why did we create the Sunday Perspective shows?

CAN YOU USE THE SUNDAY PERSPECTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR WORK DECISIONS?

  • Understand things from different perspectives
  • Understand both the technologies and the economics
  • Understand how people will impact the decisions

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW TO CREATE A PERSPECTIVE

  • Why did we create the Sunday Perspective shows?

CAN YOU USE THE SUNDAY PERSPECTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR WORK DECISIONS?

  • Understand things from different perspectives
  • Understand both the technologies and the economics
  • Understand how people will impact the decisions

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11927527 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1019 full false 2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions 2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions Aaron and Brian discuss the 2022 Year in Review, highlighting the biggest trends, as well as making 2023 predictions. 

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THE BASICS:

THE BIG NEWS AREAS:

  • Tech layoffs in 2HCY22
  • VMware got acquired by Broadcom (will be part of CA+others)
  • The US made a big investment in CHIPS
  • NVIDIA’s acquisition of ARM fell through
  • AWS - $60B>$85B (+28%), Azure - $35B>$50B (+42%), GCP - $15B>$27B (+38%)
  • Microsoft is now 50/50 in Software and Cloud revenues
  • AWS re:Invent is different under Adam Selipsky
  • Between Texts and Images, AI seemed to make a big leap 
  • WebAssembly (WASM) is starting to make noise in new ways (PaaS 2.0?)
  • Is Platform Engineering replacing DevOps and SRE?
  • Docker 2.0 is making money

2023 PREDICTIONS: 

Aaron’s Predictions:

  • We’ll see a Twitter clone founded by folks that left
  • Azure will become #1 public cloud (pulled from 2022 predictions)
  • Docker will become a unicorn again and prove everyone wrong
  • 2023 will be the year of the down rounds:
    • Worldwide: 450 unicorn and 24 decacorn
    • A unicorn will go under
  • Apple will  finally give everyone a peek at their EV car in development, just to mess with Elon a bit.

Brian’s Predictions:

  • We’ll start seeing some of the 2020-2022 unicorns acquired as sub-unicorn prices
  • Serverless makes a comeback as a cheaper computer alternative
  • FinOps conferences become a must-attend event
  • GCP makes a huge hail-mary acquisition

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

THE BASICS:

THE BIG NEWS AREAS:

  • Tech layoffs in 2HCY22
  • VMware got acquired by Broadcom (will be part of CA+others)
  • The US made a big investment in CHIPS
  • NVIDIA’s acquisition of ARM fell through
  • AWS - $60B>$85B (+28%), Azure - $35B>$50B (+42%), GCP - $15B>$27B (+38%)
  • Microsoft is now 50/50 in Software and Cloud revenues
  • AWS re:Invent is different under Adam Selipsky
  • Between Texts and Images, AI seemed to make a big leap 
  • WebAssembly (WASM) is starting to make noise in new ways (PaaS 2.0?)
  • Is Platform Engineering replacing DevOps and SRE?
  • Docker 2.0 is making money

2023 PREDICTIONS: 

Aaron’s Predictions:

  • We’ll see a Twitter clone founded by folks that left
  • Azure will become #1 public cloud (pulled from 2022 predictions)
  • Docker will become a unicorn again and prove everyone wrong
  • 2023 will be the year of the down rounds:
    • Worldwide: 450 unicorn and 24 decacorn
    • A unicorn will go under
  • Apple will  finally give everyone a peek at their EV car in development, just to mess with Elon a bit.

Brian’s Predictions:

  • We’ll start seeing some of the 2020-2022 unicorns acquired as sub-unicorn prices
  • Serverless makes a comeback as a cheaper computer alternative
  • FinOps conferences become a must-attend event
  • GCP makes a huge hail-mary acquisition

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11907114 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 3727 full false Technology Booms and Busts Technology Booms and Busts Let’s look at the differences between when technology is in a boom-cycle vs. a bust-cycle, and what happens as things transition between cycles. 

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW CAN WE TELL WHAT CYCLE WE’RE IN? 

  • Right now, it feels like we’re in a bust cycle, or at least a correction-cycle, but how do we know what cycle we’re currently in - and more importantly - how do we know when the next cycle will begin?

THE GOOD TIMES, THE UNCERTAIN TIMES, AND THE BAD TIMES

  • History repeats itself, hence why it’s good to study history. 
  • Follow the money. Is money cheap? Is money highly leveraged? What is motivating the money?
  • Does it make sense to a layperson? 
  • Can the technology create a sustainable business model? Does it create an expanding ecosystem, or winner-takes-all?
  • Do the stories highlight the people, or the excesses of the people, or do they highlight value-creation? Stories are bolder in a boom. 
  • Booms will start slow, will gain word of mouth, will sustain for a while, will begin to reach, and then crash hard. People are never quite sure when to jump into a boom. Reactions are faster in a crash. 
  • Crashes happen quickly, as they are usually highly leveraged. 
  • The winners in a crash are the ones with money to buy low, or are capitalized after a crash. 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

 

SHOW NOTES:

HOW CAN WE TELL WHAT CYCLE WE’RE IN? 

  • Right now, it feels like we’re in a bust cycle, or at least a correction-cycle, but how do we know what cycle we’re currently in - and more importantly - how do we know when the next cycle will begin?

THE GOOD TIMES, THE UNCERTAIN TIMES, AND THE BAD TIMES

  • History repeats itself, hence why it’s good to study history. 
  • Follow the money. Is money cheap? Is money highly leveraged? What is motivating the money?
  • Does it make sense to a layperson? 
  • Can the technology create a sustainable business model? Does it create an expanding ecosystem, or winner-takes-all?
  • Do the stories highlight the people, or the excesses of the people, or do they highlight value-creation? Stories are bolder in a boom. 
  • Booms will start slow, will gain word of mouth, will sustain for a while, will begin to reach, and then crash hard. People are never quite sure when to jump into a boom. Reactions are faster in a crash. 
  • Crashes happen quickly, as they are usually highly leveraged. 
  • The winners in a crash are the ones with money to buy low, or are capitalized after a crash. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11890056 Sun, 18 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1884 full false Bringing The Cloud to IT Bringing The Cloud to IT Bryan Thompson (VP  Product Management of @HPE_GreenLake Cloud Services) talks about managing private and hybrid cloud services and bringing the Cloud to data.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at HPE.

Topic 2 - HPE is one of the most iconic brands in all of computing history. A lot has evolved over the years. Where does Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fit into the picture with HP, and what is the HPE focus these days?

Topic 3 - For the last 10 years, we’ve seen a huge growth in the usage of public cloud, but we also heard many industry leaders claim that we’re still only around 10% in public cloud. That means we have behavioral expectations changing (on-demand, scalable, etc.) but not necessarily actions changing. How does HPE view their role in the evolution and intersection of IT and the Cloud?  

Topic 4 - Give us an overview of HPE GreenLake, both in terms of technology and delivery/operations. 

Topic 5 - HPE GreenLake has a “bring the Cloud to IT” approach. What does that mean in terms of evolving that 90% that hasn’t moved to the cloud yet? And will they ever move to the cloud?  

Topic 6 - What surprises people the most when they start to understand what’s possible with HPE GreenLake that wasn’t there a few years ago? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at HPE.

Topic 2 - HPE is one of the most iconic brands in all of computing history. A lot has evolved over the years. Where does Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fit into the picture with HP, and what is the HPE focus these days?

Topic 3 - For the last 10 years, we’ve seen a huge growth in the usage of public cloud, but we also heard many industry leaders claim that we’re still only around 10% in public cloud. That means we have behavioral expectations changing (on-demand, scalable, etc.) but not necessarily actions changing. How does HPE view their role in the evolution and intersection of IT and the Cloud?  

Topic 4 - Give us an overview of HPE GreenLake, both in terms of technology and delivery/operations. 

Topic 5 - HPE GreenLake has a “bring the Cloud to IT” approach. What does that mean in terms of evolving that 90% that hasn’t moved to the cloud yet? And will they ever move to the cloud?  

Topic 6 - What surprises people the most when they start to understand what’s possible with HPE GreenLake that wasn’t there a few years ago? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11866602 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1985 Bryan Thompson, HPE, Greenlake, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Data Services full false State of the OpenCloud 2022 State of the OpenCloud 2022 Looking at the Battery Ventures “State of OpenCloud 2022” for trends that will impact 2023.

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HOW DO THE VCs LOOK AT THE STATE OF THE OPEN CLOUD MARKET?

  • VCs are still very bullish on cloud-native and open-source cloud companies
  • “Good growth” will be encouraged and rewarded
  • Software “multiples” are back to 2018-19 levels. The 2020s were crazy value  inflation. 

HOW CAN THAT INFLUENCE WHAT 2023 MIGHT LOOK LIKE?

  • Lots of companies are re-evaluating their spending levels and cost levels
  • Lots of highly “valued” private companies may become acquisition targets in 2023
  • Most of the job-cuts, thus far, haven’t been that large, as a percentage. 
  • For software businesses, cloud-services are growing 3-5x their software business. Expect to see more companies moving to those offerings. 
  • Cloud providers continue to show strong growth, even at a larger scale. Expect this to continue, although they are all shifting their focuses. 
  • Software can be a driving force to enable productivity, so expect to see companies continue to focus on software-driven projects. 
  • Lots of good insights into how the selling and buying model are evolving. Interesting if you’re evaluating companies beyond just what they offer. 

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HOW DO THE VCs LOOK AT THE STATE OF THE OPEN CLOUD MARKET?

  • VCs are still very bullish on cloud-native and open-source cloud companies
  • “Good growth” will be encouraged and rewarded
  • Software “multiples” are back to 2018-19 levels. The 2020s were crazy value  inflation. 

HOW CAN THAT INFLUENCE WHAT 2023 MIGHT LOOK LIKE?

  • Lots of companies are re-evaluating their spending levels and cost levels
  • Lots of highly “valued” private companies may become acquisition targets in 2023
  • Most of the job-cuts, thus far, haven’t been that large, as a percentage. 
  • For software businesses, cloud-services are growing 3-5x their software business. Expect to see more companies moving to those offerings. 
  • Cloud providers continue to show strong growth, even at a larger scale. Expect this to continue, although they are all shifting their focuses. 
  • Software can be a driving force to enable productivity, so expect to see companies continue to focus on software-driven projects. 
  • Lots of good insights into how the selling and buying model are evolving. Interesting if you’re evaluating companies beyond just what they offer. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11849392 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1255 full false 2022 AWS re:Invent Announcements 2022 AWS re:Invent Announcements Let’s look at the NEW announcements from AWS re:Invent. Not as many as usual, but some interesting new focus areas for AppDev, AppNet, and Security.

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~130 new announcements (features, services, partner-related capabilities)

< 10 brand new services

 

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~130 new announcements (features, services, partner-related capabilities)

< 10 brand new services

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11828344 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1030 full false Thoughts from AWS re:Invent Thoughts from AWS re:Invent AWS re:Invent is the largest Cloud conference of the year, and it was back after a downturn from the COVID pandemic. What was the vibe in Las Vegas in 2022?

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WHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM AWS IN YEAR 2 OF ADAM SELIPSKY?

  • AWS is the profit center of Amazon
  • 50-60,000 attendees
  • No longer focus on “why cloud is better”
  • Limited focus on how well AWS is doing (Gartner, scale, new releases, etc.)
  • Limited focus on cost savings, and no focus on price reductions
  • Great focus on “solutions” - 99% of the building blocks are in place

WHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM ATTENDEES AND PARTNERS/VENDORS?

  • 2300 breakout sessions (KubeCon has 200+)
  • Less competition with technology partners
  • Lots of cloud cost-management companies
  • Very healthy community support
  • Concern about AWS competing the channel partners - consulting
  • Difficult to get a focus in the show - too many focus areas
  • More focus on data

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WHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM AWS IN YEAR 2 OF ADAM SELIPSKY?

  • AWS is the profit center of Amazon
  • 50-60,000 attendees
  • No longer focus on “why cloud is better”
  • Limited focus on how well AWS is doing (Gartner, scale, new releases, etc.)
  • Limited focus on cost savings, and no focus on price reductions
  • Great focus on “solutions” - 99% of the building blocks are in place

WHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM ATTENDEES AND PARTNERS/VENDORS?

  • 2300 breakout sessions (KubeCon has 200+)
  • Less competition with technology partners
  • Lots of cloud cost-management companies
  • Very healthy community support
  • Concern about AWS competing the channel partners - consulting
  • Difficult to get a focus in the show - too many focus areas
  • More focus on data

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11808360 Sun, 04 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1650 full false Building Vector Search Applications Building Vector Search Applications Edo Liberty (@edoliberty, Founder/CEO @Pinecone) talks about vector databases and building applications that leverage data in new and unique ways. 

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  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
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  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what led you to found Pinecone. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about trends in search. Beyond what we all experience with Google Search, how is more advanced search impacting applications and user-experiences?

Topic 3 - What is involved in building a modern search platform or application, in terms of data ingestion and indexing, scaling the platform, and day-to-day operations? 

Topic 4 - How does Pinecone help search application builders? Where does the Pinecone platform stop and the application start? 

Topic 5 - How do the AI models in Pinecone help the application builders? 

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how vector search is helping companies today? 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what led you to found Pinecone. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about trends in search. Beyond what we all experience with Google Search, how is more advanced search impacting applications and user-experiences?

Topic 3 - What is involved in building a modern search platform or application, in terms of data ingestion and indexing, scaling the platform, and day-to-day operations? 

Topic 4 - How does Pinecone help search application builders? Where does the Pinecone platform stop and the application start? 

Topic 5 - How do the AI models in Pinecone help the application builders? 

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how vector search is helping companies today? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11785715 Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2364 full false The Be Thankful Episode The Be Thankful Episode It’s that time of year when we step back and consider the important things for which we are thankful. 

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  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.
  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.

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BE THANKFUL ALL THE TIME, BUT BE THOUGHTFUL IN YOUR THANKFULNESS

  • Be thankful for good health
  • Be thankful for friends and family
  • Be thankful for traditions that bring you joy
  • Be thankful for the chance to learn, and to share
  • Be thankful for the opportunity to help others
  • Be thankful for people that challenge you, and offer opportunities to see the world

BE THANKFUL FOR SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU LAUGH, THINK and GET ALONG

  • Sometimes life is dumb
  • Sometimes justice is blind
  • Sometimes you need to be part of something bigger
  • Sometimes you need to get along with others

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.
  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.

SHOW NOTES:

BE THANKFUL ALL THE TIME, BUT BE THOUGHTFUL IN YOUR THANKFULNESS

  • Be thankful for good health
  • Be thankful for friends and family
  • Be thankful for traditions that bring you joy
  • Be thankful for the chance to learn, and to share
  • Be thankful for the opportunity to help others
  • Be thankful for people that challenge you, and offer opportunities to see the world

BE THANKFUL FOR SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU LAUGH, THINK and GET ALONG

  • Sometimes life is dumb
  • Sometimes justice is blind
  • Sometimes you need to be part of something bigger
  • Sometimes you need to get along with others

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11766599 Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:00:00 -0500 1470 full false Developer Data Platforms Developer Data Platforms Andrew Davidson (SVP Products, @MongoDB) talks about MongoDB's evolution from a software company to a cloud services company (MongoDB Atlas), how developers traditionally interacted with databases, and the need for Developer Data Platforms going forward.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB.

Topic 2 - Data is a weird beast. It’s cheap to create, it’s expensive to move, and it’s complicated to use because there’s so many ways to interact with it depending on the use-case. So for someone that thinks about data a lot, how do you frame up the challenges of how applications interact with data?   

Topic 3 - People tend to think about MongoDB as a database company, and then a Cloud database company. What did the company learn as it moved to the cloud, as a lot of barriers for developers got knocked down in that transition? 

Topic 4 - As a developer today, do I still need to think about the relationship between the underlying data and the database access model needed to make that useful to an application, or are any of those lines blurring or going away?

Topic 5 - Databases have traditionally followed the CAP theorem, and different choices have different strengths and tradeoffs. As you start to think about this concept of developer data platform, how do you try and reframe those tradeoffs? Do any of them go away?   

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how companies and their developers are able to think differently about how their new applications can be built with this new platform approach to data?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB.

Topic 2 - Data is a weird beast. It’s cheap to create, it’s expensive to move, and it’s complicated to use because there’s so many ways to interact with it depending on the use-case. So for someone that thinks about data a lot, how do you frame up the challenges of how applications interact with data?   

Topic 3 - People tend to think about MongoDB as a database company, and then a Cloud database company. What did the company learn as it moved to the cloud, as a lot of barriers for developers got knocked down in that transition? 

Topic 4 - As a developer today, do I still need to think about the relationship between the underlying data and the database access model needed to make that useful to an application, or are any of those lines blurring or going away?

Topic 5 - Databases have traditionally followed the CAP theorem, and different choices have different strengths and tradeoffs. As you start to think about this concept of developer data platform, how do you try and reframe those tradeoffs? Do any of them go away?   

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how companies and their developers are able to think differently about how their new applications can be built with this new platform approach to data?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11739789 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2214 MongoDB, Atlas, Cloud, Andrew Davidson, Database-as-a-Service full false API First, Lifecycles and Governance API First, Lifecycles and Governance Kin Lane (@kinlane, Founder API Evangelist  & Chief Evangelist @Postman) talks about getting started with APIs. We also cover API lifecycle & governance.

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  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gProfiler from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.
  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Kin, for those out there that maybe haven’t heard of you, give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - You’ve been doing APIs since before APIs were cool. You started the API evangelist site 12 years ago. Tell us about that journey. As a follow up, how do new folks get started?

Topic 3 - As you mention on the API Evangelist website. APIs are more than technology. The headline of the website is “making sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010. What do you mean by that? How does business and politics come into play with APIs.

Topic 4 - We often hear the phrases Cloud First and API First thrown around. What does that mean? Also, help everyone out with terminology differences between say Open API, GraphQL, etc.

Topic 5 - Follow up to API First question. Let’s talk about API First companies, we often hear about the poster children: Twilio, Stripe, and SendGrid for instance. Are they still valid examples? Who are the latest examples and use cases? 

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about API Lifecycles and dig into Postman a bit. We’ve reached a point in our industry that APIs are treated like a product, have PM and full development teams, and just like any product or service a company would produce. What are the typical steps you see and how does Postman help with this journey? 

Topic 7 - You are active in API research, publishing of articles and research around APIs. I noticed you have been digging into Government APIs recently for instance. Where is your focus these days and what are the latest emerging trends you are seeing?


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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gProfiler from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.
  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Kin, for those out there that maybe haven’t heard of you, give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - You’ve been doing APIs since before APIs were cool. You started the API evangelist site 12 years ago. Tell us about that journey. As a follow up, how do new folks get started?

Topic 3 - As you mention on the API Evangelist website. APIs are more than technology. The headline of the website is “making sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010. What do you mean by that? How does business and politics come into play with APIs.

Topic 4 - We often hear the phrases Cloud First and API First thrown around. What does that mean? Also, help everyone out with terminology differences between say Open API, GraphQL, etc.

Topic 5 - Follow up to API First question. Let’s talk about API First companies, we often hear about the poster children: Twilio, Stripe, and SendGrid for instance. Are they still valid examples? Who are the latest examples and use cases? 

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about API Lifecycles and dig into Postman a bit. We’ve reached a point in our industry that APIs are treated like a product, have PM and full development teams, and just like any product or service a company would produce. What are the typical steps you see and how does Postman help with this journey? 

Topic 7 - You are active in API research, publishing of articles and research around APIs. I noticed you have been digging into Government APIs recently for instance. Where is your focus these days and what are the latest emerging trends you are seeing?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11727837 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2131 Kin Lane, API, API Evangelist, Postman, GraphQL, Governance, Lifecycle full false Cloud Cost Management Cloud Cost Management Kayla Taylor (Sr. Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about taking control of cloud costs and managing costs along with observability and troubleshooting.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - Cloud cost management has become a very active focus area since the economy has been slowing down. How are you seeing customers, or engineering teams thinking about cost differently than before? 

Topic 3 - Since Datadog provides so much visibility into active applications (APM, Observability, Troubleshooting), do you take a similar approach to Cost Management? 

Topic 4 - Accountants understand costs, but not technology. Engineers understand technology, but do you find that they understand costs? How do you help them conceptualize costs and be able to make changes that impact their applications? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the unique things that Datadog does with the new Cloud Cost Management offering? How does it tie into the other aspects of Datadog?

Topic 6 - The service is new, but what are some of the surprising things you’ve observed about how companies are using this insight into their cloud costs?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - Cloud cost management has become a very active focus area since the economy has been slowing down. How are you seeing customers, or engineering teams thinking about cost differently than before? 

Topic 3 - Since Datadog provides so much visibility into active applications (APM, Observability, Troubleshooting), do you take a similar approach to Cost Management? 

Topic 4 - Accountants understand costs, but not technology. Engineers understand technology, but do you find that they understand costs? How do you help them conceptualize costs and be able to make changes that impact their applications? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the unique things that Datadog does with the new Cloud Cost Management offering? How does it tie into the other aspects of Datadog?

Topic 6 - The service is new, but what are some of the surprising things you’ve observed about how companies are using this insight into their cloud costs?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11704008 Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1413 Kayla Taylor, Datadog, Cost Management, Cloud full false What if Twitter Goes Away? What if Twitter Goes Away? Twitter is going through some things. For the life of The Cloudcast, it’s been our ERP, CRM, Collaboration and PR engine. What if it goes away? Are there lessons to be learned?

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  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.
  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%

 

SHOW NOTES:

 

IT’S CRAZY NOW, BUT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN SORT OF CRAZY….AND USEFUL

  • Lots of apps tell you what you know, Twitter helps you find what you don’t know
  • Twitter can be real-time, or the beginning of deep-dive scrolling
  • Twitter is the most difficult to understand, but the most valuable

DEPENDENCE ON TWITTER IS MORE COMPLEX THAN A SINGLE CLOUD

  • Twitter removes the barriers of journalists, we get news and opinions and insights
  • Twitter has always given us a way to do research into new things 
  • Twitter has helped us build friendships with people we’ve never met
  • Did we make a mistake in being too reliant on Twitter? Were there other options?

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]]> Twitter is going through some things. For the life of The Cloudcast, it’s been our ERP, CRM, Collaboration and PR engine. What if it goes away? Are there lessons to be learned?

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  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%

 

SHOW NOTES:

 

IT’S CRAZY NOW, BUT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN SORT OF CRAZY….AND USEFUL

  • Lots of apps tell you what you know, Twitter helps you find what you don’t know
  • Twitter can be real-time, or the beginning of deep-dive scrolling
  • Twitter is the most difficult to understand, but the most valuable

DEPENDENCE ON TWITTER IS MORE COMPLEX THAN A SINGLE CLOUD

  • Twitter removes the barriers of journalists, we get news and opinions and insights
  • Twitter has always given us a way to do research into new things 
  • Twitter has helped us build friendships with people we’ve never met
  • Did we make a mistake in being too reliant on Twitter? Were there other options?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11681893 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1347 full false From Monolith to Microservice with CI/CD From Monolith to Microservice with CI/CD Marko Anastasov (@markoa, Co-Founder Semaphore CI) talks about how to manage the evolution of monoliths to microservices using modern CI/CD.

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Topic 1 - Marko, let’s start with a quick introduction. How did you get involved with SemaphoreCI?

Topic 2 - You have been working on CI/CD for 10+ years. Many listeners are familiar with the concepts of CI and CD but what brought you into the space and what are the primary benefits you see in clients you work with?

Topic 3 - We hear success stories from organizations that are doing hundreds to thousands of deployments a day (Netflix, Twitter, etc.). Many didn’t start out that way. Some didn’t even start with microservices, but started with monoliths and moved to microservices as they outgrew a monolithic architecture. Is this common?

Topic 4 - What are the tradeoffs between monoliths and microservices? Also, does the concept of a greenfield deployment vs. a brownfield deployment factor into the decision? Where does an organization start?

Topic 5 -  What are the guidelines to building a successful microservices strategy? Where do you even start to split up a monolith? Is it a line of business function, technical boundary in the application, keeping the size of the development team small?

Topic 6 -   In the journey to microservices, what are the first advantages seen? What are the first pitfalls encountered?

Topic 7 - Developers just want to go fast and automate all the things. Once a microservices strategy is built, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, security & cost. All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price?

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]]> Marko Anastasov (@markoa, Co-Founder Semaphore CI) talks about how to manage the evolution of monoliths to microservices using modern CI/CD.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Marko, let’s start with a quick introduction. How did you get involved with SemaphoreCI?

Topic 2 - You have been working on CI/CD for 10+ years. Many listeners are familiar with the concepts of CI and CD but what brought you into the space and what are the primary benefits you see in clients you work with?

Topic 3 - We hear success stories from organizations that are doing hundreds to thousands of deployments a day (Netflix, Twitter, etc.). Many didn’t start out that way. Some didn’t even start with microservices, but started with monoliths and moved to microservices as they outgrew a monolithic architecture. Is this common?

Topic 4 - What are the tradeoffs between monoliths and microservices? Also, does the concept of a greenfield deployment vs. a brownfield deployment factor into the decision? Where does an organization start?

Topic 5 -  What are the guidelines to building a successful microservices strategy? Where do you even start to split up a monolith? Is it a line of business function, technical boundary in the application, keeping the size of the development team small?

Topic 6 -   In the journey to microservices, what are the first advantages seen? What are the first pitfalls encountered?

Topic 7 - Developers just want to go fast and automate all the things. Once a microservices strategy is built, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, security & cost. All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11659268 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1905 Marko Anastasov, Semaphor CI, CI/CD, Monoliths, Microservices full false The Future of KubeCon? The Future of KubeCon? Many people are asking about the future of KubeCon now that Kubernetes isn’t the central focus. How does it evolve? Is it like re:Invent or VMworld or something else? 

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  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gProfiler from Granulate - Production profiling, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

 

WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF KUBECON / CLOUDNATIVECON

KubeCon feels like it’s at a cross-roads now that Kubernetes is not the central focus of the event. So where does it go from here? 

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE ISN’T A CENTRAL FOCUS?

  • Is it OpenStack Big Tent 2.0?
  • Is the CNCF trying to define a stack anymore, or just a governance home?
  • Is it VMworld post-2012?
  • Is it the re:Invent of Cloud-native technologies?
  • Could some company be the GTM for many of the companies at KubeCon?
  • Would it be good or bad to have individual project conferences? 
  • Are the pre-event event good or bad for people trying to learn a specific domain?

FEEDBACK?

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  • JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organization
  • Enhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gProfiler from Granulate - Production profiling, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

 

WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF KUBECON / CLOUDNATIVECON

KubeCon feels like it’s at a cross-roads now that Kubernetes is not the central focus of the event. So where does it go from here? 

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE ISN’T A CENTRAL FOCUS?

  • Is it OpenStack Big Tent 2.0?
  • Is the CNCF trying to define a stack anymore, or just a governance home?
  • Is it VMworld post-2012?
  • Is it the re:Invent of Cloud-native technologies?
  • Could some company be the GTM for many of the companies at KubeCon?
  • Would it be good or bad to have individual project conferences? 
  • Are the pre-event event good or bad for people trying to learn a specific domain?

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11635795 Sun, 06 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1656 full false Reviewing KubeCon Detroit Reviewing KubeCon Detroit Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.

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Topic 1 - Let’s start with what was good or bad at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon. Overall vibes at the conference? 

  • 7,000 attendees, 300 vendor-companies, good amount of end-users
  • Good: Well-organized, live interactions
  • Bad: City choice, keynotes, Day1 & 2 pricing models
  • Is this Big Tent 2.0? (Aaron - I don’t think so…)

Topic 2 - Interesting technologies or technology trends? 

  • Kubernetes is no longer the center of this conference
  • Service Mesh, WASM (Web Assembly), Cost-Mgmt, various forms of Security
  • Starting to see fragmentation (e.g. Cloud-Native Security is it’s own conference)

Topic 3 - Are we in a bubble? Lots of companies in each technology category? Will we see consolidation, failures or buyers? 

  • What’s the mission for CNCF - place for projects to incubate with no “horse in the race”, all areas will eventually consolidate down to a few players over time?

Topic 4 - What’s next for KubeCon? 

  • Can it survive as a big event without a central technology? 
  • Will it splinter into lots of little events?
  • Did the CNCF turn this into too much of a marketing event?
  • What’s in it for the sponsors? Especially if it splits into different events?
  • Why do they keep making bad location choices? (Amsterdam 4/20, Chicago - Nov ‘23)

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Let’s start with what was good or bad at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon. Overall vibes at the conference? 

  • 7,000 attendees, 300 vendor-companies, good amount of end-users
  • Good: Well-organized, live interactions
  • Bad: City choice, keynotes, Day1 & 2 pricing models
  • Is this Big Tent 2.0? (Aaron - I don’t think so…)

Topic 2 - Interesting technologies or technology trends? 

  • Kubernetes is no longer the center of this conference
  • Service Mesh, WASM (Web Assembly), Cost-Mgmt, various forms of Security
  • Starting to see fragmentation (e.g. Cloud-Native Security is it’s own conference)

Topic 3 - Are we in a bubble? Lots of companies in each technology category? Will we see consolidation, failures or buyers? 

  • What’s the mission for CNCF - place for projects to incubate with no “horse in the race”, all areas will eventually consolidate down to a few players over time?

Topic 4 - What’s next for KubeCon? 

  • Can it survive as a big event without a central technology? 
  • Will it splinter into lots of little events?
  • Did the CNCF turn this into too much of a marketing event?
  • What’s in it for the sponsors? Especially if it splits into different events?
  • Why do they keep making bad location choices? (Amsterdam 4/20, Chicago - Nov ‘23)

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11613698 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2457 full false The Open Source Dead End? The Open Source Dead End? What is the new intersection between open-source communities, vendors and VCs? Is it changing? Should we be concerned about the future of open source?

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OPEN SOURCE ISN'T THE SAME AS 20 YEARS AGO

Open source is the new default for innovation, and many companies have made it their default. But do they think about open source and technology differently now?

IT'S THE DEFAULT, BUT THE USAGE EXPECTATIONS HAVE EVOLVED TOO

  • There's a difference between open source usage for infrastructure vs. app-dev
  • Who should care about open source licensing?
  • How much are VCs dictating the open source license strategy?
  • Does open-core have a place, or is it killing open source?
  • It is OK to treat customers and competitors differently?

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SHOW NOTES:

 

OPEN SOURCE ISN'T THE SAME AS 20 YEARS AGO

Open source is the new default for innovation, and many companies have made it their default. But do they think about open source and technology differently now?

IT'S THE DEFAULT, BUT THE USAGE EXPECTATIONS HAVE EVOLVED TOO

  • There's a difference between open source usage for infrastructure vs. app-dev
  • Who should care about open source licensing?
  • How much are VCs dictating the open source license strategy?
  • Does open-core have a place, or is it killing open source?
  • It is OK to treat customers and competitors differently?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11591715 Sun, 30 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1377 full false GitOps, Security and Modern CI/CD Pipelines GitOps, Security and Modern CI/CD Pipelines Nick Durkin, Field CTO & VP of Engineering at Harness talk about how the journey to success for cloud-native often runs through CI/CD fundamentals.

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  • FujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most secure, scalable and efficient way. Find out more at builtontape.fujifilmusa.com
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Nick, let’s start with a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s dig into CI/CD pipelines a bit. Some like to treat CI different from CD, others say they must be combined. When you talk to customers about deployment strategies and patterns, how do you approach this? Where does GitOps fit into the conversation?

Topic 3 - We hear success stories all the time about top performing organizations that do hundreds to thousands of deployments to production a day. Is this a realistic expectation for the average organization? If they want to improve, where do they start? 

Topic 4 - For organizations that are just beginning the journey, how do you convince internal teams to embrace automation and build confidence over time?

Topic 4.5 -  Once confidence is built internally, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, & cost? All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price and builds tension?

Topic 5 - Where does security fit into all of this as automation increases? What other design considerations should be taken into consideration creating pipelines? What are the common mistakes you see?

Topic 6 - How does AI and ML fit into the present and future for CI/CD?

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Nick Durkin, Field CTO & VP of Engineering at Harness talk about how the journey to success for cloud-native often runs through CI/CD fundamentals.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • FujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most secure, scalable and efficient way. Find out more at builtontape.fujifilmusa.com
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Nick, let’s start with a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s dig into CI/CD pipelines a bit. Some like to treat CI different from CD, others say they must be combined. When you talk to customers about deployment strategies and patterns, how do you approach this? Where does GitOps fit into the conversation?

Topic 3 - We hear success stories all the time about top performing organizations that do hundreds to thousands of deployments to production a day. Is this a realistic expectation for the average organization? If they want to improve, where do they start? 

Topic 4 - For organizations that are just beginning the journey, how do you convince internal teams to embrace automation and build confidence over time?

Topic 4.5 -  Once confidence is built internally, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, & cost? All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price and builds tension?

Topic 5 - Where does security fit into all of this as automation increases? What other design considerations should be taken into consideration creating pipelines? What are the common mistakes you see?

Topic 6 - How does AI and ML fit into the present and future for CI/CD?

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11562167 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1773 Nick Durkin, Harness, CI/CD, Security, Cloud-native full false Examining SuperCloud 3.0 Examining SuperCloud 3.0 Let’s take a look at the evolution of “SuperCloud”, and if it’s a trend, an architecture, an application model, or something else all together. 

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NAMING IS IMPORTANT, BUT SOMETIMES NEW CONCEPTS ARE HARD TO NAME

When something new comes along, do we spend more time talking about the name or the value of the new concept? Does anyone remember “Serverless”?

WHAT IS SUPERCLOUD, AND WHY MIGHT IT BE IMPORTANT

  • Multi-Cloud is a real thing (for various reasons), but Multi-Cloud-App is an anomaly.
  • Maybe it’s a SuperApp, instead of a SuperCloud
  • Clouds, Politics, Insurance
  • What happens if applications “span” availability zones? Span regions? 
  • Can SuperCloud be a thing for the application, or mostly the data?
  • The cost of moving data makes these types of applications very difficult to build and manage.
  • Load-balancing, DNS, CDNs

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Let’s take a look at the evolution of “SuperCloud”, and if it’s a trend, an architecture, an application model, or something else all together. 

SHOW: 662

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

 

NAMING IS IMPORTANT, BUT SOMETIMES NEW CONCEPTS ARE HARD TO NAME

When something new comes along, do we spend more time talking about the name or the value of the new concept? Does anyone remember “Serverless”?

WHAT IS SUPERCLOUD, AND WHY MIGHT IT BE IMPORTANT

  • Multi-Cloud is a real thing (for various reasons), but Multi-Cloud-App is an anomaly.
  • Maybe it’s a SuperApp, instead of a SuperCloud
  • Clouds, Politics, Insurance
  • What happens if applications “span” availability zones? Span regions? 
  • Can SuperCloud be a thing for the application, or mostly the data?
  • The cost of moving data makes these types of applications very difficult to build and manage.
  • Load-balancing, DNS, CDNs

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11547925 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1564 full false From QAos to Chaos Engineering From QAos to Chaos Engineering Benjamin Wilms (@MrBWilms, co-founder/CEO of @Steadybit) talks about the importance of resilience for SREs, DevOps, and developers through chaos engineering platforms

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  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gProfiler from Granulate - Production profiling, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Benjamin, give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the concept of chaos engineering. In its simplest form, chaos engineering intentionally takes down parts of a test or production environment (typically after software has shipped) randomly so teams, typically SRE’s/ops/dev, are forced to make the applications more resilient over time. It’s not a matter of if systems will go down, it’s a matter of when. This makes the systems better over time. Benjamin, you have a consulting background in this area that ultimately led to founding Steadybit. What were the limitations to this approach?

Topic 3 - What you’re talking about is a more proactive approach to downtime. I’ll call this resilience engineering and it requires a shift in mindset in an organization. How do you get developers onboard to embrace the need? Are we asking developers to share responsibility for outages with the SRE organization?

Topic 4 - On the surface, the obvious benefit is reduced downtime. That can be hard to quantify in business value. Outages can be measured, a lack of outages is harder to quantify. Does this become an issue in convincing an organization to embrace this methodology?

Topic 5 - When you say we are going to move chaos engineering into the CI/CD pipeline, what does that mean? Is this code that is added? Testing simulations that have to be passed? Real time failures of databases or nodes or simulated? What are the common use cases?

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Benjamin Wilms (@MrBWilms, co-founder/CEO of @Steadybit) talks about the importance of resilience for SREs, DevOps, and developers through chaos engineering platforms

SHOW: 661

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gProfiler from Granulate - Production profiling, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Benjamin, give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the concept of chaos engineering. In its simplest form, chaos engineering intentionally takes down parts of a test or production environment (typically after software has shipped) randomly so teams, typically SRE’s/ops/dev, are forced to make the applications more resilient over time. It’s not a matter of if systems will go down, it’s a matter of when. This makes the systems better over time. Benjamin, you have a consulting background in this area that ultimately led to founding Steadybit. What were the limitations to this approach?

Topic 3 - What you’re talking about is a more proactive approach to downtime. I’ll call this resilience engineering and it requires a shift in mindset in an organization. How do you get developers onboard to embrace the need? Are we asking developers to share responsibility for outages with the SRE organization?

Topic 4 - On the surface, the obvious benefit is reduced downtime. That can be hard to quantify in business value. Outages can be measured, a lack of outages is harder to quantify. Does this become an issue in convincing an organization to embrace this methodology?

Topic 5 - When you say we are going to move chaos engineering into the CI/CD pipeline, what does that mean? Is this code that is added? Testing simulations that have to be passed? Real time failures of databases or nodes or simulated? What are the common use cases?

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11526221 Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1600 Benjamin Wilms, Chaos Engineering, Steadybit, QA, SRE, CI/CD, Testing full false ROIOps and the Mediocre Middle ROIOps and the Mediocre Middle Technical Debt has a branding problem, and in a shifting economy, it becomes increasingly important to have a focus on projects that drive positive ROI.  

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WE GLAMORIZE INNOVATION BECAUSE ROI IS HARD TO MEASURE

There is an outward perspective that everyone wants to work on something new, because it gets a lot of attention. But there are plenty of opportunities to focus on foundational, stabilizing capabilities. 

SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT

  • Think of things in terms of quarters, or six-months, or twelve-months
  • Where can you measure improvement?
  • Where can you leave things alone, but still have room to improve?
  • How can you link to improvement in other areas?
  • How can you have an incremental improvement mindset?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Technical Debt has a branding problem, and in a shifting economy, it becomes increasingly important to have a focus on projects that drive positive ROI.  

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SHOW NOTES:

WE GLAMORIZE INNOVATION BECAUSE ROI IS HARD TO MEASURE

There is an outward perspective that everyone wants to work on something new, because it gets a lot of attention. But there are plenty of opportunities to focus on foundational, stabilizing capabilities. 

SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT

  • Think of things in terms of quarters, or six-months, or twelve-months
  • Where can you measure improvement?
  • Where can you leave things alone, but still have room to improve?
  • How can you link to improvement in other areas?
  • How can you have an incremental improvement mindset?

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11500263 Sun, 16 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1412 full false 90 Days of DevOps 90 Days of DevOps Michael Cade (@michaelcade1) talks about learning in public and his creation of "90 Days of DevOps" to enable others by teaching the process and principles of DevOps from the ground up.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.
  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - We’ve known each other for a long time. For those out there not familiar, give us a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into the 90 Days of DevOps project, tell everyone about your career journey at Veeam and now Kasten. You’ve made the transition from infrastructure technologist to DevOps and cloud native technologies. How did that come about?

Topic 3 - You started the project on Jan 1, 2022. Did you have this all mapped out before you started or did you create the content and topics as you went along?

Topic 4 - Tell everyone a little bit about what they can learn if they complete the program. What made you choose these topics? What I like best about the program is the wide variety of topics. Everything from conceptual items (OSI model) to hands on with Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc.

Topic 5 - What stuck out to you going through the process? What was most impactful to you in the journey? I remember following along from a far on Twitter while you were doing this. You struck a nerve in the community somewhere along the way (18k stars on GitHub). When did you think this might get bigger than you anticipated?

Topic 6 - What’s next? Do you have plans to continue the project or create another project? What are folks out there asking for? Anything you would change in the current program?

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]]> Michael Cade (@michaelcade1) talks about learning in public and his creation of "90 Days of DevOps" to enable others by teaching the process and principles of DevOps from the ground up.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.
  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - We’ve known each other for a long time. For those out there not familiar, give us a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into the 90 Days of DevOps project, tell everyone about your career journey at Veeam and now Kasten. You’ve made the transition from infrastructure technologist to DevOps and cloud native technologies. How did that come about?

Topic 3 - You started the project on Jan 1, 2022. Did you have this all mapped out before you started or did you create the content and topics as you went along?

Topic 4 - Tell everyone a little bit about what they can learn if they complete the program. What made you choose these topics? What I like best about the program is the wide variety of topics. Everything from conceptual items (OSI model) to hands on with Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc.

Topic 5 - What stuck out to you going through the process? What was most impactful to you in the journey? I remember following along from a far on Twitter while you were doing this. You struck a nerve in the community somewhere along the way (18k stars on GitHub). When did you think this might get bigger than you anticipated?

Topic 6 - What’s next? Do you have plans to continue the project or create another project? What are folks out there asking for? Anything you would change in the current program?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11480591 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2101 Michael Cade, DevOps, Learning, full false Where's my 20-30%? Where's my 20-30%? It’s important to remember not to “equate fun with money”, especially when you have to do repetitive and boring things that aren’t fun and don’t get you more money. 

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SOMETIMES THINGS GROW AND IT’S FUN

We’re hiring! Launches! Everyone is a rock-star! Nobody cares about accountability during the good times, because growth hides all the flaws.

SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT

  • Google added 25k people per year (2019-2021)
    • Do less hiring (less interviews, less new hire-stuff, less “where is?”)
    • Don’t put the burden on the employees to fix leadership ambitions
  • Google “Simplicity Sprints”
  • Amazon “Amazon Software Builder Experience” (ASBX)
  • 20% more productive
  • 33% do repetitive work
  • Is this good or bad for the concept of Platform Engineering

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]]> It’s important to remember not to “equate fun with money”, especially when you have to do repetitive and boring things that aren’t fun and don’t get you more money. 

SHOW: 658

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

 

SOMETIMES THINGS GROW AND IT’S FUN

We’re hiring! Launches! Everyone is a rock-star! Nobody cares about accountability during the good times, because growth hides all the flaws.

SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT

  • Google added 25k people per year (2019-2021)
    • Do less hiring (less interviews, less new hire-stuff, less “where is?”)
    • Don’t put the burden on the employees to fix leadership ambitions
  • Google “Simplicity Sprints”
  • Amazon “Amazon Software Builder Experience” (ASBX)
  • 20% more productive
  • 33% do repetitive work
  • Is this good or bad for the concept of Platform Engineering

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11460662 Sun, 09 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1608 full false The Evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code The Evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Founder/CEO of @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of cloud engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code.

SHOW: 657

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since Pulumi was last on the show (2019), so give us an update on how things are growing.  

Topic 2 - There’s been a lot of change in the IaC market over the last few years - Ansible/IBM, Hashicorp/IPO, Chef/Puppet went to Private Equity, VMware bought Salt - Why do you think we’ve seen so much change in the market in such a short period of time?

Topic 3 - With more companies using the public cloud, and multiple clouds, what does Infrastructure-as-Code look like these days? Are there a new set of challenges to be solved?

Topic 4 - Pulumi has a development model that sort of straddles between IaC and applications. How does it get used in actual customer environments? Has it surprised you how it’s used by customers? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the new ways in which Pulumi can take advantage of new cloud capabilities, or new trends you’re seeing from your customers? 

Topic 6 - If someone was using a different IaC tool before, are there easy ways to migrate to Pulumi, or is there a steep learning curve? 

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]]> Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Founder/CEO of @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of cloud engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code.

SHOW: 657

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since Pulumi was last on the show (2019), so give us an update on how things are growing.  

Topic 2 - There’s been a lot of change in the IaC market over the last few years - Ansible/IBM, Hashicorp/IPO, Chef/Puppet went to Private Equity, VMware bought Salt - Why do you think we’ve seen so much change in the market in such a short period of time?

Topic 3 - With more companies using the public cloud, and multiple clouds, what does Infrastructure-as-Code look like these days? Are there a new set of challenges to be solved?

Topic 4 - Pulumi has a development model that sort of straddles between IaC and applications. How does it get used in actual customer environments? Has it surprised you how it’s used by customers? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the new ways in which Pulumi can take advantage of new cloud capabilities, or new trends you’re seeing from your customers? 

Topic 6 - If someone was using a different IaC tool before, are there easy ways to migrate to Pulumi, or is there a steep learning curve? 

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11440072 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1645 Joe Duffy, Pulumi, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Automation, DevOps, Cloud full false VCs vs. the Cloud VCs vs. the Cloud VCs used to love the public cloud because it disrupted old guard vendors. Now the cloud is keeping more of the profits and the VCs are starting to fight back. 

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SHOW NOTES:

VCs USED TO LOVE THE CLOUD

In the old days, the first $50M of VC funding went to Cisco, EMC, Sun and Oracle. And then the public cloud came along, and that shifted to the first $5M going to AWS. 

NOW VCs ARE ACTIVELY FIGHTING AGAINST THE MONSTER THEY HELPED CREATE

  • VCs are learning that bandwidth costs never come down
  • VCs would like to get more of the profits, which are going to AWS
  • Now VCs are putting their money behind other clouds
  • Is this a trend that will continue? 

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]]> VCs used to love the public cloud because it disrupted old guard vendors. Now the cloud is keeping more of the profits and the VCs are starting to fight back. 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

 

SHOW NOTES:

VCs USED TO LOVE THE CLOUD

In the old days, the first $50M of VC funding went to Cisco, EMC, Sun and Oracle. And then the public cloud came along, and that shifted to the first $5M going to AWS. 

NOW VCs ARE ACTIVELY FIGHTING AGAINST THE MONSTER THEY HELPED CREATE

  • VCs are learning that bandwidth costs never come down
  • VCs would like to get more of the profits, which are going to AWS
  • Now VCs are putting their money behind other clouds
  • Is this a trend that will continue? 

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11419924 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1435 full false Secure Software Supply-Chain Secure Software Supply-Chain Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.

SHOW: 655

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and led you to found Chainguard. 

Topic 2 - Over the last couple years, we’ve seen several high-profile hacks where malicious code was a big part of the problem. As an industry, where are we in terms of managing the security around software? 

Topic 3 - Now that we’re building software much faster, and software is coming from so many different (and often unknown/untrusted) places, what are some of the technology shifts that are happening to address these new environments?

Topic 4 - Chainguard is focused on both secure container images and now secure supply-chain solutions. Walk us through how your offers fit into today’s software challenges.

Topic 5 - There is a new term we’re hearing quite a bit, SBOM (Secure Bill of Materials). How does SBOM fit into this bigger picture? What are the technologies behind the scenes that make it possible?

Topic 6 - For anyone focusing on this area, what are some good ways to get involved with the new technologies and way of thinking about software security?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.

SHOW: 655

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and led you to found Chainguard. 

Topic 2 - Over the last couple years, we’ve seen several high-profile hacks where malicious code was a big part of the problem. As an industry, where are we in terms of managing the security around software? 

Topic 3 - Now that we’re building software much faster, and software is coming from so many different (and often unknown/untrusted) places, what are some of the technology shifts that are happening to address these new environments?

Topic 4 - Chainguard is focused on both secure container images and now secure supply-chain solutions. Walk us through how your offers fit into today’s software challenges.

Topic 5 - There is a new term we’re hearing quite a bit, SBOM (Secure Bill of Materials). How does SBOM fit into this bigger picture? What are the technologies behind the scenes that make it possible?

Topic 6 - For anyone focusing on this area, what are some good ways to get involved with the new technologies and way of thinking about software security?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11397492 Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1900 Dan Lorenc, Chainguard, Software Supply Chain, Security, Sigstore, CISA SBOM full false Sometimes Boring is OK Sometimes Boring is OK Headlines are boring. New technologies are boring. Companies aren’t changing the world right now. And all this boring is OK. Sometimes being pragmatic is a good thing. 

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 SHOW NOTES:

RIGHT NOW, THINGS SEEM PRETTY BORING

Crypto crashed and burned. Unicorns have to generate profits. The hyperscalers want to cut costs. From a headlines perspective, things seem pretty boring right now. And that’s OK. 

BORING IS WHEN THINGS GET MORE AUTOMATED, MORE SECURE, AND REDESIGNED

  • Companies are focused on profitability.
  • Companies are focused on accountability.
  • Companies are slowing hiring, and rethinking resources.
  • Security is a focus area.
  • Automation is a focus area. 
  • This is when things get redesigned for sustainability. 

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]]> Headlines are boring. New technologies are boring. Companies aren’t changing the world right now. And all this boring is OK. Sometimes being pragmatic is a good thing. 

SHOW: 654

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SHOW SPONSORS:

 SHOW NOTES:

RIGHT NOW, THINGS SEEM PRETTY BORING

Crypto crashed and burned. Unicorns have to generate profits. The hyperscalers want to cut costs. From a headlines perspective, things seem pretty boring right now. And that’s OK. 

BORING IS WHEN THINGS GET MORE AUTOMATED, MORE SECURE, AND REDESIGNED

  • Companies are focused on profitability.
  • Companies are focused on accountability.
  • Companies are slowing hiring, and rethinking resources.
  • Security is a focus area.
  • Automation is a focus area. 
  • This is when things get redesigned for sustainability. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11378724 Sun, 25 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1017 full false Building Machine Learning Apps Building Machine Learning Apps Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.   

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you started Baseten.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Data Scientists. Not an easy job. They build models and analyze data. But what typically happens after that? How do the models typically get seen and what needed to happen to make that possible?

Topic 3 - What parts of those pain points does Baseten focus on? How does Baseten bring together low-code (or serverless) concepts with the complexity that Data Scientists need to deal with day-to-day?

Topic 4 - What are some of the technologies running behind the scenes to make Baseten easy to use, or that are exposed to the Data Scientists? 

Topic 5 - How does a Data Scientist typically get from “I have a useful model” to “I’m making this part of a useful application”? How does Baseten create building blocks to help them not have to be front-end or back-end engineers?

Topic 6 - What are some of the types of use-cases or applications that your customers have been building?

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]]> Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.   

SHOW: 653

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you started Baseten.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Data Scientists. Not an easy job. They build models and analyze data. But what typically happens after that? How do the models typically get seen and what needed to happen to make that possible?

Topic 3 - What parts of those pain points does Baseten focus on? How does Baseten bring together low-code (or serverless) concepts with the complexity that Data Scientists need to deal with day-to-day?

Topic 4 - What are some of the technologies running behind the scenes to make Baseten easy to use, or that are exposed to the Data Scientists? 

Topic 5 - How does a Data Scientist typically get from “I have a useful model” to “I’m making this part of a useful application”? How does Baseten create building blocks to help them not have to be front-end or back-end engineers?

Topic 6 - What are some of the types of use-cases or applications that your customers have been building?

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11356535 Wed, 21 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1754 Tuhin Srivastava, Baseten, Machine Learning, Apps, Data Scientists full false Did we get Digital Transformation wrong? Did we get Digital Transformation wrong? Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what works and maybe doesn’t work.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPS

  • Devs don’t want to do Ops
  • Blameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be common
  • Hybrid Cloud didn’t really materialize into real applications 

BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?

  • Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?
  • Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track? 
  • Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead? 

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what works and maybe doesn’t work.

SHOW: 652

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPS

  • Devs don’t want to do Ops
  • Blameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be common
  • Hybrid Cloud didn’t really materialize into real applications 

BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?

  • Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?
  • Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track? 
  • Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead? 

FEEDBACK?

FEEDBACK?

]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11337274 Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1761 full false Kubernetes Cost Optimization Kubernetes Cost Optimization Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Granulate. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Cost Optimization. What’s a good framework to think about this problem? Is it a focus on over-provisioning, or optimizing applications, or a different approach?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common areas where Kubernetes needs to better manage costs? Is it more at the infrastructure layer, or at the application layer?

Topic 4 - Tell us about the recently launched gMaestro. How does it work, and what are the common ways that companies would begin to use it to optimize their environments?

Topic 5 - Are some optimizations more immediately impactful? Are some optimizations more focused on long-term cost savings?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to engage around gMaestro? 

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]]> Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.

SHOW: 651

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Granulate. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Cost Optimization. What’s a good framework to think about this problem? Is it a focus on over-provisioning, or optimizing applications, or a different approach?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common areas where Kubernetes needs to better manage costs? Is it more at the infrastructure layer, or at the application layer?

Topic 4 - Tell us about the recently launched gMaestro. How does it work, and what are the common ways that companies would begin to use it to optimize their environments?

Topic 5 - Are some optimizations more immediately impactful? Are some optimizations more focused on long-term cost savings?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to engage around gMaestro? 

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11314844 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1771 Granulate, Kubernetes, Cost Optimization, Cost Savings, Shahar Yakov, Intel full false When the Smart Guys get it Wrong When the Smart Guys get it Wrong In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing cracks? 

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  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

WE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIES

When things are good - low interest rates, stock price is up, VC money is flowing in, disruption gets valued at high multiples - lots of stories get written about the disruptors. But when things change - the stories are written about their failures. 

BUT THE DISRUPTION RARELY LAST FOREVER. 

  • It’s important to match the disruption era with the economic era. 
  • A lot of stories will be written about how badly the economics of the “disruptor companies” were during the halcyon days (Uber, WeWork, Netflix, etc.)
  • Frauds will be called out. 
  • Culture will remain important, but impossible to replicate cultures will get dissected, and profitability will take precedence over culture.
  • The ecosystems of the largest companies will start to wonder if it’s still a good idea, as the largest expand their offerings. 
  • Good new technologies will have lower visibility and have to build staying power.

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]]> In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing cracks? 

SHOW: 650

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

WE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIES

When things are good - low interest rates, stock price is up, VC money is flowing in, disruption gets valued at high multiples - lots of stories get written about the disruptors. But when things change - the stories are written about their failures. 

BUT THE DISRUPTION RARELY LAST FOREVER. 

  • It’s important to match the disruption era with the economic era. 
  • A lot of stories will be written about how badly the economics of the “disruptor companies” were during the halcyon days (Uber, WeWork, Netflix, etc.)
  • Frauds will be called out. 
  • Culture will remain important, but impossible to replicate cultures will get dissected, and profitability will take precedence over culture.
  • The ecosystems of the largest companies will start to wonder if it’s still a good idea, as the largest expand their offerings. 
  • Good new technologies will have lower visibility and have to build staying power.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11295886 Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1197 full false Istio Ambient Mesh Istio Ambient Mesh Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new data plane for Istio service mesh.

SHOW: 649

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh. 

Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves. 

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it’s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.

Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we’re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we’re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?

Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode? 

Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?

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SHOW: 649

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh. 

Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves. 

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it’s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.

Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we’re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we’re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?

Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode? 

Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11277288 Wed, 07 Sep 2022 13:00:00 -0400 2647 Christian Posta, Solo.io, Google, Louis Ryan, Istio, Service Mesh, Ambient Mesh full false The Labor Day Show The Labor Day Show Each year we celebrate labor with a day of no labor. Throughout our careers, labor means different things to different people. What does this Labor Day mean to you? 

SHOW: 648

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LABOR OR THE OUTPUT OF LABOR?

Do you live to work, or work to live? Are you changing the world, or fine with incremental change?

HOW DOES YOUR VIEW OF LABOR CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR CAREER?

  • In tech, there is never an end of work. Either at the day level, or at the volume level. 
  • For a majority introverted industry, we seem to be OK working from home, but we also desire to do things in person (just not driving to the office)
  • It’s OK to have a broken relationship with labor after the pandemic. It’s been three years. Nothing is the same. Lots of habits developed. Lots of things broke. 
  • Remember that you don’t always have the same relationship with labor throughout your career, and neither do your co-workers. It’s good to figure out where they are. 
  • Breaks are good. Uninterrupted breaks are very important. 

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]]> Each year we celebrate labor with a day of no labor. Throughout our careers, labor means different things to different people. What does this Labor Day mean to you? 

SHOW: 648

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video
  • 85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

SHOW NOTES:

SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LABOR OR THE OUTPUT OF LABOR?

Do you live to work, or work to live? Are you changing the world, or fine with incremental change?

HOW DOES YOUR VIEW OF LABOR CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR CAREER?

  • In tech, there is never an end of work. Either at the day level, or at the volume level. 
  • For a majority introverted industry, we seem to be OK working from home, but we also desire to do things in person (just not driving to the office)
  • It’s OK to have a broken relationship with labor after the pandemic. It’s been three years. Nothing is the same. Lots of habits developed. Lots of things broke. 
  • Remember that you don’t always have the same relationship with labor throughout your career, and neither do your co-workers. It’s good to figure out where they are. 
  • Breaks are good. Uninterrupted breaks are very important. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11255124 Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1291 full false Real-Time Data Cloud Real-Time Data Cloud Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.

SHOW: 647

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since you smashed servers on stage at a keynote. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you decided to leave AWS and found Vendia.

Topic 2 - The public cloud did a really good job of accelerating application growth, and data sprawl, but it didn’t really organize it very well. So we have apps across multiple clouds and data across multiple clouds. How do companies start to cope with this distributed “mess”?

Topic 3 - When does a customer’s application or data challenges become such that Vendia becomes a way to solve their problem?

Topic 4 - You’re known as Mr. Serverless. What role does Serverless play in the Vendia platform, and what other technologies are under the covers?

Topic 5 - What types of applications make the most sense on the Vendia platform?

Topic 6 - Blockchain is part of the Vendia platform. Why choose this for the backend data vs. some other database or storage technology?

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]]> Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.

SHOW: 647

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since you smashed servers on stage at a keynote. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you decided to leave AWS and found Vendia.

Topic 2 - The public cloud did a really good job of accelerating application growth, and data sprawl, but it didn’t really organize it very well. So we have apps across multiple clouds and data across multiple clouds. How do companies start to cope with this distributed “mess”?

Topic 3 - When does a customer’s application or data challenges become such that Vendia becomes a way to solve their problem?

Topic 4 - You’re known as Mr. Serverless. What role does Serverless play in the Vendia platform, and what other technologies are under the covers?

Topic 5 - What types of applications make the most sense on the Vendia platform?

Topic 6 - Blockchain is part of the Vendia platform. Why choose this for the backend data vs. some other database or storage technology?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11232500 Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2070 Tim Wagner, Vendia, Data Cloud, Blockchain, Serverless, Multi-Cloud full false Cost Justification of Software Cost Justification of Software Can you justify what you spend on software? On DevOps activities? Like actually put a number on it, not just explain that it’s needed to solve the digital challenges of the business?  

SHOW: 646

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.


SHOW NOTES:

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO CREATE AND RUN SOFTWARE?

How much does a better customer experience cost? How valuable is it to add new partners? Some questions are easy to measure, while others are not. So how do you measure them?

DOES YOUR PROJECT CLEAR THE HURDLE RATE?

  • Who decides if a project is important? Is viable?
  • How do you measure cost-savings projects vs. business expansion projects?
  • Does the CFO decide, or the CMO, or the CRO? Who resolves conflicts?
  • Are you prepared to have projects rejected due to missing the hurdle rate?

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]]> Can you justify what you spend on software? On DevOps activities? Like actually put a number on it, not just explain that it’s needed to solve the digital challenges of the business?  

SHOW: 646

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.


SHOW NOTES:

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO CREATE AND RUN SOFTWARE?

How much does a better customer experience cost? How valuable is it to add new partners? Some questions are easy to measure, while others are not. So how do you measure them?

DOES YOUR PROJECT CLEAR THE HURDLE RATE?

  • Who decides if a project is important? Is viable?
  • How do you measure cost-savings projects vs. business expansion projects?
  • Does the CFO decide, or the CMO, or the CRO? Who resolves conflicts?
  • Are you prepared to have projects rejected due to missing the hurdle rate?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11216325 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:00:00 -0400 1856 full false The State of Serverless 2022 The State of Serverless 2022 AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends. 

SHOW: 645

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been around the serverless market for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on today?

Topic 2 - We’re seeing adoption of serverless in all the major clouds. Have the offerings in each cloud gotten to about the same level, or do you think this is mostly a factor of companies using multiple clouds?

Topic 3 - Node.js and Python lead the way in terms of language used with Serverless, but most companies are using 3+ languages. Are you surprised at the breadth of language usage by companies? 

Topic 4 - Nearly 50% of all serverless is tied to API-Gateway usage. This surprised us - expected more to be tied to event-driven services. Any insights into how they are using serverless in this context?

Topic 5 - There’s quite a bit of variety between usage patterns between the cloud offerings - from container images, to integration with ECS/Kubernetes, to Cloud Run to Azure Container Instances. It seems to show that the market and usage-patterns are still evolving. 

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]]> AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends. 

SHOW: 645

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been around the serverless market for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on today?

Topic 2 - We’re seeing adoption of serverless in all the major clouds. Have the offerings in each cloud gotten to about the same level, or do you think this is mostly a factor of companies using multiple clouds?

Topic 3 - Node.js and Python lead the way in terms of language used with Serverless, but most companies are using 3+ languages. Are you surprised at the breadth of language usage by companies? 

Topic 4 - Nearly 50% of all serverless is tied to API-Gateway usage. This surprised us - expected more to be tied to event-driven services. Any insights into how they are using serverless in this context?

Topic 5 - There’s quite a bit of variety between usage patterns between the cloud offerings - from container images, to integration with ECS/Kubernetes, to Cloud Run to Azure Container Instances. It seems to show that the market and usage-patterns are still evolving. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11193522 Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1986 Datadog, Serverless, AJ Stuyvenberg, API-GW full false Queryable Data Encryption Queryable Data Encryption Kenneth White (@kennwhite, Security Principal @MongoDB) talks about the causes of internal breaches, querying encrypted data vs encryption-at-rest, and database evolutions.

SHOW: 644

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a distinguished career in security and cryptography-adjacent. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB?

Topic 2 - Unfortunately, we’re hearing about more and more attacks that have an internal origination. From a security and cryptography perspective, what typically breaks down to allow this to happen? 

Topic 3 - MongoDB has recently launched a database that enables querying encrypted data. Give us some background on how this new concept came into being. 

Topic 4 - What are the technology components involved in making this happen - on the database side, on the application side, on the key management side? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the application use-cases where this new database technology makes sense?

Topic 6 - How can people start exploring this technology? Is it available in both the software and SaaS offerings?


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]]> Kenneth White (@kennwhite, Security Principal @MongoDB) talks about the causes of internal breaches, querying encrypted data vs encryption-at-rest, and database evolutions.

SHOW: 644

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.
  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a distinguished career in security and cryptography-adjacent. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB?

Topic 2 - Unfortunately, we’re hearing about more and more attacks that have an internal origination. From a security and cryptography perspective, what typically breaks down to allow this to happen? 

Topic 3 - MongoDB has recently launched a database that enables querying encrypted data. Give us some background on how this new concept came into being. 

Topic 4 - What are the technology components involved in making this happen - on the database side, on the application side, on the key management side? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the application use-cases where this new database technology makes sense?

Topic 6 - How can people start exploring this technology? Is it available in both the software and SaaS offerings?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11171553 Sun, 21 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2163 MongoDB, Atlas, Encryption, Queryable Encryption, Database, Security, Kenneth White full false Zero Config VPNs Zero Config VPNs Maya Kaczorowski (@MayaKaczorowski, Product @Tailscale) talks about the new world of remote systems access, zero-config VPNs, and why everyone loves using Tailscale. 

SHOW: 643

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some praise and some confusion. We see tons of people saying “we love Tailscale”, and yet most people hate VPNs or are trying to get rid of VPNs. Help us get smart about what Tailscale does. 

Topic 3 - Step back a little bit. Help us understand what a modern CISO has to think about regarding remote access vs. zero trust vs. encrypting communications? What are the critical things they worry about?

Topic 4 - What are some of the unique things that Tailscale does with VPNs? Why does everyone seem to love using it? 

Topic 5 - Tailscale seems to work on all the modern OSs (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, etc.). How does Tailscale work with existing networking devices? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the common customer outcomes that happen when they enable Tailscale? What lessons can be learned from this approach?

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]]> Maya Kaczorowski (@MayaKaczorowski, Product @Tailscale) talks about the new world of remote systems access, zero-config VPNs, and why everyone loves using Tailscale. 

SHOW: 643

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
  • gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some praise and some confusion. We see tons of people saying “we love Tailscale”, and yet most people hate VPNs or are trying to get rid of VPNs. Help us get smart about what Tailscale does. 

Topic 3 - Step back a little bit. Help us understand what a modern CISO has to think about regarding remote access vs. zero trust vs. encrypting communications? What are the critical things they worry about?

Topic 4 - What are some of the unique things that Tailscale does with VPNs? Why does everyone seem to love using it? 

Topic 5 - Tailscale seems to work on all the modern OSs (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, etc.). How does Tailscale work with existing networking devices? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the common customer outcomes that happen when they enable Tailscale? What lessons can be learned from this approach?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11150890 Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1703 Maya Kaczorowski, Tailscale, Security, VPNs, Zero Trust, Remote Access full false Is Software Still Eating the World? Is Software Still Eating the World? Over the last decade, software ate the world.  So what are the byproducts of all that eating, and is there anything left on the table? 

SHOW: 642

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics
  • Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.

 

SHOW NOTES:

 

HOW DID SOFTWARE EAT THE WORLD?

  • A decade of projects that spun out of the big cloud companies and became open source projects (Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.)
  • All the things your mom used to do for you is now a mobile app (rides, grocery delivery, making your meals, 
  • We’ve had a decade+ of growth economy (low interest rates, lots of VC funding)

ARE THE INCUMBENTS FINALLY EATING THEIR OWN SOFTWARE?

  • Incumbents are starting to adopt new business models (Streaming TV/Movies, Electric Cars, Analytics built into Farming/Sports/etc.) and leveraging their previous investments.
  • Many of the business models of the last 5+ years is falling apart
  • The monopolies are disrupting the monopolies (Apple/ads), 
  • Web3 is going through a trough of disillusionment
  • Meta lost $10B, which aligns to what was their metaverse investment plan
  • Software ate business models, but there is a hardware resurgence coming
  • People want a “what’s next”” technology trend, but there’s still a lot of Web2 to play out. 

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]]> Over the last decade, software ate the world.  So what are the byproducts of all that eating, and is there anything left on the table? 

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HOW DID SOFTWARE EAT THE WORLD?

  • A decade of projects that spun out of the big cloud companies and became open source projects (Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.)
  • All the things your mom used to do for you is now a mobile app (rides, grocery delivery, making your meals, 
  • We’ve had a decade+ of growth economy (low interest rates, lots of VC funding)

ARE THE INCUMBENTS FINALLY EATING THEIR OWN SOFTWARE?

  • Incumbents are starting to adopt new business models (Streaming TV/Movies, Electric Cars, Analytics built into Farming/Sports/etc.) and leveraging their previous investments.
  • Many of the business models of the last 5+ years is falling apart
  • The monopolies are disrupting the monopolies (Apple/ads), 
  • Web3 is going through a trough of disillusionment
  • Meta lost $10B, which aligns to what was their metaverse investment plan
  • Software ate business models, but there is a hardware resurgence coming
  • People want a “what’s next”” technology trend, but there’s still a lot of Web2 to play out. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11133183 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1288 full false Follow the Cloud Money Follow the Cloud Money Jordan Novet (@jordannovet, Technology Reporter @CNBC) talks about how to analyze earnings from the big clouds, Microsoft’s position as the #2 cloud, and what might disrupt the Big 3 in the future.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - We’re now into a different phase of the economy from the pandemic years of 2020-early2022. What are the trends we’re now seeing for the major cloud companies? 

Topic 3 - Beyond looking at quarter to quarter earnings, how do you think about the trends for the bigger cloud companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the challenger clouds (Cloudflare, etc.)?

Topic 4 - Are you seeing anything that tells you that we’ll see a change in the standings (AWS, Azure, GCP) anytime soon (e.g. forward CAPEX spending, etc.)? Do you see the challenges/disruptors making any dents in their growth? 

Topic 5 - We saw some slowing down in the growth rates of all the cloud providers this past quarter. Do you think that’s just the impact of post-COVID slowdown plus some supply-chain issues around getting new servers, or does this potentially signal that movement to the cloud might be slowing down? 

Topic 6 - What types of things does the financial community wish they knew about the cloud providers that either aren't broken out (e.g. different reporting across the cloud providers), or what areas are lacking transparency?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - We’re now into a different phase of the economy from the pandemic years of 2020-early2022. What are the trends we’re now seeing for the major cloud companies? 

Topic 3 - Beyond looking at quarter to quarter earnings, how do you think about the trends for the bigger cloud companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the challenger clouds (Cloudflare, etc.)?

Topic 4 - Are you seeing anything that tells you that we’ll see a change in the standings (AWS, Azure, GCP) anytime soon (e.g. forward CAPEX spending, etc.)? Do you see the challenges/disruptors making any dents in their growth? 

Topic 5 - We saw some slowing down in the growth rates of all the cloud providers this past quarter. Do you think that’s just the impact of post-COVID slowdown plus some supply-chain issues around getting new servers, or does this potentially signal that movement to the cloud might be slowing down? 

Topic 6 - What types of things does the financial community wish they knew about the cloud providers that either aren't broken out (e.g. different reporting across the cloud providers), or what areas are lacking transparency?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11110644 Wed, 10 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2684 Jordan Novet, CNBC, Azure, Microsoft, AWS, GCP, LinkedIn, Economics of Cloud full false Mentoring and Being a Mentor Mentoring and Being a Mentor As much as we talk about tech, our industry is people-centric. Knowing how to find a mentor, or eventually becoming a mentor is an important skill to have. So how does it work? 

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WHY DO WE HAVE MENTORS WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS?

When I was early in my career, I thought you could just ask executives questions. And you can, but you might not always get the answers you expect. So a lot of people read books. But sometimes it’s good to find the in-between. 

HOW DOES THE MENTOR / MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

  • Is Mentor/Mentee a formal process?
  • When should you look for a Mentor?
  • What should the relationship look like? What are the dynamics?
  • What should both sides expect in the relationship?
  • Should you pay for a mentor?
  • When should you look outside your normal circle for some new insight?

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]]> As much as we talk about tech, our industry is people-centric. Knowing how to find a mentor, or eventually becoming a mentor is an important skill to have. So how does it work? 

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SHOW NOTES:

WHY DO WE HAVE MENTORS WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS?

When I was early in my career, I thought you could just ask executives questions. And you can, but you might not always get the answers you expect. So a lot of people read books. But sometimes it’s good to find the in-between. 

HOW DOES THE MENTOR / MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

  • Is Mentor/Mentee a formal process?
  • When should you look for a Mentor?
  • What should the relationship look like? What are the dynamics?
  • What should both sides expect in the relationship?
  • Should you pay for a mentor?
  • When should you look outside your normal circle for some new insight?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11092328 Sun, 07 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1561 full false Multi-Cloud Control Plane for Apps Multi-Cloud Control Plane for Apps Niall Dalton (@0x01dea, Co-Founder @seaplane_io) talks about simplifying the deployment of complex application and improving Day 2 operations.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what led you to create Seaplane IO. 

Topic 2 - I feel like a lot of people talk about Lo-Code to make it easier for non-developers, and serverless for non-ops, but nobody really talks about more robust apps that want deployment and ops taken care of for them. Give us an overview of Seaplane IO.

Topic 3 - If i’m a developer, where does my code and application stop and where does Seaplane IO take over? Is there a “best” application that can take advantage of Seaplane IO?

Topic 4 - What does Day 2 look like for an application deployed to Seaplane IO? 

Topic 5 - Help us understand some of the intelligent (“automatic”) things that Seaplane IO does to align my application to user-traffic, or failed cloud infrastructure?

Topic 6 - What are some areas where you see the Seaplane IO “control plane” expanding in the future?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what led you to create Seaplane IO. 

Topic 2 - I feel like a lot of people talk about Lo-Code to make it easier for non-developers, and serverless for non-ops, but nobody really talks about more robust apps that want deployment and ops taken care of for them. Give us an overview of Seaplane IO.

Topic 3 - If i’m a developer, where does my code and application stop and where does Seaplane IO take over? Is there a “best” application that can take advantage of Seaplane IO?

Topic 4 - What does Day 2 look like for an application deployed to Seaplane IO? 

Topic 5 - Help us understand some of the intelligent (“automatic”) things that Seaplane IO does to align my application to user-traffic, or failed cloud infrastructure?

Topic 6 - What are some areas where you see the Seaplane IO “control plane” expanding in the future?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11072407 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2125 Niall Dalton, Seaplane, Serverless, Day 2 Ops, Multi-Cloud full false The DevRel Dilemma The DevRel Dilemma Ever since Developers became the New Kingmakers, DevRel has become a subsection of our industry. But what does it do, and is it helping Devs? 

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WHY DID DEVREL HAPPEN?

WHERE IS DEVREL TODAY?

  • Is it DevRel or DevEvangelist or DevAdvocate?
  • Is DevRel marketing?
  • Have you DevRel’d yourself into imposter syndrome?
  • Who do DevRel’s work for? 
  • Can companies afford DevRel? Can they afford not to have DevRel? 

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]]> Ever since Developers became the New Kingmakers, DevRel has become a subsection of our industry. But what does it do, and is it helping Devs? 

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SHOW NOTES:

WHY DID DEVREL HAPPEN?

WHERE IS DEVREL TODAY?

  • Is it DevRel or DevEvangelist or DevAdvocate?
  • Is DevRel marketing?
  • Have you DevRel’d yourself into imposter syndrome?
  • Who do DevRel’s work for? 
  • Can companies afford DevRel? Can they afford not to have DevRel? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11054514 Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2625 full false Managing Microservices Managing Microservices Maxim Fateev (@mfateev, Co-Founder/CEO of @temporalio) talks about building modern applications, rethinking microservices, and orchestrating business logic. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to start Temporal.io. 

Topic 2 - There are lots of approaches to building (or running) modern applications - from Low-Code to Serverless to PaaS. Some are more focused on building apps and others on running apps. Where do you see various approaches today having struggles?

Topic 3 - What is the Temporal philosophy on making it easier to build/run modern applications? 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the concept of Temporal workflows. Who interacts with a workflow (developer, DevOps teams, etc.), and how much influence does it have on both application design and deployment?

Topic 5 - What are some of the things that happen to an application using Temporal that don’t happen with some of the other tools/frameworks focused on microservices?

Topic 6 - Does Temporal help “modernize” existing applications, or is it primarily focused on new applications?

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to start Temporal.io. 

Topic 2 - There are lots of approaches to building (or running) modern applications - from Low-Code to Serverless to PaaS. Some are more focused on building apps and others on running apps. Where do you see various approaches today having struggles?

Topic 3 - What is the Temporal philosophy on making it easier to build/run modern applications? 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the concept of Temporal workflows. Who interacts with a workflow (developer, DevOps teams, etc.), and how much influence does it have on both application design and deployment?

Topic 5 - What are some of the things that happen to an application using Temporal that don’t happen with some of the other tools/frameworks focused on microservices?

Topic 6 - Does Temporal help “modernize” existing applications, or is it primarily focused on new applications?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11032185 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1694 Maxim Fateev, Temporal, Microservices, PaaS, Low-Code, Serverless, Developers, Business Logic full false Kubernetes Cost Management Kubernetes Cost Management Webb Brown (@webb_brown, Co-Founder/CEO @kubecost) talks about the evolution of Kubecost, and better management of Kubernetes costs. 

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as well as the team at Kubecost. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about why Kubernetes has a cost problem. Is this mostly driven by the underlying technology, or how companies use Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the Kubecost open source project. How does it work, and how does it fit into the broader Kubernetes ecosystem?

Topic 4 - What are the typical stages that a company goes through (using Kubernetes) where they realize that costs are a problem? Is it an “oh sh*t” moment with a EKS/GKE bill, or are they starting to build it into their normal Kubernetes cluster bills?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common mistakes that companies make when using Kubernetes that drive up costs? Is Kubecost mostly focused on identifying them, or trying to improve them?

Topic 6 - With the economy starting to slow down post-COVID-pandemic, are you starting to see a new level of cost-consciousness starting to kick in for Kubernetes users?


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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as well as the team at Kubecost. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about why Kubernetes has a cost problem. Is this mostly driven by the underlying technology, or how companies use Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the Kubecost open source project. How does it work, and how does it fit into the broader Kubernetes ecosystem?

Topic 4 - What are the typical stages that a company goes through (using Kubernetes) where they realize that costs are a problem? Is it an “oh sh*t” moment with a EKS/GKE bill, or are they starting to build it into their normal Kubernetes cluster bills?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common mistakes that companies make when using Kubernetes that drive up costs? Is Kubecost mostly focused on identifying them, or trying to improve them?

Topic 6 - With the economy starting to slow down post-COVID-pandemic, are you starting to see a new level of cost-consciousness starting to kick in for Kubernetes users?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-11002689 Sun, 24 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1887 Kubecost, Kubernetes, FinOps, Webb Brown full false Testing Kubernetes Applications Testing Kubernetes Applications Ken Ahrens (@kahrens_atl, Co-Founder @Speedscaleai) talks about the challenges of testing applications in Kubernetes environments.  

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led to start Speedscale. 

Topic 2 - Kubernetes has definitely gone mainstream at this point, but mainstream doesn’t mean that it’s easy to use or operate. How do you see the market today in terms of companies being comfortable with operating Kubernetes - what works well, and where are their struggles?

Topic 3 - In the past we had things that would test Kubernetes conformance (from CNCF, or Sonobuoy from Heptio). Where does Speedscale come into play in terms of Kubernetes testing?

Topic 4 - Where do you see opportunities to bring value to testing of Kubernetes environments? Does this testing tend to help DevOps teams or AppDev teams more?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common areas where you see companies getting benefits from Kubernetes testing? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started in testing for Kubernetes?


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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led to start Speedscale. 

Topic 2 - Kubernetes has definitely gone mainstream at this point, but mainstream doesn’t mean that it’s easy to use or operate. How do you see the market today in terms of companies being comfortable with operating Kubernetes - what works well, and where are their struggles?

Topic 3 - In the past we had things that would test Kubernetes conformance (from CNCF, or Sonobuoy from Heptio). Where does Speedscale come into play in terms of Kubernetes testing?

Topic 4 - Where do you see opportunities to bring value to testing of Kubernetes environments? Does this testing tend to help DevOps teams or AppDev teams more?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common areas where you see companies getting benefits from Kubernetes testing? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started in testing for Kubernetes?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10989856 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1970 Speedscale, Kubernetes, Testing, Applications, Ken Ahrens full false IoT, IIoT and Managing Edge Data IoT, IIoT and Managing Edge Data Brian Gilmore (@BrianMGilmore, Director IoT/Emerging Technology @InfluxDB) talks about Edge and Industrial Edge Computing, as well as application and data challenges at the edge.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into the fascinating world of Edge and IoT, tell us a little bit about your background, and then where you focus these days with InfluxData.

Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we covered IoT and IIoT. In the past it was somewhat of a fragmented market segment (lots of definitions, lots of different use-cases). How do you summarize the IoT and IIoT markets in 2022? 

Topic 3 - We’ve always said that the sensor part of IoT isn’t very interesting, but what a company does with the data is very interesting (and complicated). How do companies think about edge data these days – what aspects of the data are valuable? 

Topic 4 - Time Series databases seem like the perfect fit for IoT and IIoT use-cases because they are designed to be both real-time and give historical context (from a time perspective). Is this the case, and why do companies ever consider other types of databases at the edge?

Topic 5 - What are the current best practices about managing data at the edge, in terms of long-term retention and what they eventually do with the data (analysis, analytics, etc.) to better optimize those edge applications? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the emerging trends you’re starting to see happen at the edge, that maybe weren’t on the industry radar a few years ago? 


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  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
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  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into the fascinating world of Edge and IoT, tell us a little bit about your background, and then where you focus these days with InfluxData.

Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we covered IoT and IIoT. In the past it was somewhat of a fragmented market segment (lots of definitions, lots of different use-cases). How do you summarize the IoT and IIoT markets in 2022? 

Topic 3 - We’ve always said that the sensor part of IoT isn’t very interesting, but what a company does with the data is very interesting (and complicated). How do companies think about edge data these days – what aspects of the data are valuable? 

Topic 4 - Time Series databases seem like the perfect fit for IoT and IIoT use-cases because they are designed to be both real-time and give historical context (from a time perspective). Is this the case, and why do companies ever consider other types of databases at the edge?

Topic 5 - What are the current best practices about managing data at the edge, in terms of long-term retention and what they eventually do with the data (analysis, analytics, etc.) to better optimize those edge applications? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the emerging trends you’re starting to see happen at the edge, that maybe weren’t on the industry radar a few years ago? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10967769 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2137 Edge, IoT, IIoT, Time Series Database, InfluxData, InfluxDB full false Building Apps with WebAssembly Building Apps with WebAssembly Matt Butcher (@technosophos, Co-Founder/CEO @fermyontech) talks about building the next-generation PaaS platform around WebAssembly. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as well as the team as Ferymon, as you all have some experience building application platforms.

Topic 2 - Before we get into Fermyon, let’s talk about WebAssembly. What is it, and how does it connect to your previous world of being heavily involved in containers and Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what it means to be a WebAssembly PaaS. We’ve seen PaaS platforms in the past (Deis, Heroku, dotCloud, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, etc.). What do developers need to do, and what does the platform take care of? 

Topic 4 - Walk us through the Spin project and what it delivers? Can it be compared/contrasted to a container experience, or something else developers are familiar with?

Topic 5 - What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases where WebAssembly is a good fit and delivers unique value today?

Topic 6 - How are people able to engage with Fermyon today?

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SHOW: 633

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SHOW SPONSORS:

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  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as well as the team as Ferymon, as you all have some experience building application platforms.

Topic 2 - Before we get into Fermyon, let’s talk about WebAssembly. What is it, and how does it connect to your previous world of being heavily involved in containers and Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what it means to be a WebAssembly PaaS. We’ve seen PaaS platforms in the past (Deis, Heroku, dotCloud, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, etc.). What do developers need to do, and what does the platform take care of? 

Topic 4 - Walk us through the Spin project and what it delivers? Can it be compared/contrasted to a container experience, or something else developers are familiar with?

Topic 5 - What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases where WebAssembly is a good fit and delivers unique value today?

Topic 6 - How are people able to engage with Fermyon today?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10950248 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1961 WebAssembly, PaaS, Fermyon, Matt Butcher full false Perspective on Competition in Tech Perspective on Competition in Tech Competition in technology has many levels - from individuals to groups to companies to technologies. We dig into how competition impacts in multiple different ways, throughout our careers.

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TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION IS NOT LIKE SPORTS COMPETITION

  • There is not "end of season" in technology
  • Technology carries the past forward (technical debt)
  • Technology doesn't have trades or relegation
  • The lifecycle of tech is different that sports fandom

COMPETITION IN TECHNOLOGY TAKES ON SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS

  • People stay at companies far less than before
  • People compete in technology at personal levels, at team/group levels, at company levels and at technology levels. 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

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SHOW NOTES:

TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION IS NOT LIKE SPORTS COMPETITION

  • There is not "end of season" in technology
  • Technology carries the past forward (technical debt)
  • Technology doesn't have trades or relegation
  • The lifecycle of tech is different that sports fandom

COMPETITION IN TECHNOLOGY TAKES ON SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS

  • People stay at companies far less than before
  • People compete in technology at personal levels, at team/group levels, at company levels and at technology levels. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10932330 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1646 full false Secure Cloud Migrations Secure Cloud Migrations Bryan Woodworth (Solutions Strategist @Aviatrix) talks about the evolution of Cloud migrations, security best practices, and how to organize for migration success. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, because you've been in the big clouds and now you’re helping people navigate the journey to the cloud. 

Topic 2 - It’s 2022, walk me through a typical cloud migration for a company? What are their considerations, concerns, common mistakes, etc.?

Topic 3 - Who within the company is typically driving the cloud migration? What are their goals or success metrics? And how often do they misunderstand what the cloud provider does and what the company has to do – especially around security? 

Topic 4 - All the clouds are a little bit different, but companies would really like them to look and act the same. How do companies deal with those challenges, from a networking and security standpoint?

Topic 5 - Where and how does Aviatrix come into the picture when companies are doing Cloud migrations? 

Topic 6 - For a company that might be new to Cloud migrations, what are some lessons-learned from the past that they can use to avoid common mistakes? 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
  • Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.
  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
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  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, because you've been in the big clouds and now you’re helping people navigate the journey to the cloud. 

Topic 2 - It’s 2022, walk me through a typical cloud migration for a company? What are their considerations, concerns, common mistakes, etc.?

Topic 3 - Who within the company is typically driving the cloud migration? What are their goals or success metrics? And how often do they misunderstand what the cloud provider does and what the company has to do – especially around security? 

Topic 4 - All the clouds are a little bit different, but companies would really like them to look and act the same. How do companies deal with those challenges, from a networking and security standpoint?

Topic 5 - Where and how does Aviatrix come into the picture when companies are doing Cloud migrations? 

Topic 6 - For a company that might be new to Cloud migrations, what are some lessons-learned from the past that they can use to avoid common mistakes? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10910916 Wed, 06 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2396 Aviatrix, Bryan Woodworth, Cloud Migrations, Security, AWS, Azure, GCP full false A 2022 Mid-Year Cloud Update A 2022 Mid-Year Cloud Update Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the big stories, trends and transactions in the cloud in the first half of 2022. 

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Topic 1 - VMware WTF!?

  • Would VMware be a different company if it was never acquired by EMC/Dell?
  • Nearly every successful Enterprise Software company becomes legacy at some point, was this always VMware’s destiny?
  • If VMware was an independent company, would the rise of Containers (Docker) have been any different?
  • Should some other company buy VMware and if so, who?

Topic 2 - I really liked the recent analysis on Clouded Judgement Substack about subscription vs. consumption in an economic downturn. (link) If SaaS is the future, does the consumption model really matter as long as value is there?

Topic 3 - Is there any aspect of the crypto industry that hasn’t been proven to be a sham this year? Decentralized (no). DAOs for governance (no). Controlled by the community (no). Secure (no). Not linked to fiat currencies (no). Good technology (no). A16z propaganda (no).

Topic 4 - Are passwords finally dying? Companies like strongDM/Teleport are pushing certificate based authentication and FIDO is gaining adoption in Windows and macOS. Will there be a time when we don’t need passwords?

Topic 5 - We always talk about skills and keeping up with the industry waves on the show. SaaS is less about building skills and more about operating. How does you get/keep up to speed about SaaS and what’s the future? Is the Cloud Architect going the way of the Infrastructure Admin?

Topic 6 - Did the big 3 cloud providers all fire their marketing teams? I feel like there hasn’t been one big announcement from any of them this year. 

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SHOW: 630

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - VMware WTF!?

  • Would VMware be a different company if it was never acquired by EMC/Dell?
  • Nearly every successful Enterprise Software company becomes legacy at some point, was this always VMware’s destiny?
  • If VMware was an independent company, would the rise of Containers (Docker) have been any different?
  • Should some other company buy VMware and if so, who?

Topic 2 - I really liked the recent analysis on Clouded Judgement Substack about subscription vs. consumption in an economic downturn. (link) If SaaS is the future, does the consumption model really matter as long as value is there?

Topic 3 - Is there any aspect of the crypto industry that hasn’t been proven to be a sham this year? Decentralized (no). DAOs for governance (no). Controlled by the community (no). Secure (no). Not linked to fiat currencies (no). Good technology (no). A16z propaganda (no).

Topic 4 - Are passwords finally dying? Companies like strongDM/Teleport are pushing certificate based authentication and FIDO is gaining adoption in Windows and macOS. Will there be a time when we don’t need passwords?

Topic 5 - We always talk about skills and keeping up with the industry waves on the show. SaaS is less about building skills and more about operating. How does you get/keep up to speed about SaaS and what’s the future? Is the Cloud Architect going the way of the Infrastructure Admin?

Topic 6 - Did the big 3 cloud providers all fire their marketing teams? I feel like there hasn’t been one big announcement from any of them this year. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10873509 Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 3277 Brandon Whichard, SDT, VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP, Crypto, SaaS, Passwords full false What VMware might look like under Broadcom What VMware might look like under Broadcom Dave Vellante (@dvellante, CEO/Co-Host of @theCube) talks about the VMware acquisition by Broadcom and the potential future of the combined organization. 

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  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Lets jump right into it - did you expect VMware to get sold this quickly after finally being “free” of a parent company?

Topic 2 - “Accretive acquisition bringing $8.5B of EBITDA by Year 3” - this seems to be the statement (headline) that really has people talking. What does it mean, and what does it say about the future plans that Broadcom might have for VMware?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through their slide “Multiple Levers to Increase VMware’s Profitability

Topic 4 - We all know that vSphere/ESX is the cash cow and isn’t going anywhere. Beyond that, how do you potentially see other parts of the portfolio moving forward - VMware on AWS, NSX (networking), VSAN (storage), Tanzu (AppDev)?

Topic 5 - Could you see companies like Cisco or HP or NetApp or Dell buying any of those businesses (especially NSX or VSAN) so that they have permanent attachment to vSphere?  

Topic 6 - Do you have any experience hearing from customers of CA or Symmantec to give current VMware customers a sense of what their new world might look like?


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]]> Dave Vellante (@dvellante, CEO/Co-Host of @theCube) talks about the VMware acquisition by Broadcom and the potential future of the combined organization. 

SHOW: 629

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
  • Revelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Lets jump right into it - did you expect VMware to get sold this quickly after finally being “free” of a parent company?

Topic 2 - “Accretive acquisition bringing $8.5B of EBITDA by Year 3” - this seems to be the statement (headline) that really has people talking. What does it mean, and what does it say about the future plans that Broadcom might have for VMware?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through their slide “Multiple Levers to Increase VMware’s Profitability

Topic 4 - We all know that vSphere/ESX is the cash cow and isn’t going anywhere. Beyond that, how do you potentially see other parts of the portfolio moving forward - VMware on AWS, NSX (networking), VSAN (storage), Tanzu (AppDev)?

Topic 5 - Could you see companies like Cisco or HP or NetApp or Dell buying any of those businesses (especially NSX or VSAN) so that they have permanent attachment to vSphere?  

Topic 6 - Do you have any experience hearing from customers of CA or Symmantec to give current VMware customers a sense of what their new world might look like?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10855041 Sun, 26 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2683 Dave Vellante, theCube, VMware, Broadcom, Acquisition full false 2022 State of Cloud 2022 State of Cloud Kent Bennett (Venture Capitalist @bessemervp) talks about the 2022 State of Cloud report, the evolution of the SaaS business model, new monetization models, and the Great Resignation.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days at Bessemer.

Topic 2 - The media headlines for Cloud aren’t great these days. What are the headlines from your State of Cloud 2022? 

Topic 3 - Help us understand how much money has come into the VC systems over the last couple years and where it’s being targeted. 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the $1 to $18 model in SaaS. How does that happen, and what separates the good companies ($18) from the good/mediocre companies ($7).

Topic 5 - You talk about “First Act” and indirect models, focused on all their companies that deliver pieces of a monetization model. How long do we expect that approach to last, because we see a wave of consolidation? 

Topic 6 - A lot has been discussed about the “Great Resignation”. This has impacted both tech workers and non-tech. How do you see technology companies having an impact or influence on the global workforce?

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SHOW: 628

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days at Bessemer.

Topic 2 - The media headlines for Cloud aren’t great these days. What are the headlines from your State of Cloud 2022? 

Topic 3 - Help us understand how much money has come into the VC systems over the last couple years and where it’s being targeted. 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the $1 to $18 model in SaaS. How does that happen, and what separates the good companies ($18) from the good/mediocre companies ($7).

Topic 5 - You talk about “First Act” and indirect models, focused on all their companies that deliver pieces of a monetization model. How long do we expect that approach to last, because we see a wave of consolidation? 

Topic 6 - A lot has been discussed about the “Great Resignation”. This has impacted both tech workers and non-tech. How do you see technology companies having an impact or influence on the global workforce?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10826874 Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2302 Kent Bennett, BVP, Bessemer, State of Cloud 2022, SaaS, Great Resignation full false How Things will Change in a Tech Downturn How Things will Change in a Tech Downturn It’s been 13 years since the last economic downturn impacted the tech industry. Many people don’t remember those days, or we’re part of it. Here’s what to expect. 

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  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
  • Revelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcast
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  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

 

SHOW NOTES: 

FOR THE YOUNGER PEOPLE, THAT WEREN’T AROUND FOR 2008

  • We’re had 10+ years of public cloud adoption
  • We’ve had 5+ years of microservices adoption (containers, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • We’ve seen Digital Transformation dominate the headlines

HOW WILL THE CONVERSATION AROUND TECH CHANGE?

  • We're seeing stories about moving back to Private Cloud
  • We're seeing stories that microservices are bad
  • We're seeing stories that Automation and Security spending will increase
  • We'll hear less and less about Digital Transformation
  • We'll hear about hiring slow downs, and some rationalization of salaries

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FOR THE YOUNGER PEOPLE, THAT WEREN’T AROUND FOR 2008

  • We’re had 10+ years of public cloud adoption
  • We’ve had 5+ years of microservices adoption (containers, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • We’ve seen Digital Transformation dominate the headlines

HOW WILL THE CONVERSATION AROUND TECH CHANGE?

  • We're seeing stories about moving back to Private Cloud
  • We're seeing stories that microservices are bad
  • We're seeing stories that Automation and Security spending will increase
  • We'll hear less and less about Digital Transformation
  • We'll hear about hiring slow downs, and some rationalization of salaries

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10815243 Sun, 19 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1110 full false Observability for Machine Learning Observability for Machine Learning Alessya Visnjic (CEO, WhyLabs) talks about MLOps, the concept of ML Observability and why AI models can fail. Alyessa talks about the differences between data health and model health and why post production analysis of ML is so important.

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Topic 1 - Welcome Alessya! You are what is known in the AI/ML spaces as a veteran. For those who aren’t familiar with your previous work, how about a quick introduction and background.

Topic 2 - Give everyone a background in MLOps as it is still an emerging market.  We are seeing an emerging trend of trust in data to train models. How did we get to this problem? Is this a transparency and observability problem once in production?

Topic 3 -  How is model health different from data health? Post deployment of models can actually be a factor, things like data drift over time…

Topic 4 - What does a typical tool chain look like? Under the covers is this a logging platform to provide visibility into the model behavior to ensure accuracy over time? I would think every model is different, how do you “standardize/rationalize” the data to detect anomalies and incorrect results?

Topic 5 - Every new category of tools has leading use cases. Where are you seeing the most traction today and how can you best help practitioners? 

Topic 6 - How can folks get started if they are interested?

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Topic 1 - Welcome Alessya! You are what is known in the AI/ML spaces as a veteran. For those who aren’t familiar with your previous work, how about a quick introduction and background.

Topic 2 - Give everyone a background in MLOps as it is still an emerging market.  We are seeing an emerging trend of trust in data to train models. How did we get to this problem? Is this a transparency and observability problem once in production?

Topic 3 -  How is model health different from data health? Post deployment of models can actually be a factor, things like data drift over time…

Topic 4 - What does a typical tool chain look like? Under the covers is this a logging platform to provide visibility into the model behavior to ensure accuracy over time? I would think every model is different, how do you “standardize/rationalize” the data to detect anomalies and incorrect results?

Topic 5 - Every new category of tools has leading use cases. Where are you seeing the most traction today and how can you best help practitioners? 

Topic 6 - How can folks get started if they are interested?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10794486 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1557 Machine Learning, Observability, WhyLabs, MLOps, Alessya Visnjic full false Visualizing the Cloud Visualizing the Cloud Priyanka Vergadia (@pvergadia, Staff Developer Advocate @GoogleCloud) talks about how to use creative visualization to convey complex cloud topics.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re one of our favorite follows on Twitter. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Google?

Topic 2 - As someone who likes to whiteboard things, I’m drawn (no pun intended) to your style of communicating complex ideas. Where did this skill and style come from?

Topic 3 - How was your style looked at by Google, and what types of feedback do you get from the broader community? 

Topic 4 - In the book, you cover A LOT of topics. How deep do you need to get into a topic before you start drawing it? How do you go about learning all the different technologies?  

Topic 5 - What tools do you use to create all the drawings, and more so, you turn a lot of these into videos. Are these tools that other people could easily use?

Topic 6 - Any tips you’ve learned about how to communicate complex ideas, either to technical or business people? 

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 SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re one of our favorite follows on Twitter. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Google?

Topic 2 - As someone who likes to whiteboard things, I’m drawn (no pun intended) to your style of communicating complex ideas. Where did this skill and style come from?

Topic 3 - How was your style looked at by Google, and what types of feedback do you get from the broader community? 

Topic 4 - In the book, you cover A LOT of topics. How deep do you need to get into a topic before you start drawing it? How do you go about learning all the different technologies?  

Topic 5 - What tools do you use to create all the drawings, and more so, you turn a lot of these into videos. Are these tools that other people could easily use?

Topic 6 - Any tips you’ve learned about how to communicate complex ideas, either to technical or business people? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10777942 Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:00:00 -0400 2193 Priyanka Vergadia, Google, GCP, Visualize the Cloud full false Shared Responsibilities for Cloud Providers Shared Responsibilities for Cloud Providers Miles Ward (@milesward, CTO @SADA) talks about managing the transition to public cloud, customer vs. provider responsibilities, and how to best leverage cloud provider innovations. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Dude, you’ve done some things. Tell us a little bit about your background at a few of these clouds that people have heard of. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about SADA. We’re really curious about the perspective of Google Cloud vs. AWS. 

Topic 3 - Based on the revenue numbers, companies are using public cloud services a lot these days. The clouds seem great, because they take a lot of people’s plates. Do you think they realize who is actually responsible for their cloud deployments? 

Topic 4 - Having build a number of best practices | well-architected designs, how do the cloud providers think about responsibility (let’s take security as an example) and how do they expect customers to take responsibility?   

Topic 5 - What are the most common mistakes companies make in this shared responsibility model? What are the biggest gray areas? 

Topic 6 - Let’s come back to Google Cloud. What are some of the cool things you’re able to uniquely do in Google Cloud that really add business value for your clients?

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]]> Miles Ward (@milesward, CTO @SADA) talks about managing the transition to public cloud, customer vs. provider responsibilities, and how to best leverage cloud provider innovations. 

SHOW: 624

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Dude, you’ve done some things. Tell us a little bit about your background at a few of these clouds that people have heard of. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about SADA. We’re really curious about the perspective of Google Cloud vs. AWS. 

Topic 3 - Based on the revenue numbers, companies are using public cloud services a lot these days. The clouds seem great, because they take a lot of people’s plates. Do you think they realize who is actually responsible for their cloud deployments? 

Topic 4 - Having build a number of best practices | well-architected designs, how do the cloud providers think about responsibility (let’s take security as an example) and how do they expect customers to take responsibility?   

Topic 5 - What are the most common mistakes companies make in this shared responsibility model? What are the biggest gray areas? 

Topic 6 - Let’s come back to Google Cloud. What are some of the cool things you’re able to uniquely do in Google Cloud that really add business value for your clients?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10755143 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2395 Miles Ward, SADA, Google Cloud, Security, Shared Responsibilities full false Finding or Becoming a Mentor Finding or Becoming a Mentor During uncertain times, many people seek the help of a mentor. On today’s show, we look at how to find a mentor, and how to consider being a mentor. 

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  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
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SHOW NOTES:

 

HOW DOES THE MENTOR-MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

How to determine if you’re trying to find a job, or trying to find a mentor. And what does a good mentor-mentee relationship look like? 

HOW TO FIND A MENTOR, HOW TO BE A MENTOR

  • Know if you’re job hunting or trying to find a mentor
  • Be visible in the community. 
  • Define a scope of what you’re asking of the mentor
  • Come with ideas and potential solutions
  • Understand the time commitment needed for success


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]]> During uncertain times, many people seek the help of a mentor. On today’s show, we look at how to find a mentor, and how to consider being a mentor. 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
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  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
  • Revelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcast

 

SHOW NOTES:

 

HOW DOES THE MENTOR-MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

How to determine if you’re trying to find a job, or trying to find a mentor. And what does a good mentor-mentee relationship look like? 

HOW TO FIND A MENTOR, HOW TO BE A MENTOR

  • Know if you’re job hunting or trying to find a mentor
  • Be visible in the community. 
  • Define a scope of what you’re asking of the mentor
  • Come with ideas and potential solutions
  • Understand the time commitment needed for success


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10737794 Sun, 05 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1537 full false CyberSecurity, Economics and Policy in 2022 CyberSecurity, Economics and Policy in 2022 Andy Grotto (@grottoandrew, Researcher @StanfordCyber) and Steve Weber (Professor Cal Berkeley I-School) talk about the big picture intersection of Cybersecurity, Global Economy and Government policy. 


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about both of your backgrounds. 

Topic 2 - You both focus on the intersections between Technology, Gov’t Policy and Economics. We tend to focus on technology, but obviously they are all interconnected.  Where would you start in a 101 Technology-centric class to branch out from Security threats to how it impacts those other areas? 

Topic 3 - Sometimes individuals feel like they can’t impact macro-level issues. So how do you frame your areas of focus when speaking with Government or Business leaders to get them to understand the scope, the breadth, and what actions could be taken? 

Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about new security technologies, and we talk about companies having trouble keeping up to be able to manage their security. Do you think there are other factors involved that are preventing companies from remaining secure?

Topic 5 - What are some of the security (technology) areas where you see opportunities to improve business and government security? Are these areas that need more implementations, or more funding, or more research? 

Topic 6 - We’re coming (mostly) out of COVID-19, there’s various levels of economic uncertainty around the world (supply chain, inflation). What are the headlines you’re writing today and what are some of the scenarios you see playing out over the next 12-18 months?

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]]> Andy Grotto (@grottoandrew, Researcher @StanfordCyber) and Steve Weber (Professor Cal Berkeley I-School) talk about the big picture intersection of Cybersecurity, Global Economy and Government policy. 


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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about both of your backgrounds. 

Topic 2 - You both focus on the intersections between Technology, Gov’t Policy and Economics. We tend to focus on technology, but obviously they are all interconnected.  Where would you start in a 101 Technology-centric class to branch out from Security threats to how it impacts those other areas? 

Topic 3 - Sometimes individuals feel like they can’t impact macro-level issues. So how do you frame your areas of focus when speaking with Government or Business leaders to get them to understand the scope, the breadth, and what actions could be taken? 

Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about new security technologies, and we talk about companies having trouble keeping up to be able to manage their security. Do you think there are other factors involved that are preventing companies from remaining secure?

Topic 5 - What are some of the security (technology) areas where you see opportunities to improve business and government security? Are these areas that need more implementations, or more funding, or more research? 

Topic 6 - We’re coming (mostly) out of COVID-19, there’s various levels of economic uncertainty around the world (supply chain, inflation). What are the headlines you’re writing today and what are some of the scenarios you see playing out over the next 12-18 months?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10714709 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2544 Andrew Grotto, Steven Weber, Stanford, Cal Berkeley, US Government, Economic Policy. COVID-19, Automation full false Enabling the Enterprise Financial Data Cloud Enabling the Enterprise Financial Data Cloud Cory Albert (Global Head of Cloud Strategy, Bloomberg Enterprise Data) talks about delivering cloud services to the financial services industry, new cloud delivery models, and innovations on the horizon. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Bloomberg is one of the most recognized companies in the world. Let’s talk a little bit about your background and where your focus is today.

Topic 2 - Help us understand the scope of Bloomberg’s role in the overall financial markets, in terms of delivering data to clients and partners. 

Topic 3 - The demands of financial markets (latency, data volume, security, etc.) have previously mandated that resources be local (on-prem, specialized co-lo facilities, etc.), but we’re hearing more and more about how financial services are leveraging the public cloud. Can you talk about how this hybrid cloud model might be impacting data management? 

Topic 4 - As we look out a few years, how do you see shifts in cloud delivery models potentially reshaping how financial services data is used, delivered, protected, etc? What are some of the future trends that you’re keeping your eyes on? 

Topic 5 - There is a ton of innovation happening around the financial services markets, from how services are delivered to who is using the services. How do these changes shape the way that Bloomberg has to partner with other companies to remain innovative and competitive? 

Topic 6 - You’re a veteran of the financial services industry. What are some of the interesting areas that you’re seeing for new people coming into the industry where they might have an opportunity to potentially shape the future of financial markets? 


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  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
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  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Bloomberg is one of the most recognized companies in the world. Let’s talk a little bit about your background and where your focus is today.

Topic 2 - Help us understand the scope of Bloomberg’s role in the overall financial markets, in terms of delivering data to clients and partners. 

Topic 3 - The demands of financial markets (latency, data volume, security, etc.) have previously mandated that resources be local (on-prem, specialized co-lo facilities, etc.), but we’re hearing more and more about how financial services are leveraging the public cloud. Can you talk about how this hybrid cloud model might be impacting data management? 

Topic 4 - As we look out a few years, how do you see shifts in cloud delivery models potentially reshaping how financial services data is used, delivered, protected, etc? What are some of the future trends that you’re keeping your eyes on? 

Topic 5 - There is a ton of innovation happening around the financial services markets, from how services are delivered to who is using the services. How do these changes shape the way that Bloomberg has to partner with other companies to remain innovative and competitive? 

Topic 6 - You’re a veteran of the financial services industry. What are some of the interesting areas that you’re seeing for new people coming into the industry where they might have an opportunity to potentially shape the future of financial markets? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10698486 Sun, 29 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2141 Bloomberg, Data Cloud, Cory Albert, Financial Services full false Scalable, Serverless Database Platforms Scalable, Serverless Database Platforms Sam Lambert (@isamlambert, CEO @PlanetScaledata) talks about building a cloud-native SQL database from first principles, and how to eliminate the things people hate about database operations. This is cool stuff! 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. In less than 10 years, you’ve had quite a career rise from “MySQL DBA” to some very high-profile roles. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus now as CEO of PlanetScale. 

Topic 2 - There have been an explosion of “Internet-scale” databases over the last 5 years. Where is the market today for these technologies?  

Topic 3 - Scaling databases is difficult. Scaling them while still allowing compatibility with known skills is even harder. PlanetScale builds upon a project called Vitess.  Walk us through the journey of how Vitress got started to where it is today. 

Topic 4 - What do developers want to know about databases? What do they wish they could ignore or not worry about?  

Topic 5 -  In today’s world, what’s the right balance between what developers want and what’s needed under the covers (e.g. Ops, scaling, security, etc.) to make sure the data is always available? What are some of the quantum leaps that PlanetScale has taken to eliminate previous problems? 

Topic 6 - What are some (customer) examples of things that PlanetScale does now that you wish you had in your previous DBA roles? 

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]]> Sam Lambert (@isamlambert, CEO @PlanetScaledata) talks about building a cloud-native SQL database from first principles, and how to eliminate the things people hate about database operations. This is cool stuff! 

SHOW: 620

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. In less than 10 years, you’ve had quite a career rise from “MySQL DBA” to some very high-profile roles. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus now as CEO of PlanetScale. 

Topic 2 - There have been an explosion of “Internet-scale” databases over the last 5 years. Where is the market today for these technologies?  

Topic 3 - Scaling databases is difficult. Scaling them while still allowing compatibility with known skills is even harder. PlanetScale builds upon a project called Vitess.  Walk us through the journey of how Vitress got started to where it is today. 

Topic 4 - What do developers want to know about databases? What do they wish they could ignore or not worry about?  

Topic 5 -  In today’s world, what’s the right balance between what developers want and what’s needed under the covers (e.g. Ops, scaling, security, etc.) to make sure the data is always available? What are some of the quantum leaps that PlanetScale has taken to eliminate previous problems? 

Topic 6 - What are some (customer) examples of things that PlanetScale does now that you wish you had in your previous DBA roles? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10675819 Wed, 25 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2429 Sam Lambert, Planet Scale, Database, Vitress, Cloud-native SQL full false Managing Thru Economic Donwturns Managing Thru Economic Donwturns As we wade into global economic uncertainty, let's look at what we can learn from previous (2001, 2008) economic downturns and how they impacted the tech industry.

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  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PAST ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS AND HOW THEY IMPACT THE TECH INDUSTRY

LESSONS FROM PREVIOUS ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS

  • Get your finances in order
  • Make sure you're aligned to near-term business needs
  • Invest in yourself (health, family, learning, etc.)
  • Align with communities and mentors


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  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Revelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PAST ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS AND HOW THEY IMPACT THE TECH INDUSTRY

LESSONS FROM PREVIOUS ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS

  • Get your finances in order
  • Make sure you're aligned to near-term business needs
  • Invest in yourself (health, family, learning, etc.)
  • Align with communities and mentors


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10659160 Sun, 22 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1888 full false Running a Large-Scale SaaS Platform Running a Large-Scale SaaS Platform Danny Fields (CTO/EVP @Avalara) talks about operating large SaaS environments, customizations for customer demands, and transitioning from traditional software. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got a very broad background in engineering and leadership roles. Can you share with us a little bit of your evolution, and where you focus your time at Avalara?

Topic 2 - Give us a little bit of background on Avalara (SaaS for Tax Compliance), and a little bit of details on what it means to run a SaaS platform for such a complex product offering? 

Topic 3 - You’ve been involved in a number of different SaaS platforms over the years. What are some of the biggest changes and challenges you face in running modern SaaS platforms today?

Topic 4 - Taxes are a very complex ecosystem, especially with all the variants around the world. How does a product team think about balancing the desire to deliver a consistent experience (SaaS operations) and customer demands for uniqueness?

Topic 5 - How do you think about balancing optimizations around Operations and taking advantage of all the new innovations happening in open-source, or from the cloud-providers, or just internal capabilities from your team? 

Topic 6 - Any tips for anyone looking to get into SaaS operations, or transitions from traditional data center software delivery? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got a very broad background in engineering and leadership roles. Can you share with us a little bit of your evolution, and where you focus your time at Avalara?

Topic 2 - Give us a little bit of background on Avalara (SaaS for Tax Compliance), and a little bit of details on what it means to run a SaaS platform for such a complex product offering? 

Topic 3 - You’ve been involved in a number of different SaaS platforms over the years. What are some of the biggest changes and challenges you face in running modern SaaS platforms today?

Topic 4 - Taxes are a very complex ecosystem, especially with all the variants around the world. How does a product team think about balancing the desire to deliver a consistent experience (SaaS operations) and customer demands for uniqueness?

Topic 5 - How do you think about balancing optimizations around Operations and taking advantage of all the new innovations happening in open-source, or from the cloud-providers, or just internal capabilities from your team? 

Topic 6 - Any tips for anyone looking to get into SaaS operations, or transitions from traditional data center software delivery? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10637182 Wed, 18 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2241 Avalara, SaaS, Danny Fields, Automation, Customization full false Logging Governance and Sensitive Data Logging Governance and Sensitive Data Pranay Kamat (Prod Mgmt @datadoghq) talks about the challenges is protecting sensitive data, internal vs. external attacks, evolution of DLP, the role of Governance in DevSecOps. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and the areas where you focus at Datadog. 

Topic 2 - We continuing to see headlines about critical data being stolen, which is a trend that doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Give us a picture of where we are with the problems that are still causing this, and what new things companies can do to prevent it.

Topic 3 - Where are some of the differences between traditional Data Loss Prevent (DLP) strategies and strategies that proactively look at logs to identify data access and breaches? 

Topic 4 - We often think about attacks coming from the outside, but oftentimes attacks happen from inside the house (directly or indirectly). How important is it to be able to control access to logs and what is visible within logs to prevent internal attacks and vulnerabilities?  

Topic 5 - What are some of the more dynamic, modern ways to identify sensitive traffic and tag it properly so systems can act on it? 

Topic 6 - It’s often said that security is everyone’s issue. In modern teams (DevOps, DevSecOps, etc.), where are you seeing as the owner of this Governance and Sensitive data?



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  • Monitor CI Pipelines and Tests with Datadog CI Visibility
  • Datadog CI Visibility supports shift-left testing Identify and resolve front-end issues on your web applications before your customers notice. Start a free trial today.
  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and the areas where you focus at Datadog. 

Topic 2 - We continuing to see headlines about critical data being stolen, which is a trend that doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Give us a picture of where we are with the problems that are still causing this, and what new things companies can do to prevent it.

Topic 3 - Where are some of the differences between traditional Data Loss Prevent (DLP) strategies and strategies that proactively look at logs to identify data access and breaches? 

Topic 4 - We often think about attacks coming from the outside, but oftentimes attacks happen from inside the house (directly or indirectly). How important is it to be able to control access to logs and what is visible within logs to prevent internal attacks and vulnerabilities?  

Topic 5 - What are some of the more dynamic, modern ways to identify sensitive traffic and tag it properly so systems can act on it? 

Topic 6 - It’s often said that security is everyone’s issue. In modern teams (DevOps, DevSecOps, etc.), where are you seeing as the owner of this Governance and Sensitive data?



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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10616194 Sun, 15 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1859 Datadog, Pranay Kamat, Governance, Sensitive Data, DLP, Security Threat full false Simplifying Cloud for Developers Simplifying Cloud for Developers Raman Sharma (@rasharm_, VP Product & Programs Marketing @DigitalOcean) talks about the evolution of Digital Ocean, the right tools for developers, and managing simplicity and scale.


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Your career has followed a parallel path to the evolution of the cloud. Let’s talk a little bit about your background, and especially your involvement with developers. 

Topic 2 - It’s been a while since we last had DigitalOcean on the show. Before we dive into the technology stack, let’s talk about how DigitalOcean thinks about developer needs. 

Topic 3 - Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Kubernetes, PaaS, Marketplace. Walk us through where DigitalOcean helps developers make it simple to use these primitives. 

Topic 4 - What do developers ask you for next? Is it more capabilities, or different pricing, or something else to make their lives easier? 

Topic 5 - What do your customer’s teams look like? Do they align to the primitives (e.g. cloud infrastructure teams), or is it more “you build it you run it”, or something else?

Topic 6 - Where are some of the areas where DigitalOcean is focused or sees new opportunities in 2022 and beyond?

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]]> Raman Sharma (@rasharm_, VP Product & Programs Marketing @DigitalOcean) talks about the evolution of Digital Ocean, the right tools for developers, and managing simplicity and scale.


SHOW: 616

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Your career has followed a parallel path to the evolution of the cloud. Let’s talk a little bit about your background, and especially your involvement with developers. 

Topic 2 - It’s been a while since we last had DigitalOcean on the show. Before we dive into the technology stack, let’s talk about how DigitalOcean thinks about developer needs. 

Topic 3 - Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Kubernetes, PaaS, Marketplace. Walk us through where DigitalOcean helps developers make it simple to use these primitives. 

Topic 4 - What do developers ask you for next? Is it more capabilities, or different pricing, or something else to make their lives easier? 

Topic 5 - What do your customer’s teams look like? Do they align to the primitives (e.g. cloud infrastructure teams), or is it more “you build it you run it”, or something else?

Topic 6 - Where are some of the areas where DigitalOcean is focused or sees new opportunities in 2022 and beyond?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10596691 Wed, 11 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2056 Digital Ocean, Developers, Cloud, Kubernetes, PaaS, Database, Raman Sharma full false Explaining Technical Topics - Service Mesh Explaining Technical Topics - Service Mesh In this new series, we’ll look at ways to explain complex technical topics. This week we’re looking at Service Mesh. 

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  • New Relic (homepage)
  • Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.
  • Revelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcast
  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup

SHOW NOTES:

HOW DOES A SERVICE MESH WORK? WHEN SHOULD YOU CONSIDER ONE?

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy.   

LET’S EXPLAIN HOW SERVICE MESH WORKS.

We explain service mesh using a family household analogy, and how it changes over time. We relate this back to how an application evolves from a monolith to microservices. 

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • New Relic (homepage)
  • Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.
  • Revelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcast
  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup

SHOW NOTES:

HOW DOES A SERVICE MESH WORK? WHEN SHOULD YOU CONSIDER ONE?

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy.   

LET’S EXPLAIN HOW SERVICE MESH WORKS.

We explain service mesh using a family household analogy, and how it changes over time. We relate this back to how an application evolves from a monolith to microservices. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10577884 Sun, 08 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1500 full false Cloud Marketplaces Cloud Marketplaces John Jahnke (CEO of @Tackleio) talks about the rise of Cloud Marketplaces, the evolution of B2B purchasing for cloud products, and the relationship between software vendors and cloud providers. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. And please give us a quick overview of Tackle.

Topic 2 - Everybody knows about the 100s of services that get announced by the major hyperscalers each year, but not as many people are aware that there’s more to the cloud than native services. Where do cloud marketplaces fit into the cloud ecosystem, and how have they evolved over the years?  

Topic 3 - If we wanted to explain the value of a cloud marketplace to someone, what value does it provide to the various parties involved - the cloud, the marketplace owner, the software company using a marketplace, the customers using a marketplace?

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through the process of how a software company engages with a marketplace? Are they working to get their software into 3rd-party marketplaces, or building their own marketplaces, or something else?

Topic 5 - How do the Tackle marketplaces different from the AWS, Azure or GCP marketplaces? 

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to create a plan to leverage cloud marketplaces to better reach customers and specific markets? 

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. And please give us a quick overview of Tackle.

Topic 2 - Everybody knows about the 100s of services that get announced by the major hyperscalers each year, but not as many people are aware that there’s more to the cloud than native services. Where do cloud marketplaces fit into the cloud ecosystem, and how have they evolved over the years?  

Topic 3 - If we wanted to explain the value of a cloud marketplace to someone, what value does it provide to the various parties involved - the cloud, the marketplace owner, the software company using a marketplace, the customers using a marketplace?

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through the process of how a software company engages with a marketplace? Are they working to get their software into 3rd-party marketplaces, or building their own marketplaces, or something else?

Topic 5 - How do the Tackle marketplaces different from the AWS, Azure or GCP marketplaces? 

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to create a plan to leverage cloud marketplaces to better reach customers and specific markets? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10554210 Wed, 04 May 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2159 John Jahnke, Tackle, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Marketplaces, SaaS full false SLOs for Everyone SLOs for Everyone No Brian (Gracely) for a Sunday Perspective this week. We have Brian Singer (@brian_singer, CPO @nobl9inc) talking about Service Level Objectives (SLO), what they are, why they matter, and how to use SLOs to focus on innovation vs. technical debt.

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  • SLOConf - Free virtual event May 9th-12th - Register Today!
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  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Brian, welcome to the show! We had Alex on the podcast last year and look forward to continuing the SLO conversation. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - If someone isn’t familiar with SLO’s (Service Level Objectives), how do you define them? Why do they matter? What problem do they solve? How are they different from SLA’s?

Topic 3 - Is this a transition from max reliability to instead look at errors as a “budget”? How can you manage a certain window of unreliability and keep customers happy? 

Topic 4 - How do you create SLOs? Who creates them? Is this an SRE connecting up to existing systems or new tooling and plumbing? Does it fit into an existing GitOps workflow for instance - SLOs-as-Code? Is there automation triggers that happen when conditions are met?

Topic 5 - How does an SRE know which metrics matter? I would imagine not all downtime is equal? How does this correlate with business KPIs? Do you fine tune over time?

Topic 6 - The big question is always the focus on technical debt vs. innovation. Does this help and if so how?

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SHOW: 613

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • SLOConf - Free virtual event May 9th-12th - Register Today!
  • Revelo: Sidestep the competitive US talent market by hiring remote engineers in Latin America. Source, hire, and pay Latin American engineers in US time zones with one service. Revelo manages all the paperwork including benefits, payroll, and compliance. Hire a full-time engineer with a 14-day trial. Revelo.com/cloudcast
  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. 
  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Brian, welcome to the show! We had Alex on the podcast last year and look forward to continuing the SLO conversation. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - If someone isn’t familiar with SLO’s (Service Level Objectives), how do you define them? Why do they matter? What problem do they solve? How are they different from SLA’s?

Topic 3 - Is this a transition from max reliability to instead look at errors as a “budget”? How can you manage a certain window of unreliability and keep customers happy? 

Topic 4 - How do you create SLOs? Who creates them? Is this an SRE connecting up to existing systems or new tooling and plumbing? Does it fit into an existing GitOps workflow for instance - SLOs-as-Code? Is there automation triggers that happen when conditions are met?

Topic 5 - How does an SRE know which metrics matter? I would imagine not all downtime is equal? How does this correlate with business KPIs? Do you fine tune over time?

Topic 6 - The big question is always the focus on technical debt vs. innovation. Does this help and if so how?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10535437 Sun, 01 May 2022 07:00:00 -0400 1618 Nobl9, Brian Singer, SLO, SRE, GitOps, Reliability as a Service full false CI/CD Monitoring and Flaky Testing CI/CD Monitoring and Flaky Testing Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos, Director of Product @datadoghq) talks about monitoring and measuring CI/CD environments, “shift left” for security and test coverage, and understanding test coverage patterns.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got quite an impressive track-record as an entrepreneur and founder. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you’re now focused on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - You wrote that “Master is the new Prod, and Devs are the new Ops”. Can you help us unpack the concepts that you were trying to convey?

Topic 3 -.How widespread is the understanding that it’s important to monitor CI/CD environments, vs. the more traditional focus of monitoring production environments?

Topic 4 - What are some of the areas where CI visibility or synthetic CI/CD testing helps improve application quality and overall availability in production?  

Topic 5 -  All of these efforts to test earlier, integrate earlier and have visibility earlier sound like the “shift left” movement. Are those things difficult to do, since many companies have siloed teams?  

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that your team has been able to take the technology from Undefined Labs and bring it into the broader scope of capabilities that are available through Datadog? 

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]]> Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos, Director of Product @datadoghq) talks about monitoring and measuring CI/CD environments, “shift left” for security and test coverage, and understanding test coverage patterns.

SHOW: 612

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got quite an impressive track-record as an entrepreneur and founder. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you’re now focused on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - You wrote that “Master is the new Prod, and Devs are the new Ops”. Can you help us unpack the concepts that you were trying to convey?

Topic 3 -.How widespread is the understanding that it’s important to monitor CI/CD environments, vs. the more traditional focus of monitoring production environments?

Topic 4 - What are some of the areas where CI visibility or synthetic CI/CD testing helps improve application quality and overall availability in production?  

Topic 5 -  All of these efforts to test earlier, integrate earlier and have visibility earlier sound like the “shift left” movement. Are those things difficult to do, since many companies have siloed teams?  

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that your team has been able to take the technology from Undefined Labs and bring it into the broader scope of capabilities that are available through Datadog? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10509958 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2163 Borja Burgos, Datadog, CI/CD, Flaky Testing, Shift Left full false Explaining Twitter to a 5yr old Explaining Twitter to a 5yr old Could you explain Twitter to a 5yr old? Some things are just difficult to explain, and this week we look at the challenges of trying to explain complex technical concepts to everyday people. 

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SHOW NOTES:

 

I GET HOW IT WORKS, BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY DO?

Many of us use Twitter on a daily basis, but if you had to explain it to someone, could you explain what it is and what value it provides? Many of us are tasked with a similar challenge in trying to explain our day-to-day work.  

EXPLAINING COMPLEX THINGS IS HARD. MAYBE THAT’S A SIGN THAT IT’S TOO TECHNICAL OR SHOULD BE BROKEN APART

  • What problem does something solve? 
  • Who has that problem? 
  • Does the problem need to be solved by a product or a platform?
  • Does the product align to one or many people’s jobs?
  • Does the platform align to one of many people’s jobs?
  • If it’s a platform, do the people with the problem want all of it?
  • Does the platform approach limit your ability to monetize it (e.g. too restrictive)?
  • Could you platform be valuable if it was broken up? 


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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

 

I GET HOW IT WORKS, BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY DO?

Many of us use Twitter on a daily basis, but if you had to explain it to someone, could you explain what it is and what value it provides? Many of us are tasked with a similar challenge in trying to explain our day-to-day work.  

EXPLAINING COMPLEX THINGS IS HARD. MAYBE THAT’S A SIGN THAT IT’S TOO TECHNICAL OR SHOULD BE BROKEN APART

  • What problem does something solve? 
  • Who has that problem? 
  • Does the problem need to be solved by a product or a platform?
  • Does the product align to one or many people’s jobs?
  • Does the platform align to one of many people’s jobs?
  • If it’s a platform, do the people with the problem want all of it?
  • Does the platform approach limit your ability to monetize it (e.g. too restrictive)?
  • Could you platform be valuable if it was broken up? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10490886 Sun, 24 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1654 full false DataCenter-as-a-Service DataCenter-as-a-Service Ian McClarty (President @PhoenixNAP) talks about the evolution of the CoLocation and DataCenter-as-a-Service market, cloud repatriation, how software has changed the economics and working closely with hyperscalers.

SHOW: 610

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SHOW NOTES:

  • PhoenixNAP - Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Cloud and CoLocation Services

 

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve run PhoenixNAP for more than a decade. Give us some sense of the evolution of the CoLocation | Managed Services market over that time.

Topic 2 - Lots of people focus on the cloud hyperscalers, but there are a ton of business needs that they can’t satisfy - whether it’s location, or dedicated resources, or offloading skills, etc. What are the biggest challenges that your customers are facing these days?

Topic 3 - The breadth of capabilities that you offer has really evolved - from locations, to capabilities, to flexibility you can offer customers. How much has the industry shift to software-defined-services enabled that to accelerate? 

Topic 4 - What is a typical relationship that your customers have between you and the hyperscalers? It seems like there are a lot of potential synergies that benefit everybody.  

Topic 5 - What differentiates the CoLocation | Managed Cloud providers these days? And where do you see that evolving? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common ways that your customers take advantage of the value you provide them - whether it’s technology, or people skills, or capacity planning or locations? 


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SHOW: 610

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

  • PhoenixNAP - Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Cloud and CoLocation Services

 

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve run PhoenixNAP for more than a decade. Give us some sense of the evolution of the CoLocation | Managed Services market over that time.

Topic 2 - Lots of people focus on the cloud hyperscalers, but there are a ton of business needs that they can’t satisfy - whether it’s location, or dedicated resources, or offloading skills, etc. What are the biggest challenges that your customers are facing these days?

Topic 3 - The breadth of capabilities that you offer has really evolved - from locations, to capabilities, to flexibility you can offer customers. How much has the industry shift to software-defined-services enabled that to accelerate? 

Topic 4 - What is a typical relationship that your customers have between you and the hyperscalers? It seems like there are a lot of potential synergies that benefit everybody.  

Topic 5 - What differentiates the CoLocation | Managed Cloud providers these days? And where do you see that evolving? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common ways that your customers take advantage of the value you provide them - whether it’s technology, or people skills, or capacity planning or locations? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10469327 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1931 PhoenixNAP, Ian McClarty, Datacenter, CoLocation, Computer, Storage, API, Networking, Hyperscaler full false Transitioning from Engineering to Product Transitioning from Engineering to Product Transitioning from a technical role to a “less” technical role can be scary. Let’s look at how you might evaluate a change, and some tips to succeed in the transition.  

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I DON’T WANT TO LOSE MY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR REPUTATION

It’s completely normal to be concerned about losing your technical skills, the thing that has established your current value to your employer, if you transition to a more product or business-focused role. 

HOW TO SUCCEED (OR AVOID FAILING) IN A TRANSITION

  • Your technical knowledge will still be extremely valuable.
  • Not all technical decisions are based on technology. Understanding economics, and business context, and flexibility options, and personalities involved are equally as important. 
  • Understand what you’ll be building vs. managing. Is it stand-alone or part of something larger? What are the things you can influence and change? 
  • Your people skills will be challenged, and rewarded. 
  • Understand that you’re part of a large ecosystem of people that will determine your perceived success. 
  • The choices of jobs expands when you’re closer to the people that use your technology.


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I DON’T WANT TO LOSE MY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR REPUTATION

It’s completely normal to be concerned about losing your technical skills, the thing that has established your current value to your employer, if you transition to a more product or business-focused role. 

HOW TO SUCCEED (OR AVOID FAILING) IN A TRANSITION

  • Your technical knowledge will still be extremely valuable.
  • Not all technical decisions are based on technology. Understanding economics, and business context, and flexibility options, and personalities involved are equally as important. 
  • Understand what you’ll be building vs. managing. Is it stand-alone or part of something larger? What are the things you can influence and change? 
  • Your people skills will be challenged, and rewarded. 
  • Understand that you’re part of a large ecosystem of people that will determine your perceived success. 
  • The choices of jobs expands when you’re closer to the people that use your technology.


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10449034 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1889 full false Database Caching as a Service Database Caching as a Service Ben Hagan (@ben_hagan, Founder/CEO @polyScaleAI) talks about the challenges of database performance, distributed data and applications, and how caching-as-a-service can improve performance.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re very much a data-centric person. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to found Polyscale?

Topic 2 - Before we dive into what Polyscale does, let’s talk about the problem that it solves for companies. 

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about how Polyscale makes data-access faster, without having to rewrite a bunch of applications or databases. Help us understand things like placement, scaling, resiliency, etc.

Topic 4 - How much different will the experience be for an application-developer or DBA? How much visibility will be available to troubleshoot or make adjustments?  

Topic 5 - How is Polyscale different from a CDN platform?   

Topic 6 - What are some of the initial use-cases or problem areas where companies can take advantage of Polyscale capabilities? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re very much a data-centric person. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to found Polyscale?

Topic 2 - Before we dive into what Polyscale does, let’s talk about the problem that it solves for companies. 

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about how Polyscale makes data-access faster, without having to rewrite a bunch of applications or databases. Help us understand things like placement, scaling, resiliency, etc.

Topic 4 - How much different will the experience be for an application-developer or DBA? How much visibility will be available to troubleshoot or make adjustments?  

Topic 5 - How is Polyscale different from a CDN platform?   

Topic 6 - What are some of the initial use-cases or problem areas where companies can take advantage of Polyscale capabilities? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10417244 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1913 Polyscale, Database, Caching, Cloud, Latency, Performance, Ben Hagan, CDN full false The Unexpected Pace of Technology Adoption The Unexpected Pace of Technology Adoption Every week we talk about new technologies and new trends. But studies show us that new technology adoption tends to be very slow, especially at high levels. What’s behind the inability of new tech to displace legacy tech?  

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IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT

For existing companies, most of the budget (typically 70-80%) is spent maintaining existing systems. New technologies are rarely used to replace existing technologies, but are usually additive. New teams and new processes are created, and those teams are often expensive (rare skills).

OUTSIDE OF CLOUD, THE COSTS OF CHANGE ARE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE

  • The learning curve can be long, so companies often hire new talent. 
  • For new technologies, talent is difficult to find, so often very expensive. 
  • And new technology takes a while to mature, so the number of available use-cases is initially limited. 
  • It’s not unusual for wide-spread adoption to take 3-5 years (if it succeeds).  
  • Oftentimes, existing technologies will see a market disruption coming and add similar capabilities. 
  • Many technology spaces have too many alternative options, so it can take a while before a “winner” emerges in the market. 


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IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT

For existing companies, most of the budget (typically 70-80%) is spent maintaining existing systems. New technologies are rarely used to replace existing technologies, but are usually additive. New teams and new processes are created, and those teams are often expensive (rare skills).

OUTSIDE OF CLOUD, THE COSTS OF CHANGE ARE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE

  • The learning curve can be long, so companies often hire new talent. 
  • For new technologies, talent is difficult to find, so often very expensive. 
  • And new technology takes a while to mature, so the number of available use-cases is initially limited. 
  • It’s not unusual for wide-spread adoption to take 3-5 years (if it succeeds).  
  • Oftentimes, existing technologies will see a market disruption coming and add similar capabilities. 
  • Many technology spaces have too many alternative options, so it can take a while before a “winner” emerges in the market. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10409240 Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1503 full false Multi-Cloud Networking Multi-Cloud Networking William Collins (@@WCollins502, Principal Cloud Architect @AlkiraNet) talks about how to seamlessly build multi-cloud networks for any applications.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Every survey that comes out says customers are going to be using multiple clouds for quite a while. Interconnecting all these services, either simply or in complex ways is now a reality. Walk us through how this challenge is typically approached?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the different options, from VPNs to SD-WAN to Cloud Interconnects. What are the pros/cons and trade-offs for companies?

Topic 4 - Has the COVID pandemic and all the remote work changed how companies network with the clouds? Are these expected to be temporary changes, or likely to remain long-term

Topic 5 - How does Alkira fit into the cloud networking picture? Does their approach to simplifying things help when companies are adopting things like DevSecOps, where networking might not be the primary focus?

Topic 6 - What are some ways that companies on their multi-cloud journey can benefit from simplified ways to enable security and inter-connections to the cloud?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Every survey that comes out says customers are going to be using multiple clouds for quite a while. Interconnecting all these services, either simply or in complex ways is now a reality. Walk us through how this challenge is typically approached?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the different options, from VPNs to SD-WAN to Cloud Interconnects. What are the pros/cons and trade-offs for companies?

Topic 4 - Has the COVID pandemic and all the remote work changed how companies network with the clouds? Are these expected to be temporary changes, or likely to remain long-term

Topic 5 - How does Alkira fit into the cloud networking picture? Does their approach to simplifying things help when companies are adopting things like DevSecOps, where networking might not be the primary focus?

Topic 6 - What are some ways that companies on their multi-cloud journey can benefit from simplified ways to enable security and inter-connections to the cloud?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10387068 Wed, 06 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2340 Alkira Networks, William Collins, VPN, SD-WAN, SASE, Multi-Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, Private Cloud full false How DevOps is like Microsoft Excel How DevOps is like Microsoft Excel DevOps mashes together two things, Dev and Ops. But in reality, it includes much more than that. But who owns DevOps? Does anyone use all of DevOps? And is DevOps a people, process or technology?

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WHEN DOES A TOOL STOP, AND A PROCESS BEGINS?

How would you define DevOps? Who owns DevOps? 

MOST PEOPLE ONLY USE 30% OF THE FEATURES OF ANY TOOL

  • What happens if a company doesn’t go full DevOps?
  • What happens if a team, within a company, doesn’t go full DevOps?
  • Can there be more than one definition of DevOps within a company?
  • Is velocity the best measurement for DevOps?


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WHEN DOES A TOOL STOP, AND A PROCESS BEGINS?

How would you define DevOps? Who owns DevOps? 

MOST PEOPLE ONLY USE 30% OF THE FEATURES OF ANY TOOL

  • What happens if a company doesn’t go full DevOps?
  • What happens if a team, within a company, doesn’t go full DevOps?
  • Can there be more than one definition of DevOps within a company?
  • Is velocity the best measurement for DevOps?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10365236 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1201 full false Automating Decisions, Processes and ML without Code Automating Decisions, Processes and ML without Code Loren Goodman (CTO @InRule) talks about the intersection of AI/ML, DevOps, and Low Code/NoCode and making complex decisions using automation.

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Topic 1 - Loren, welcome to the show. How about a brief introduction and background. 

Topic 2 - Our audience shows an interest in AI/ML but at least as us as the hosts, we aren’t deep on the AI/ML side. So, let’s start at the start, what is a decision platform? How is AI/ML involved? And most importantly, why do companies need one?

Topic 3 - As I understand this, this is about an intersection of AI/ML with DevOps and then providing access to non-technical SME’s as well? Is this the correct way to think about this? How does this relate to automating complex decisions and how does this help the business? Does this stray into the topic of LowCode/NoCode?

Topic 4 - Anytime I think about automation, especially highly automated CI/CD pipelines, I worry about a ripple effect. Is it true to say the more complex the decisions, the higher the risk that something will not go as planned? Any recommendations or best practices/lessons learned you would like to share?

Topic 5 - This has me thinking about another trend, we keep hearing anything with Ops tacked on the back. Of course DevOps, then DevSecOps, AIOps, etc. Is this DecisionOps? What industries are typically drawn to these types of platforms? I can see this benefiting highly regulated industries. 

Topic 6 - As this may be a new topic for some, if folks want to learn more, how would you suggest they get started in this space?


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Topic 1 - Loren, welcome to the show. How about a brief introduction and background. 

Topic 2 - Our audience shows an interest in AI/ML but at least as us as the hosts, we aren’t deep on the AI/ML side. So, let’s start at the start, what is a decision platform? How is AI/ML involved? And most importantly, why do companies need one?

Topic 3 - As I understand this, this is about an intersection of AI/ML with DevOps and then providing access to non-technical SME’s as well? Is this the correct way to think about this? How does this relate to automating complex decisions and how does this help the business? Does this stray into the topic of LowCode/NoCode?

Topic 4 - Anytime I think about automation, especially highly automated CI/CD pipelines, I worry about a ripple effect. Is it true to say the more complex the decisions, the higher the risk that something will not go as planned? Any recommendations or best practices/lessons learned you would like to share?

Topic 5 - This has me thinking about another trend, we keep hearing anything with Ops tacked on the back. Of course DevOps, then DevSecOps, AIOps, etc. Is this DecisionOps? What industries are typically drawn to these types of platforms? I can see this benefiting highly regulated industries. 

Topic 6 - As this may be a new topic for some, if folks want to learn more, how would you suggest they get started in this space?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10343122 Wed, 30 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1706 Loren Goodman, InRule, DevOps, SRE, AI/ML, DecisionOps, AIOps full false Did DevOps Ruin Everything? Did DevOps Ruin Everything? Making changes to applications has always been difficult. DevOps and Microservices introduced new techniques to simplify that, but also introduced new challenges that can be difficult to manage. Should things be easier for Devs or Ops?  

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DEVELOPERS WANT MORE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE AND MAKE CHANGES

Since the earliest days of PaaS, developers have wanted more freedom to choose how they build applications, and wanted less to distract them. But those trade-offs move the challenges of managing applications to different areas. 

HAS DEVOPS FIGURED OUT HOW TO BALANCE THOSE TRADEOFFS PROPERLY?

  • PaaS platforms have challenges when the use-cases drift outside the guard-rails.
  • We can give developers freedom, but that often leads to silos or snowflakes.
  • We don’t need containers or immutable systems, but the alternatives can be prohibitively expensive or add security risks. 
  • DevOps assumes that Devs and Ops can work together, but that assumes that individuals within teams all have the same goals, motivations and timelines. 
  • Some technologies have emerged to fit into these new working models (e.g. Kubernetes, Service Mesh, etc.)
  • “If it’s 2pm on a Wednesday, and your team wants to roll out a new set of application features into production, how confident are you that the business won’t skip a beat?” 

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DEVELOPERS WANT MORE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE AND MAKE CHANGES

Since the earliest days of PaaS, developers have wanted more freedom to choose how they build applications, and wanted less to distract them. But those trade-offs move the challenges of managing applications to different areas. 

HAS DEVOPS FIGURED OUT HOW TO BALANCE THOSE TRADEOFFS PROPERLY?

  • PaaS platforms have challenges when the use-cases drift outside the guard-rails.
  • We can give developers freedom, but that often leads to silos or snowflakes.
  • We don’t need containers or immutable systems, but the alternatives can be prohibitively expensive or add security risks. 
  • DevOps assumes that Devs and Ops can work together, but that assumes that individuals within teams all have the same goals, motivations and timelines. 
  • Some technologies have emerged to fit into these new working models (e.g. Kubernetes, Service Mesh, etc.)
  • “If it’s 2pm on a Wednesday, and your team wants to roll out a new set of application features into production, how confident are you that the business won’t skip a beat?” 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10322807 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1557 full false Developing Multi-Cloud Skills Developing Multi-Cloud Skills Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal, Head of Content @GoogleCloud) talks about the realities of multi-cloud (intended and accidental), how to adapt skills to new cloud environments, and best vs. worst practices.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We first learned about your skills at A Cloud Guru, but you work on a bunch of really interesting projects. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you now focus on at Google Cloud.

Topic 2 - For a while you were very AWS-centric in your focus. What were your thoughts on multi-cloud a few years ago, and how has that evolved over the last few years?

Topic 3 - Hashicorp’s recent State of Cloud Strategy Survey found 76% of employers are already using multiple clouds in some fashion, with more than 50% flagging lack of skills among their employees as a top challenge to survival in the cloud. What do these survey results tell you about actual company usage of clouds?

Topic 4 - You spend a lot of time talking to people about cloud jobs and transitioning to cloud skills. In the context of multi-cloud, who do you find should be focusing on multi-cloud? Is it more infrastructure-centric or application-centric or something else?

Topic 5 -  Technical people obviously can’t be experts in everything (all clouds). Do you have any suggestions for companies that have to manage applications across multiple clouds? Best practices, worst practices, etc.

Topic 6 - We have to ask about the songs. How did it begin, what’s the process, and do your co-workers respond to them?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We first learned about your skills at A Cloud Guru, but you work on a bunch of really interesting projects. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you now focus on at Google Cloud.

Topic 2 - For a while you were very AWS-centric in your focus. What were your thoughts on multi-cloud a few years ago, and how has that evolved over the last few years?

Topic 3 - Hashicorp’s recent State of Cloud Strategy Survey found 76% of employers are already using multiple clouds in some fashion, with more than 50% flagging lack of skills among their employees as a top challenge to survival in the cloud. What do these survey results tell you about actual company usage of clouds?

Topic 4 - You spend a lot of time talking to people about cloud jobs and transitioning to cloud skills. In the context of multi-cloud, who do you find should be focusing on multi-cloud? Is it more infrastructure-centric or application-centric or something else?

Topic 5 -  Technical people obviously can’t be experts in everything (all clouds). Do you have any suggestions for companies that have to manage applications across multiple clouds? Best practices, worst practices, etc.

Topic 6 - We have to ask about the songs. How did it begin, what’s the process, and do your co-workers respond to them?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10300173 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2219 Google Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Forrest Brazeal, Tech Skills full false Doing What Didn't Seem Possible Doing What Didn't Seem Possible There are transitional moments, often many, in your career when you just don’t think you can make the change. This week we look at the thought process of how to address those “don’t think I can” moments. 

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 SOMETIMES HARD DECISIONS ARE HARD

There will be times in your life when you’d like to make a change, or take on a new skill or opportunity, but you tell yourself that you’ll never be able to do that. 

THE JOURNEY IS OFTEN MORE INTERESTING THAN THE DESTINATION

At times it can seem like the new thing will take forever to learn, or that it’s too far out of reach. We talk about some examples of when changes happen, the thought process involved, and how to measure the next stage.  

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 SOMETIMES HARD DECISIONS ARE HARD

There will be times in your life when you’d like to make a change, or take on a new skill or opportunity, but you tell yourself that you’ll never be able to do that. 

THE JOURNEY IS OFTEN MORE INTERESTING THAN THE DESTINATION

At times it can seem like the new thing will take forever to learn, or that it’s too far out of reach. We talk about some examples of when changes happen, the thought process involved, and how to measure the next stage.  

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10271345 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0400 1311 full false Automating Crypto for Everyone Automating Crypto for Everyone Jesse Proudman (Makara, Co-Founder & CEO) talks about how he moved from infrastructure into the world of crypto. He gives advice on learning and his plans to make investing in this space more approachable for everyone. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back Jesse! We’ve chatted multiple times over the years but most recently back in 2018 with your first crypto startup, Strix Leviathan. For those who haven’t heard from you before, how about a quick introduction and background. 

Topic 2 - By now, everyone has heard of crypto and it seems these days, everyone has an opinion on crypto. What got you started in the space and what prompted you to spin off a second company from Strix Leviathan, the new company is Makara. 

Topic 3 - What are the most common misconceptions and objections you run across these days in the crypto space?

Topic 4 - Before we dig into Makara and what is different there. What are your thoughts on differences between tokens? There are many different spaces and types. Layer 0, Layer 1, Layer 2… Does this matter to the average person or is Bitcoin the same as Ethereum?

Topic 5 - Tell everyone a little bit about Makara and why it is different?

Topic 6 - To bring this back around to the previous question on types of crypto and categories. Tell everyone about Makara’s concept of baskets for categories and how do you decide on groupings and when do you introduce new baskets?

Topic 7 - Because of the interest in this space, there are lots of people out there giving bad advice and trying to make a quick buck. Most of the dedicated podcasts covering this space are horrible I’ve found. If someone was new and wanted to get started, where would you go? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back Jesse! We’ve chatted multiple times over the years but most recently back in 2018 with your first crypto startup, Strix Leviathan. For those who haven’t heard from you before, how about a quick introduction and background. 

Topic 2 - By now, everyone has heard of crypto and it seems these days, everyone has an opinion on crypto. What got you started in the space and what prompted you to spin off a second company from Strix Leviathan, the new company is Makara. 

Topic 3 - What are the most common misconceptions and objections you run across these days in the crypto space?

Topic 4 - Before we dig into Makara and what is different there. What are your thoughts on differences between tokens? There are many different spaces and types. Layer 0, Layer 1, Layer 2… Does this matter to the average person or is Bitcoin the same as Ethereum?

Topic 5 - Tell everyone a little bit about Makara and why it is different?

Topic 6 - To bring this back around to the previous question on types of crypto and categories. Tell everyone about Makara’s concept of baskets for categories and how do you decide on groupings and when do you introduce new baskets?

Topic 7 - Because of the interest in this space, there are lots of people out there giving bad advice and trying to make a quick buck. Most of the dedicated podcasts covering this space are horrible I’ve found. If someone was new and wanted to get started, where would you go? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10257116 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0400 2335 full false Technology and Teams Going in Different Directions Technology and Teams Going in Different Directions We’re at an interesting crossroads. Technology is becoming more distributed, and yet the teams managing it are having to become more integrated. For successful companies, this is creating a different way to think about “platform” services. 

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LOCATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS ARE BECOMING MORE DISTRIBUTED

Data Center to Cloud. Zero-Trust Networks. Users (internal and external) are everywhere. Application Services are managed, or reached via an API.  

WHAT DOES THE LAYER ABOVE INFRASTRUCTURE LOOK LIKE NOW? 

We know that infrastructure is now “Cloud” and often managed by someone else, but what do we call the stuff about it? Some of it is Applications, some of it is Application-Services, and then there is a bunch of stuff that crosses boundaries between networking, security, API governance, application acceleration, etc.. 


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LOCATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS ARE BECOMING MORE DISTRIBUTED

Data Center to Cloud. Zero-Trust Networks. Users (internal and external) are everywhere. Application Services are managed, or reached via an API.  

WHAT DOES THE LAYER ABOVE INFRASTRUCTURE LOOK LIKE NOW? 

We know that infrastructure is now “Cloud” and often managed by someone else, but what do we call the stuff about it? Some of it is Applications, some of it is Application-Services, and then there is a bunch of stuff that crosses boundaries between networking, security, API governance, application acceleration, etc.. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10237433 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1283 full false Managing the Business Impact of Data Quality Managing the Business Impact of Data Quality Elliot Shmukler (@eshmu, Co-Founder/CEO @anomalo_hq) and Jeremy Stanley (@jeremystan, Co-Founder/CTO) talk about how data integrity and changes can impact both technology and business decisions. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start with brief introductions and backgrounds. Elliot & Jeremy please introduce yourselves.

Topic 2 - As mentioned you both met and worked together at Instacart. Let’s introduce the concept of data quality and integrity to those who may not be familiar. What patterns and problems did you see. Any possible horror stories you can share?

Topic 3 - Up until now, I’ve seen big data often more about finding the needle in the haystack. It’s in there somewhere, you just have to find it. But, what if it is the wrong needle?

Topic 4 - Are we also talking about data drift over time as the amount of data grows? As data is added to the pool, we may come to different conclusions. How do we know if the new conclusions are based on good data or bad data?

Topic 5 - You recently announced a partnership with Snowflake. This makes sense, why build another data lake and that of course may be a barrier of entry to some, correct? Are we reaching a point with big data and data lakes that we can have one single source of truth? I know we are in early days but how do most customers approach big data today and how do they keep the data sets up to date.

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  • Polyscale.ai - PolyScale solves global database latency and performance with intelligent serverless caching and compute at the edge.
  • Check out PolyScale’s global edge data platform at www.polyscale.ai and sign up for a free account today.
  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start with brief introductions and backgrounds. Elliot & Jeremy please introduce yourselves.

Topic 2 - As mentioned you both met and worked together at Instacart. Let’s introduce the concept of data quality and integrity to those who may not be familiar. What patterns and problems did you see. Any possible horror stories you can share?

Topic 3 - Up until now, I’ve seen big data often more about finding the needle in the haystack. It’s in there somewhere, you just have to find it. But, what if it is the wrong needle?

Topic 4 - Are we also talking about data drift over time as the amount of data grows? As data is added to the pool, we may come to different conclusions. How do we know if the new conclusions are based on good data or bad data?

Topic 5 - You recently announced a partnership with Snowflake. This makes sense, why build another data lake and that of course may be a barrier of entry to some, correct? Are we reaching a point with big data and data lakes that we can have one single source of truth? I know we are in early days but how do most customers approach big data today and how do they keep the data sets up to date.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10217412 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:00:00 -0500 2036 Anomalo, Jeremy Stanley, Elliot Shmukler, Instacart, Data Quality, Business Impact full false A Perspective on Fast Change and Slow Change A Perspective on Fast Change and Slow Change Sometimes change happens fast, and sometimes change happens over a long period of time. Today’s show tries to put a few things in perspective around tech and non-tech change. 

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  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
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  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
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We have listeners from 130+ countries. Unfortunately podcast tools don’t give us individualized information about our audience. Over the last 5 weeks, we had 19 listeners from Ukraine. This past week, we had 0. We hope that they are all safe. 

YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A JOB WILL BE A GREAT JOB, GOOD JOB, OR BAD JOB

Over the years, Aaron and I have changed jobs within the tech industry several times. Sometimes we stayed for a little while and sometimes much longer. You never know how a specific job will be going into it, and sometimes it’s hard to have perspective on it while you’re in the job. The best you can hope for is a few great teams, or great projects, or working with great people, to offset that lots of things in tech don’t pan out like they are expected.  


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SHOW: 597

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • strongDM - Secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. 
  • Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy. Try it free for 14 days - www.strongdm.com/signup
  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

WE WISH WE KNEW MORE ABOUT OUR AUDIENCE, AT A PERSONAL LEVEL

We have listeners from 130+ countries. Unfortunately podcast tools don’t give us individualized information about our audience. Over the last 5 weeks, we had 19 listeners from Ukraine. This past week, we had 0. We hope that they are all safe. 

YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A JOB WILL BE A GREAT JOB, GOOD JOB, OR BAD JOB

Over the years, Aaron and I have changed jobs within the tech industry several times. Sometimes we stayed for a little while and sometimes much longer. You never know how a specific job will be going into it, and sometimes it’s hard to have perspective on it while you’re in the job. The best you can hope for is a few great teams, or great projects, or working with great people, to offset that lots of things in tech don’t pan out like they are expected.  


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10194036 Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1005 full false Security Access as Code Security Access as Code Tim Prendergast (@auxome, CEO strongDM) talks about security access as code, the latest security trends including Zero Trust and taking a modern approach to security.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show! For those that don’t know, you were on the Cloudcast show #151 way back in the day and one of our first security guests. Hard to believe it has been almost 8 years since we’ve had you on the show. For those that don’t know, give everyone a brief introduction and what you’ve been up to since your evident.io days.

Topic 2 - You introduced our listeners to the concepts of Continuous Security Monitoring and Shared Responsibility in the public cloud. Bring folks up to date, how have security models and concepts evolved?

Topic 3 - Leading question for you Tim… as we know strongDM recently published some great reports on this, go check out the Infographic and Year of Access Reports linked in the show notes. Where do developers and more specifically where does DevOps or even DevSecOps fit into all of this? How do we “air gap” developers in public cloud while maintaining access to the tools and workflows they need. (i.e. ssh keys, AWS IAM keys, RDP logins, and database credentials)

Topic 4 - Security to me has always been a tradeoff of convenience. But, we also have the rise of automation, which I would expect to be a big convenience vs. risk trade off, especially at scale.  Is this still true? Where does Zero Trust fit in?

Topic 5 - Lets talk about strongDM specifically quickly. I’ve heard the term “access as code” thrown around. Is this a proxy, a VPN, tell us a bit about the tech and the implementation and use case and what changes.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show! For those that don’t know, you were on the Cloudcast show #151 way back in the day and one of our first security guests. Hard to believe it has been almost 8 years since we’ve had you on the show. For those that don’t know, give everyone a brief introduction and what you’ve been up to since your evident.io days.

Topic 2 - You introduced our listeners to the concepts of Continuous Security Monitoring and Shared Responsibility in the public cloud. Bring folks up to date, how have security models and concepts evolved?

Topic 3 - Leading question for you Tim… as we know strongDM recently published some great reports on this, go check out the Infographic and Year of Access Reports linked in the show notes. Where do developers and more specifically where does DevOps or even DevSecOps fit into all of this? How do we “air gap” developers in public cloud while maintaining access to the tools and workflows they need. (i.e. ssh keys, AWS IAM keys, RDP logins, and database credentials)

Topic 4 - Security to me has always been a tradeoff of convenience. But, we also have the rise of automation, which I would expect to be a big convenience vs. risk trade off, especially at scale.  Is this still true? Where does Zero Trust fit in?

Topic 5 - Lets talk about strongDM specifically quickly. I’ve heard the term “access as code” thrown around. Is this a proxy, a VPN, tell us a bit about the tech and the implementation and use case and what changes.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10170964 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1802 Tim Prendergast, CISO, strongDM, Security, Security Access, Continuous Security Monitoring full false The Kubernetes Developer Experience? The Kubernetes Developer Experience? Kubernetes won the container wars and continues to grow in use across many industries. But how did something that was about Cloud-native Applications gain traction without a developer experience?

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HOW DID KUBERNETES WIN WHEN IT STARTED FROM BEHIND?

Listening to this week's SDT show, and remembering listening to SDT years ago, @cote comments about why Kubernetes "won" were always interesting. In essence it was late to market, was lacking in features vs. competitors (Mesos, Swarm, CF), and had a terrible user-experience...so how did it "win"? It all seems ass-backwards. 

HOW HAS KUBERNETES CONTINUED TO WIN, WITHOUT A DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE?

  1. Mesos, CF and Swarm were all single-vendor dominated projects, and many companies had concerns about another generation of vendor lock-in. This point is reasonably valid, but the companies that were using Mesos, CF and Swarm did all seem to love that technology.
  2. Mesos was primarily focused on big data workloads. For each new application-type, you needed to write (or use) another application-specific framework. So it was good at its niche, but couldn't easily be used for other types of apps. [Kubernetes eventually copied this model with CRDs].
  3. Swarm was the easiest to use, but it wasn't very good technology and didn't scale. So it got pigeon-holed for smaller projects.
  4. CF focused on Java/SpringBoot, which is a big Enterprise opportunity. but CF was super complicated to set up. And CF never really embraced containers, so companies were weary of if they were missing this big trend (Docker).
  5. Kubernetes comes along and  becomes the good-enough platform. It's not dominated by a single vendor. It natively supports Docker, it has some built-in usage patterns so it's easier than Mesos to add apps, it scales better than Swarm, and it can support Java/Spring or even legacy Java (lift-and-shift). And as Joe Beda says, you could use it natively or you could build some PaaS-y like features on top of it.

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SHOW NOTES:

 

HOW DID KUBERNETES WIN WHEN IT STARTED FROM BEHIND?

Listening to this week's SDT show, and remembering listening to SDT years ago, @cote comments about why Kubernetes "won" were always interesting. In essence it was late to market, was lacking in features vs. competitors (Mesos, Swarm, CF), and had a terrible user-experience...so how did it "win"? It all seems ass-backwards. 

HOW HAS KUBERNETES CONTINUED TO WIN, WITHOUT A DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE?

  1. Mesos, CF and Swarm were all single-vendor dominated projects, and many companies had concerns about another generation of vendor lock-in. This point is reasonably valid, but the companies that were using Mesos, CF and Swarm did all seem to love that technology.
  2. Mesos was primarily focused on big data workloads. For each new application-type, you needed to write (or use) another application-specific framework. So it was good at its niche, but couldn't easily be used for other types of apps. [Kubernetes eventually copied this model with CRDs].
  3. Swarm was the easiest to use, but it wasn't very good technology and didn't scale. So it got pigeon-holed for smaller projects.
  4. CF focused on Java/SpringBoot, which is a big Enterprise opportunity. but CF was super complicated to set up. And CF never really embraced containers, so companies were weary of if they were missing this big trend (Docker).
  5. Kubernetes comes along and  becomes the good-enough platform. It's not dominated by a single vendor. It natively supports Docker, it has some built-in usage patterns so it's easier than Mesos to add apps, it scales better than Swarm, and it can support Java/Spring or even legacy Java (lift-and-shift). And as Joe Beda says, you could use it natively or you could build some PaaS-y like features on top of it.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10145312 Sun, 27 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1627 full false Data Observability Data Observability Kevin Hu (@kevinzenghu, Co-Founder | CEO at @Metaplane) talks about the concepts behind Data Observability and the unique challenges for Data Engineers.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to start Metaplane.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about the concept of what is a modern data engineer. What is this person doing, what are they responsible for, and who are their typical “customers” within a business. 

Topic 3 - Beyond just huge volumes of data and trying to make the data usable (formatting, ETL, storage access, etc.), what sort of problems do data engineers encounter? How much is typically “first-party data” and how much comes from external systems? 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about Data Observability. First off, what is it?. And second, how is it different from the Observability that we’ve seen from Datadog or Honeycomb or Observe or many others? 

Topic 5 - What are the types of Data Observability problems that Metaplane is focused on solving for Data engineers? Are these usually done independently, or in collaboration with the application or business analyst teams?

Topic 6 - What are some of the immediate results (improvements) that companies see when adding Data Observability to their environments?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to start Metaplane.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about the concept of what is a modern data engineer. What is this person doing, what are they responsible for, and who are their typical “customers” within a business. 

Topic 3 - Beyond just huge volumes of data and trying to make the data usable (formatting, ETL, storage access, etc.), what sort of problems do data engineers encounter? How much is typically “first-party data” and how much comes from external systems? 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about Data Observability. First off, what is it?. And second, how is it different from the Observability that we’ve seen from Datadog or Honeycomb or Observe or many others? 

Topic 5 - What are the types of Data Observability problems that Metaplane is focused on solving for Data engineers? Are these usually done independently, or in collaboration with the application or business analyst teams?

Topic 6 - What are some of the immediate results (improvements) that companies see when adding Data Observability to their environments?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10118481 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2256 Metaplane, Data Observability, Kevin Hu full false DevOps, what's in a name? DevOps, what's in a name? DevOps is defined as, “Everything you do to overcome the friction created by silos … All the rest is plain engineering” Why is it so difficult to implement, but so easy to make up so many job titles surrounding it?

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IF EVERYTHING IS DEVOPS, THEN WHAT IS DEVOPS?

Patrick Dubois, one of the original creators of the DevOps concept, recently published a framework to think about all the job titles that have emerged out of the original DevOps concept. Is this a good progression, or is it just hiding the cultural and organizational complexities that DevOps is trying to address?

THE CHALLENGES OF TRYING TO ELIMINATE SILOED TECHNOLOGY FUNCTIONS

  1. It seems like it all began when AWS’ CTO Werner Vogels said, “You build it, you run it.” That was such a foreign concept in the IT world, and ever since, we’ve been trying to invent ways to apply existing organization paradigms to the byproduct of that concept. 
  2. Previous applications were rarely changed. Now applications (microservices, etc.) are designed from Day 1 to frequently change. Once again, the existing organization paradigms have to change. 
  3. And the public cloud introduces a level of financial transparency and complexity (e.g. here’s a bill every month) that is creating new roles (or newer concepts) that are trying to optimize that information. 
  4. Lots of companies say that they can’t support multiple operational models (hence why they try to retrofit old models into new names), but the reality is that they are always supporting multiple process or platform models. 
  5. Resume-driven-development has become a real thing, so it’s not unusual to see title-washing happen at various companies. It can also be valuable for recruiting as well, at least in the short-term. 
  6. I wish there was some better measurement model for progress along these DevOps paths, instead of just the tiering of the State of DevOps report. It’s too easy to get frustrated, when many companies are just striving to get to a mid-level of DevOps efficiency.

 

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IF EVERYTHING IS DEVOPS, THEN WHAT IS DEVOPS?

Patrick Dubois, one of the original creators of the DevOps concept, recently published a framework to think about all the job titles that have emerged out of the original DevOps concept. Is this a good progression, or is it just hiding the cultural and organizational complexities that DevOps is trying to address?

THE CHALLENGES OF TRYING TO ELIMINATE SILOED TECHNOLOGY FUNCTIONS

  1. It seems like it all began when AWS’ CTO Werner Vogels said, “You build it, you run it.” That was such a foreign concept in the IT world, and ever since, we’ve been trying to invent ways to apply existing organization paradigms to the byproduct of that concept. 
  2. Previous applications were rarely changed. Now applications (microservices, etc.) are designed from Day 1 to frequently change. Once again, the existing organization paradigms have to change. 
  3. And the public cloud introduces a level of financial transparency and complexity (e.g. here’s a bill every month) that is creating new roles (or newer concepts) that are trying to optimize that information. 
  4. Lots of companies say that they can’t support multiple operational models (hence why they try to retrofit old models into new names), but the reality is that they are always supporting multiple process or platform models. 
  5. Resume-driven-development has become a real thing, so it’s not unusual to see title-washing happen at various companies. It can also be valuable for recruiting as well, at least in the short-term. 
  6. I wish there was some better measurement model for progress along these DevOps paths, instead of just the tiering of the State of DevOps report. It’s too easy to get frustrated, when many companies are just striving to get to a mid-level of DevOps efficiency.

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10106354 Sun, 20 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1653 full false Cloud Cost Intelligence Cloud Cost Intelligence Erik Peterson (@silvexis, Founder/CTO/CISO @CloudZeroInc) talks about how Cloud Cost Mgmt has matured, the importance of business context for cloud costs, and best practices for managing SaaS costs. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a very interesting background. Tell us a little bit how you’ve gone from Nuclear watchdog to Banking to Product guy to Security guy and now focus on Cloud costs.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about maturity levels of companies using the cloud. Engineering teams are fairly mature, but how mature are product teams, finance teams, marketing teams, etc, especially when it comes to understanding cloud costs in their world?

Topic 3 - Cloud Cost Mgmt used to be all about when to use on-demand vs. Reserved Instances. Have the systems evolved to be more contextual - (example) so marketing teams can run experiments and product teams can make smarter feature priority decisions?

Topic 4 - We’re seeing a lot of companies moving from selling software to delivering their capabilities as a SaaS offering. This is a big change in the economics of that business. How can those types of teams think about cloud costs?

Topic 5 - How much of Cost Mgmt is systems vs. people that understand the contexts of costs? What is your perspective on how much should be automated systems vs. human expertise to augment automated systems?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common mistakes you see companies make around Cost Mgmt, or some tips you give to immediately help companies better spend on Cloud

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a very interesting background. Tell us a little bit how you’ve gone from Nuclear watchdog to Banking to Product guy to Security guy and now focus on Cloud costs.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about maturity levels of companies using the cloud. Engineering teams are fairly mature, but how mature are product teams, finance teams, marketing teams, etc, especially when it comes to understanding cloud costs in their world?

Topic 3 - Cloud Cost Mgmt used to be all about when to use on-demand vs. Reserved Instances. Have the systems evolved to be more contextual - (example) so marketing teams can run experiments and product teams can make smarter feature priority decisions?

Topic 4 - We’re seeing a lot of companies moving from selling software to delivering their capabilities as a SaaS offering. This is a big change in the economics of that business. How can those types of teams think about cloud costs?

Topic 5 - How much of Cost Mgmt is systems vs. people that understand the contexts of costs? What is your perspective on how much should be automated systems vs. human expertise to augment automated systems?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common mistakes you see companies make around Cost Mgmt, or some tips you give to immediately help companies better spend on Cloud

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10083592 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2186 Erik Peterson, CloudZero, Cloud Cost Management, AWS, Azure, GCP, FinOps full false Lessons Learned from Shadow IT Lessons Learned from Shadow IT Shadow IT and start-ups were the original users of public cloud, over a decade ago. But as public cloud has become a multi-billion dollar business, let’s explore how the role of Shadow IT has evolved. 

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DOES SHADOW IT STILL EXIST IF PUBLIC CLOUD IS MAINSTREAM?

Shadow IT began as a way to be more productive in the office (server under the desk, WiFi in a conference room, etc.) and then it went to the cloud (SaaS, the IaaS/PaaS). But how did it evolve and what situations has it created now? 

WHAT DOES THE NEW DISTRIBUTED IT LOOK LIKE NOW?

  1. Everybody has the ability to get access to (almost) any technology, via open-source or public cloud, or freemium services.
  2. Everybody has the ability to learn something new (YouTube, ACloudGuru, Developer Evangelists, etc.
  3. IT organizations have less influence over company-wide architectures and strategies.
  4. IT still is often tasked with maintaining applications/security/compliance, even after another group deployed it. 
  5. IT leaders are asked to lead digital transformation projects, and typically aren’t staying in the same place for more than 2-3 years. How much of that time is spent coordinating, communicating, re-organizing around DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, AIOps, etc..
  6. There are hybrid applications, but they aren’t hybrid in the sense of consistently being deployed everywhere to manage vendor lock-in.
  7. There are many multi-cloud companies because IT no longer has a boundary. And the economics of cloud means that most applications won’t move once deployed (easier to turn off than to move).
  8. There are many, many pains-of-glass. 

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DOES SHADOW IT STILL EXIST IF PUBLIC CLOUD IS MAINSTREAM?

Shadow IT began as a way to be more productive in the office (server under the desk, WiFi in a conference room, etc.) and then it went to the cloud (SaaS, the IaaS/PaaS). But how did it evolve and what situations has it created now? 

WHAT DOES THE NEW DISTRIBUTED IT LOOK LIKE NOW?

  1. Everybody has the ability to get access to (almost) any technology, via open-source or public cloud, or freemium services.
  2. Everybody has the ability to learn something new (YouTube, ACloudGuru, Developer Evangelists, etc.
  3. IT organizations have less influence over company-wide architectures and strategies.
  4. IT still is often tasked with maintaining applications/security/compliance, even after another group deployed it. 
  5. IT leaders are asked to lead digital transformation projects, and typically aren’t staying in the same place for more than 2-3 years. How much of that time is spent coordinating, communicating, re-organizing around DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, AIOps, etc..
  6. There are hybrid applications, but they aren’t hybrid in the sense of consistently being deployed everywhere to manage vendor lock-in.
  7. There are many multi-cloud companies because IT no longer has a boundary. And the economics of cloud means that most applications won’t move once deployed (easier to turn off than to move).
  8. There are many, many pains-of-glass. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10062409 Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1878 full false Understanding & Managing Committed Cloud Spend Understanding & Managing Committed Cloud Spend Tim Banks (@elchefe, Principal Cloud Economist @duckbillgroup) talks about how public cloud providers are offering committed spend programs, and ways to best use their programs to manage cloud spending. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got a very interesting background of hands-on technical and being on the business side of things. Tell us a little bit about your background and what you focus on at Duckbill Group. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about this trend of long-term cloud contracts. Why are we seeing more and more announced, and who does it seem to benefit more (cloud provider or customer)?

Topic 2a - How do companies typically size these deals? Is it some percentage of current spend forecasted forward, or some aspirational goal, or something else? 

Topic 3 - When a company signs up for one of these long-term committed spend contracts, what are the mechanics of the contract? Is it just “all-you-can-eat” technology, or do they tend to include additional capabilities/services, etc?

Topic 4 - What have you found to be the behavior of companies that sign these contracts? Does it lead to more projects getting created, or more experimentation, or any other unintended consequences?

Topic 5 - At what point do companies start re-evaluating the contracts? What happens if they find themselves way below expected spending expectations?  

Topic 6 - Have you seen any new behaviors from the cloud providers once they sign a contract, whereas one group (or service) is pushing hard to capture a bigger portion of the contract? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got a very interesting background of hands-on technical and being on the business side of things. Tell us a little bit about your background and what you focus on at Duckbill Group. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about this trend of long-term cloud contracts. Why are we seeing more and more announced, and who does it seem to benefit more (cloud provider or customer)?

Topic 2a - How do companies typically size these deals? Is it some percentage of current spend forecasted forward, or some aspirational goal, or something else? 

Topic 3 - When a company signs up for one of these long-term committed spend contracts, what are the mechanics of the contract? Is it just “all-you-can-eat” technology, or do they tend to include additional capabilities/services, etc?

Topic 4 - What have you found to be the behavior of companies that sign these contracts? Does it lead to more projects getting created, or more experimentation, or any other unintended consequences?

Topic 5 - At what point do companies start re-evaluating the contracts? What happens if they find themselves way below expected spending expectations?  

Topic 6 - Have you seen any new behaviors from the cloud providers once they sign a contract, whereas one group (or service) is pushing hard to capture a bigger portion of the contract? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10039117 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2080 Tim Banks, Duckbill Group, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Costs, Committed Spend full false The Parallel Lives of Kubernetes and Serverless The Parallel Lives of Kubernetes and Serverless Our industry is fascinated with the origin stories of founders and the end of technology trends. In between, we seem fine with learning curves and technical debt.  

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WHEN ONE TECHNOLOGY ENDS, DOES ANOTHER TAKE ITS PLACE?

During a recent interview, I was asked “How close to complete is Kubernetes?”. We also saw a survey saying that less people are interested in Serverless (knowledge/training). Kubernetes is far from complete, and Serverless was supposed to be the next thing.   

WHY DO WE WORRY MORE ABOUT THE END OF A TECHNOLOGY AND LESS ABOUT TECHNICAL DEBT?

  1. Is the technology media only interested in origin stories and ending stories?
  2. Kubernetes is far from being complete, both as a project and the adjacencies around it. Why are we more interested in the end than in the middle (e.g. developer experience)?
  3. Serverless was supposed to replace Kubernetes - why have we lost interest in Serverless?
  4. Serverless didn’t have any “wars”, and it didn’t have any major startups or acquisitions (at least not yet)

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]]> Our industry is fascinated with the origin stories of founders and the end of technology trends. In between, we seem fine with learning curves and technical debt.  

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SHOW NOTES:

 

WHEN ONE TECHNOLOGY ENDS, DOES ANOTHER TAKE ITS PLACE?

During a recent interview, I was asked “How close to complete is Kubernetes?”. We also saw a survey saying that less people are interested in Serverless (knowledge/training). Kubernetes is far from complete, and Serverless was supposed to be the next thing.   

WHY DO WE WORRY MORE ABOUT THE END OF A TECHNOLOGY AND LESS ABOUT TECHNICAL DEBT?

  1. Is the technology media only interested in origin stories and ending stories?
  2. Kubernetes is far from being complete, both as a project and the adjacencies around it. Why are we more interested in the end than in the middle (e.g. developer experience)?
  3. Serverless was supposed to replace Kubernetes - why have we lost interest in Serverless?
  4. Serverless didn’t have any “wars”, and it didn’t have any major startups or acquisitions (at least not yet)

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-10022245 Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:00:00 -0500 1428 full false Building Cloud Services from Software Building Cloud Services from Software Preeti Somal (@psomal, EVP Engineering @Hashicorp) talks about the evolution of Hashicorp Cloud Platform, creating cloud services from software projects, and the evolution of cloud SREs and SLAs.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’re always excited to have women leaders on the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your focus areas at Hashicorp. Congrats on the UGA National Championship.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the Hashicorp Cloud Platform. We’ve covered Hashicorp software for years. How did HCP come about, and how has it changed how Hashicorp thinks about what you’re building (software vs. cloud services)?

Topic 3 - To create a cloud service out of an existing Hashicorp product (e.g. Terraform or Vault), does it just require creating an SRE team to run it, or do you have to rethink how the technologies are built and operated?

Topic 4 - How have Hashicorp customers adapted to consuming cloud services vs. running the software themselves? Sometimes the cloud services have to be more restrictive to deliver SLAs.

Topic 5 - Are you able to do anything unique in the cloud(s) that you couldn’t do as software products? Does multi-cloud provide any unique opportunities?

Topic 6 - Are you finding any new ways to interact with your communities now that Hashicorp is offering cloud services? 

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]]> Preeti Somal (@psomal, EVP Engineering @Hashicorp) talks about the evolution of Hashicorp Cloud Platform, creating cloud services from software projects, and the evolution of cloud SREs and SLAs.

SHOW: 588

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’re always excited to have women leaders on the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your focus areas at Hashicorp. Congrats on the UGA National Championship.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the Hashicorp Cloud Platform. We’ve covered Hashicorp software for years. How did HCP come about, and how has it changed how Hashicorp thinks about what you’re building (software vs. cloud services)?

Topic 3 - To create a cloud service out of an existing Hashicorp product (e.g. Terraform or Vault), does it just require creating an SRE team to run it, or do you have to rethink how the technologies are built and operated?

Topic 4 - How have Hashicorp customers adapted to consuming cloud services vs. running the software themselves? Sometimes the cloud services have to be more restrictive to deliver SLAs.

Topic 5 - Are you able to do anything unique in the cloud(s) that you couldn’t do as software products? Does multi-cloud provide any unique opportunities?

Topic 6 - Are you finding any new ways to interact with your communities now that Hashicorp is offering cloud services? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9995756 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2049 Preeti Somal, Hashicorp, Hashicorp CSP, Vault, Cloud Services, Open Source full false After the Great Resignation After the Great Resignation As the “Great Resignation” rolls along, many people are facing the prospect of a new role or a new company. What are some tips to be successful in the near-term in this new role?  

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  • Podcorn - The leading podcast influence marketplace
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20-25% OF PEOPLE IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE CHANGED JOBS IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS

Lots of people are taking new jobs, and right now the industry is paying a premium for talent. So how can you stand out in your new role or company? How can you make an immediate difference?   

HOW CAN YOU STAND OUT IN YOUR NEW ROLE OR NEW COMPANY

  1. Keep in mind that most managers don’t expect you to make big contributions for 3-6 months (sometimes longer) as they realize there is always a learning curve.
  2. But everyone is watching what you do to make a judgment of “are they a good fit?”.
  3. Find out what’s important to your boss. Understand the things that they are measured on.
  4. Identify an area that is either broken or needs improvement. And try to fix it. 
  5. Read as much as you can (read the docs!), and try to be valuable in your group and somewhere else in the company. 

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]]> As the “Great Resignation” rolls along, many people are facing the prospect of a new role or a new company. What are some tips to be successful in the near-term in this new role?  

SHOW: 587

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Podcorn - The leading podcast influence marketplace
  • Huge thanks to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/
  • Mergify - the ultimate automation tool that makes your engineering team save time. 
  • Start saving time with the most powerful merge queue for GitHub, offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options. Visit mergify.com to get started or request a demo!
  • Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
  • Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

 

20-25% OF PEOPLE IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE CHANGED JOBS IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS

Lots of people are taking new jobs, and right now the industry is paying a premium for talent. So how can you stand out in your new role or company? How can you make an immediate difference?   

HOW CAN YOU STAND OUT IN YOUR NEW ROLE OR NEW COMPANY

  1. Keep in mind that most managers don’t expect you to make big contributions for 3-6 months (sometimes longer) as they realize there is always a learning curve.
  2. But everyone is watching what you do to make a judgment of “are they a good fit?”.
  3. Find out what’s important to your boss. Understand the things that they are measured on.
  4. Identify an area that is either broken or needs improvement. And try to fix it. 
  5. Read as much as you can (read the docs!), and try to be valuable in your group and somewhere else in the company. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9975224 Sun, 30 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1378 full false 2022 Look Ahead to SuperClouds 2022 Look Ahead to SuperClouds Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) talks about the emerging trends of powerful application services built for multiple public clouds. 

SHOW: 586

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Mergify - the ultimate automation tool that makes your engineering team save time. 
  • Start saving time with the most powerful merge queue for GitHub, offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options. Visit mergify.com to get started or request a demo!
  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams 

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for a while, but tell folks about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this term that you’ve been using at SiliconAngle, “SuperCloud”. You introduced it at AWS re:Invent 2021. Give us some context about what you think is new and what has changed? 

Topic 3 - The three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) now have 100s of services, but we’re seeing success from these companies built on top of them. Do you think the cloud providers have misjudged the importance of innovation vs. integration?  

Topic 4 - We now have a decade of knowledge in how to build technology on top of the public cloud (architectures, economics, partnership models, etc.). Do you think we’ll see an acceleration of these Supercloud services, and maybe even some unique new capabilities? 

Topic 5 - You highlighted that this isn’t just IT-centric services, but also industry-vertical services. We’ve seen SaaS services try and disrupt some vertical industries (FinSvcs, Health, Streaming Media, etc.). How do you see the industry-verticals accelerating with supercloud architectures?

Topic 6 - Do you think that supercloud becomes the new normal for cloud providers, or do you think they double-down on trying to build their application portfolios?

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]]> Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) talks about the emerging trends of powerful application services built for multiple public clouds. 

SHOW: 586

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • Mergify - the ultimate automation tool that makes your engineering team save time. 
  • Start saving time with the most powerful merge queue for GitHub, offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options. Visit mergify.com to get started or request a demo!
  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams 

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for a while, but tell folks about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this term that you’ve been using at SiliconAngle, “SuperCloud”. You introduced it at AWS re:Invent 2021. Give us some context about what you think is new and what has changed? 

Topic 3 - The three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) now have 100s of services, but we’re seeing success from these companies built on top of them. Do you think the cloud providers have misjudged the importance of innovation vs. integration?  

Topic 4 - We now have a decade of knowledge in how to build technology on top of the public cloud (architectures, economics, partnership models, etc.). Do you think we’ll see an acceleration of these Supercloud services, and maybe even some unique new capabilities? 

Topic 5 - You highlighted that this isn’t just IT-centric services, but also industry-vertical services. We’ve seen SaaS services try and disrupt some vertical industries (FinSvcs, Health, Streaming Media, etc.). How do you see the industry-verticals accelerating with supercloud architectures?

Topic 6 - Do you think that supercloud becomes the new normal for cloud providers, or do you think they double-down on trying to build their application portfolios?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9953147 Wed, 26 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2540 full false Cloudcast Demos Cloudcast Demos We’re looking for some listener feedback on a new idea to help make it easier to learn about new technologies, and bring more new ideas into The Cloudcast community.  

SHOW: 585

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • Mergify - the ultimate automation tool that makes your engineering team save time. 
  • Start saving time with the most powerful merge queue for GitHub, offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options. Visit mergify.com to get started or request a demo!
  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

 SHOW NOTES:

 

CAN WE MAKE IT EASIER TO SHOW MORE TECHNOLOGY

We get 100s of requests to come on the podcast, but we struggle to find the best way to both highlight new technologies and fit them into 52 week in a year. So we'd like to try something new. #CloudcastDemos

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU

  1. It's often difficult to understand new companies and new technologies. 
  2. Demos are often times too much marketing, or don't answer the questions you have. 
  3. How can we make it easier to find the right technology for your business needs?
  4. How can we find ways to expose more new technologies to our community, but also continue to be respectful of the valuable time of our audience?
  5. Give us your feedback using #CloudcastDemos to @thecloudcastnet or show@thecloudcast.net


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]]> We’re looking for some listener feedback on a new idea to help make it easier to learn about new technologies, and bring more new ideas into The Cloudcast community.  

SHOW: 585

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • Mergify - the ultimate automation tool that makes your engineering team save time. 
  • Start saving time with the most powerful merge queue for GitHub, offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options. Visit mergify.com to get started or request a demo!
  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

 SHOW NOTES:

 

CAN WE MAKE IT EASIER TO SHOW MORE TECHNOLOGY

We get 100s of requests to come on the podcast, but we struggle to find the best way to both highlight new technologies and fit them into 52 week in a year. So we'd like to try something new. #CloudcastDemos

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU

  1. It's often difficult to understand new companies and new technologies. 
  2. Demos are often times too much marketing, or don't answer the questions you have. 
  3. How can we make it easier to find the right technology for your business needs?
  4. How can we find ways to expose more new technologies to our community, but also continue to be respectful of the valuable time of our audience?
  5. Give us your feedback using #CloudcastDemos to @thecloudcastnet or show@thecloudcast.net


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9933010 Sun, 23 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1093 full false 2022 Look Ahead to web3 2022 Look Ahead to web3 Chris Castiglione (@castig, Co-Founder One Month, Adjunct Professor @Columbia_Biz) talks about the fundamental concepts behind web3 (crypto, blockchain, decentralized applications and identity of resources), as well as smart contracts and how to get started with web3 apps. 

SHOW: 584

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Mergify - the ultimate automation tool that makes your engineering team save time. 
  • Start saving time with the most powerful merge queue for GitHub, offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options. Visit mergify.com to get started or request a demo!
  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re a man of many skills. Tell us a little bit about your background, as an entrepreneur, an educator and as a developer. 

Topic 2 - Web3 is potentially a big concept. As someone who both builds web3, but also explains web3, how do you begin explaining the main concepts to newbies? 

Topic 3 - Many of the web3 discussions center around “distributed systems”. Can you help us understand what is distributed vs. these more centralized on-ramps like Coinbase or Openseas or a virtual world? 

Topic 4 - Is everything associated with web3 tied to cryptocurrencies? Is that the starting point for everything web3? 

Topic 5 - What are some ways to understand not only the broad set of crypto coins/tokens, but also the differences between currencies and smart contracts? 

Topic 6 - Is there a way to build a Hello World app for web3? Or how would you structure a One Month (to Code) for web3? 

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]]> Chris Castiglione (@castig, Co-Founder One Month, Adjunct Professor @Columbia_Biz) talks about the fundamental concepts behind web3 (crypto, blockchain, decentralized applications and identity of resources), as well as smart contracts and how to get started with web3 apps. 

SHOW: 584

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Mergify - the ultimate automation tool that makes your engineering team save time. 
  • Start saving time with the most powerful merge queue for GitHub, offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options. Visit mergify.com to get started or request a demo!
  • CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams
  • Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and Security
  • Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

 

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re a man of many skills. Tell us a little bit about your background, as an entrepreneur, an educator and as a developer. 

Topic 2 - Web3 is potentially a big concept. As someone who both builds web3, but also explains web3, how do you begin explaining the main concepts to newbies? 

Topic 3 - Many of the web3 discussions center around “distributed systems”. Can you help us understand what is distributed vs. these more centralized on-ramps like Coinbase or Openseas or a virtual world? 

Topic 4 - Is everything associated with web3 tied to cryptocurrencies? Is that the starting point for everything web3? 

Topic 5 - What are some ways to understand not only the broad set of crypto coins/tokens, but also the differences between currencies and smart contracts? 

Topic 6 - Is there a way to build a Hello World app for web3? Or how would you structure a One Month (to Code) for web3? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9910840 Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2836 web3, Crypto, Metaverse, NFT, Blockchain, BTC, Smart Contracts, Distributed Apps, DeFi, Chris Castiglione full false If Remote Becomes the New Normal If Remote Becomes the New Normal Ever since the pandemic started, remote work is trending up. Whether or not this becomes the new normal or just a more common option, let’s look at some ways to succeed in distributed environments.

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SHOW NOTES:

 

COVID HAS REDEFINED WHERE AND HOW PEOPLE WORK

James Governor at Redmonk makes a great case for how remote work reshaped Silicon Valley and many companies around the world. His article has spurred much debate about whether or not the trend will last. 

WHAT LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AS A REMOTE WORKER

  1. Spend timing understanding how time zones AND cultural norms will affect your communications. 
  2. Expect that different people will work different hours (length of day).
  3. Establish some team norms (standards) about how you will communicate, track goals, share information, and notifications. 
  4. Figure out ways to have complex or difficult conversations. Just using Green / Yellow / Red status updates often lead to problems down the road. 
  5. Managers will need to spend time doing “quality control” between groups in different locations. It’s very easy to let the separation create gaps. 
  6. Create mentorship or big-brother / big-sister programs, where people are paired together to help each other. 
  7. Just like we design cloud failure domains, it might be useful to organize around failure domains that incorporate locations. 
  8. Budget for f2f get togethers (quarterly, every 6 months)

  

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]]> Ever since the pandemic started, remote work is trending up. Whether or not this becomes the new normal or just a more common option, let’s look at some ways to succeed in distributed environments.

SHOW: 583

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SHOW SPONSORS:

SHOW NOTES:

 

COVID HAS REDEFINED WHERE AND HOW PEOPLE WORK

James Governor at Redmonk makes a great case for how remote work reshaped Silicon Valley and many companies around the world. His article has spurred much debate about whether or not the trend will last. 

WHAT LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AS A REMOTE WORKER

  1. Spend timing understanding how time zones AND cultural norms will affect your communications. 
  2. Expect that different people will work different hours (length of day).
  3. Establish some team norms (standards) about how you will communicate, track goals, share information, and notifications. 
  4. Figure out ways to have complex or difficult conversations. Just using Green / Yellow / Red status updates often lead to problems down the road. 
  5. Managers will need to spend time doing “quality control” between groups in different locations. It’s very easy to let the separation create gaps. 
  6. Create mentorship or big-brother / big-sister programs, where people are paired together to help each other. 
  7. Just like we design cloud failure domains, it might be useful to organize around failure domains that incorporate locations. 
  8. Budget for f2f get togethers (quarterly, every 6 months)

  

FEEDBACK?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9892738 Sun, 16 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1597 full false 2022 Look Ahead, Developer Careers 2022 Look Ahead, Developer Careers Shawn Wang (@swyx, Head of Developer Experience @Temporalio) talks about the breadth of developer skills needed, how developers learn new technologies, and insights into important future trends for a broad set of developers. 

SHOW: 582

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You seem to be at the center of (or around) so many developer-centric conversations. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you’ve been focused on. 

Topic 2 - You’re well known for The Coding Career Handbook. With so many options out there for developers, how do you frame conversations about where people should focus? 

Topic 3 - At some point, developers (like many engineers) get bored of working on the same things. Right now it seems like we’re in the middle of big changes. What should they think about the transition process? 

Topic 4 - As a developer, what are some of the best ways to get visibility of your projects? How do you find the right balance of public projects, side projects, and whatever you’re currently getting paid for (main company job)?

Topic 5 - Any tips or tricks that you’ve learned to accelerate your learning process? 

Topic 6 - How is WFH changing the developer work-life-balance?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You seem to be at the center of (or around) so many developer-centric conversations. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you’ve been focused on. 

Topic 2 - You’re well known for The Coding Career Handbook. With so many options out there for developers, how do you frame conversations about where people should focus? 

Topic 3 - At some point, developers (like many engineers) get bored of working on the same things. Right now it seems like we’re in the middle of big changes. What should they think about the transition process? 

Topic 4 - As a developer, what are some of the best ways to get visibility of your projects? How do you find the right balance of public projects, side projects, and whatever you’re currently getting paid for (main company job)?

Topic 5 - Any tips or tricks that you’ve learned to accelerate your learning process? 

Topic 6 - How is WFH changing the developer work-life-balance?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9871165 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2977 full false The People Episode The People Episode As we kick off 2022, it’s important to remember that behind all the interesting technology is people. And those people have been living under extraordinary circumstances going into their 3rd year. 

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LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED, AND PEOPLE DON’T LOVE CHANGE 

No matter where you are in life (or job), the New Year tends to make you self-reflect and re-prioritize the things that are important to you. And when this dynamic happens within teams, those two priorities don’t always align.  

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU

  1. If you’re a team leader, remember to over communicate. Hallways don’t exist anymore, and Slack/Email threads often get ignored. 
  2. Take stock of where people are with regard to their priorities, their goals, and their frustrations. 
  3. Everything feels crazy these days in terms of recruiters and job offers and salary levels, but find a way to balance or evaluate “new, big!!” and what aligns to your goals.
  4. Find ways to socially interact with people in fun ways. 

 

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LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED, AND PEOPLE DON’T LOVE CHANGE 

No matter where you are in life (or job), the New Year tends to make you self-reflect and re-prioritize the things that are important to you. And when this dynamic happens within teams, those two priorities don’t always align.  

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU

  1. If you’re a team leader, remember to over communicate. Hallways don’t exist anymore, and Slack/Email threads often get ignored. 
  2. Take stock of where people are with regard to their priorities, their goals, and their frustrations. 
  3. Everything feels crazy these days in terms of recruiters and job offers and salary levels, but find a way to balance or evaluate “new, big!!” and what aligns to your goals.
  4. Find ways to socially interact with people in fun ways. 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9852725 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 1327 full false 2022 Look Ahead, VC Funding 2022 Look Ahead, VC Funding Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Venture Partner @crane_vc) talks about the modern state of Tech VC investing, the changing pace of investment horizons, portfolio thesis, and helping founders.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve changed roles. Tell us about what you’re working on these days.

Topic 2 - You’ve worked at startups, been an advisor to startups, and an angel investor in the past. In 2022, what does a Venture Capitalist do? How has that evolved over the last 5 years? 

Topic 3 - It not only seems like there is a lot more money flowing into startups, but a lot more early. Is there sort of a “homerun” mentality happening across the VC world, or is that just one of the headlines?

Topic 4 - How do you go about creating your investment thesis? Do you have a future horizon that you’re thinking about, or is it more about technology sectors, or founder personalities, etc.?

Topic 5 - How do you balance between investing in something completely new, and seeing something that is just a much better version of a current mousetrap? 

Topic 6 - How involved do you get with the companies? How involved do you want to be? How much do the founders guide you vs. you guiding them?

Topic 7 - At the macro-level, what areas are you most interested in (investing) vs. just areas where you’re doing a lot of research (personal interests)?

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve changed roles. Tell us about what you’re working on these days.

Topic 2 - You’ve worked at startups, been an advisor to startups, and an angel investor in the past. In 2022, what does a Venture Capitalist do? How has that evolved over the last 5 years? 

Topic 3 - It not only seems like there is a lot more money flowing into startups, but a lot more early. Is there sort of a “homerun” mentality happening across the VC world, or is that just one of the headlines?

Topic 4 - How do you go about creating your investment thesis? Do you have a future horizon that you’re thinking about, or is it more about technology sectors, or founder personalities, etc.?

Topic 5 - How do you balance between investing in something completely new, and seeing something that is just a much better version of a current mousetrap? 

Topic 6 - How involved do you get with the companies? How involved do you want to be? How much do the founders guide you vs. you guiding them?

Topic 7 - At the macro-level, what areas are you most interested in (investing) vs. just areas where you’re doing a lot of research (personal interests)?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9831836 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 01:00:00 -0500 2343 full false 2021 Year-End Reading Lists 2021 Year-End Reading Lists As we wrap up 2021 and have some down time, here’s a list of things we’re reading to try and make sense of the big changes happening in cloud computing and around the web. 

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  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
  • Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • JumpCloud (homepage)
  • At the intersection of devices, identities, and access, JumpCloud’s cloud directory platform unifies the IT resources in any company’s infrastructure – anywhere work happens. Fully evaluate JumpCloud for free today 

 

SHOW NOTES - "FUTURE OF CLOUD COMPUTING" and "WEB 3 vs  WEB2"
READING LISTS - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gjIUAnEhuudVm4t1MJ4dka7AqOPSng0pnUR4fOY25AQ/edit?usp=sharing

Other interesting Twitter Threads

 

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  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
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  • JumpCloud (homepage)
  • At the intersection of devices, identities, and access, JumpCloud’s cloud directory platform unifies the IT resources in any company’s infrastructure – anywhere work happens. Fully evaluate JumpCloud for free today 

 

SHOW NOTES - "FUTURE OF CLOUD COMPUTING" and "WEB 3 vs  WEB2"
READING LISTS - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gjIUAnEhuudVm4t1MJ4dka7AqOPSng0pnUR4fOY25AQ/edit?usp=sharing

Other interesting Twitter Threads

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9787537 Sun, 26 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1076 full false 2021 in Review, 2022 Predictions 2021 in Review, 2022 Predictions Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.

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PODCAST BUSINESS:

  • Crossed out 11yr anniversary 
  • We crossed 500 shows (March ’21)
  • Most listens in history, up about 20% from last year
  • We launched Cloudcast Basics (4 seasons)
  • We launched the Sunday Perspectives shows
  • We got named #1 Cloud podcast
  • We got named top 20 security podcasts
  • Listeners in 130 countries | 4200 Cities
  • IPOs from our guests - $2.678B
  • VC Funding for our guest - $2.516B

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2021:

  • COVID pandemic continued, although some parts of many businesses opened up as vaccines became available. 
  • Working from Home seems to be a very real, long-term possibility for many in Tech. 25% of workers changed jobs (via LinkedIn)
  • AWS - $60B, Azure - $68B, GCP - $15B
  • AWS has new leadership. re:Invent felt very different.
  • ARM is making a big push in the cloud (and Mac M1)
  • This idea of “supercloud” or “overlay cloud services” is gaining traction - companies like Red Hat, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, CockroachDB, etc. are growing quickly as SaaS services, even when the cloud has a native service.
  • Cloudflare is making a move to chip away at AWS’ profits (egress networking)
  • Digital Ocean is making a bigger push around SMB cloud and developers
  • VMware become independent again (from Dell)
  • Cloud providers still haven’t acquired legacy software companies to get into the on-premises data centers. They keep adjusting their offerings (Outposts, Arc, Anthos)
  • Kubernetes keeps growing, but the hype has slowed down and moved to other areas adjacent to Kubernetes (Service Mesh, eBPF, etc.)
  • Software-Supply-Chains and DevSecOps “shift left security” are now heavily funded industry segments. 
  • The metaverse, Web3, Crypto, NFTs are all starting to get a lots of hype (and confusion)

2022 PREDICTIONS: 

AARON’s PREDICTIONS

  • Zero Trust Models (again…) - Also security has been/will be the hardest part of cloud and hot job market will continue
  • Microsoft will become top public cloud worldwide, AWS will fall to #2
  • Google will settle into 3rd, 4th, even 5th spot… 

BRIAN’s PREDICTIONS 

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SHOW NOTES:

PODCAST BUSINESS:

  • Crossed out 11yr anniversary 
  • We crossed 500 shows (March ’21)
  • Most listens in history, up about 20% from last year
  • We launched Cloudcast Basics (4 seasons)
  • We launched the Sunday Perspectives shows
  • We got named #1 Cloud podcast
  • We got named top 20 security podcasts
  • Listeners in 130 countries | 4200 Cities
  • IPOs from our guests - $2.678B
  • VC Funding for our guest - $2.516B

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2021:

  • COVID pandemic continued, although some parts of many businesses opened up as vaccines became available. 
  • Working from Home seems to be a very real, long-term possibility for many in Tech. 25% of workers changed jobs (via LinkedIn)
  • AWS - $60B, Azure - $68B, GCP - $15B
  • AWS has new leadership. re:Invent felt very different.
  • ARM is making a big push in the cloud (and Mac M1)
  • This idea of “supercloud” or “overlay cloud services” is gaining traction - companies like Red Hat, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, CockroachDB, etc. are growing quickly as SaaS services, even when the cloud has a native service.
  • Cloudflare is making a move to chip away at AWS’ profits (egress networking)
  • Digital Ocean is making a bigger push around SMB cloud and developers
  • VMware become independent again (from Dell)
  • Cloud providers still haven’t acquired legacy software companies to get into the on-premises data centers. They keep adjusting their offerings (Outposts, Arc, Anthos)
  • Kubernetes keeps growing, but the hype has slowed down and moved to other areas adjacent to Kubernetes (Service Mesh, eBPF, etc.)
  • Software-Supply-Chains and DevSecOps “shift left security” are now heavily funded industry segments. 
  • The metaverse, Web3, Crypto, NFTs are all starting to get a lots of hype (and confusion)

2022 PREDICTIONS: 

AARON’s PREDICTIONS

  • Zero Trust Models (again…) - Also security has been/will be the hardest part of cloud and hot job market will continue
  • Microsoft will become top public cloud worldwide, AWS will fall to #2
  • Google will settle into 3rd, 4th, even 5th spot… 

BRIAN’s PREDICTIONS 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9773546 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:00:00 -0500 3594 full false Dealing with Technology Failure Dealing with Technology Failure Computers break. Software has bugs. Cloud services fail. And yet we don’t deal with failures very well. Why don’t we have better Plan B’s, for both personal and business uses of cloud? 

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WHY DO WE EXPECT SO MUCH FROM COMPUTERS? 

While we have automated testing, test coverage, SLAs, redundancy best practices, etc - We still really don’t know when computers and software will break. So why do we get so frustrated when it happens, instead of having backup plans? 

SHOULD WE LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY FAILURES AS THE WORLD TRYING TO TELLING US SOMETHING?

  1. Cloud service failures happen, and tend to last less than a full work day. Most are only a couple hours.
  2. We tend to believe that we’re very dependent on technology and cloud services, until they go away. And then we figure out that we can all adapt. 
  3. We could all use some time reading a book, getting outside to do some exercise (go for a walk), or spending some time away from computers or being online.
  4. We could all use a break in our extended hours work days. 

 

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WHY DO WE EXPECT SO MUCH FROM COMPUTERS? 

While we have automated testing, test coverage, SLAs, redundancy best practices, etc - We still really don’t know when computers and software will break. So why do we get so frustrated when it happens, instead of having backup plans? 

SHOULD WE LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY FAILURES AS THE WORLD TRYING TO TELLING US SOMETHING?

  1. Cloud service failures happen, and tend to last less than a full work day. Most are only a couple hours.
  2. We tend to believe that we’re very dependent on technology and cloud services, until they go away. And then we figure out that we can all adapt. 
  3. We could all use some time reading a book, getting outside to do some exercise (go for a walk), or spending some time away from computers or being online.
  4. We could all use a break in our extended hours work days. 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9747844 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0500 889 full false Tools for the Business Engineer Tools for the Business Engineer Gil Hoffer (@gilhoffer, Co-Founder / CTO @salto_io) talks about the challenges of managing and integrating SaaS applications, the blurring line between business and technical engineer, and software supply-chain for SaaS integrations.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a broad background in engineering and entrepreneurship. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to create Salto. 

Topic 2 - There is a big trend happening, where companies are using more and more technology outside of the “central IT” groups. This includes quite a bit of SaaS usage. But it also requires more than just vanilla SaaS. Let’s talk about this concept of a “business engineer”.

Topic 3 - How often do SaaS applications need customizations? How often does a business application require integrations across multiple SaaS services? 

Topic 4 - Walk us through a day in the life of a business engineer, and what’s involved in some of the integrations? How much is being able to code, and how much 

Topic 5 - Integrations can be complicated, not only to build, but also to maintain. How does Salto simplify the creation and life cycle of these integrations?

Topic 6 - Salto is available as OSS, software and SaaS. What seems to be the best usage model for certain use-cases or types of businesses?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a broad background in engineering and entrepreneurship. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to create Salto. 

Topic 2 - There is a big trend happening, where companies are using more and more technology outside of the “central IT” groups. This includes quite a bit of SaaS usage. But it also requires more than just vanilla SaaS. Let’s talk about this concept of a “business engineer”.

Topic 3 - How often do SaaS applications need customizations? How often does a business application require integrations across multiple SaaS services? 

Topic 4 - Walk us through a day in the life of a business engineer, and what’s involved in some of the integrations? How much is being able to code, and how much 

Topic 5 - Integrations can be complicated, not only to build, but also to maintain. How does Salto simplify the creation and life cycle of these integrations?

Topic 6 - Salto is available as OSS, software and SaaS. What seems to be the best usage model for certain use-cases or types of businesses?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9722593 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2179 Salto, Gil Hoffer, SaaS, Integrations, Lifecycle, CI/CD, Business Engineer full false Thoughts on Cloud Outages Thoughts on Cloud Outages AWS had an outage in a region and many people responded. What did we learn about outages, responses, and dealing with cloud services going forward? 

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CLOUD OUTAGES ARE A PART OF USING A SHARED SERVICE

This week another major cloud service had an outage. They happen frequently enough, for some period of time (usually measured in hours), that we really notice them and then move on. Their impact is felt across many sites and dependent services, 


SOME THOUGHTS ON RESPONSES TO CLOUD OUTAGES

  1. 5 levels of grief - denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
  2. The cloud providers (typically) don’t snipe at either other - they’ve all been there.
  3. The post-mortems are becoming more consistent - any highly anticipated
  4. We continue to learn about differences in cloud architectures, and where failures points (and failure actions) occur.
  5. We still don’t understand the internal cloud architectural dependencies of each cloud.
  6. How many companies actually follow multi-region best practices? How much does multi-region cost? 
  7. Multi-cloud is often a knee-jerk reaction, but it’s never that simple - cost, complexity, skills

 

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CLOUD OUTAGES ARE A PART OF USING A SHARED SERVICE

This week another major cloud service had an outage. They happen frequently enough, for some period of time (usually measured in hours), that we really notice them and then move on. Their impact is felt across many sites and dependent services, 


SOME THOUGHTS ON RESPONSES TO CLOUD OUTAGES

  1. 5 levels of grief - denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
  2. The cloud providers (typically) don’t snipe at either other - they’ve all been there.
  3. The post-mortems are becoming more consistent - any highly anticipated
  4. We continue to learn about differences in cloud architectures, and where failures points (and failure actions) occur.
  5. We still don’t understand the internal cloud architectural dependencies of each cloud.
  6. How many companies actually follow multi-region best practices? How much does multi-region cost? 
  7. Multi-cloud is often a knee-jerk reaction, but it’s never that simple - cost, complexity, skills

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9703849 Sun, 12 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1336 full false Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2021 Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2021 We review the new strategic directions of AWS under CEO Adam Selipsky, as well as major announcements from AWS re:Invent 2021. 

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Private 5G 
  • Managed WAN
  • Serverless Data Services
  • New Low-Code Development platform
  • Graviton v3
  • Mainframe Migration
  • IoT TwinMaker (digital twins)


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BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Private 5G 
  • Managed WAN
  • Serverless Data Services
  • New Low-Code Development platform
  • Graviton v3
  • Mainframe Migration
  • IoT TwinMaker (digital twins)


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9682070 Wed, 08 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2089 AWS, reInvent, Adam Selipsky, Keynote, 2021 full false Lessons learned from Dell-VMware Lessons learned from Dell-VMware In 2015, Dell acquired EMC and VMware for a record-setting $67B. In 2021, Dell spun out VMware as an independent company. What lessons were learned? 

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WHAT WERE THE GOALS OF THE DELL ACQUISITION OF EMC?

Dell was trying to recover from having to go private in 2013. Wanted to consolidate the Enterprise infrastructure market. Wanted to have a one-stop-shop from desktop to enterprise infrastructure to security to applications to hybrid cloud. 

WHAT VALUE DID DELL BRING TO VMWARE?

  1. VMware - 26 acquisitions (2016-2021)
  2. VMware grew revenues 66% (2016-2021), 11% annually
  3. VMW shares grew from $70 to $118 (+68%)
  4. Dell grew revenues from $50B to $94B (EMC revenues $25B)
  5. VMware on AWS launched in 2016 - grown to around $3B business (26% revenues)
  6. Michael Dell gets an A+ for financial engineering
  7. Dell/EMC/VMware missed an opportunity to create an alternative to the Big3 cloud providers. 

 

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WHAT WERE THE GOALS OF THE DELL ACQUISITION OF EMC?

Dell was trying to recover from having to go private in 2013. Wanted to consolidate the Enterprise infrastructure market. Wanted to have a one-stop-shop from desktop to enterprise infrastructure to security to applications to hybrid cloud. 

WHAT VALUE DID DELL BRING TO VMWARE?

  1. VMware - 26 acquisitions (2016-2021)
  2. VMware grew revenues 66% (2016-2021), 11% annually
  3. VMW shares grew from $70 to $118 (+68%)
  4. Dell grew revenues from $50B to $94B (EMC revenues $25B)
  5. VMware on AWS launched in 2016 - grown to around $3B business (26% revenues)
  6. Michael Dell gets an A+ for financial engineering
  7. Dell/EMC/VMware missed an opportunity to create an alternative to the Big3 cloud providers. 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9663755 Sun, 05 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1296 full false See How Your Code Works See How Your Code Works Shanea Leven (@ShaneaLeven, Founder/CEO @CodeSeeio) talks about enabling development teams to better understand the complexities and interdependencies of their code throughout the lifecycle.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had an interesting background prior to CodeSee. Tell us a little bit about your journey, and what led you to create CodeSee.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about developer productivity and the types of things that create bottlenecks for teams. Help us understand where CodeSee fits into the flow of how applications are built and lifecycled.

Topic 3 - Teams change, teams grow, projects evolve over time. How does CodeSee help teams improve the learning curve of what’s in code and how to understand what came before them?

Topic 4 - Walk us through a day, or week, in the life of application teams that are working with CodeSee and without CodeSee. I’ve seen you use the term “Continuous Understanding” - what does that mean to you?

Topic 5 - Development teams have all sorts of tools in front of them. What are some of the interesting ways that CodeSee integrates with the other tools that are commonly put in front of them? GitHub recently called out a nice integration.

Topic 6 - We talk alot about developer productivity. How do you find companies measuring improvement when using CodeSee?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had an interesting background prior to CodeSee. Tell us a little bit about your journey, and what led you to create CodeSee.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about developer productivity and the types of things that create bottlenecks for teams. Help us understand where CodeSee fits into the flow of how applications are built and lifecycled.

Topic 3 - Teams change, teams grow, projects evolve over time. How does CodeSee help teams improve the learning curve of what’s in code and how to understand what came before them?

Topic 4 - Walk us through a day, or week, in the life of application teams that are working with CodeSee and without CodeSee. I’ve seen you use the term “Continuous Understanding” - what does that mean to you?

Topic 5 - Development teams have all sorts of tools in front of them. What are some of the interesting ways that CodeSee integrates with the other tools that are commonly put in front of them? GitHub recently called out a nice integration.

Topic 6 - We talk alot about developer productivity. How do you find companies measuring improvement when using CodeSee?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9641113 Wed, 01 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2211 full false Old Man Yells at the Metaverse Old Man Yells at the Metaverse You’ve been hearing about Web3 and metaverse and crypto, and everything is changing. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? Let’s yell at the metaverse and see what echoes back.

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WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO CHANGE THE EXISTING INTERNET?

The metaverse is part of a bigger evolution called “Web3”, which is looking at new interaction models, new payment models, and new ways to represent life in a fully digital world. How did we get here? What lessons from the past can we learn? 

HOW MIGHT THE METAVERSE CHANGE THE INTERNET, FOR GOOD OR BAD?

  1. Like Web 1.0 and 2.0, Web3 is initially being positioned as “for the youth”, but there’s already a subculture of people trying to make it “for the Enterprise, as well”.
  2. Metaverse and Web3 have all-digital versions of things (identity, goods, payments, etc.) that seem complicated and confusing to anyone that doesn’t start there. 
  3. There will (likely) be many metaverses, and this will be OK, and people will ask for standards and things to interoperate. 
  4. There will be consumer metaverses and Enterprise (“work”) metaverses. People will wish the work one was more like the consumer one - but not always. 
  5. Metaverse assumes that we want to blur the lines between what had been a distraction (e.g. gaming) and what we want in the rest of our lives. 
  6. A lot has changed since we first tried this 15 years ago (e.g. Second Life). 
  7. There is a lot more psychology involved in these virtual worlds than you initially think, especially outside of the “native” community.
  8. Be cautious around the people that talk very fast when you ask questions, and always tell you that you don’t understand it and need to be authentic. 
  9. Experiment. Ask questions. To research with problems in mind. 

 

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WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO CHANGE THE EXISTING INTERNET?

The metaverse is part of a bigger evolution called “Web3”, which is looking at new interaction models, new payment models, and new ways to represent life in a fully digital world. How did we get here? What lessons from the past can we learn? 

HOW MIGHT THE METAVERSE CHANGE THE INTERNET, FOR GOOD OR BAD?

  1. Like Web 1.0 and 2.0, Web3 is initially being positioned as “for the youth”, but there’s already a subculture of people trying to make it “for the Enterprise, as well”.
  2. Metaverse and Web3 have all-digital versions of things (identity, goods, payments, etc.) that seem complicated and confusing to anyone that doesn’t start there. 
  3. There will (likely) be many metaverses, and this will be OK, and people will ask for standards and things to interoperate. 
  4. There will be consumer metaverses and Enterprise (“work”) metaverses. People will wish the work one was more like the consumer one - but not always. 
  5. Metaverse assumes that we want to blur the lines between what had been a distraction (e.g. gaming) and what we want in the rest of our lives. 
  6. A lot has changed since we first tried this 15 years ago (e.g. Second Life). 
  7. There is a lot more psychology involved in these virtual worlds than you initially think, especially outside of the “native” community.
  8. Be cautious around the people that talk very fast when you ask questions, and always tell you that you don’t understand it and need to be authentic. 
  9. Experiment. Ask questions. To research with problems in mind. 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9616872 Sun, 28 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2239 full false The Evolution of Serverless Databases The Evolution of Serverless Databases Jim Walker (@jaymce, Principal Product Evangelist at @CockroachDB) talks about how serverless has moved from compute to backing data services, and focuses on improving application developer productivity.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention at Cockroach Labs. Give us a quick overview of CockroachDB.

Topic 2 - We’ve covered “Serverless” quite a bit on the show, mostly focused around compute services, but there seems to be a growing trend around serverless as it relates to data services. Can you give us some background on what’s driving these new capabilities?

Topic 3 - Implementations of Database-as-a-Service have been around for quite a while now. What’s new or different around service database offerings? 

Topic 4 - CockroachDB is fairly unique in its ability to span locations (e.g. in essence be multi-cloud). Help us connect the dots between the core elements of CockroachDB, and where the new serverless capabilities enhance that (for an application, for a DB team, for an Operations team, etc.)

Topic 5 - What are some of the new use-cases that can potentially be unlocked with the new serverless offering? 

Topic 6 - How do you expect the new serverless offering to change the way that application teams and operations teams interact with systems going forward? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention at Cockroach Labs. Give us a quick overview of CockroachDB.

Topic 2 - We’ve covered “Serverless” quite a bit on the show, mostly focused around compute services, but there seems to be a growing trend around serverless as it relates to data services. Can you give us some background on what’s driving these new capabilities?

Topic 3 - Implementations of Database-as-a-Service have been around for quite a while now. What’s new or different around service database offerings? 

Topic 4 - CockroachDB is fairly unique in its ability to span locations (e.g. in essence be multi-cloud). Help us connect the dots between the core elements of CockroachDB, and where the new serverless capabilities enhance that (for an application, for a DB team, for an Operations team, etc.)

Topic 5 - What are some of the new use-cases that can potentially be unlocked with the new serverless offering? 

Topic 6 - How do you expect the new serverless offering to change the way that application teams and operations teams interact with systems going forward? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9603090 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1992 full false Being a Technical Product Marketer Being a Technical Product Marketer Many people ask us about technical product marketing - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful technical product marketer.

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HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETER

Is marketing just lies and double-speak? If a product or technology is great, does it even need marketing? These are the questions that people often ask themselves before exploring roles that have some aspect of “marketing” in their name. 

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETER

  1. There are lots of different types of marketers - product-specific, go-to-market, regional, technical marketing, evangelist/advocate, etc.
  2. There is value in lots of different skills around marketing - technical, speaking, writing, critical listening
  3. The timeline of a marketer is somewhat different than a product manager. Both have to manage short and long-term. But marketing tends to be more focused on today’s problems/challenges/opportunities.
  4. Marketers have to understand the technology, but also how to translate it to business problems and business value. 
  5. Marketers need to understand the difference between drills and holes. 
  6. The role of marketing has significantly changed in the last few years. We’ve moved from more directed marketing to more automated and data-driven marketing. 

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HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETER

Is marketing just lies and double-speak? If a product or technology is great, does it even need marketing? These are the questions that people often ask themselves before exploring roles that have some aspect of “marketing” in their name. 

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETER

  1. There are lots of different types of marketers - product-specific, go-to-market, regional, technical marketing, evangelist/advocate, etc.
  2. There is value in lots of different skills around marketing - technical, speaking, writing, critical listening
  3. The timeline of a marketer is somewhat different than a product manager. Both have to manage short and long-term. But marketing tends to be more focused on today’s problems/challenges/opportunities.
  4. Marketers have to understand the technology, but also how to translate it to business problems and business value. 
  5. Marketers need to understand the difference between drills and holes. 
  6. The role of marketing has significantly changed in the last few years. We’ve moved from more directed marketing to more automated and data-driven marketing. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9582113 Sun, 21 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1650 full false Reviewing Microsoft Insight & GitHub Universe Reviewing Microsoft Insight & GitHub Universe In October and November, Microsoft hosted the GitHub Universe and Ignite 2021 conferences, focused on Developers and Cloud Computing. We review the important announcements and analyze the future directions for Azure, GitHub, etc

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Azure - Bigger Announcements 

  • Azure OpenAI Service - access to GPT-3 
  • Azure Cognitive Service for Language
  • Azure Cosmos DB 
  • Azure Managed Instance of Apache Cassandra
  • Azure Synapse Analytics 
  • Azure Container Apps (preview) 
  • Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes
  • (Java EE) Oracle Weblogic  on Azure Kubernetes Service. 
  • (Java EE) Websphere Liberty on Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • Enhancements to Azure DevOps (see GitHub)

GitHub - Bigger Announcements

  • Improved CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions
  • Improvements to GitHub Codespaces
  • Custom repository roles (security)
  • Improved “Issues” and “Discussions”

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Azure - Bigger Announcements 

  • Azure OpenAI Service - access to GPT-3 
  • Azure Cognitive Service for Language
  • Azure Cosmos DB 
  • Azure Managed Instance of Apache Cassandra
  • Azure Synapse Analytics 
  • Azure Container Apps (preview) 
  • Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes
  • (Java EE) Oracle Weblogic  on Azure Kubernetes Service. 
  • (Java EE) Websphere Liberty on Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • Enhancements to Azure DevOps (see GitHub)

GitHub - Bigger Announcements

  • Improved CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions
  • Improvements to GitHub Codespaces
  • Custom repository roles (security)
  • Improved “Issues” and “Discussions”

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9561596 Wed, 17 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1663 full false Lessons from Hashicorp S1 Lessons from Hashicorp S1 Hashicorp has been on The Cloudcast more than any other company. As they prepare for their upcoming IPO, we look back at what makes them successful vs. other OSS-centric companies. 

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WHAT MADE HASHICORP UNIQUE IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE SPACE?

Hashicorp was not alone in the Infra-as-Code space, or the Security space, but they have been successful in building a commercial business based on OSS projects. Let’s look at what made them unique and successful. 

HOW DID HASHICORP GET HERE?

  1. Hashicorp Revenue - $295M | Gross Margin 82% | Revenue Growth (LTM) 55%

Funding - $350M | NRR 124%  | Operating Margin 22%

Funding - $350M

 

GitLab - $179M | Gross Margin 88%  | Revenue Growth (LTM) 72% | 

Funding $414M | NRR 152% | Operating Margin 50%

 

Pivotal - $509M | Gross Margin 55%  | Revenue Growth (LTM) 22% | $1.7B

Pivotal (Subscription/ARR) $300M 

 

  1. Always a pragmatic approach, from the perspective of users
  2. Abandoned an early approach to building a “stack” (Hashicorp Atlas)
  3. Aligned to the public cloud 
  4. Didn’t try to change the world
  5. Didn’t actively fight with their community; weren’t unpleasant
  6. Had a single revenue producing product (Vault), and maybe Terraform
  7. Good timing (hot market)


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WHAT MADE HASHICORP UNIQUE IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE SPACE?

Hashicorp was not alone in the Infra-as-Code space, or the Security space, but they have been successful in building a commercial business based on OSS projects. Let’s look at what made them unique and successful. 

HOW DID HASHICORP GET HERE?

  1. Hashicorp Revenue - $295M | Gross Margin 82% | Revenue Growth (LTM) 55%

Funding - $350M | NRR 124%  | Operating Margin 22%

Funding - $350M

 

GitLab - $179M | Gross Margin 88%  | Revenue Growth (LTM) 72% | 

Funding $414M | NRR 152% | Operating Margin 50%

 

Pivotal - $509M | Gross Margin 55%  | Revenue Growth (LTM) 22% | $1.7B

Pivotal (Subscription/ARR) $300M 

 

  1. Always a pragmatic approach, from the perspective of users
  2. Abandoned an early approach to building a “stack” (Hashicorp Atlas)
  3. Aligned to the public cloud 
  4. Didn’t try to change the world
  5. Didn’t actively fight with their community; weren’t unpleasant
  6. Had a single revenue producing product (Vault), and maybe Terraform
  7. Good timing (hot market)


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9543341 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1651 full false SD-WAN, SASE and the new Virtual Edge SD-WAN, SASE and the new Virtual Edge Mike Rockwell (Global Head of Solutions @Megaport) talks about the evolution of Cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, SASE, and how Megaport is helping companies adapt to more needs for virtual edge networking.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways Megaport helps businesses connect to the cloud. 

Topic 3 - Can you walk us through some of the various ways that businesses use to connect to the cloud and why they choose to use Megaport? 

Topic 4 - Megaport recently launched a product named Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), which helps businesses connect branches to clouds within their SD-WAN and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solutions. You’ve announced some major partnerships with Cisco, Fortinet, and Versa. Tell us a little bit about MVE and these partnerships and how they’ll help customers.

Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about modernizing their enterprise WAN - do they use MPLS, do they use SD-WAN, and what role does the cloud play in their network - what considerations do they need to make?

Topic 6 - Why do you think it’s so important for businesses to enable their SD-WAN or SASE solutions for multicloud? Tell us about a sample use case.



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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways Megaport helps businesses connect to the cloud. 

Topic 3 - Can you walk us through some of the various ways that businesses use to connect to the cloud and why they choose to use Megaport? 

Topic 4 - Megaport recently launched a product named Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), which helps businesses connect branches to clouds within their SD-WAN and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solutions. You’ve announced some major partnerships with Cisco, Fortinet, and Versa. Tell us a little bit about MVE and these partnerships and how they’ll help customers.

Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about modernizing their enterprise WAN - do they use MPLS, do they use SD-WAN, and what role does the cloud play in their network - what considerations do they need to make?

Topic 6 - Why do you think it’s so important for businesses to enable their SD-WAN or SASE solutions for multicloud? Tell us about a sample use case.



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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9522486 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2355 Megaport, SD-WAN, SASE, Cloud Networking, Virtual Edge full false How to Become a Product Manager How to Become a Product Manager Many people ask us about technical product management - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful product manager.

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HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A PRODUCT MANAGER

Many people in the tech industry believe that they know how to build a better mousetrap. But what does it really take to be a product manager? How is the job challenging, how is it difficult, and what does it take to be successful?

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT MANAGER

  1. Being a product manager means that you’re a crystal ball reader (predict the future), a technology expert, a business analyst, a salesperson, a great communicator, and an expert priorities manager.
  2. Not all product managers are alike. It’s important to understand what part of the product (or all of the product) that you’re responsible for. 
  3. Cheap, feature-rich, or delivered quickly - pick any two.
  4. You’re solving today’s problems and guessing about future problems, not always in that order. 
  5. You have to be a great communicator, even if you’re an introvert. 
  6. Are you going to work in an area where the company will be able to make your product successful? 
  7. You’ll make a lot of mistakes.
  8. There is no end-game…..the game is always in motion. 

 

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HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A PRODUCT MANAGER

Many people in the tech industry believe that they know how to build a better mousetrap. But what does it really take to be a product manager? How is the job challenging, how is it difficult, and what does it take to be successful?

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT MANAGER

  1. Being a product manager means that you’re a crystal ball reader (predict the future), a technology expert, a business analyst, a salesperson, a great communicator, and an expert priorities manager.
  2. Not all product managers are alike. It’s important to understand what part of the product (or all of the product) that you’re responsible for. 
  3. Cheap, feature-rich, or delivered quickly - pick any two.
  4. You’re solving today’s problems and guessing about future problems, not always in that order. 
  5. You have to be a great communicator, even if you’re an introvert. 
  6. Are you going to work in an area where the company will be able to make your product successful? 
  7. You’ll make a lot of mistakes.
  8. There is no end-game…..the game is always in motion. 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9494480 Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1827 full false Networking the Hybrid Cloud Networking the Hybrid Cloud Nick Davey (Sr. Product Manager, Cloud & SDN @JuniperNetworks) talks about the evolution of SDN networking for Kubernetes, cross-cluster and cross-cloud networking, and Tungsten Fabric.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus at Juniper?

Topic 2 - There’s lots of talk about Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud, but it’s often in the context of Kubernetes or an application running in multiple places. Let’s talk about how we interconnect clouds.

Topic 3 - How should we think about the networking interconnections between end-users, the service providers, and the public cloud providers? 

Topic 4 - Help us understand the similarities and differences between the orchestration of workloads (e.g. containers and Kubernetes) and orchestration of networks (e.g. SDN, Contrail, etc.). Who needs to know about each system?

Topic 5 - How does this all evolve as things like Kubernetes, KubeVirt (VMs) extend out to the edge? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the newer use-cases or application-types that are starting to push the need for new cloud networking technologies? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus at Juniper?

Topic 2 - There’s lots of talk about Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud, but it’s often in the context of Kubernetes or an application running in multiple places. Let’s talk about how we interconnect clouds.

Topic 3 - How should we think about the networking interconnections between end-users, the service providers, and the public cloud providers? 

Topic 4 - Help us understand the similarities and differences between the orchestration of workloads (e.g. containers and Kubernetes) and orchestration of networks (e.g. SDN, Contrail, etc.). Who needs to know about each system?

Topic 5 - How does this all evolve as things like Kubernetes, KubeVirt (VMs) extend out to the edge? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the newer use-cases or application-types that are starting to push the need for new cloud networking technologies? 


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DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO TOOLS

Between open source tools, improved local hardware (laptops), online tutorials, free tiers, cloud-based tools, SaaS-based platforms and public repositories, there has never been a better time to be an application developer. Yet we still hear complaints about developer productivity, and developers feeling like too many things are in their path to success. 

AND DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO PLATFORMS

  1. In a perfect world, there would be a platform that would align to all of a developers needs and patterns, and make everything else “invisible”. 
  2. But platforms (by definition) have opinions, and limitations and have to eventually be maintained by someone (or groups).
  3. Developers don’t like their tools to be dictated to them.
  4. Developers don’t mind having access to too many tools, if they can somehow solve a problem, or a piece of a problem.
  5. People aren’t staying in jobs long enough to really care about long-term technical debt, or the ramifications about their platform decisions. 

 

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DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO TOOLS

Between open source tools, improved local hardware (laptops), online tutorials, free tiers, cloud-based tools, SaaS-based platforms and public repositories, there has never been a better time to be an application developer. Yet we still hear complaints about developer productivity, and developers feeling like too many things are in their path to success. 

AND DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO PLATFORMS

  1. In a perfect world, there would be a platform that would align to all of a developers needs and patterns, and make everything else “invisible”. 
  2. But platforms (by definition) have opinions, and limitations and have to eventually be maintained by someone (or groups).
  3. Developers don’t like their tools to be dictated to them.
  4. Developers don’t mind having access to too many tools, if they can somehow solve a problem, or a piece of a problem.
  5. People aren’t staying in jobs long enough to really care about long-term technical debt, or the ramifications about their platform decisions. 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9461754 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1103 full false Real-life Digital Transformation in Banking Real-life Digital Transformation in Banking Ken Meyer (EVP & CIO Consumer Technology at Truist Bank) talks about the 2yr transformation of Truist Bank (SunTrust and BB&T), managing multiple tech stacks, enabling a multi-cloud strategy, and internal communications and learnings. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking about your background, and the scope of the transformation you’ve been driving at Truist Bank. 

Topic 2 - Beyond the merger of two large banks, how did you think about the business challenges that you were trying to solve? 

Topic 3 - Walk us through how you tried to rationalize two technology stacks, and how you’ve been planning for a more cloud-centric future? 

Topic 4 - Every transformation has to balance existing (“old”) and new. How did you work through priorities, leveraging new technologies, maintaining existing systems, learning curves, etc? 

Topic 5 - Have you been able to create any unique ways to manage through the transition of so many technology stacks?

Topic 6 - How are you measuring progress, success, alignment to business goals, etc? 

Topic 7 - How are you communicating the evolution to the teams, as well as management and stakeholders? Any lessons learned?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking about your background, and the scope of the transformation you’ve been driving at Truist Bank. 

Topic 2 - Beyond the merger of two large banks, how did you think about the business challenges that you were trying to solve? 

Topic 3 - Walk us through how you tried to rationalize two technology stacks, and how you’ve been planning for a more cloud-centric future? 

Topic 4 - Every transformation has to balance existing (“old”) and new. How did you work through priorities, leveraging new technologies, maintaining existing systems, learning curves, etc? 

Topic 5 - Have you been able to create any unique ways to manage through the transition of so many technology stacks?

Topic 6 - How are you measuring progress, success, alignment to business goals, etc? 

Topic 7 - How are you communicating the evolution to the teams, as well as management and stakeholders? Any lessons learned?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9437336 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2371 Truist Bank, Ken Meyer, Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cloud full false Embrace Your Inner Maker Embrace Your Inner Maker Many tech workers are struggling with the repetitive effects of the COVID pandemic (work from home, constant video calls, longer hours, etc.). But there’s never been a better time to explore new ways to be a “maker”. 

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CREATIVITY GETS THE BRAIN ENGAGED

We (The Cloudcast)  frequently discuss the need to have a “learning mindset” in the IT industry, since the only constant is changing technologies. But learning requires a specific time commitment and a specific type of mind engagement. It’s important, but at times can feel very mentally draining. Finding a way to be creative, to be a “maker”, can be a good balance to learning. 

MAKERS FIND, ENGAGE and EXPAND via COMMUNITIES

  1. One of the reasons we keep doing The Cloudcast is that it gives us a creative outlet to directly make something. Making something gives you a chance to get feedback. It gives you a chance to succeed or fail. 
  2. Makers tend to seek out other makes, to share experiences, to bond, to create new ideas. These communities tend to be more positive than online forums (e.g. Reddit, HN, etc.) which tend to trend towards negativity and complaints. 
  3. The tools to be a digital creator are more available and more powerful than ever. Our friend Rodrigo Flores had a good Twitter thread this week about the new Apple Mac M1 Pro and how it’s tailored for the (digital) creator economy. 
  4. I’ve been reading a book, The Making of Bandon Dunes, about the history behind the creation of that resort in Oregon. Part of that reading is history, part of it is learning, and part of it is seeing how other creators think about their dreams, their opportunities and their ambitions. And how they overcame challenges.  

 

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CREATIVITY GETS THE BRAIN ENGAGED

We (The Cloudcast)  frequently discuss the need to have a “learning mindset” in the IT industry, since the only constant is changing technologies. But learning requires a specific time commitment and a specific type of mind engagement. It’s important, but at times can feel very mentally draining. Finding a way to be creative, to be a “maker”, can be a good balance to learning. 

MAKERS FIND, ENGAGE and EXPAND via COMMUNITIES

  1. One of the reasons we keep doing The Cloudcast is that it gives us a creative outlet to directly make something. Making something gives you a chance to get feedback. It gives you a chance to succeed or fail. 
  2. Makers tend to seek out other makes, to share experiences, to bond, to create new ideas. These communities tend to be more positive than online forums (e.g. Reddit, HN, etc.) which tend to trend towards negativity and complaints. 
  3. The tools to be a digital creator are more available and more powerful than ever. Our friend Rodrigo Flores had a good Twitter thread this week about the new Apple Mac M1 Pro and how it’s tailored for the (digital) creator economy. 
  4. I’ve been reading a book, The Making of Bandon Dunes, about the history behind the creation of that resort in Oregon. Part of that reading is history, part of it is learning, and part of it is seeing how other creators think about their dreams, their opportunities and their ambitions. And how they overcame challenges.  

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9420506 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1228 full false WebAssembly and wasmCloud WebAssembly and wasmCloud Kevin Hoffman (@KevinHoffman, CTO at @Cosmonic_com, wasmCloud creator) talks about WebAssembly and wasmCloud, and how this new development paradigm can simplify application development.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to create wasmCloud. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about Webassembly. What is it (a language, a framework??), and what problems does it solve for developers?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about wasmCloud. Once you’ve built something leveraging Webassembly, how does it interact with wasmCloud?

Topic 4 - Everything in application development tends to be a progression from something prior. How did Webassembly evolve? Docker’s Solomon Hykes said that if wasm+wasi existed 7yrs ago, he never would have created Docker. 

Topic 5 - Yesterday was WASM Day at Cloud Native Con. What were some of the highlights and focus areas?

Topic 6 - What are some of the early uses and usage patterns of Webassembly?

Topic 7 - What are some of the ways to get started with Webassembly and wasmCloud?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to create wasmCloud. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about Webassembly. What is it (a language, a framework??), and what problems does it solve for developers?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about wasmCloud. Once you’ve built something leveraging Webassembly, how does it interact with wasmCloud?

Topic 4 - Everything in application development tends to be a progression from something prior. How did Webassembly evolve? Docker’s Solomon Hykes said that if wasm+wasi existed 7yrs ago, he never would have created Docker. 

Topic 5 - Yesterday was WASM Day at Cloud Native Con. What were some of the highlights and focus areas?

Topic 6 - What are some of the early uses and usage patterns of Webassembly?

Topic 7 - What are some of the ways to get started with Webassembly and wasmCloud?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9399529 Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1945 full false Technical Debt isn't Free Technical Debt isn't Free While many computing systems mirror systems in nature, one aspect that doesn’t is technical debt. The majority of spending is maintaining the existing systems, and yet very little attention is paid to how to reduce the on-going costs. 

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IN NATURE, THE FALL BEGINS THE PROCESS OF RESETTING

In many parts of the world, Fall (or Autumn) gives us a last glimpse of the beauty of nature, but then it resets for another cycle of recuperation and regeneration. This is one of the aspects of nature that the tech industry doesn’t seem to emulate in their systems. 

WE ACCEPT RESETS AND CHANGES ALL AROUND US, EXCEPT IN IT

  1. Why don’t we create “life cycles” on commonly deployed systems? 
  2. Why don’t we prepare people for resets and “leap forwards” better?
  3. Why isn’t there a part of our industry that attempts to innovate in this space, rather than just shift it to another party as “someone else’s problem”?
  4. Why do we assume the same needs (support, uptime, etc.) of the technical debt as we do the new things we build to replace it?


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IN NATURE, THE FALL BEGINS THE PROCESS OF RESETTING

In many parts of the world, Fall (or Autumn) gives us a last glimpse of the beauty of nature, but then it resets for another cycle of recuperation and regeneration. This is one of the aspects of nature that the tech industry doesn’t seem to emulate in their systems. 

WE ACCEPT RESETS AND CHANGES ALL AROUND US, EXCEPT IN IT

  1. Why don’t we create “life cycles” on commonly deployed systems? 
  2. Why don’t we prepare people for resets and “leap forwards” better?
  3. Why isn’t there a part of our industry that attempts to innovate in this space, rather than just shift it to another party as “someone else’s problem”?
  4. Why do we assume the same needs (support, uptime, etc.) of the technical debt as we do the new things we build to replace it?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9380275 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1056 full false A New Distributed Cloud Architecture A New Distributed Cloud Architecture Jonathan Seelig (@j_seelig, Co-Founder/CEO of Ridge) talks about building the distributed cloud, remotely managing cloud resources, and the evolution of the edge. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to trying to create a new vision of “the cloud”. 

Topic 2 - What types of problems exist with the current (mostly centralized) cloud architectures today? Or where are there new opportunities to rethink and introduce a new architecture?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the main concepts behind the Ridge architecture. How much does it borrow from your experience at Akamai, and how much of it is your team looking at the world differently?

Topic 4 - What are the core primitives of Ridge? How do companies engage with it? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the near-term and long-term impacts that you expect companies would see in using the Ridge architecture vs. more centralized cloud architectures? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to trying to create a new vision of “the cloud”. 

Topic 2 - What types of problems exist with the current (mostly centralized) cloud architectures today? Or where are there new opportunities to rethink and introduce a new architecture?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the main concepts behind the Ridge architecture. How much does it borrow from your experience at Akamai, and how much of it is your team looking at the world differently?

Topic 4 - What are the core primitives of Ridge? How do companies engage with it? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the near-term and long-term impacts that you expect companies would see in using the Ridge architecture vs. more centralized cloud architectures? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9357214 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2005 full false Innovator's Dilemma Part 2 Innovator's Dilemma Part 2 Part 2 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts.  

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MAKING A MAJOR CHANGE IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT

Understanding the transition to cloud means understanding that almost everything about your technology stack and business stack will likely have to change, get re-invented, or built from scratch.

A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE THROUGH THE TRANSITION

  1. To build or to buy? Do you understand the scope of the problem, the velocity of change this creates,and how well you can actually execute?  
  2. How do you acquire, and how do you manage internal conflict?
  3. What will the new technology stack look like? Are you using the same design principles? Are you using the same architects?  
  4. How does this impact your business? What backstops (“cash cows”) does your business have to prop up the new business? 

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MAKING A MAJOR CHANGE IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT

Understanding the transition to cloud means understanding that almost everything about your technology stack and business stack will likely have to change, get re-invented, or built from scratch.

A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE THROUGH THE TRANSITION

  1. To build or to buy? Do you understand the scope of the problem, the velocity of change this creates,and how well you can actually execute?  
  2. How do you acquire, and how do you manage internal conflict?
  3. What will the new technology stack look like? Are you using the same design principles? Are you using the same architects?  
  4. How does this impact your business? What backstops (“cash cows”) does your business have to prop up the new business? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9340345 Sun, 10 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2037 full false Evolutions in Security Monitoring Evolutions in Security Monitoring Huxlee Barbee (@huxley_barbee, Head Security Prod Mktg @DataDogHQ) talks about the challenging odds of preventing security attacks, managing configuration mistakes, scaling security through monitoring, and security feedback loops in production.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days.

Topic 2 -According to many reports, configuration mistakes tend to lead to the most security breaches. Who is typically making the mistakes? 

Topic 3 - Can you dig deeper on the dynamics between security on the one hand and developers and SRE engineers on the other hand?

Topic 4 - So what are some of the strategies and tactics for achieving optimum balance between these opposing interests?

Topic 5 - Should we think about platform (infra) security apart from workload (application) security?

Topic 6 - Can you talk to us about the differences between applying security to things that happen pre-production (e.g. CI/CD, software-supply chains) and things that happen in production?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days.

Topic 2 -According to many reports, configuration mistakes tend to lead to the most security breaches. Who is typically making the mistakes? 

Topic 3 - Can you dig deeper on the dynamics between security on the one hand and developers and SRE engineers on the other hand?

Topic 4 - So what are some of the strategies and tactics for achieving optimum balance between these opposing interests?

Topic 5 - Should we think about platform (infra) security apart from workload (application) security?

Topic 6 - Can you talk to us about the differences between applying security to things that happen pre-production (e.g. CI/CD, software-supply chains) and things that happen in production?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9317369 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2153 Datadog, Security, CI/CD, Monitoring, Hackers, SRE, DevSecOps, Misconfigurations full false Innovator's Dilemma Part 1 Innovator's Dilemma Part 1 Part 1 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts.  

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ONE COMPANY’S PROFIT IS ANOTHER COMPANY’S OPPORTUNITY

As AWS transitions from long-time leaders to a new leadership team, many industry upstarts are looking for ways to pick away at their most profitable (and customer-problematic) services, with new capabilities that may unlock completely new business models for companies.

CHEAPER NETWORKING, AGILE COMPUTING, and NEW COMPANY MODELS

  1. Disruption rarely happens because of better technology, but more often because of changing economics. (Gracely’s Theorem) 
  2. AWS has long had very expensive networking costs, but it’s an area that really hasn’t faced competition. 
  3. AWS offered enough services that their customers made the choice to deal with the network costs vs. having to build things themselves.
  4. Being the “everything” thing in computing always has its pros and cons. Computing has historically (last 40yrs) been moving to more distributed, modular architectures.
  5. We’ve seen a number of companies begin to offer edge or serverless types of offerings (GitHub, Netlify, Google Run, various CDN offerings, 
  6. New ideas always emerge from difficult times (e.g. COVID pandemic) that we didn’t expect.
  7. Will this create a new round of acquisitions? Will it trigger price wars? 


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ONE COMPANY’S PROFIT IS ANOTHER COMPANY’S OPPORTUNITY

As AWS transitions from long-time leaders to a new leadership team, many industry upstarts are looking for ways to pick away at their most profitable (and customer-problematic) services, with new capabilities that may unlock completely new business models for companies.

CHEAPER NETWORKING, AGILE COMPUTING, and NEW COMPANY MODELS

  1. Disruption rarely happens because of better technology, but more often because of changing economics. (Gracely’s Theorem) 
  2. AWS has long had very expensive networking costs, but it’s an area that really hasn’t faced competition. 
  3. AWS offered enough services that their customers made the choice to deal with the network costs vs. having to build things themselves.
  4. Being the “everything” thing in computing always has its pros and cons. Computing has historically (last 40yrs) been moving to more distributed, modular architectures.
  5. We’ve seen a number of companies begin to offer edge or serverless types of offerings (GitHub, Netlify, Google Run, various CDN offerings, 
  6. New ideas always emerge from difficult times (e.g. COVID pandemic) that we didn’t expect.
  7. Will this create a new round of acquisitions? Will it trigger price wars? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9299066 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1388 full false The State of Cloud Security The State of Cloud Security Josh Stella (@joshstella, Founder/CEO of @FugueHQ) talks about the differences between cloud security and data center security, the value businesses place on security implementations, and enabling governance in the cloud.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been a complicated world for security the last 12-18 months. Tell us a little bit about your background and the State of Cloud Security 2021 report.

Topic 2 - Between the SolarWinds hack, Microsoft database hack and daily breaches of 100M users, where are we with security these days? It seems as messy as ever, and yet it also seems like people aren’t that concerned anymore. 

Topic 3 - Misconfiguration still seems to be a major issue. Isn’t Automation and Infra-as-Code and GitOps catching on? Policy-as-Code.

Topic 4 - We now have DevSecOps, which combines all these functions together. Who is ultimately responsible for Security?

Topic 5 - When companies move to the public cloud, they still have regulatory requirements. The cloud providers have “certifications” (e.g. SOC 2, NIST 800-53, GDPR, and HIPAA, so are they responsible now?

Topic 6 - How do we start matching the level of motivation the bad guys (hackers) have with the level of concern companies should have?

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been a complicated world for security the last 12-18 months. Tell us a little bit about your background and the State of Cloud Security 2021 report.

Topic 2 - Between the SolarWinds hack, Microsoft database hack and daily breaches of 100M users, where are we with security these days? It seems as messy as ever, and yet it also seems like people aren’t that concerned anymore. 

Topic 3 - Misconfiguration still seems to be a major issue. Isn’t Automation and Infra-as-Code and GitOps catching on? Policy-as-Code.

Topic 4 - We now have DevSecOps, which combines all these functions together. Who is ultimately responsible for Security?

Topic 5 - When companies move to the public cloud, they still have regulatory requirements. The cloud providers have “certifications” (e.g. SOC 2, NIST 800-53, GDPR, and HIPAA, so are they responsible now?

Topic 6 - How do we start matching the level of motivation the bad guys (hackers) have with the level of concern companies should have?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9277045 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2494 full false Developing New Habits in COVID Developing New Habits in COVID COVID has changed the world over the past two years. But how many of the technology changes we’ve made will remain, and which ones may revert back to pre-COVID standards? 

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CLOUD GROWTH THROUGH GLOBAL PANDEMIC

This week I had a discussion about the amount of change that happened over the past 18-24 months and whether or not that's normal (across industries)?

WHAT STAYS, WHAT CHANGES, and WHY?

  1. Not every company or industry reacted the same. 
  2. Companies established new norms around remote work. This will impact future hiring.
  3. Companies adopted more remote-friendly technologies.
  4. Many customers began using more public cloud services (out of necessity) and it worked fine. They likely won’t abandon these technology choices.
  5. Companies are focused on how to adjust to these new normals, so they’ll prioritize things that work (in the short-term) 
  6. Will this be a boom for people getting new cloud certifications?
  7. Will companies eventually do cost-cutting on cloud spending, since it was “just do it!” last year?
  8. Will this create the new “bi-modal” IT? 

 

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CLOUD GROWTH THROUGH GLOBAL PANDEMIC

This week I had a discussion about the amount of change that happened over the past 18-24 months and whether or not that's normal (across industries)?

WHAT STAYS, WHAT CHANGES, and WHY?

  1. Not every company or industry reacted the same. 
  2. Companies established new norms around remote work. This will impact future hiring.
  3. Companies adopted more remote-friendly technologies.
  4. Many customers began using more public cloud services (out of necessity) and it worked fine. They likely won’t abandon these technology choices.
  5. Companies are focused on how to adjust to these new normals, so they’ll prioritize things that work (in the short-term) 
  6. Will this be a boom for people getting new cloud certifications?
  7. Will companies eventually do cost-cutting on cloud spending, since it was “just do it!” last year?
  8. Will this create the new “bi-modal” IT? 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9259467 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1296 full false Managing Tech Burnout Managing Tech Burnout Michael Cucchi  (VP of Product @PagerDuty) talks about the challenges of increased hours, more frequent incident responses and overall tech burnout as a result of the 2020-21 pandemic.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - PagerDuty recently published the 2021 State of Digital Operations report. What were some of the high-level takeaways?

Topic 3 - Obviously the pandemic has disrupted where people work for the last 18 months. But what are some of the other factors that are causing so much disruption for Operations teams?

Topic 4 - We’re seeing the number of critical incidents per month increase (average 105/month). Do you think that’s more a factor of companies having to change so much so quickly, or technical debts just continue to accumulate and the overall foundation is less stable?

Topic 5 - There are tools (ChatOps) that are augmenting how we collaborate, but do you think the lack of face-to-face interactions between teams is causing some of the increased challenges we’ve seen this past year? 

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks that you can give to Operations teams that are trying to manage this increased workload and may be struggling to keep up, or find the right balance between life and work?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - PagerDuty recently published the 2021 State of Digital Operations report. What were some of the high-level takeaways?

Topic 3 - Obviously the pandemic has disrupted where people work for the last 18 months. But what are some of the other factors that are causing so much disruption for Operations teams?

Topic 4 - We’re seeing the number of critical incidents per month increase (average 105/month). Do you think that’s more a factor of companies having to change so much so quickly, or technical debts just continue to accumulate and the overall foundation is less stable?

Topic 5 - There are tools (ChatOps) that are augmenting how we collaborate, but do you think the lack of face-to-face interactions between teams is causing some of the increased challenges we’ve seen this past year? 

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks that you can give to Operations teams that are trying to manage this increased workload and may be struggling to keep up, or find the right balance between life and work?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9238635 Wed, 22 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2242 PagerDuty, Michael Cucchi, Tech Burnout, ChatOps, State of Ops, DevOps, full false The Evolution of MongoDB The Evolution of MongoDB The transition of @MongoDB from an open source project to commercially successful public company to cloud provider has been an interesting transition. One that many other software companies are looking to emulate. 

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FROM OPEN TO COMMERCIAL TO IPO TO CLOUD

Many software companies are trying to make the evolution from customer-operated to cloud-operated business models. MongoDB is an early lighthouse is showing the blueprint for success. 

CHANGING (OR GROWING NEW) MARKETS IS VERY DIFFICULT

  1. Solve a technical problem
  2. Create a unique value proposition (simplicity)
  3. [Marketing] Create (and lead) a growing community of users - via open source
  4. [Monetization] Create open-core features to differentiate and solve unique problems 
  5. [New GTM, New Markets] Evolve the product to new delivery models
  6. Grow into new markets, through different customer engagement models 

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FROM OPEN TO COMMERCIAL TO IPO TO CLOUD

Many software companies are trying to make the evolution from customer-operated to cloud-operated business models. MongoDB is an early lighthouse is showing the blueprint for success. 

CHANGING (OR GROWING NEW) MARKETS IS VERY DIFFICULT

  1. Solve a technical problem
  2. Create a unique value proposition (simplicity)
  3. [Marketing] Create (and lead) a growing community of users - via open source
  4. [Monetization] Create open-core features to differentiate and solve unique problems 
  5. [New GTM, New Markets] Evolve the product to new delivery models
  6. Grow into new markets, through different customer engagement models 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9218705 Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1600 MongoDB, OSS, DBaaS, IPO, AWS, Enterprise, SaaS, Atlas full false Remotely Managing All The Things Remotely Managing All The Things Ev Kontsevoy (@kontsevoy, Cofounder/CEO @GoTeleport) talks about the state of the art in remote management, especially for Kubernetes environments, and how Teleport simplifies security for remote access.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to create Teleport.

Topic 2 - Today we’re going to dive into Teleport, but we’d like to learn a little bit about the evolution of the company, as it didn’t begin as Teleport.

Topic 3 - For better or for worse, we now work in a very distributed world. Between workers being everywhere, and applications being both on-premises and in the public cloud, what sort of remote management challenges does this create?

Topic 4 - From a technology perspective, how does Teleport work?

Topic 5 - Teleport is made up of access to Servers, Kubernetes, Applications and Databases. How much does remote access change based on the target, or the team/person accessing it?

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that Teleport makes things easier to manage remotely?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to create Teleport.

Topic 2 - Today we’re going to dive into Teleport, but we’d like to learn a little bit about the evolution of the company, as it didn’t begin as Teleport.

Topic 3 - For better or for worse, we now work in a very distributed world. Between workers being everywhere, and applications being both on-premises and in the public cloud, what sort of remote management challenges does this create?

Topic 4 - From a technology perspective, how does Teleport work?

Topic 5 - Teleport is made up of access to Servers, Kubernetes, Applications and Databases. How much does remote access change based on the target, or the team/person accessing it?

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that Teleport makes things easier to manage remotely?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9196548 Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2327 full false Cloud Jobs - Stay, Leave or Quit Cloud Jobs - Stay, Leave or Quit There’s been quite a bit of debate recently on whether or not to stay in a role, look around for something new, or just quit tech all together. What’s the right choice? Let’s explore some options and strategies. 

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THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED A LOT OF PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE

Remote work; lots of job prospects, and some new perspective on life has many people considering alternatives to their current situation. 

SO SHOULD YOU STAY, LOOK FOR SOMETHING NEW, OR QUIT ALTOGETHER?

When to Stay

  • You enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
  • You’re learning and you see a path for growth or upward mobility
  • You or your family need the work (healthcare, location, stability, etc.)

When to Look Around

  • You’re underpaid or don’t have an upward mobility path
  • You want to make a change, and can’t do it within your company
  • You no longer enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
  • A great (outside) opportunity is presented to you

When to consider quitting (usually as a last resort)

  • You’re in a dangerous or harmful situation
  • You just can’t find any passion in it
  • You have an alternative way to support yourself (and your family)

 

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THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED A LOT OF PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE

Remote work; lots of job prospects, and some new perspective on life has many people considering alternatives to their current situation. 

SO SHOULD YOU STAY, LOOK FOR SOMETHING NEW, OR QUIT ALTOGETHER?

When to Stay

  • You enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
  • You’re learning and you see a path for growth or upward mobility
  • You or your family need the work (healthcare, location, stability, etc.)

When to Look Around

  • You’re underpaid or don’t have an upward mobility path
  • You want to make a change, and can’t do it within your company
  • You no longer enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
  • A great (outside) opportunity is presented to you

When to consider quitting (usually as a last resort)

  • You’re in a dangerous or harmful situation
  • You just can’t find any passion in it
  • You have an alternative way to support yourself (and your family)

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9178856 Sun, 12 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1500 full false Backing Up into the Cloud Backing Up into the Cloud David Hill (@davidhill_co, Product Strategy, Office CTO) and Sam Nicholls (Public Cloud Principle) @Veeam talk about the evolution of managing data in the cloud, and backup and security strategies. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds. 

Topic 2 - We live in a world of software, and clouds, and ransomware attacks and security threats and frequent changes to applications. Let’s start by talking about the big picture of what backup looks like these days. 

Topic 3 - In a world that’s becoming increasingly more DevOps-centric, who now owns all of the elements around backups (testing plans, compliance, retention and cost-mgmt, etc.)

Topic 3a - What are some of the unique things Veeam does to make things simpler for those teams? 

Topic 4 - We used to live in a world of redundant, cold hardware in a remote facility, and truck rolls to Iron Mountain, and manual steps. What has public cloud and automation done to the backup landscape?

Topic 5 - How does the economics change now that public cloud is such a critical piece of backup strategies? (saving data, faster recovery times, agility, etc.)

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds. 

Topic 2 - We live in a world of software, and clouds, and ransomware attacks and security threats and frequent changes to applications. Let’s start by talking about the big picture of what backup looks like these days. 

Topic 3 - In a world that’s becoming increasingly more DevOps-centric, who now owns all of the elements around backups (testing plans, compliance, retention and cost-mgmt, etc.)

Topic 3a - What are some of the unique things Veeam does to make things simpler for those teams? 

Topic 4 - We used to live in a world of redundant, cold hardware in a remote facility, and truck rolls to Iron Mountain, and manual steps. What has public cloud and automation done to the backup landscape?

Topic 5 - How does the economics change now that public cloud is such a critical piece of backup strategies? (saving data, faster recovery times, agility, etc.)

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9155931 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2265 Veeam, Backup, Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Backup, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud full false Clouds, Chaos and Change Clouds, Chaos and Change The next 12-18 months are going to be all about changes, chaos and a three-ring circus between the major cloud providers. The status quo is likely going to change, as plenty of new names and faces, and big money, try to steer these giant ships.

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ARE THE BIG CLOUDS TOO BIG TO DISRUPT?

It’s very difficult to sustain success in business, especially in highly competitive markets. And the market dynamics of today are ripe for change. 

HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN FOR THE MARKET LEADERS

  • Leadership changes at the top.
  • Growth expectations exceed the company’s ability to scale growth.
  • The people that lead the original growth leave the company.
  • The people that backfill don’t have the same skills or mindset to succeed at the same level. 
  • Competitors start to find new pressure points. 
  • Companies move from products to solutions as the market evolves from early-adopters to mainstream and laggards.
  • Big money makes people make big decisions (outside your company) - going to “change the world”

 

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ARE THE BIG CLOUDS TOO BIG TO DISRUPT?

It’s very difficult to sustain success in business, especially in highly competitive markets. And the market dynamics of today are ripe for change. 

HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN FOR THE MARKET LEADERS

  • Leadership changes at the top.
  • Growth expectations exceed the company’s ability to scale growth.
  • The people that lead the original growth leave the company.
  • The people that backfill don’t have the same skills or mindset to succeed at the same level. 
  • Competitors start to find new pressure points. 
  • Companies move from products to solutions as the market evolves from early-adopters to mainstream and laggards.
  • Big money makes people make big decisions (outside your company) - going to “change the world”

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9137221 Sun, 05 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1674 AWS, Azure, GCP full false We’ve All Become The Cloudcast We’ve All Become The Cloudcast Aaron and Brian discuss how the on-going pandemic is creating a permanent habit of working remotely, and the challenges of trying to learn technology with less free time. 

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Topic 1 - Origin story of The Cloudcast (brief)

Topic 2 - It’s now been 529 days since the world shut down (in the US). How many Zoom calls have you attended in that time?  

Topic 3 - “It can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic.” What new, work-related habits have you formed?

Topic 4 - How do you expect people to keep up with new technologies? 

Topic 5 - We’re at a weird stage, where lots of people say that they want to work-from-home (full or part-time), for various reasons (e.g. avoid commutes, cube-mates chews too loud, etc.), but also claim to be more burned out. Do you think people will take the time to learn new stuff?

Topic 6 - Has the pandemic changed anything about how you’re effective? Do you think it’ll be permanent, or do you still have the “we’ll get back to normal” mindset?

Topic 7 - Any tips or tricks to be an effective remote worker and tech leader?

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Topic 1 - Origin story of The Cloudcast (brief)

Topic 2 - It’s now been 529 days since the world shut down (in the US). How many Zoom calls have you attended in that time?  

Topic 3 - “It can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic.” What new, work-related habits have you formed?

Topic 4 - How do you expect people to keep up with new technologies? 

Topic 5 - We’re at a weird stage, where lots of people say that they want to work-from-home (full or part-time), for various reasons (e.g. avoid commutes, cube-mates chews too loud, etc.), but also claim to be more burned out. Do you think people will take the time to learn new stuff?

Topic 6 - Has the pandemic changed anything about how you’re effective? Do you think it’ll be permanent, or do you still have the “we’ll get back to normal” mindset?

Topic 7 - Any tips or tricks to be an effective remote worker and tech leader?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9120009 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2287 Careers, Learning, Education, Public Cloud, Containers, Kubernetes, Microsoft, Google, AWS, Working Remotely full false What does Security even mean anymore What does Security even mean anymore Security has been in the news quite a bit lately, both for failures and funding. But does security even matter anymore?  Nobody knows. 

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DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT SECURITY?

“This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine.”     

WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR BEING BAD AT SECURITY?

The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report highlights several alarming facts, including:

  • 36% of companies suffered a serious cloud data leak or breach in the past 12 months
  • 8 out of 10 are worried that they’re vulnerable to a major misconfiguration breach 
  • 64% say the problem will get worse or stay the same 

Every company makes security a massive part of every purchasing decision. And yet the market doesn’t seem to do anything when a massive breach happens. How is this still the state of security? 

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DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT SECURITY?

“This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine.”     

WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR BEING BAD AT SECURITY?

The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report highlights several alarming facts, including:

  • 36% of companies suffered a serious cloud data leak or breach in the past 12 months
  • 8 out of 10 are worried that they’re vulnerable to a major misconfiguration breach 
  • 64% say the problem will get worse or stay the same 

Every company makes security a massive part of every purchasing decision. And yet the market doesn’t seem to do anything when a massive breach happens. How is this still the state of security? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9102104 Sun, 29 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1062 Security, Microsoft, DevSecOps, Attacks, Threats, full false Hiring a VP of Engineering Hiring a VP of Engineering Jason Warner (@jasoncwarner, MD @redpointvc), a veteran of GitHub, Heroku and Canonical, talks about the process and challenges of hiring a VP of Engineering. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background prior to Redpoint VC and what you’re now focused on in the VC world. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start with “Why do you need to hire a VP of Engineering?” When does it matter as an early-stage startup, and why does it matter when a company is larger? {high leverage}

Topic 3 - What are you looking for in that hire? What is your process for creating a potential list of candidates? What criteria are most important for you to evaluate? {curve bender}

Topic 4 - We hear a lot about “engineering interviews” (technical). How much of that is involved in your hiring process, and how are you measuring the other disciplines that are needed for this role? 

Topic 5 - If you’re hiring from the outside, how much do you involve the engineering and product teams, and how do you think about the value of internal-knowledge vs. external-knowledge? 

Topic 6 - Once you identify the candidate, what steps do you take to encourage early success? How do you measure on-going activities?

Topic 7 - What advice do you have for people that are interviewing for these roles?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background prior to Redpoint VC and what you’re now focused on in the VC world. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start with “Why do you need to hire a VP of Engineering?” When does it matter as an early-stage startup, and why does it matter when a company is larger? {high leverage}

Topic 3 - What are you looking for in that hire? What is your process for creating a potential list of candidates? What criteria are most important for you to evaluate? {curve bender}

Topic 4 - We hear a lot about “engineering interviews” (technical). How much of that is involved in your hiring process, and how are you measuring the other disciplines that are needed for this role? 

Topic 5 - If you’re hiring from the outside, how much do you involve the engineering and product teams, and how do you think about the value of internal-knowledge vs. external-knowledge? 

Topic 6 - Once you identify the candidate, what steps do you take to encourage early success? How do you measure on-going activities?

Topic 7 - What advice do you have for people that are interviewing for these roles?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9082295 Wed, 25 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2745 Jason Warner, Redpoint VC, GitHub, Heroku, Canoncial, VP Engineering, Hiring full false The End of the Cloud Honeymoon The End of the Cloud Honeymoon Cloud Computing has been around for more than a decade. It has generated tremendous growth and reshaped the tech industry. But is the “Cloud Honeymoon“ about to be over? 

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WHAT HAPPENS IF THE HONEYMOON IS ACTUALLY OVER?

A recent article claimed that (public) Cloud Computing is moving into the next phase of maturity, and it will cause challenges for “the big three” cloud computing companies (AWS, Azure, GCP).    

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, AS CLOUD COMPUTING MOVES INTO THE NEXT PHASE?

MARKET DYNAMICS

  • The market is much more competitive than 10years ago, but they don’t have to convince customers that public cloud is viable anymore. 
  •  Legacy Applications move to SaaS; Cloud-native Apps move to Public Cloud
  • Migrations? Lift & Shift? Something simpler?
  • Competitive consolidation has already happened (AWS, Azure, GCP). 
  • Cloud vendors have eaten parts of their ecosystem (see: Open Source)
  • Price wars haven’t really happened yet. 
  • Cloud providers are trying to train the next generation of customers. 
  • We haven’t seen the cloud businesses leverage the other parts of the business (much) yet. 
  • Hybrid Cloud | Multi-Cloud 2.0 is coming, on purpose or accidentally

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WHAT HAPPENS IF THE HONEYMOON IS ACTUALLY OVER?

A recent article claimed that (public) Cloud Computing is moving into the next phase of maturity, and it will cause challenges for “the big three” cloud computing companies (AWS, Azure, GCP).    

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, AS CLOUD COMPUTING MOVES INTO THE NEXT PHASE?

MARKET DYNAMICS

  • The market is much more competitive than 10years ago, but they don’t have to convince customers that public cloud is viable anymore. 
  •  Legacy Applications move to SaaS; Cloud-native Apps move to Public Cloud
  • Migrations? Lift & Shift? Something simpler?
  • Competitive consolidation has already happened (AWS, Azure, GCP). 
  • Cloud vendors have eaten parts of their ecosystem (see: Open Source)
  • Price wars haven’t really happened yet. 
  • Cloud providers are trying to train the next generation of customers. 
  • We haven’t seen the cloud businesses leverage the other parts of the business (much) yet. 
  • Hybrid Cloud | Multi-Cloud 2.0 is coming, on purpose or accidentally

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9066986 Sun, 22 Aug 2021 10:00:00 -0400 2113 Public Cloud, Private Cloud, a16z, Morgan Stanley CIO, Gartner, Cost Management, Competition, AWS, Azure, GCP full false Making Front-End Development Simpler Making Front-End Development Simpler Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg, CEO at @vercel) talks about simplifying life for front-end developers, the Next.js JavaScript framework, and the balance between great developers, great teams and great collaboration. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as a developer and entrepreneur. How did you eventually get to be leading Vercel?

Topic 2 - Vercel is a platform that’s designed to make life better for front-end developers. As a developer, how do you get in the head of what other developers want and need? 

Topic 3 - With so many choices of languages, frameworks, clouds, etc., what do you find are the most important things about your platform to focus on? 

Topic 4 - Is the goal to create great developers, or great collaborative environments, or do you primarily focus on the end result (e.g. great websites) and work backwards? 

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Next.js and why it’s grown in popularity with developers. 

Topic 6 - What are some of the areas that are evolving or exciting for front-end developers over the next couple years? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as a developer and entrepreneur. How did you eventually get to be leading Vercel?

Topic 2 - Vercel is a platform that’s designed to make life better for front-end developers. As a developer, how do you get in the head of what other developers want and need? 

Topic 3 - With so many choices of languages, frameworks, clouds, etc., what do you find are the most important things about your platform to focus on? 

Topic 4 - Is the goal to create great developers, or great collaborative environments, or do you primarily focus on the end result (e.g. great websites) and work backwards? 

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Next.js and why it’s grown in popularity with developers. 

Topic 6 - What are some of the areas that are evolving or exciting for front-end developers over the next couple years? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9043648 Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2147 Vercel, Guillermo Rauch, JavaScript, Next.js, Front-End Development, SaaS, Developers full false Looking for a new Cloud job Looking for a new Cloud job This time of year, many people in the tech industry look to change jobs. What are some tips and tricks if you’re looking for roles in Cloud Computing?

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 LEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:

Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. 

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WHY DO PEOPLE CHANGE JOBS THIS TIME OF YEAR?

Many companies are in Q3/Q4. Oftentimes they are re-adjusting for the year, or planning for the next year. The fall trade shows (VMworld, re:Invent, etc.) are happening.  

TECHNICAL SKILLS, PEOPLE SKILLS, and PICKING PRIORITIES

  • People are staying in their jobs shorter
  • More companies are being flexible about where you work - but stay tuned! 
  • Certifications are always valuable, and easier to get than ever
  • Explore different roles, based on the skills you have and the skills you’d like to evolve
  • Understand the tradeoffs between Salary, Location, Travel, Hours, Flexibility, etc.
  • It’s useful to have a broad set of skills, but eventually it’s useful to narrow the list of expertises.
  • Evaluate the individual team as much as the company. 

 
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WHY DO PEOPLE CHANGE JOBS THIS TIME OF YEAR?

Many companies are in Q3/Q4. Oftentimes they are re-adjusting for the year, or planning for the next year. The fall trade shows (VMworld, re:Invent, etc.) are happening.  

TECHNICAL SKILLS, PEOPLE SKILLS, and PICKING PRIORITIES

  • People are staying in their jobs shorter
  • More companies are being flexible about where you work - but stay tuned! 
  • Certifications are always valuable, and easier to get than ever
  • Explore different roles, based on the skills you have and the skills you’d like to evolve
  • Understand the tradeoffs between Salary, Location, Travel, Hours, Flexibility, etc.
  • It’s useful to have a broad set of skills, but eventually it’s useful to narrow the list of expertises.
  • Evaluate the individual team as much as the company. 

 
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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9026488 Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1343 full false The Opportunity for Data at the Edge The Opportunity for Data at the Edge Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby, CTO @Swim) talks about how to understand the new business models and application uses of data capture and analytics at the edge. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Former founder of XenSource and Bromium, now the CTO at Swim. You’ve always been at the forefront of solving complex challenges, so where is your focus these days?

Topic 2 - We’ve been covering “real-time” with a number of guests this year, but we don’t always connect the technology to the business outcomes. Where are we today, as an industry, of connecting this more fast-moving data with our ability to understand it in the context of business? 

Topic 3 - As you’re seeing real-time data and persistent data mixed together, how are those teams organized for success (or failure)? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the common misperceptions that you see about how to best handle either data at the edge, or streaming data?

Topic 5 - Swim is helping companies create real-time representations of their environments. What are some of the unique capabilities that you’ve seen this enable for companies? 

Topic 6 - How are some of the most important things that companies can do to enable the opportunity with real-time data? 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Former founder of XenSource and Bromium, now the CTO at Swim. You’ve always been at the forefront of solving complex challenges, so where is your focus these days?

Topic 2 - We’ve been covering “real-time” with a number of guests this year, but we don’t always connect the technology to the business outcomes. Where are we today, as an industry, of connecting this more fast-moving data with our ability to understand it in the context of business? 

Topic 3 - As you’re seeing real-time data and persistent data mixed together, how are those teams organized for success (or failure)? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the common misperceptions that you see about how to best handle either data at the edge, or streaming data?

Topic 5 - Swim is helping companies create real-time representations of their environments. What are some of the unique capabilities that you’ve seen this enable for companies? 

Topic 6 - How are some of the most important things that companies can do to enable the opportunity with real-time data? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-9008956 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1794 Simon Crosby, Swim, XenSource, Bromium, Edge, Analytics, Edge Computing, Data Capture, Real-Time, Databases full false The Cost of App Modernization The Cost of App Modernization There’s lots of talk about application migration and modernization, often in the context of digital transformation. But what all is involved in an application transformation, and how do you measure success? 

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WHY DO COMPANIES MODERNIZE OR MIGRATE APPLICATIONS

When we look at Application Modernization or Migrations, it’s too easy to look at the technologies involved. But what is the business motivation for the change?  


HARD COSTS AND SOFT COST CONSIDERATIONS OF MODERNIZATION

  • Why make the change? Technology EoL. Industry standards are changing. Systems not able to keep up (performance). Unable to maintain the current system (people/skills). Crippling technical debt (economic).
  • Own the change or outsource the change? 
  • Own the change - Have the code? Have the free resources? Have the ability to run parallel systems?
  • Outsource the change - More expensive. Must be well scoped and managed. Must have the right financial incentives.
  • Own the future or outsource the future? 
  • Own the future - staffed for DevOps, DevSecOps, embracing new technologies, etc.
  • Outsource the future - SaaS options. Sell off the application to a 3rd-party and buy it back. On-going outsourcing contracts. 


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WHY DO COMPANIES MODERNIZE OR MIGRATE APPLICATIONS

When we look at Application Modernization or Migrations, it’s too easy to look at the technologies involved. But what is the business motivation for the change?  


HARD COSTS AND SOFT COST CONSIDERATIONS OF MODERNIZATION

  • Why make the change? Technology EoL. Industry standards are changing. Systems not able to keep up (performance). Unable to maintain the current system (people/skills). Crippling technical debt (economic).
  • Own the change or outsource the change? 
  • Own the change - Have the code? Have the free resources? Have the ability to run parallel systems?
  • Outsource the change - More expensive. Must be well scoped and managed. Must have the right financial incentives.
  • Own the future or outsource the future? 
  • Own the future - staffed for DevOps, DevSecOps, embracing new technologies, etc.
  • Outsource the future - SaaS options. Sell off the application to a 3rd-party and buy it back. On-going outsourcing contracts. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8991080 Sun, 08 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1258 App Modernization, App Migration, Digital Transformation, Outsourcing, Build vs Buy, DevOps, DevSecOps, SaaS full false Application Modernization and Migration Application Modernization and Migration James Labocki (@jameslabocki, Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt @RedHat) talks about Application Modernization and Migrations, the Konveyor OSS community, and moving apps towards cloud-native. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got focused on Application Modernization?

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of Application Modernization and Migration. How do companies think about it, rationalize it, and ultimately act on it? 

Topic 3 - There are many ways to modernize applications. Let’s talk about the Konveyor community and the associated projects. 

Topic 4 - Walk us through some of the experiences you’ve seen or heard from companies going through these migrations. 

Topic 5 - What are some of the lessons learned over the past year of focusing on this?

Topic 6 - How can people get engaged with the Konveyor community? 



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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got focused on Application Modernization?

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of Application Modernization and Migration. How do companies think about it, rationalize it, and ultimately act on it? 

Topic 3 - There are many ways to modernize applications. Let’s talk about the Konveyor community and the associated projects. 

Topic 4 - Walk us through some of the experiences you’ve seen or heard from companies going through these migrations. 

Topic 5 - What are some of the lessons learned over the past year of focusing on this?

Topic 6 - How can people get engaged with the Konveyor community? 



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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8971444 Wed, 04 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1896 James Labocki, OSS, Konveyor, Migration, Modernization, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Containers full false The Surge in Tech VC Funding The Surge in Tech VC Funding VC investment has been skyrocketing lately, but why? Let’s discuss some of the trends that are driving bigger investments in today’s startups.  

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WHEN AN A-ROUND IS THE NEW C-ROUND

Why is so much money being invested by VCs over the last 12 months, and what trends are pushing them to make bigger bets?  

LET’S FOLLOW THE MONEY AND THE NUMBERS

  • Global interest rates are very low, since 2017, accelerated by the COVID pandemic
  • Tons of government money was pumped into the global economy
  • Tech is consolidating around 3-5 major cloud providers, with massive tech amounts of capital and engineering.
  • There is really no longer a middle ground in the tech industry. There are startups and there are the big clouds. 
  • Cloud providers make some acquisitions, but they need big numbers to move the needle. 
  • Today’s technology challenges are large in scale - AI/ML, Self-Driving Vehicles, Genetic Testing (Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals) 5G, Energy Discovery and Optimization, Everything Delivery, etc.
  • The stock markets are continuing to reward tech profits, and markets are overly weighted in tech.
  • Cloud and SaaS has changed the sales and marketing model, as well as the CAPEX/OPEX model, so new companies can be modeled more consistently


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WHEN AN A-ROUND IS THE NEW C-ROUND

Why is so much money being invested by VCs over the last 12 months, and what trends are pushing them to make bigger bets?  

LET’S FOLLOW THE MONEY AND THE NUMBERS

  • Global interest rates are very low, since 2017, accelerated by the COVID pandemic
  • Tons of government money was pumped into the global economy
  • Tech is consolidating around 3-5 major cloud providers, with massive tech amounts of capital and engineering.
  • There is really no longer a middle ground in the tech industry. There are startups and there are the big clouds. 
  • Cloud providers make some acquisitions, but they need big numbers to move the needle. 
  • Today’s technology challenges are large in scale - AI/ML, Self-Driving Vehicles, Genetic Testing (Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals) 5G, Energy Discovery and Optimization, Everything Delivery, etc.
  • The stock markets are continuing to reward tech profits, and markets are overly weighted in tech.
  • Cloud and SaaS has changed the sales and marketing model, as well as the CAPEX/OPEX model, so new companies can be modeled more consistently


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8952530 Sun, 01 Aug 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1215 VC Funding, Interest Rates, Large Rounds, IPOs, Public Cloud, SaaS, AWS, Azure, GCP full false Digging into GitOps Digging into GitOps Christian Hernandez (Sr.Principal Tech Mktg Mgr @RedHat) talks about how GitOps works, it's relationship with DevOps, how it's implemented, and applying it to Infra and Apps.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got focused on GitOps?

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of GitOps. What is it, and what problems is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through a day in the life of how GitOps is actually used? Is it infrastructure specific, or can it also be used for applications, security, etc.?

Topic 4 - What are some of the common ways that companies get started using GitOps? Do they typically have to create a GitOps team, or is it an extension of existing groups/skills?

Topic 5 - Is GitOps specific to a certain technology (e.g. Kubernetes) or a specific type of application (e.g. 12-factor), or can it be applied to a wider set of technologies?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best resources you’ve found for getting started or being successful with GitOps?

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got focused on GitOps?

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of GitOps. What is it, and what problems is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through a day in the life of how GitOps is actually used? Is it infrastructure specific, or can it also be used for applications, security, etc.?

Topic 4 - What are some of the common ways that companies get started using GitOps? Do they typically have to create a GitOps team, or is it an extension of existing groups/skills?

Topic 5 - Is GitOps specific to a certain technology (e.g. Kubernetes) or a specific type of application (e.g. 12-factor), or can it be applied to a wider set of technologies?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best resources you’ve found for getting started or being successful with GitOps?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8934555 Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2081 GitOps, ArgoCD, Flux, Kubernetes, DevOps, Infrastructure as a Code, GitOpsCon full false The Boss Says We're an Innovation Company Now The Boss Says We're an Innovation Company Now Your leadership states that you’re no longer in an <xyz> company, but instead you’re now an innovation company. How will that transition play out over the next few years?

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SO THE BOSS DECIDES THAT YOU’RE AN INNOVATION COMPANY 

For large companies, how do you manage a major transformation, which extends across both technology and culture?  

WHAT WORKS, WHAT BREAKS, WHO STAYS and WHO LEAVES?

  • Airlines are fearful of video conferencing
  • Streaming companies are fearful of gaming companies
  • Automotive companies are about technology more than horsepower
  • When farm equipment companies become farmer data companies?

Gracely’s Theorem #2 - Digital Transformation is drawing a straight line between your company and your customers, via the Internet. 

  • Who and What gets left out? 
  • What gets prioritized? 
  • Who is your competition?

 

  1. What timelines have been communicated to the market, partners, stakeholders, customers?
  2. What are the initial focus areas? 
  3. How do you plan to measure success? 
  4. What will be the wins in the first 3 months, 6 months and 12 months? 
    1. Do you understand the importance of communicating these wins?
  5. How willing are you to ask for help, accept help, and pay for help?

 

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SO THE BOSS DECIDES THAT YOU’RE AN INNOVATION COMPANY 

For large companies, how do you manage a major transformation, which extends across both technology and culture?  

WHAT WORKS, WHAT BREAKS, WHO STAYS and WHO LEAVES?

  • Airlines are fearful of video conferencing
  • Streaming companies are fearful of gaming companies
  • Automotive companies are about technology more than horsepower
  • When farm equipment companies become farmer data companies?

Gracely’s Theorem #2 - Digital Transformation is drawing a straight line between your company and your customers, via the Internet. 

  • Who and What gets left out? 
  • What gets prioritized? 
  • Who is your competition?

 

  1. What timelines have been communicated to the market, partners, stakeholders, customers?
  2. What are the initial focus areas? 
  3. How do you plan to measure success? 
  4. What will be the wins in the first 3 months, 6 months and 12 months? 
    1. Do you understand the importance of communicating these wins?
  5. How willing are you to ask for help, accept help, and pay for help?

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8916400 Sun, 25 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1585 Innovation, Competition, Digital Transformation, Gracely Theorem full false Identity Management for Developers Identity Management for Developers John Pritchard (@indiapeloale, VP of Product  & DevEcosystem @Okta) talks developer concerns with authentication and identity, and how to manage 3rd-party integrations and cloud services. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways that Okta can now secure things for companies, applications, and developers. How do the pieces from Okta and (previously Auth0) fit together? 

Topic 3 - As an application developer, where and when do I need to think about identity and authentication, and when is it a function of the infrastructure? 

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through some common access and application patterns, so we have a better understanding of how many places that authentication, identity, access-mgmt come into play?  

Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about ownership and operations of these functional areas - do they own it, do they offload it to the cloud - what considerations do they need to make?

Topic 6 - How do developers typically engage with your teams and products/services? Do they need to be security experts first, or do you guide them through what to own and how Okta can offload core elements?


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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways that Okta can now secure things for companies, applications, and developers. How do the pieces from Okta and (previously Auth0) fit together? 

Topic 3 - As an application developer, where and when do I need to think about identity and authentication, and when is it a function of the infrastructure? 

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through some common access and application patterns, so we have a better understanding of how many places that authentication, identity, access-mgmt come into play?  

Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about ownership and operations of these functional areas - do they own it, do they offload it to the cloud - what considerations do they need to make?

Topic 6 - How do developers typically engage with your teams and products/services? Do they need to be security experts first, or do you guide them through what to own and how Okta can offload core elements?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8896807 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1736 Public Cloud, Developers, Identity, Identity Management, Developers, Integrations, APIs, Cloud Services full false Comparing Public and Private Cloud Costs Comparing Public and Private Cloud Costs Comparing cloud costs between different environments can be complicated. Let’s look at the different factors that should be considered when comparing costs between clouds.   

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SHOW NOTES:

  1. Cloudcast Basics - Cloud Economics
  2. Cloud Pricing Comparisons


IS IT POSSIBLE TO COMPARE COSTS ACROSS CLOUDS?

A listener was asking for some guidance on how to build some tools to help them compare costs across clouds.  

COMPARING COSTS IS VERY COMPLICATED, BECAUSE THE USE-CASES VARY SO MUCH.

  1. Not going to provide a definitive price/amount
  2. Not going to focus on cloud migration costs

Things to Consider:

  • How long will a project use the resources? (short-term vs. long-term)
  • How much will the project scale/grow, up or down? How frequently will it change? 
  • How complex is your project/application? How many components are involved? 
  • Are these centralized, shared resources or will they be used on a per-project basis?
  • How do you currently account for costs? What’s included? What’s not (typically) accounted for? (e.g. centralized services)
  • Do you have the ability to do various types of accounting for costs? (time, capacity, longer contracts, all-you-can-eat, etc.)?
  • How is networking accounted for? (traffic, traffic flows, speed, ports, volume, etc.)
  • How is the data center accounted for? 
  • Is a free-tier part of the expectation? Is a POC or Trial part of the expectation?
  • Can your project be connected to the public internet? Can you provide usage metrics to external groups? 

 

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SHOW NOTES:

  1. Cloudcast Basics - Cloud Economics
  2. Cloud Pricing Comparisons


IS IT POSSIBLE TO COMPARE COSTS ACROSS CLOUDS?

A listener was asking for some guidance on how to build some tools to help them compare costs across clouds.  

COMPARING COSTS IS VERY COMPLICATED, BECAUSE THE USE-CASES VARY SO MUCH.

  1. Not going to provide a definitive price/amount
  2. Not going to focus on cloud migration costs

Things to Consider:

  • How long will a project use the resources? (short-term vs. long-term)
  • How much will the project scale/grow, up or down? How frequently will it change? 
  • How complex is your project/application? How many components are involved? 
  • Are these centralized, shared resources or will they be used on a per-project basis?
  • How do you currently account for costs? What’s included? What’s not (typically) accounted for? (e.g. centralized services)
  • Do you have the ability to do various types of accounting for costs? (time, capacity, longer contracts, all-you-can-eat, etc.)?
  • How is networking accounted for? (traffic, traffic flows, speed, ports, volume, etc.)
  • How is the data center accounted for? 
  • Is a free-tier part of the expectation? Is a POC or Trial part of the expectation?
  • Can your project be connected to the public internet? Can you provide usage metrics to external groups? 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8879561 Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1627 Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Cost Comparison full false State of Containers in the Public Cloud State of Containers in the Public Cloud Michael Gerstenhaber (@mikezvi, Sr.Director Prod Mgmt @Datadog) talks about the public cloud container usage, the evolution of Kubernetes adoption, application usage patterns and what's next.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your transition from engineer to product manager.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk out container usage in the public cloud. Beyond the rapid pace of growth/usage, what trends are you following the most closely?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique things that you have to do to monitor container usage, or provide unique data insights to containerized applications?

Topic 4 - We were surprised that only 50% of container usage is associated with Kubernetes. It’s been the de facto standard for the past several years. What else is orchestrating containers, or is it lots of one-off containers? 

Topic 5 - Large clusters are dominated by large nodes. That seems somewhat counter-intuitive. What do you think drives this pattern? 

Topic 6 - Lots of users are running older versions of Kubernetes. The CNCF has moved back to 3 releases a year. Do you expect that we’ll see longer life cycles supported in the future?

Topic 7 - Since the report was released, are you beginning to see any new trends that people should be keeping an eye on? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your transition from engineer to product manager.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk out container usage in the public cloud. Beyond the rapid pace of growth/usage, what trends are you following the most closely?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique things that you have to do to monitor container usage, or provide unique data insights to containerized applications?

Topic 4 - We were surprised that only 50% of container usage is associated with Kubernetes. It’s been the de facto standard for the past several years. What else is orchestrating containers, or is it lots of one-off containers? 

Topic 5 - Large clusters are dominated by large nodes. That seems somewhat counter-intuitive. What do you think drives this pattern? 

Topic 6 - Lots of users are running older versions of Kubernetes. The CNCF has moved back to 3 releases a year. Do you expect that we’ll see longer life cycles supported in the future?

Topic 7 - Since the report was released, are you beginning to see any new trends that people should be keeping an eye on? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8860728 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1950 Michael Gerstenhaber, Datadog, Containers, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Fargate, Autopilot. EKS, AKS, GKE full false The Transformation of Microsoft The Transformation of Microsoft Since Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, the transformation of Microsoft has been incredible. Let’s explore how he evolved the company from many previously missed opportunities.  

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SHOW NOTES:

  1. Microsoft Acquisitions
  2. History of Microsoft Xbox
  3. History of Microsoft Azure
  4. 10 Charts that will change your perspective on Microsoft


AREAS OF STRUGGLE FOR MICROSOFT pre-2014

  • Social Networking
  • Search
  • Mobile
  • Streaming Video
  • Mac vs. Windows

AREAS OF TRANSFORMATION UNDER SATYA NADELLA (since 2014)

  • Windows to OS Agnostic
  • Software company to Cloud computing company
  • Embrace Open Source Software
  • Gaming
  • Refocus on modern developers (VSCode, GitHub, OSS, etc.)
  • Microsoft Xbox and Surface (hardware)
  • Cybersecurity for the Internet
  • Not competing with customers and ecosystem
  • Collaboration systems

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SHOW NOTES:

  1. Microsoft Acquisitions
  2. History of Microsoft Xbox
  3. History of Microsoft Azure
  4. 10 Charts that will change your perspective on Microsoft


AREAS OF STRUGGLE FOR MICROSOFT pre-2014

  • Social Networking
  • Search
  • Mobile
  • Streaming Video
  • Mac vs. Windows

AREAS OF TRANSFORMATION UNDER SATYA NADELLA (since 2014)

  • Windows to OS Agnostic
  • Software company to Cloud computing company
  • Embrace Open Source Software
  • Gaming
  • Refocus on modern developers (VSCode, GitHub, OSS, etc.)
  • Microsoft Xbox and Surface (hardware)
  • Cybersecurity for the Internet
  • Not competing with customers and ecosystem
  • Collaboration systems

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8842910 Sun, 11 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1401 Microsoft, 2014, Satya Nadella, CEO, Linux, OSS, Cloud, Gaming, Hardware, Collaboration, Transformation full false Teach the Geeks to Speak Teach the Geeks to Speak Neil Thompson (@teachthegeek, Teach the Geek) talks about educating geeks and engineers in all fields of STEM about how to become a better communicator, storyteller and influencer.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Today we’re going to teach our audience some valuable skills. Tell us a little bit about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the intersection of geeks and how they communicate. In what ways do they feel comfortable communicating vs. uncomfortable communicating?

Topic 3 - We find that oftentimes geeks will focus more on their technical skills early in their career, and only later in their career do they recognize the importance of a broad set of communication skills. Do you find this to be a common pattern?

Topic 4 - What are some tips, tricks and ways to get better at communication? Which modes of communication (written, oral, story-telling, influence) are the most important?

Topic 5 - What are some ways that geeks can get the practice or experience needed to improve their communications? 


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SHOW: 529
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Today we’re going to teach our audience some valuable skills. Tell us a little bit about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the intersection of geeks and how they communicate. In what ways do they feel comfortable communicating vs. uncomfortable communicating?

Topic 3 - We find that oftentimes geeks will focus more on their technical skills early in their career, and only later in their career do they recognize the importance of a broad set of communication skills. Do you find this to be a common pattern?

Topic 4 - What are some tips, tricks and ways to get better at communication? Which modes of communication (written, oral, story-telling, influence) are the most important?

Topic 5 - What are some ways that geeks can get the practice or experience needed to improve their communications? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8823221 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2117 Teach the Geek, Neil Thompson, STEM, Communication Skills, Storytelling full false GitHub CoPilot, AWS Infinidash and the New Hotness GitHub CoPilot, AWS Infinidash and the New Hotness Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Let’s explore if our audience can tell the difference. 

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SOMETIMES SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW COMES ALONG...

It might be 5yrs, 10yrs or 100yrs, but eventually (sometimes) things change and they might be awesome! 

CAN WE EVER FIGURE OUT IF THE NEW STUFF IS REALLY NEW AND AWESOME?

GitHub CoPilot suggests lines of code or entire functions, within the context of your GitHub Codespace. It’s built on OpenAI Codex.

  • Real issues: Does it align licenses? Are the code suggestions secure? Do the suggestions write tests or docs? 
  • Maybe issues: Do we need good coders anymore? 
  • Maybe opportunities: Can you bootstrap an entire company on top of this? Enabling more people to code more easily is a good thing, right? 

AWS Infinidash is designed to address the one major issue that AWS hasn’t addressed yet - using their network is really expensive and it never gets cheaper. [NOTE: Pure Speculation, might not be 100% (or 1%) correct]

  •  Hybrid Cloud is a real thing, and IT networking is free, because you never see a bill for it.
  • AWS now loves Hybrid Cloud, and they also love the environment (it’s in the new Amazon Leadership Principles), so AWS Snowmobile isn’t a realistic options because it’s not 100% electric and self-driving, and because Amazon can now package your USB drives in the same packages they use with Amazon Prime, so they’ll be back daily to pick up data - Infinidash Prime.
  • Within AWS, all networking across AZs and Regions is now free, because people can’t follow the AWS best practices, and AWS doesn’t like people complaining when there is an outage that would be avoided by using Multi-AZ or Multi-Region. 
  • But how will AWS make money? Well, they invented Lambda with microsecond billing, so they really don’t even want you to use EC2 anymore. This has all been a long-game to get more people using Amazon Prime. 

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SOMETIMES SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW COMES ALONG...

It might be 5yrs, 10yrs or 100yrs, but eventually (sometimes) things change and they might be awesome! 

CAN WE EVER FIGURE OUT IF THE NEW STUFF IS REALLY NEW AND AWESOME?

GitHub CoPilot suggests lines of code or entire functions, within the context of your GitHub Codespace. It’s built on OpenAI Codex.

  • Real issues: Does it align licenses? Are the code suggestions secure? Do the suggestions write tests or docs? 
  • Maybe issues: Do we need good coders anymore? 
  • Maybe opportunities: Can you bootstrap an entire company on top of this? Enabling more people to code more easily is a good thing, right? 

AWS Infinidash is designed to address the one major issue that AWS hasn’t addressed yet - using their network is really expensive and it never gets cheaper. [NOTE: Pure Speculation, might not be 100% (or 1%) correct]

  •  Hybrid Cloud is a real thing, and IT networking is free, because you never see a bill for it.
  • AWS now loves Hybrid Cloud, and they also love the environment (it’s in the new Amazon Leadership Principles), so AWS Snowmobile isn’t a realistic options because it’s not 100% electric and self-driving, and because Amazon can now package your USB drives in the same packages they use with Amazon Prime, so they’ll be back daily to pick up data - Infinidash Prime.
  • Within AWS, all networking across AZs and Regions is now free, because people can’t follow the AWS best practices, and AWS doesn’t like people complaining when there is an outage that would be avoided by using Multi-AZ or Multi-Region. 
  • But how will AWS make money? Well, they invented Lambda with microsecond billing, so they really don’t even want you to use EC2 anymore. This has all been a long-game to get more people using Amazon Prime. 

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  • Twitter:&

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8806030 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1429 AWS, Infinidash, GitHub, CoPilot, AI, Pair-Programming, Magic, Awesomeness, Twitter full false Low Code meets Professional Developers Low Code meets Professional Developers Sanjiva Weerawarana (@sanjiva, CEO of @wso2) talks about the intersection of low-code and business applications, the Ballerina language, and the WSO2 iPaaS platform Choreo. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as an inventor, prior to founding WSO2.

Topic 2 - We are at a stage where every business opportunity requires new applications, and every application requires integration with multiple systems. Let’s begin by talking about your philosophy behind the Choreo iPaaS platform. 

Topic 3 - How do you view the intersection between low-code visual coding and the needs to get under the hood of the code for professional developers? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the common application-types or usage-patterns you’re seeing with early users of Choreo? What are some of the patterns that have surprised you? 

Topic 5 - Organizationally, do you see the iPaaS platform as being operated by an integrated team, or did you design it to be flexible about which teams/groups are engaged with or around the platform?

Topic 6 - There is quite a bit of intelligence and self-service built into the platform. Where do AI-driven guidance and self-service marketplaces fit into the way developers do their day-to-day jobs? 

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SHOW: 527

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as an inventor, prior to founding WSO2.

Topic 2 - We are at a stage where every business opportunity requires new applications, and every application requires integration with multiple systems. Let’s begin by talking about your philosophy behind the Choreo iPaaS platform. 

Topic 3 - How do you view the intersection between low-code visual coding and the needs to get under the hood of the code for professional developers? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the common application-types or usage-patterns you’re seeing with early users of Choreo? What are some of the patterns that have surprised you? 

Topic 5 - Organizationally, do you see the iPaaS platform as being operated by an integrated team, or did you design it to be flexible about which teams/groups are engaged with or around the platform?

Topic 6 - There is quite a bit of intelligence and self-service built into the platform. Where do AI-driven guidance and self-service marketplaces fit into the way developers do their day-to-day jobs? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8786127 Wed, 30 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2177 WSO2, iPaaS, Choreo, Low-Code, Ballerina, Developers full false Listener Mailbag Questions Listener Mailbag Questions We get a lot of questions from our audience each week, so we thought that it would be useful to answer some listener questions that aren’t easily answered during one of the podcasts. 

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CLOUDCAST LISTENER QUESTIONS

Thank you for all the questions. Send them to show@thecloudcast.net


CLOUD GROWTH, PEOPLE MOVEMENT, OPEN SOURCE TRENDS

Question 1 - Do you expect to see any significant changes to the top public clouds over the next few years?  - Sam A.

  • New AWS leadership; AWS profit center needed to keep driving the stock price
  • Microsoft capturing more of developers “native tools”; more willing to acquire
  • GCP coming up on the 2023 “1st or 2nd place” goal
  • “Edge” computing is just starting to take shape.
  • Will be interesting to watch how aggressive they get with acquisitions given the antitrust concerns from the US Congress

Question 2 - How is the open source world keeping up with the public cloud? - Melissa L.

  • Cloudera was recently acquired by private equity
  • IBM acquired Red Hat, and IBM is doubling down on Red Hat technologies
  • MongoDB continues to grow their Atlas business
  • Confluent is scheduled to IPO soon
  • Snowflake is trying to focus more on open APIs and ecosystems
  • Several companies (Solo, Hashicorp, Buoyant) recently launched cloud versions of their software
  • The public cloud providers continue to ride both sides of the fence regarding open source

Question 3 - Any opinions on the better way to reduce technical debt - lift and shift apps to the cloud, or modernize existing apps? - Sanjay R.

Question 4 - Is the recent consolidation in the IT training market a good thing or a bad thing? - Thomas A.

Question 5 - Are you seeing any post-COVID trends accelerating or gaining more traction?  - Michelle T.

Question 6 - Does it seem like less people are making big money after working for a tech startup than in the past? - Nadir M.


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SHOW NOTES:


CLOUDCAST LISTENER QUESTIONS

Thank you for all the questions. Send them to show@thecloudcast.net


CLOUD GROWTH, PEOPLE MOVEMENT, OPEN SOURCE TRENDS

Question 1 - Do you expect to see any significant changes to the top public clouds over the next few years?  - Sam A.

  • New AWS leadership; AWS profit center needed to keep driving the stock price
  • Microsoft capturing more of developers “native tools”; more willing to acquire
  • GCP coming up on the 2023 “1st or 2nd place” goal
  • “Edge” computing is just starting to take shape.
  • Will be interesting to watch how aggressive they get with acquisitions given the antitrust concerns from the US Congress

Question 2 - How is the open source world keeping up with the public cloud? - Melissa L.

  • Cloudera was recently acquired by private equity
  • IBM acquired Red Hat, and IBM is doubling down on Red Hat technologies
  • MongoDB continues to grow their Atlas business
  • Confluent is scheduled to IPO soon
  • Snowflake is trying to focus more on open APIs and ecosystems
  • Several companies (Solo, Hashicorp, Buoyant) recently launched cloud versions of their software
  • The public cloud providers continue to ride both sides of the fence regarding open source

Question 3 - Any opinions on the better way to reduce technical debt - lift and shift apps to the cloud, or modernize existing apps? - Sanjay R.

Question 4 - Is the recent consolidation in the IT training market a good thing or a bad thing? - Thomas A.

Question 5 - Are you seeing any post-COVID trends accelerating or gaining more traction?  - Michelle T.

Question 6 - Does it seem like less people are making big money after working for a tech startup than in the past? - Nadir M.


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8768917 Sun, 27 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1991 Public Cloud leaders, Cloud trends, Open Source monetization, COVID trends full false Mid-Year Cloud Hot Takes Mid-Year Cloud Hot Takes Brandon Whichard (@@bwhichard) joins us to talk about the @awscloud leadership transition, the future of @VMware, developer preferences, the return of live events, and OSS licensing strategies.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. How are things going over at Software Defined Talk? 

Topic 2 - Following a legendary leader has historically been very difficult. Do you foresee any issues with the transition from Besos to Jassy, and Jassy to Selipsky at Amazon/AWS? 

Topic 3 - Has any tech company been more influential, and yet not completely controlled their own destiny than VMware?  

Topic 3a - How do we bring gambling to the tech industry? The stock market moves too slow and too many interesting companies are private. For example, can we bet on the next ransomware target, or the next acquisition, or the next company to claim to be Observability?

Topic 4 - Is there a market segment more fragmented than “tools for developers”? There’s the “everyone is recreating Heroku” crowd; the “Serverless or die!” crowd, the “VSCode + GitHub” crowd, the Jamstack crowd, the iOS vs. Android crowd, Data Scientists crowd, etc...

Topic 5 - Between Clubhouse collapsing and all virtual events being snoozefests, has the last year essentially killed our desire in tech to get together in anything resembling “in person”? 

Topic 5a - What are the lasting and fading changes from the pandemic?

Topic 6 - Does it make complete tech-karma sense that the only two uses of Blockchain have turned out to be cryptocurrencies and NFTs? 

Topic 7 - We’ve seen a number of “OSS companies” try and change their licensing model to deal with competitive challenges from the public cloud. What do you predict will be their next move? Did that previous move do anything? 

Topic 8 - How disappointed are you that (seemingly) no big tech company took advantage of their growing stock price to take over their market via acquisitions?

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]]> Brandon Whichard (@@bwhichard) joins us to talk about the @awscloud leadership transition, the future of @VMware, developer preferences, the return of live events, and OSS licensing strategies.

SHOW: 525

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. How are things going over at Software Defined Talk? 

Topic 2 - Following a legendary leader has historically been very difficult. Do you foresee any issues with the transition from Besos to Jassy, and Jassy to Selipsky at Amazon/AWS? 

Topic 3 - Has any tech company been more influential, and yet not completely controlled their own destiny than VMware?  

Topic 3a - How do we bring gambling to the tech industry? The stock market moves too slow and too many interesting companies are private. For example, can we bet on the next ransomware target, or the next acquisition, or the next company to claim to be Observability?

Topic 4 - Is there a market segment more fragmented than “tools for developers”? There’s the “everyone is recreating Heroku” crowd; the “Serverless or die!” crowd, the “VSCode + GitHub” crowd, the Jamstack crowd, the iOS vs. Android crowd, Data Scientists crowd, etc...

Topic 5 - Between Clubhouse collapsing and all virtual events being snoozefests, has the last year essentially killed our desire in tech to get together in anything resembling “in person”? 

Topic 5a - What are the lasting and fading changes from the pandemic?

Topic 6 - Does it make complete tech-karma sense that the only two uses of Blockchain have turned out to be cryptocurrencies and NFTs? 

Topic 7 - We’ve seen a number of “OSS companies” try and change their licensing model to deal with competitive challenges from the public cloud. What do you predict will be their next move? Did that previous move do anything? 

Topic 8 - How disappointed are you that (seemingly) no big tech company took advantage of their growing stock price to take over their market via acquisitions?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8748084 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2781 Cloud, Cloud News, Cloud Predictions, Emerging Tech, Cloud Rumors, Software Defined Talk, Big Tech, Developers, AWS, VMware, Dell, DellEMC, OSS, Open Source Software full false Improving the Adoption Rate of New Tech Improving the Adoption Rate of New Tech A common question we often hear is, “How to improve our adoption rate of new technology?” 

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WHY DO WE HAVE ALL THESE IN-THE-MIDDLE JOBS?

DevRel, Advocates, Evangelists, Strategists. We’ve all heard about these job titles, but what do people in those roles actually do? And are they necessary?  

WHAT DO DEVREL, ADVOCATES, EVANGELISTS, TECHNICAL MARKETERS, STRATEGISTS DO, AND DO WE ACTUALLY NEED THEM?

  1. Every project, every market, every new technology has both short-term and long-term goals. Companies need to find a way to balance both goals.
  2. Successful teams, in every industry, have excellent in-between people. 
  3. In-between roles are a great way to learn the business, and build varied career paths. They usually aren’t career paths on their own. Many people don’t understand this. 
  4. DevRel / Advocate / Evangelist
  5. Technical Marketing
  6. Strategy

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SHOW NOTES:

WHY DO WE HAVE ALL THESE IN-THE-MIDDLE JOBS?

DevRel, Advocates, Evangelists, Strategists. We’ve all heard about these job titles, but what do people in those roles actually do? And are they necessary?  

WHAT DO DEVREL, ADVOCATES, EVANGELISTS, TECHNICAL MARKETERS, STRATEGISTS DO, AND DO WE ACTUALLY NEED THEM?

  1. Every project, every market, every new technology has both short-term and long-term goals. Companies need to find a way to balance both goals.
  2. Successful teams, in every industry, have excellent in-between people. 
  3. In-between roles are a great way to learn the business, and build varied career paths. They usually aren’t career paths on their own. Many people don’t understand this. 
  4. DevRel / Advocate / Evangelist
  5. Technical Marketing
  6. Strategy

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8728855 Sun, 20 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1461 DevRel, Advocates, Evangelists, Strategy, Tech Adoption, Cloud-native full false Automated Data Labeling for AI Apps Automated Data Labeling for AI Apps Alex Ratner (@ajratner, Co-Founder/CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about Snorkel’s evolution from Stanford AI Labs, the challenges of labeling data for AI modeling, and simplifying how AI applications can be built. 

SHOW: 523

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, the origins of the company, and a little bit about the founding team. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by framing the day in the life of a data scientist. There’s raw data, there’s a data sorting/organizing process, there’s model building, there’s results and analysis, and the cycle continues, etc. What parts are solved problems, what parts are commoditized, and where is there still room for improvement?

Topic 3 - Now that we understand today’s AI/ML/DataScience landscape, let’s talk about how Snorkel Flow and automated data labeling is able to evolve those environments

Topic 4 - Application Studio seems like the intersection of Low-Code and Industry-specific templates and the Python toolkit that data scientists understand. Walk us through the mindset of today’s data scientists in how they think about the “developer” part of their jobs.

Topic 5 - What are some of the frequent use-cases or business problem areas that you’ve seen drive early adoption of the Snorkel platform? 

Topic 6 - Where do you see Snorkel fitting into the broader ecosystem of AI capabilities that companies may already have in place? 

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SHOW: 523

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, the origins of the company, and a little bit about the founding team. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by framing the day in the life of a data scientist. There’s raw data, there’s a data sorting/organizing process, there’s model building, there’s results and analysis, and the cycle continues, etc. What parts are solved problems, what parts are commoditized, and where is there still room for improvement?

Topic 3 - Now that we understand today’s AI/ML/DataScience landscape, let’s talk about how Snorkel Flow and automated data labeling is able to evolve those environments

Topic 4 - Application Studio seems like the intersection of Low-Code and Industry-specific templates and the Python toolkit that data scientists understand. Walk us through the mindset of today’s data scientists in how they think about the “developer” part of their jobs.

Topic 5 - What are some of the frequent use-cases or business problem areas that you’ve seen drive early adoption of the Snorkel platform? 

Topic 6 - Where do you see Snorkel fitting into the broader ecosystem of AI capabilities that companies may already have in place? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8710109 Wed, 16 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2934 AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud, SnorkelAI, Data Models, Data Labels, Application Development full false Tips for Identifying Tech Trends Tips for Identifying Tech Trends For more than 10 years we’re interviewed the people that changed the tech world. What are some tips and tricks to identify which trends emerge, survive and fail? 

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IDENTIFYING TRENDS TO HIGHLIGHT ON THE PODCAST

  1. 522 shows, 57 companies acquired, $4.9B in VC funding, $58B in Acquisitions/IPOs
  2. Track Record of Founding Team, Macro Trends, Societal Trends

VC TRENDS vs. TECHNOLOGY TRENDS vs. CUSTOMER BUYING TRENDS

  1. There is a very long lifecycle between university research vs. early VC investments vs. early technology trends vs. customer buying trends. Often 10-20 years.
  2. Gracely’s Theorem: “There are very few truly new ideas, rather there are mostly advancements because of improved CPUs and Networking speeds.”
  3. The Platform vs. Feature test: A baseline platform or higher-level platform? 
  4. The Bed, Bath & Beyond test: Is it more than 50% cheaper than previous generations?
  5. The Friction test: Does it remove significant barriers to previous generations?
  6. The Don’t Fight a Land War in Asia test: Is it trying to be too many things to too many people?
  7. The Follow-the-Money test: How do companies around this technology make money? Does the ecosystem make money? Are there adjacent paths to monetization?
  8. The Culture Change test: People don’t like change, especially for change’s sake. Changing culture is one of the hardest things to do at most companies. 
  9. The Re-Education test: How much of a learning curve is required to make this technology successful? 

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SHOW NOTES:

IDENTIFYING TRENDS TO HIGHLIGHT ON THE PODCAST

  1. 522 shows, 57 companies acquired, $4.9B in VC funding, $58B in Acquisitions/IPOs
  2. Track Record of Founding Team, Macro Trends, Societal Trends

VC TRENDS vs. TECHNOLOGY TRENDS vs. CUSTOMER BUYING TRENDS

  1. There is a very long lifecycle between university research vs. early VC investments vs. early technology trends vs. customer buying trends. Often 10-20 years.
  2. Gracely’s Theorem: “There are very few truly new ideas, rather there are mostly advancements because of improved CPUs and Networking speeds.”
  3. The Platform vs. Feature test: A baseline platform or higher-level platform? 
  4. The Bed, Bath & Beyond test: Is it more than 50% cheaper than previous generations?
  5. The Friction test: Does it remove significant barriers to previous generations?
  6. The Don’t Fight a Land War in Asia test: Is it trying to be too many things to too many people?
  7. The Follow-the-Money test: How do companies around this technology make money? Does the ecosystem make money? Are there adjacent paths to monetization?
  8. The Culture Change test: People don’t like change, especially for change’s sake. Changing culture is one of the hardest things to do at most companies. 
  9. The Re-Education test: How much of a learning curve is required to make this technology successful? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8690778 Sun, 13 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1640 Tech Trends, Cloud Computing, Cost Savings, Founding Teams, VC Funding, Follow the Money full false Building Private 5G Networks Building Private 5G Networks Rob Parsons (Practice Director, Network and Integrated Security, Insight Enterprises) talks about advances in edge computing, connections to edge using 5G, and CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) as an emerging use case.

SHOW: 521

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s focus, tell us about your background and how you’ve come to focus on CBRS. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the basics of CBRS. What are the underlying technologies, how does it work? 

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common use-cases for CBRS technologies? What are some of the problems it solves that can’t be solved with 5G/LTE or WiFi? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the design considerations that companies need to make in deploying and maintaining CBRS systems? 

Topic 5 - Is there an ecosystem of applications that are specifically built to run on CBRS systems, or are they more specific to the use-case (e.g. municipalities, manufacturing, etc.)?

Topic 6 - How much of a learning curve does CBRS present to teams that have networking and security background? 

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SHOW: 521

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s focus, tell us about your background and how you’ve come to focus on CBRS. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the basics of CBRS. What are the underlying technologies, how does it work? 

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common use-cases for CBRS technologies? What are some of the problems it solves that can’t be solved with 5G/LTE or WiFi? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the design considerations that companies need to make in deploying and maintaining CBRS systems? 

Topic 5 - Is there an ecosystem of applications that are specifically built to run on CBRS systems, or are they more specific to the use-case (e.g. municipalities, manufacturing, etc.)?

Topic 6 - How much of a learning curve does CBRS present to teams that have networking and security background? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8669473 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1920 5G, Private Networks, CBRS, Edge Computing, Edge Networking full false Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management While there are scenarios where public cloud is much less expensive than data centers, there are times when it’s much more expensive. Is repatriation a viable way to manage cloud costs? 

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ARTICLE QUOTES: 

Repatriation results in one-third to one-half the cost of running equivalent workloads in the cloud

You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.

infrastructure spend should be a first-class metric

THE CASE FOR REPATRIATION

  1. Cloud costs are a large % of Cost of Sales (often times 50-80%)
  2. Cloud providers operate on large margins (e.g. AWS at 30%)
  3. Repatriation could reduce costs 30-50% of existing cloud spend

THE REALITIES OF REPATRIATION

  1. The case in the article is primarily based on 25-40x valuation multiples for software companies. While every companies believes they are a software company today, not every company is getting 25-40x revenue multiple from the market.  
  2. All repatriation calculations begin with, “if you run a highly efficient data center”
  3. All repatriation calculations next involve, “assuming you have the talent to run a cloud”
  4. Repatriation is technical debt. How does your company typically handle that?
  5. Less than 100% repatriation creates multiple operational models (ops, billing, security, etc.)
  6. Most companies use a subset of the features in any given cloud.
  7. Can you create a financial situation in your data center that’s similar to the cloud?

 

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Repatriation results in one-third to one-half the cost of running equivalent workloads in the cloud

You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.

infrastructure spend should be a first-class metric

THE CASE FOR REPATRIATION

  1. Cloud costs are a large % of Cost of Sales (often times 50-80%)
  2. Cloud providers operate on large margins (e.g. AWS at 30%)
  3. Repatriation could reduce costs 30-50% of existing cloud spend

THE REALITIES OF REPATRIATION

  1. The case in the article is primarily based on 25-40x valuation multiples for software companies. While every companies believes they are a software company today, not every company is getting 25-40x revenue multiple from the market.  
  2. All repatriation calculations begin with, “if you run a highly efficient data center”
  3. All repatriation calculations next involve, “assuming you have the talent to run a cloud”
  4. Repatriation is technical debt. How does your company typically handle that?
  5. Less than 100% repatriation creates multiple operational models (ops, billing, security, etc.)
  6. Most companies use a subset of the features in any given cloud.
  7. Can you create a financial situation in your data center that’s similar to the cloud?

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8649587 Sun, 06 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1651 a16z, Repatriation, AWS, Public Cloud, Dropbox, Cost Savings full false No Code vs. Low Code No Code vs. Low Code Gary Hoberman (@GaryHoberman, Founder / CEO of @Unqork) talks about No Code vs. Low Code, Bringing No Code into the Enterprise, and evolving industry experience. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s topic, let’s talk about your background and what motivated you to found Unqork. 

Topic 2 - There are a ton of ways that some technologies get positioned as silver bullets or catch-all. First of all, how do you think about this space from the perspective of a business user? 

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the distinction between “low-code” and “no-code” and how the tradeoffs or differences actually impact users of the system.

Topic 4 - With systems like these, there is an expectation that the system has quite a bit of knowledge, which creates these “highly opinionated” workflows. You’ve worked at large companies, which also have opinions based on existing culture or experience. How do you work groups through adopting these newer concepts?

Topic 5 - This segment of the market is extremely “hyped” at this stage, with lots of companies. Help us understand how to put a frame around understanding the various options that are available in the market. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s topic, let’s talk about your background and what motivated you to found Unqork. 

Topic 2 - There are a ton of ways that some technologies get positioned as silver bullets or catch-all. First of all, how do you think about this space from the perspective of a business user? 

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the distinction between “low-code” and “no-code” and how the tradeoffs or differences actually impact users of the system.

Topic 4 - With systems like these, there is an expectation that the system has quite a bit of knowledge, which creates these “highly opinionated” workflows. You’ve worked at large companies, which also have opinions based on existing culture or experience. How do you work groups through adopting these newer concepts?

Topic 5 - This segment of the market is extremely “hyped” at this stage, with lots of companies. Help us understand how to put a frame around understanding the various options that are available in the market. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8628436 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2126 No Code, Low Code, Development, DevOps, CI/CD, Code full false The State of Serverless The State of Serverless Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn, Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless applications in the public cloud, adoption rates, as well as how serverless is deployed along with containers

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Before we dive into the latest serverless trends, let’s talk a little bit about your background and focus at Datadog.

Topic 1a - This is the 2nd year of the State of Serverless report. Tell us about the scope and the methodology used.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the growth (by breadth) of the overall Serverless market. Who is using serverless, and where are they consuming it from? 

Topic 3 - Your data shows that AWS Lambda is evolving in a couple different ways - both shorter lived usage (average) and involved in a broader set of use-cases (via Step Functions). It sounds like Serverless is becoming more mainstream as it branches out.

Topic 4 - Language popularity is always an area of interest - what are the most popular languages for building serverless apps? 

Topic 5 - Given how granular Lambda billing has become, and how frameworks like Serverless and Step Functions are being used, were you surprised at the low rate of automation around serverless functions? 

Topic 6 - This year it seems like Edge use-cases for Serverless have really grown. I’d expect this to continue as we’re seeing both CloudFlare and AWS recently expanding their Serverless edge capabilities within their CDN offerings.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Before we dive into the latest serverless trends, let’s talk a little bit about your background and focus at Datadog.

Topic 1a - This is the 2nd year of the State of Serverless report. Tell us about the scope and the methodology used.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the growth (by breadth) of the overall Serverless market. Who is using serverless, and where are they consuming it from? 

Topic 3 - Your data shows that AWS Lambda is evolving in a couple different ways - both shorter lived usage (average) and involved in a broader set of use-cases (via Step Functions). It sounds like Serverless is becoming more mainstream as it branches out.

Topic 4 - Language popularity is always an area of interest - what are the most popular languages for building serverless apps? 

Topic 5 - Given how granular Lambda billing has become, and how frameworks like Serverless and Step Functions are being used, were you surprised at the low rate of automation around serverless functions? 

Topic 6 - This year it seems like Edge use-cases for Serverless have really grown. I’d expect this to continue as we’re seeing both CloudFlare and AWS recently expanding their Serverless edge capabilities within their CDN offerings.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8589581 Wed, 26 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1642 Datadog, Serverless, Lamba, AWS, FaaS, Functions, Python, Java, Containers, DevOps, Event Driven full false Build More Features or More Services Build More Features or More Services The tradeoff between building more features on existing platforms vs. building more new individual services is always a complex decision. Let’s look at the pros and cons of each.

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PLATFORMS vs. SERVICES vs. INCREMENTAL CHANGE

  1. Platforms deliver a broad set of horizontal or vertical services
  2. Services tend to be focused on individual capabilities
  3. Features can be added to either, but where to add the feature?
  4. Services could be built on top of each other, but then is it a feature or a service?

DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO MAINTAIN A SERVICE FOREVER?

  1. Should you ever deprecate a service (e.g. turn it off, not be backwards compatible)?
  2. Can you leave the service “on” if nobody is using it?
  3. When do you decide to build a new service instead of just extending or improving another one? 
  4. Do you have to create tools to migrate from one service to another?
  5. Do you have to create interoperability from one service to another?
  6. At what point have you added too many features to a platform (or service) to where the market (or internal customers) think that it’s too heavy - even when features don’t have to be used?

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PLATFORMS vs. SERVICES vs. INCREMENTAL CHANGE

  1. Platforms deliver a broad set of horizontal or vertical services
  2. Services tend to be focused on individual capabilities
  3. Features can be added to either, but where to add the feature?
  4. Services could be built on top of each other, but then is it a feature or a service?

DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO MAINTAIN A SERVICE FOREVER?

  1. Should you ever deprecate a service (e.g. turn it off, not be backwards compatible)?
  2. Can you leave the service “on” if nobody is using it?
  3. When do you decide to build a new service instead of just extending or improving another one? 
  4. Do you have to create tools to migrate from one service to another?
  5. Do you have to create interoperability from one service to another?
  6. At what point have you added too many features to a platform (or service) to where the market (or internal customers) think that it’s too heavy - even when features don’t have to be used?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8567467 Sun, 23 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1536 Platforms, Services, PaaS, Database, AWS, Azure, GCP, Containers full false Serverless Trends within AWS Serverless Trends within AWS Julian Wood (@julian_wood, Sr. Developer Advocate @AWSCloud) talks about the evolution of serverless from niche to mainstream applications, and how the technology stack has evolved to a broad set of use-cases.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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SHOW NOTES:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8547045 Wed, 19 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2653 AWS, Cloud, Lambda, Serverless, FaaS, Functions-as-a-Service, AWS Cloud, Cloud Computing full false Technology never has an off-season Technology never has an off-season Technology never stops evolving. But people needs breaks to recharge, re-evaluate and re-establish goals. So how can we balance the two? 

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

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

HOW TO MANAGE THE LACK OF AN OFF-SEASON

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

 

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

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

HOW TO MANAGE THE LACK OF AN OFF-SEASON

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

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8520463 Sun, 16 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1279 full false ksqlDB Database for Streaming Events ksqlDB Database for Streaming Events Michael Drogalis (@MichaelDrogalis, Product Manager @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of Kafka, the challenges of data management with event-driven systems, and the ksqlDB Database.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8503941 Wed, 12 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1832 Michael Drogalis, Kafka, Confluent, kslDB, Database, Event-Driven full false Lessons learned...Mother's Day Edition Lessons learned...Mother's Day Edition In honor of International Mother's Day, we focus today's show on the lessons learned from moms, and how they can impact and influence your life in tech (and beyond). Don't forget to call you mom.

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM MOMS

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


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LESSONS LEARNED FROM MOMS

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


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8482591 Sun, 09 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 958 full false Running Databases on Kubernetes Running Databases on Kubernetes Anil Kumar (@anilkumar1129, Director of Product Mgmt @Couchbase) talks about how Kubernetes has evolved to support stateful applications, enabling Couchbase to run on Kubernetes, the advantages of Operators, and NoSQL adoption models. 

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8461100 Wed, 05 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1807 Couchbase, Anil Kumar, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Stateful, Database, NoSQL full false Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough? Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough? Public cloud is expected to grow 23% (overall) in 2021. Is that a fast enough pace of growth, or are there still significant barriers to adoption and faster growth?

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IS THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING QUICKLY? 

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

WHY ISN"T THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING FASTER?

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


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IS THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING QUICKLY? 

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

WHY ISN"T THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING FASTER?

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


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8439849 Sun, 02 May 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1755 Apple, iOS, Android, AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM, Alibaba, Digital Ocean, IT Spending, Public Cloud full false Expanding Open Source in the Cloud Expanding Open Source in the Cloud Heikki Nousiaine (@hnousiainen, Founder/CTO at @aiven_io) talks about how Aiven delivers a broad set of open source data and messaging services via the public cloud, as a managed service. 

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

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

  • SRE / Support Models
  • Pricing Models
  • Integrating with the underlying cloud

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

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

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

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


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

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

  • SRE / Support Models
  • Pricing Models
  • Integrating with the underlying cloud

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8397389 Sun, 25 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1182 Kubernetes, Serverless, Service Mesh, Multi-Cloud Management, Edge, Telco 5G, CNCF full false Why Silicon Matters in the Cloud Why Silicon Matters in the Cloud Garry Binder (@garrybinder, Chief Security Architect @Intel) talks about the challenges of public cloud scale, performance and security.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8373797 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1908 Intel, Pat Gelsinger, Ice Lake, SGX, Confidential Computing, Garry Binder, Security, AWS, Azure, GCP, Public Cloud, Silicon full false 10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry 10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry Over the course of a career, you'll have to make critical decisions about jobs, managers, salaries, technical vs. business focus, and career paths. These 10 tips can help to make better decisions. 

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10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry

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


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10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry

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


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8351561 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1528 Career, Job, Salary, Mentors, Community, Certifications, Continuous Learning, Communication Skills full false Managing Unstructured Data in the Cloud Managing Unstructured Data in the Cloud Paige Hinckley, (Sr. Director Global Alliances & GTM @Qumulo) talks about the evolution of scalable file and unstructured data in the public cloud. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into discussing data in the cloud, let’s talk a little bit about your background, as you’ve been at the center of several recent technology transitions? 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by understanding how the use of file data has changed over the years. So many applications involve video, or huge data lakes for analytics, or massive content repositories for research. How has the scale evolved over the years? 

Topic 3 - Qumulo does some very unique things around scalability and performance that are very critical for industries like media/entertainment, healthcare, research. What are some of the use cases that best take advantage of Qumulo Q Cloud? 

Topic 4 - As you work with companies moving file data to the cloud, what are some of the tips and lessons you’ve seen that lead to faster success? 

Topic 5 - How does Qumulo work with partners in the tech industry to bring your innovation to customers?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into discussing data in the cloud, let’s talk a little bit about your background, as you’ve been at the center of several recent technology transitions? 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by understanding how the use of file data has changed over the years. So many applications involve video, or huge data lakes for analytics, or massive content repositories for research. How has the scale evolved over the years? 

Topic 3 - Qumulo does some very unique things around scalability and performance that are very critical for industries like media/entertainment, healthcare, research. What are some of the use cases that best take advantage of Qumulo Q Cloud? 

Topic 4 - As you work with companies moving file data to the cloud, what are some of the tips and lessons you’ve seen that lead to faster success? 

Topic 5 - How does Qumulo work with partners in the tech industry to bring your innovation to customers?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8330500 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1425 Qumulo, Paige Hinckley, Files, Unstructured Data, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud, Media, Healthcare full false Lessons Learned from docker Lessons Learned from docker The docker project evolved out of the PaaS movement, unlocking polyglot cloud-native applications. But it was only a piece of the puzzle to enable platforms, applications and a broader ecosystem. What lessons can be learned from the docker ecosystem?

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HOW DID docker/DOCKER EVOLVE?

Between 2008 and 2013, dozens of PaaS platforms emerged. Within the platform, they all had a model for allocating compute resources, mostly through the use of Linux LXC and cGroups -- what would become containers. dotCloud was the PaaS company started by Solomon Hykes that eventually became Docker. 

LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

  • Containers were a fundamental building block for next-gen applications and platforms.
  • Docker/docker created a massive community of users, but frustrated the ecosystem of partners. 
  • Project / Company naming conflicts are very hard to resolve (“docker” vs. “Docker”)
  • Successful ecosystems allow a broad set of participants to monetize different elements of the technology. Not having a monetization model is not a good plan. 
  • Docker was the last software company to not monetize through offering a managed/SaaS cloud service. 

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HOW DID docker/DOCKER EVOLVE?

Between 2008 and 2013, dozens of PaaS platforms emerged. Within the platform, they all had a model for allocating compute resources, mostly through the use of Linux LXC and cGroups -- what would become containers. dotCloud was the PaaS company started by Solomon Hykes that eventually became Docker. 

LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

  • Containers were a fundamental building block for next-gen applications and platforms.
  • Docker/docker created a massive community of users, but frustrated the ecosystem of partners. 
  • Project / Company naming conflicts are very hard to resolve (“docker” vs. “Docker”)
  • Successful ecosystems allow a broad set of participants to monetize different elements of the technology. Not having a monetization model is not a good plan. 
  • Docker was the last software company to not monetize through offering a managed/SaaS cloud service. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8309628 Sun, 11 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1709 docker, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm, Soloman Hykes, Ben Golub, Mesos, LXC, PaaS, dotCloud full false DevOps Efficiency through Integration DevOps Efficiency through Integration Brendan O’Leary (@olearycrew, Sr. Dev Evangelist @GitLab, CNCF Board) talks about Developer Productivity, how to improve flow, integrated tool chains, and tips to improve organizational dynamics.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Software supply-chains have been in the news quite a bit lately. Before we get into that, tell us about your background and what gets you passionate about developer productivity? 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about “the State of Developer Productivity” in 2021. What are developers able to do well, and where are their big bottlenecks today? 

Topic 3 - I constantly get questions of “do we fix this with better tools, or better organizations. I’m pretty sure the answer is a combination of both, but do you see one side or the other having a bigger impact? 

Topic 4 - GitLab does a very good job bringing together the tools developers need across the software-supply chain. When do you see an integrated “platform” gain more adoption, and when does the developer desire for “pick our tools” tend to stay in place?   

Topic 5 - Is the Solarwinds hack making a lot of companies rethink how they build software? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best tips you have to help developer teams get more efficient, more productive? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Software supply-chains have been in the news quite a bit lately. Before we get into that, tell us about your background and what gets you passionate about developer productivity? 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about “the State of Developer Productivity” in 2021. What are developers able to do well, and where are their big bottlenecks today? 

Topic 3 - I constantly get questions of “do we fix this with better tools, or better organizations. I’m pretty sure the answer is a combination of both, but do you see one side or the other having a bigger impact? 

Topic 4 - GitLab does a very good job bringing together the tools developers need across the software-supply chain. When do you see an integrated “platform” gain more adoption, and when does the developer desire for “pick our tools” tend to stay in place?   

Topic 5 - Is the Solarwinds hack making a lot of companies rethink how they build software? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best tips you have to help developer teams get more efficient, more productive? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8285757 Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2353 Brendan O’Leary, GitLabs, DevOps, CI/CD, Software Supply-Chain, Solarwinds full false Simpler Clouds on the Horizon Simpler Clouds on the Horizon Cloud was supposed to make computing easier, but it’s now as complicated or more complicated than legacy data centers and apps. Is there any future in a simpler cloud?

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SIMPLIFYING CLOUD

APPLICATIONS - SaaS, RPA, Low-Code and PaaS v2

  • Small Business as-a-Service
  • Multinational Business-as-a-Service
  • DemandGen-as-a-Service

PRICING - Cost Management has its own complex ecosystem

  • The cloud bill is always an unknown

INTERCONNECTING SERVICES - Are the APIs easy enough to integrate

  • Mulesoft, Red Hat Integration, Apigee, etc. for the older stuff
  • Is cross-SaaS integration easy enough? 


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SIMPLIFYING CLOUD

APPLICATIONS - SaaS, RPA, Low-Code and PaaS v2

  • Small Business as-a-Service
  • Multinational Business-as-a-Service
  • DemandGen-as-a-Service

PRICING - Cost Management has its own complex ecosystem

  • The cloud bill is always an unknown

INTERCONNECTING SERVICES - Are the APIs easy enough to integrate

  • Mulesoft, Red Hat Integration, Apigee, etc. for the older stuff
  • Is cross-SaaS integration easy enough? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8267377 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1194 Simplified Clouds, Low-Code, PaaS, SaaS, RPA, DigitalOcean, Integration, On-Demand Pricing full false Reliability as a Service Reliability as a Service Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre, Director of SRE at @nobl9inc) talks about the evolution of SRE teams, implementing SLOs, and enabling AppDev and Ops teams to better manage reliability.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Congratulations on the launch of Nobl9. Before we get into that, let’s talk about your background and what got you focused on SREs and SLOs.

Topic 2 - We’ve spoken about the role of SRE quite a bit the last few years, but not as much about SLOs - and how to achieve them. Paint us some broad brush strokes about the world of SLOs today, and how they are different from SLAs or other commonly used measurements and metrics. 

Topic 3 - So how do we start taking the SLO concepts and start making them actionable?

Topic 4 - How does a move to a SLO-centric model change the AppDev or the Ops teams?   

Topic 5 - Is there a “low-hanging fruit” in an adoption of SLO-centric capabilities, or does it take quite a bit of top-down and bottom-up change? 

Topic 6 - What’s a good way to get started with the Nobl9 platform?


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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Congratulations on the launch of Nobl9. Before we get into that, let’s talk about your background and what got you focused on SREs and SLOs.

Topic 2 - We’ve spoken about the role of SRE quite a bit the last few years, but not as much about SLOs - and how to achieve them. Paint us some broad brush strokes about the world of SLOs today, and how they are different from SLAs or other commonly used measurements and metrics. 

Topic 3 - So how do we start taking the SLO concepts and start making them actionable?

Topic 4 - How does a move to a SLO-centric model change the AppDev or the Ops teams?   

Topic 5 - Is there a “low-hanging fruit” in an adoption of SLO-centric capabilities, or does it take quite a bit of top-down and bottom-up change? 

Topic 6 - What’s a good way to get started with the Nobl9 platform?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8244124 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1989 Alex Hidalgo, Nobl9, SRE, SLO, AppDev, DevOps, full false Three Types of Technology Leaders Three Types of Technology Leaders Technology leaders have many different focus areas and motivations. On today’s show, we’ll discuss three common types of leaders - Visionaries, Maintainers and Resume-Builders.

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THREE TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY LEADERS

VISIONARIES | TRANSFORMERS

  • Speak in stories, painting big pictures.
  • Truly understand the overall business, the broader markets, and the potentially changing landscapes ahead over both the near-term and long-term
  • Understand the timing of the markets and when change is needed vs. nice-to-have
  • Understand the breadth of competitive threats to the business
  • Understand both opportunities and opportunity costs 

MAINTAINERS | PROTECTORS 

  • Would like to be a visionary, but always default back to focusing on re-optimizing legacy investments
  • Tend to believe that all decisions are build vs. buy. Aren’t focused on creating longer-term partnerships
  • Run long RFI processes vs. creating a mindset of incremental experimental scenarios.
  • Have a protectionist mindset (“avoid vendor lock-in”) with new opportunities, but don’t release that with sunk costs. 

RESUME BUILDERS

  • Recognize that the world is moving fast (lots of new technologies, business models), but aren’t in an optimal starting position.
  • Establish a big, audacious goal that portrays a visionary mindset. 
  • Establish an “everything” or “all-inclusive” policy, even when it doesn’t make economic sense. 
  • The old 5yrs of building an ERP system is now the 2yrs of transforming to the cloud. Springboard to build the resume without finishing the project. 


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THREE TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY LEADERS

VISIONARIES | TRANSFORMERS

  • Speak in stories, painting big pictures.
  • Truly understand the overall business, the broader markets, and the potentially changing landscapes ahead over both the near-term and long-term
  • Understand the timing of the markets and when change is needed vs. nice-to-have
  • Understand the breadth of competitive threats to the business
  • Understand both opportunities and opportunity costs 

MAINTAINERS | PROTECTORS 

  • Would like to be a visionary, but always default back to focusing on re-optimizing legacy investments
  • Tend to believe that all decisions are build vs. buy. Aren’t focused on creating longer-term partnerships
  • Run long RFI processes vs. creating a mindset of incremental experimental scenarios.
  • Have a protectionist mindset (“avoid vendor lock-in”) with new opportunities, but don’t release that with sunk costs. 

RESUME BUILDERS

  • Recognize that the world is moving fast (lots of new technologies, business models), but aren’t in an optimal starting position.
  • Establish a big, audacious goal that portrays a visionary mindset. 
  • Establish an “everything” or “all-inclusive” policy, even when it doesn’t make economic sense. 
  • The old 5yrs of building an ERP system is now the 2yrs of transforming to the cloud. Springboard to build the resume without finishing the project. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8222576 Sun, 28 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1603 Pioneers Settlers Townplanners, Visionaries, Maintainers, Resume Builders, Tech Leaders full false From Engineer to Technology Leadership From Engineer to Technology Leadership Nick Weaver (@lynxbat, VP Architecture, Innovation, Data/Analytics at @Dicks) talks about the journey from engineer to technology leader within large corporations, the challenges of leading teams during COVID, and the realities of digital transformation.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been almost two years. What are you up to these days?

Topic 2 - The last 5-6 years, you’ve really embraced moving from being a hard-core, hands-on engineer to being a leader of very large technology teams, projects and initiatives. Walk us through some of the new muscles developed, some of the unexpected, and some of the stuff you still need to figure out.

Topic 3 - When you were at Nike, you lived through a legitimate “digital transformation”, both in how the company engaged with the market, but also how you dealt with suppliers/vendors. Help us understand some of the dynamics in going through those changes.

Topic 4 - We all know lots of people on the vendor side of things, and how those dynamics work as people compete, collaborate or change companies. How does that work amongst “customers”, either in the same industry or cross-industry?

Topic 5 - You’re still a technologist at heart. What technologies are interesting to you these days? 

Topic 6 - From where you are today, how would you mentor a young Nick Weaver that just did a 5 minute demo during an EMCworld keynote in 2008-2009? 


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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been almost two years. What are you up to these days?

Topic 2 - The last 5-6 years, you’ve really embraced moving from being a hard-core, hands-on engineer to being a leader of very large technology teams, projects and initiatives. Walk us through some of the new muscles developed, some of the unexpected, and some of the stuff you still need to figure out.

Topic 3 - When you were at Nike, you lived through a legitimate “digital transformation”, both in how the company engaged with the market, but also how you dealt with suppliers/vendors. Help us understand some of the dynamics in going through those changes.

Topic 4 - We all know lots of people on the vendor side of things, and how those dynamics work as people compete, collaborate or change companies. How does that work amongst “customers”, either in the same industry or cross-industry?

Topic 5 - You’re still a technologist at heart. What technologies are interesting to you these days? 

Topic 6 - From where you are today, how would you mentor a young Nick Weaver that just did a 5 minute demo during an EMCworld keynote in 2008-2009? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8196696 Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0400 2182 Nick Weaver, Nike, Dick's Sporting Goods, Engineering, Technology Leader, AI/ML full false Did COVID transform Tech? Did COVID transform Tech? The COVID-19 pandemic will last ~18 months, but how long will the impact to the technology industry last? 

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HOW WILL COVID CHANGE THE TECH INDUSTRY?

REMOTE WORK and COLLABORATION

  • The foundational tools are in place (GitHub, Zoom, Slack, Jira, Public Cloud) but are they really designed for large # of remote workers collaborating? 
  • Event sign-ups were up 5-10x, but have people actually been consuming the content? 
  • Will companies continue to encourage and support remote workers, or do we see a boomerang in late 2021 and 2022? 

MORE RAPID ADOPTION OF THE PUBLIC CLOUD

  • Less people in the office, so more adoption of public clouds?
  • Public clouds grew, but not at faster rates than before - 2021/2022 might be better indicators, as 2020 had “budget concerns” for many companies (uncertainty)
  • More adoption of SaaS-like offerings (be near the clouds, align buying models, more flexible)
  • Acceleration of more agile approaches, as the world becomes more polarized - hence stability may be shorter intervals? 

WHY DIDN’T THE CLOUD PROVIDERS DO MORE?

  • Cloud providers have massive cash reserves (Microsoft, $137B, Google $112B, Amazon $50B), but no major acquisitions.
  • Nobody has initiate price-wars, but we are seeing more long-range ELAs announced

WHERE IS THE “NEXT BIG THING”?

  • 2006/2007 - iPhone, AWS launch ; 2008 Financial Crash
  • 2020 - ???


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SHOW NOTES:

HOW WILL COVID CHANGE THE TECH INDUSTRY?

REMOTE WORK and COLLABORATION

  • The foundational tools are in place (GitHub, Zoom, Slack, Jira, Public Cloud) but are they really designed for large # of remote workers collaborating? 
  • Event sign-ups were up 5-10x, but have people actually been consuming the content? 
  • Will companies continue to encourage and support remote workers, or do we see a boomerang in late 2021 and 2022? 

MORE RAPID ADOPTION OF THE PUBLIC CLOUD

  • Less people in the office, so more adoption of public clouds?
  • Public clouds grew, but not at faster rates than before - 2021/2022 might be better indicators, as 2020 had “budget concerns” for many companies (uncertainty)
  • More adoption of SaaS-like offerings (be near the clouds, align buying models, more flexible)
  • Acceleration of more agile approaches, as the world becomes more polarized - hence stability may be shorter intervals? 

WHY DIDN’T THE CLOUD PROVIDERS DO MORE?

  • Cloud providers have massive cash reserves (Microsoft, $137B, Google $112B, Amazon $50B), but no major acquisitions.
  • Nobody has initiate price-wars, but we are seeing more long-range ELAs announced

WHERE IS THE “NEXT BIG THING”?

  • 2006/2007 - iPhone, AWS launch ; 2008 Financial Crash
  • 2020 - ???


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8177696 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1495 COVID, Pandemic, Remote Work, Work from Home, Collaboration, SaaS, AWS, Azure, Google, Next Big Thing full false Understanding SaaS Financial Models Understanding SaaS Financial Models Ben Murray (@br_murray, Founder of SaaS CFO and SaaS Academy) talks about how to understand the financial models behind successful SaaS companies, the tradeoffs on profit vs. growth, and how to spot the health of SaaS businesses.

SHOW: 498

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We don’t usually get CFOs on the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what brought you into the SaaS world. 

Topic 2 - The more we study SaaS companies, the more it seems like everyone needs to understand the financial model and associated metrics (executives, product managers, marketing, customer service, etc.). How do you go about teaching best practices to SaaS companies?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the core financial concepts that SaaS companies need to think about (CAC, MRR, ACV, LCV, Churn, Gross Margin, etc.)

Topic 4 - Are there some common financial patterns (metrics, ratios, etc,) to tell how a SaaS company is doing (good or bad)? If so, are there established best-practices to get them out of bad situations?  

Topic 5 - Can you help us better understand why some people get excited when a SaaS company has revenue growth and loses money, and others freak out? Help us understand that in growth stages vs. stable stages. (SaaS Rule of 40?)

Topic 6 - Have you found that SaaS businesses are unique in their financial modeling, or can some of these best practices be applied to non-SaaS software businesses?

Topic 7 - You just started SaaS CFO and SaaS Academy. Give us an overview of what people will learn. 

 

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SHOW: 498

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We don’t usually get CFOs on the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what brought you into the SaaS world. 

Topic 2 - The more we study SaaS companies, the more it seems like everyone needs to understand the financial model and associated metrics (executives, product managers, marketing, customer service, etc.). How do you go about teaching best practices to SaaS companies?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the core financial concepts that SaaS companies need to think about (CAC, MRR, ACV, LCV, Churn, Gross Margin, etc.)

Topic 4 - Are there some common financial patterns (metrics, ratios, etc,) to tell how a SaaS company is doing (good or bad)? If so, are there established best-practices to get them out of bad situations?  

Topic 5 - Can you help us better understand why some people get excited when a SaaS company has revenue growth and loses money, and others freak out? Help us understand that in growth stages vs. stable stages. (SaaS Rule of 40?)

Topic 6 - Have you found that SaaS businesses are unique in their financial modeling, or can some of these best practices be applied to non-SaaS software businesses?

Topic 7 - You just started SaaS CFO and SaaS Academy. Give us an overview of what people will learn. 

 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8155183 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0400 1903 SaaS CFO, SaaS Academy, Ben Murphy, CAC, LCV, ARR, SaaS, Rule of 40, Churn, Gross Margin full false The Complexities of Edge Computing The Complexities of Edge Computing It’s smaller computers, doing limited tasks. So why is Edge Computing so complicated, and why are there so many definitions?

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THE COMPLEXITIES OF EDGE COMPUTING

No single definition of edge, because of so many use-cases

  • Branch office
  • Near-Edge 
  • Far-Edge
  • Disconnected

Hardware can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • Custom-OS or COTS OS
  • General purpose HW or Specialized HW (GPU, NVMe, DPUs)
  • #of computing devices; volume of local storage

Networking can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • Are the devices always connected to the Internet?
  • How are disconnected environments handled?
  • How much bandwidth is available? Is it symmetric or asymmetric? 
  • What are the traffic patterns of the applications? Local vs. Backhaul. 

Security can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • How does Security happen on Day 0?
  • What are the security vs. usability tradeoffs? (direct user interaction) 
  • How is security maintained? (CVE, Local Security services, etc.)

Maintenance can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • How much does it cost to deploy new edges?
  • How often are the edges expected to be upgraded? 
  • How will maintenance happen? (Local tech, remote download, etc.)
  • How sophisticated is the Day 2 Ops? (Telemetry, Environmentals, Benchmarks, etc.) 

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SHOW NOTES:

THE COMPLEXITIES OF EDGE COMPUTING

No single definition of edge, because of so many use-cases

  • Branch office
  • Near-Edge 
  • Far-Edge
  • Disconnected

Hardware can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • Custom-OS or COTS OS
  • General purpose HW or Specialized HW (GPU, NVMe, DPUs)
  • #of computing devices; volume of local storage

Networking can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • Are the devices always connected to the Internet?
  • How are disconnected environments handled?
  • How much bandwidth is available? Is it symmetric or asymmetric? 
  • What are the traffic patterns of the applications? Local vs. Backhaul. 

Security can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • How does Security happen on Day 0?
  • What are the security vs. usability tradeoffs? (direct user interaction) 
  • How is security maintained? (CVE, Local Security services, etc.)

Maintenance can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

  • How much does it cost to deploy new edges?
  • How often are the edges expected to be upgraded? 
  • How will maintenance happen? (Local tech, remote download, etc.)
  • How sophisticated is the Day 2 Ops? (Telemetry, Environmentals, Benchmarks, etc.) 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8134970 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1292 Edge Computing, Near-Edge, Far-Edge, AI/ML, GPU, Linux OS, Hardware, Maintenance, Security full false The Value of Value-Stream Mapping The Value of Value-Stream Mapping Steve Pereira (@SteveElsewhere, Value-Stream Whisperer @ Visible) talks about measuring, understanding business and technology process through Value-Stream Mapping.

SHOW: 496

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you eventually became focused on helping companies improve their Value-Streams.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Value-Streams and Mapping. What are they, why do we need them, what do they provide? 

Topic 3 - Walk us through a Value-Stream-Mapping exercise with a company. What is their pre-homework? What questions do you ask? How do you keep it focused on their language? 

Topic 4 - Do you need to fix everything at once, or can it be done in phases? How much of the improvement has to do with the application, and how much is adjusting existing processes?  

Topic 5 - Lots of people like to compare this to Lean Manufacturing (Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, etc.). Optimize the system, design for efficient flows, empower the workers to make changes and give feedback, etc. But does this break with software, where there isn’t really an end to a production line? 

Topic 6 - Once people understand it, what tends to work well and what tends to lead to on-going failures? 

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SHOW: 496

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you eventually became focused on helping companies improve their Value-Streams.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Value-Streams and Mapping. What are they, why do we need them, what do they provide? 

Topic 3 - Walk us through a Value-Stream-Mapping exercise with a company. What is their pre-homework? What questions do you ask? How do you keep it focused on their language? 

Topic 4 - Do you need to fix everything at once, or can it be done in phases? How much of the improvement has to do with the application, and how much is adjusting existing processes?  

Topic 5 - Lots of people like to compare this to Lean Manufacturing (Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, etc.). Optimize the system, design for efficient flows, empower the workers to make changes and give feedback, etc. But does this break with software, where there isn’t really an end to a production line? 

Topic 6 - Once people understand it, what tends to work well and what tends to lead to on-going failures? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8111565 Wed, 10 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2544 Steve Pereira, Visible, Value-Stream Mapping, full false Lessons Learned from Cloud Foundry Lessons Learned from Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry was going to create an open source alternative to Heroku, as well as replace how Enterprise companies built software. But change is never easy. Looking back, what can we learn from the lessons of Cloud Foundry?

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HOW DID CLOUD FOUNDRY EVOLVE?

An open source, programmable cloud application platform (PaaS). Heroku (2007), Google AppEngine (2008) existed before Cloud Foundry (April 2011). OpenShift launched in May 2011. Apcera was launched in 2012 by Derek Collison 

  • Open Source, Multi-cloud
  • Multiple languages, frameworks
  • Automation for the infrastructure (BOSH)
  • Integrated Logging, Tracing, Routing, GUI
  • Data Services live off the platform, via Service Broker
  • Very heavy platform footprint (up to 50 VMs)
  • Diego container scheduler 
  • Warden container runtime 

Many large vendors got involved once it became a foundation. 

  • IBM, SAP, Intel, Cisco, EMC/VMware
  • Many end-user customers joined (great for recruiting)
  • None of the Cloud providers, other than an infrastructure stem-cell

By 2016-17, most large Cloud Foundry vendors were shifting their focus to Kubernetes

LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

  • Single-vendor led communities are difficult, especially if a foundation is created.
  • Technology transitions are hard, oftentimes impossible. Cloud Foundry chose to downplay Docker and Kubernetes as “just for infrastructure”, even within their own community. 
  • Make it simple to get environments/clusters (Managed Kubernetes services, Cluster API, laptop-level environments (minikube). Needs to be a managed cloud service on good clouds. 
  • Platform-aware, Infrastructure automation is important (e.g. like BOSH, except that it works)
  • Industry is mixed on if stateful / data services should run on-platform or off-platform. Having to also manage the off-platform is difficult. 

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SHOW: 495

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW DID CLOUD FOUNDRY EVOLVE?

An open source, programmable cloud application platform (PaaS). Heroku (2007), Google AppEngine (2008) existed before Cloud Foundry (April 2011). OpenShift launched in May 2011. Apcera was launched in 2012 by Derek Collison 

  • Open Source, Multi-cloud
  • Multiple languages, frameworks
  • Automation for the infrastructure (BOSH)
  • Integrated Logging, Tracing, Routing, GUI
  • Data Services live off the platform, via Service Broker
  • Very heavy platform footprint (up to 50 VMs)
  • Diego container scheduler 
  • Warden container runtime 

Many large vendors got involved once it became a foundation. 

  • IBM, SAP, Intel, Cisco, EMC/VMware
  • Many end-user customers joined (great for recruiting)
  • None of the Cloud providers, other than an infrastructure stem-cell

By 2016-17, most large Cloud Foundry vendors were shifting their focus to Kubernetes

LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

  • Single-vendor led communities are difficult, especially if a foundation is created.
  • Technology transitions are hard, oftentimes impossible. Cloud Foundry chose to downplay Docker and Kubernetes as “just for infrastructure”, even within their own community. 
  • Make it simple to get environments/clusters (Managed Kubernetes services, Cluster API, laptop-level environments (minikube). Needs to be a managed cloud service on good clouds. 
  • Platform-aware, Infrastructure automation is important (e.g. like BOSH, except that it works)
  • Industry is mixed on if stateful / data services should run on-platform or off-platform. Having to also manage the off-platform is difficult. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8090685 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1827 Cloud Foundry, PaaS, Open Source, Kubernetes, Docker, Pivotal, VMware, BOSH, Heroku full false Solving Developers Security Challenges Solving Developers Security Challenges Shira Shamban (@ShambanIT, CEO @SolvoCloud) talks about easily bringing security to CI/CD pipelines and software development, the rise of DevSecOps and "Shifting Left.

SHOW: 494

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, you have a very interesting journey starting in cybersecurity for the Isreal Defense Force all the way to CEO of a newly funded startup. 

Topic 2 - The rise of CI/CD created some great benefits to software development, it also created some security challenges. Let’s start there, why do developers seem to have so many challenges with security, especially in production?

Topic 3 - Increasingly we hear about the concept of DevSecOps, you introduced the term “Shifting Left”. What does that mean and how does this relate to the larger concept of DevSecOps?

Topic 4 - When a developer pushes code, where is the friction from a security perspective? How does Solvo solve this problem as code is pushed and how do you integrate with the cloud providers to make sure a least-privilege model is used? You recently released a security tool for health checks of your cloud accounts? (link in the show notes)

Topic 5 - We recently raised your first round of funding completely remotely. Tell us about the experience and challenges you faced. 

Topic 6 - You are passionate about empowering women and under-represented communities in our industry. Tell us about your ongoing partnerships with SheCodes, Cyber Ladies and other mentoring programs you are involved with.

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SHOW: 494

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, you have a very interesting journey starting in cybersecurity for the Isreal Defense Force all the way to CEO of a newly funded startup. 

Topic 2 - The rise of CI/CD created some great benefits to software development, it also created some security challenges. Let’s start there, why do developers seem to have so many challenges with security, especially in production?

Topic 3 - Increasingly we hear about the concept of DevSecOps, you introduced the term “Shifting Left”. What does that mean and how does this relate to the larger concept of DevSecOps?

Topic 4 - When a developer pushes code, where is the friction from a security perspective? How does Solvo solve this problem as code is pushed and how do you integrate with the cloud providers to make sure a least-privilege model is used? You recently released a security tool for health checks of your cloud accounts? (link in the show notes)

Topic 5 - We recently raised your first round of funding completely remotely. Tell us about the experience and challenges you faced. 

Topic 6 - You are passionate about empowering women and under-represented communities in our industry. Tell us about your ongoing partnerships with SheCodes, Cyber Ladies and other mentoring programs you are involved with.

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8064900 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2209 Cloud, Solvo, Security, Automation, CI/CD, DevOps, DevSecOps full false How the Cloud is Changing OSS Licensing How the Cloud is Changing OSS Licensing Brian looks at the recent changes in open source licensing, as it relates to managed cloud offerings, and how the perception of end-users towards free software vs. cloud services is changing.

#SundayPerspectives

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THINGS WE KNOW

  • Open Source has become a mainstream source for innovation - with most of the Internet being built on OSS technologies (in some way or form)
  • Open Source is more widely used in the Enterprise (than in the past), beyond just Linux
  • Open Source is often the de facto choice for much of the public cloud (OS, VMs, DBs, etc.)
  • The need for a “free” experience is expected for anything new in software or cloud, whether that’s for any/all usage, or a fixed period of time. 
  • “Open core”, or other variations on free OSS + non OSS (non-free) features has been a concept for quite a while. 
  • Community driven development does bring a broad set of perspectives, and it distributes the workload across engineers, companies, etc.
  • Plenty of successful projects have been both Open Source and primarily driven by a single company (especially in the data-centric projects)

THINGS THAT WILL EVOLVE

  • Where does the value of software come from? Does it come from the features, from the distribution, from the creator(s), or from how it is run?
  • Do customers value ‘free”, or “stability” or “customizability” (features) or “operationalization”? 
  • How much of an advantage or disadvantage (or neutral) is the OSS companies offering cloud services across clouds? 

UNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIES

  • How will the VC community view the changes in competitive landscape and licensing? How does it impact their future funding models?


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#SundayPerspectives

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SHOW NOTES


THINGS WE KNOW

  • Open Source has become a mainstream source for innovation - with most of the Internet being built on OSS technologies (in some way or form)
  • Open Source is more widely used in the Enterprise (than in the past), beyond just Linux
  • Open Source is often the de facto choice for much of the public cloud (OS, VMs, DBs, etc.)
  • The need for a “free” experience is expected for anything new in software or cloud, whether that’s for any/all usage, or a fixed period of time. 
  • “Open core”, or other variations on free OSS + non OSS (non-free) features has been a concept for quite a while. 
  • Community driven development does bring a broad set of perspectives, and it distributes the workload across engineers, companies, etc.
  • Plenty of successful projects have been both Open Source and primarily driven by a single company (especially in the data-centric projects)

THINGS THAT WILL EVOLVE

  • Where does the value of software come from? Does it come from the features, from the distribution, from the creator(s), or from how it is run?
  • Do customers value ‘free”, or “stability” or “customizability” (features) or “operationalization”? 
  • How much of an advantage or disadvantage (or neutral) is the OSS companies offering cloud services across clouds? 

UNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIES

  • How will the VC community view the changes in competitive landscape and licensing? How does it impact their future funding models?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-8041196 Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1162 OSS, Licensing, AWS, SSPL, MongoDB, Elastic, CockroachDB, Red Hat, Public Cloud, Azure full false Evolution of Commercial OSS Evolution of Commercial OSS Joseph “JJ” Jacks (@asynchio, Founder/General Partner OSS Capital) talks about how Commercial OSS has evolved, coopetition with cloud providers, and what's next for Commercial OSS business models and communities. 

SHOW: 492

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. For those that don’t already know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you’re focused on today. 

Topic 2 - You’ve been tracking the commercialization of open-source projects for quite a while now. What big trends have you seen evolve over the last two decades (from Red Hat to MongoDB) 

Topic 3 - Even in the face of new OSS-centric offerings from the cloud providers, we still continue to see companies getting funded. What is the sentiment in the VC-communities about what the new competitive landscape looks like? Are there new rules in the game? 

Topic 4 - We’ve recently seen MongoDB and Elastic changing their licensing model to SSPL. The stock of both companies continues to rise. Is what they are doing a short-term “fix” to a competitive threat, or a critical mistake? Does licensing need to evolve as a company matures? 

Topic 5 - Are there fundamental shifts in how OSS companies are created and eventually operationalized happening now? 

Topic 6 - Where do you see commercial OSS trending over the next 5 years, and what big changes need to happen to make those realities happen?


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SHOW: 492

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. For those that don’t already know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you’re focused on today. 

Topic 2 - You’ve been tracking the commercialization of open-source projects for quite a while now. What big trends have you seen evolve over the last two decades (from Red Hat to MongoDB) 

Topic 3 - Even in the face of new OSS-centric offerings from the cloud providers, we still continue to see companies getting funded. What is the sentiment in the VC-communities about what the new competitive landscape looks like? Are there new rules in the game? 

Topic 4 - We’ve recently seen MongoDB and Elastic changing their licensing model to SSPL. The stock of both companies continues to rise. Is what they are doing a short-term “fix” to a competitive threat, or a critical mistake? Does licensing need to evolve as a company matures? 

Topic 5 - Are there fundamental shifts in how OSS companies are created and eventually operationalized happening now? 

Topic 6 - Where do you see commercial OSS trending over the next 5 years, and what big changes need to happen to make those realities happen?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7991764 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2803 Joseph Jacks, Commercial OSS, SSPL, OSS, Licensing, Business Models, full false Public Cloud Look Ahead for the 2020s Public Cloud Look Ahead for the 2020s Looking forward at the biggest public clouds, what are the things we are sure of, the trends we expect to evolve, and the uncertainties that will shape the next 5+ years in cloud computing?

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THINGS WE KNOW - OVERALL GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY

  • More adoption of SaaS applications (which run on Big 3)
  • More migrations of apps from data center to cloud
  • Huge CAPEX spending (low-interest rates) for Cloud + Other Businesses (Healthcare, Driving, Gaming, AR/VR, FinSvcs, etc.)
  • More rapid adoption of ARM in the cloud than data centers (40% lower costs)
  • Edge still has alot of evolution to go through (footprint, mgmt/updates, security, etc.)

TRENDS THAT WILL EVOLVE

  • Beginning to see a wave of Telco’s partnering with Big 3 (edge computing)
  • 2nd/3rd-generation of being built as cloud-native first
  • Vendors partnering with Big 3 to be “native-services”
  • The data-centric OSS projects in the cloud

UNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIES

  • Acquisitions
  • Changes in Leadership 
  • Pricing Wars
  • Are there emerging players (Alibaba, Apple, etc.)?


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SHOW: 491

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SHOW NOTES:


THINGS WE KNOW - OVERALL GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY

  • More adoption of SaaS applications (which run on Big 3)
  • More migrations of apps from data center to cloud
  • Huge CAPEX spending (low-interest rates) for Cloud + Other Businesses (Healthcare, Driving, Gaming, AR/VR, FinSvcs, etc.)
  • More rapid adoption of ARM in the cloud than data centers (40% lower costs)
  • Edge still has alot of evolution to go through (footprint, mgmt/updates, security, etc.)

TRENDS THAT WILL EVOLVE

  • Beginning to see a wave of Telco’s partnering with Big 3 (edge computing)
  • 2nd/3rd-generation of being built as cloud-native first
  • Vendors partnering with Big 3 to be “native-services”
  • The data-centric OSS projects in the cloud

UNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIES

  • Acquisitions
  • Changes in Leadership 
  • Pricing Wars
  • Are there emerging players (Alibaba, Apple, etc.)?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7978576 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1356 2020s Decade, AWS, Azure, GCP, Apple, Alibaba, ARM, AR/VR, Healthcare, Autonomous Vehicles, Gaming full false Asynchronous Development for Remote Teams Asynchronous Development for Remote Teams Dan Lines, (@linknfg182, COO @LinearB_Inc) talks about asynchronous development for remote teams, managing business-level discussions,  bringing greater transparency and accountability to projects, and identifying early signs of developer burnout.  

SHOW: 490

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to be so focused on developer productivity and team agility? 

Topic 2 - We want to talk about remote teams today, but before we get started, let’s talk about how much this past year has changed the day-to-day life of application development teams.

Topic 3 - You’ve spoken about Asynchronous Development (for Remote Teams) and how the pandemic sort of created the environment that has been evolving for years. Tell us about the concept and some of the things companies can do to embrace it?  

Topic 4 - LinearB is a tool/platform that gives teams visibility into what’s happening with projects (status/velocity), backlogs, bottlenecks, etc. How do you think about transparency and accountability for teams, since software projects can get fairly complex? 

Topic 5 - How much does it help in conversations with business leaders, who might not have as much understanding of how development teams work, to have the data trends right in front of them?

Topic 6 - You make a point that you can see “burnout” happening within teams or around individuals. What are some tips to reduce that, or address it in ways that it can lead to better long-term conditions within teams?


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SHOW: 490

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to be so focused on developer productivity and team agility? 

Topic 2 - We want to talk about remote teams today, but before we get started, let’s talk about how much this past year has changed the day-to-day life of application development teams.

Topic 3 - You’ve spoken about Asynchronous Development (for Remote Teams) and how the pandemic sort of created the environment that has been evolving for years. Tell us about the concept and some of the things companies can do to embrace it?  

Topic 4 - LinearB is a tool/platform that gives teams visibility into what’s happening with projects (status/velocity), backlogs, bottlenecks, etc. How do you think about transparency and accountability for teams, since software projects can get fairly complex? 

Topic 5 - How much does it help in conversations with business leaders, who might not have as much understanding of how development teams work, to have the data trends right in front of them?

Topic 6 - You make a point that you can see “burnout” happening within teams or around individuals. What are some tips to reduce that, or address it in ways that it can lead to better long-term conditions within teams?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7913425 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2053 Dan Lines, LinearB, Asynchronous Development, Remote Teams, Accountability, Transparency, Burnout full false Lessons Learned from OpenStack Lessons Learned from OpenStack OpenStack was going to create an open source alternative to AWS, as well as displace VMware in the Enterprise. But change is never easy, and some things didn't go as planned. Looking back, what can we learn from the lessons of OpenStack?

SHOW: 489

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HOW DID OPENSTACK EVOLVE?

An open source, programmable cloud infrastructure. Eucalyptus and CloudStack existed prior to OpenStack. Created as a partnership between NASA (Nova) and Rackspace (Swift). 

API-driven, software-defined infrastructure

Every vendor (HW and SW) was on-board: the anti-VMware project

OpenStack Foundation was created - control was maintained by Rackspace (initially). 

Focus was split on building an AWS-alternative &/or a VMware-alternative

Was it an integrated platform, or independent projects, or a combination? 

What defined something as “OpenStack”? How do you upgrade OpenStack? 

The scope eventually got too big - way behind an IaaS (PaaS, DBaaS, Hadoop, etc.)

  • Cloud Foundry, OpenShift launched in 2011
  • Threats from Hadoop companies

VMware admins didn’t know how to use python. AWS admins wanted AWS APIs
Where were the customers? 


LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

  • Independent governance body; leverage the Linux foundation (events, infrastructure, etc,)
  • Focus on enabling something new (cloud-native apps, more flexible than PaaS), not replacing something existing
  • Enable early customers, and remain customer focused. 


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SHOW: 489

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SHOW NOTES:


HOW DID OPENSTACK EVOLVE?

An open source, programmable cloud infrastructure. Eucalyptus and CloudStack existed prior to OpenStack. Created as a partnership between NASA (Nova) and Rackspace (Swift). 

API-driven, software-defined infrastructure

Every vendor (HW and SW) was on-board: the anti-VMware project

OpenStack Foundation was created - control was maintained by Rackspace (initially). 

Focus was split on building an AWS-alternative &/or a VMware-alternative

Was it an integrated platform, or independent projects, or a combination? 

What defined something as “OpenStack”? How do you upgrade OpenStack? 

The scope eventually got too big - way behind an IaaS (PaaS, DBaaS, Hadoop, etc.)

  • Cloud Foundry, OpenShift launched in 2011
  • Threats from Hadoop companies

VMware admins didn’t know how to use python. AWS admins wanted AWS APIs
Where were the customers? 


LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

  • Independent governance body; leverage the Linux foundation (events, infrastructure, etc,)
  • Focus on enabling something new (cloud-native apps, more flexible than PaaS), not replacing something existing
  • Enable early customers, and remain customer focused. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7851295 Sun, 14 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1138 OpenStack, VMware, AWS, OpenStack Foundation, Open Source, API-driven Infrastructure, Software-Defined, IaaS, Telco, NFV full false The New Economics of Cloud Infrastructure The New Economics of Cloud Infrastructure Kevin Deierling (@TechSeerKD, SVP Marketing @NVIDIA) talks about the evolution of cloud and datacenter infrastructure, the new economics of computing, and how DPUs are redefining how data gets inspected and offloaded.   

SHOW: 488

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to this place where NVIDIA is now the center of cloud and the data center? 

Topic 2 - Before we dive into your specific area of focus, I want to see if we can get a big picture view of where we are in 2021 with cloud & the datacenter? 

Topic 3 - Everybody knows NVIDIA for GPUs (for gaming, or AI/ML/Analytics) and now ARM is part of the NVIDIA family. Your focus is on something called “DPUs”. Help us understand what a DPU is, and the core technical challenges it solves. 

Topic 4 - As we see DPUs start to come into use, design/architecture-wise or SmartNICs, what are the key things that architects need to think about? And who is thinking about DPUs - infra architects, AI teams, etc? 

Topic 5 - Where are the most common places where we’ll see DPUs / SmartNICs deployed today (how are they offered)? Can common applications take advantage of them, or do they need to be written to be DPU-aware? “Putting a computer in front of the computer”

Topic 6 - Give us some perspective on what the next couple of years might look like as this amount of processing and throughput becomes available, affordable and distributed to different platforms and clouds. 


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SHOW: 488

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to this place where NVIDIA is now the center of cloud and the data center? 

Topic 2 - Before we dive into your specific area of focus, I want to see if we can get a big picture view of where we are in 2021 with cloud & the datacenter? 

Topic 3 - Everybody knows NVIDIA for GPUs (for gaming, or AI/ML/Analytics) and now ARM is part of the NVIDIA family. Your focus is on something called “DPUs”. Help us understand what a DPU is, and the core technical challenges it solves. 

Topic 4 - As we see DPUs start to come into use, design/architecture-wise or SmartNICs, what are the key things that architects need to think about? And who is thinking about DPUs - infra architects, AI teams, etc? 

Topic 5 - Where are the most common places where we’ll see DPUs / SmartNICs deployed today (how are they offered)? Can common applications take advantage of them, or do they need to be written to be DPU-aware? “Putting a computer in front of the computer”

Topic 6 - Give us some perspective on what the next couple of years might look like as this amount of processing and throughput becomes available, affordable and distributed to different platforms and clouds. 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7775581 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1533 NVIDIA, GPU, DPU, SoC, Cloud Infrastructure, Inspection, Offload, ARM, Kevin Deierling full false Andy Jassy's Legacy at AWS Andy Jassy's Legacy at AWS As Amazon transitions to a new CEO, we look back at Andy Jassy's leadership at AWS from 2006 to 2021.

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HOW AWS SHAPED AND RESHAPED CLOUD COMPUTING (Andy's Influence)

  1. Brought on-demand computing to IT infrastructure (and beyond)
  2. Established that AWS was "the cloud"
  3. Brought the Amazon psychology of "low-cost" to IT
  4. Focused on "price reductions" and the new economics of cloud (vs. IT)
  5. Focused on highlighting big name customers early (e.g. Netflix) 
  6. Refused to acknowledge competitors (in the early years)
  7. Used data to see customer-usage patterns, to inform the next services.
  8. Announced new capabilities all the time, not big releases.
  9. And many more....

WHAT COMES NEXT FOR AWS?

  • Who takes over at the leader of AWS?
  • How does AWS manage slowing growth rates?
  • Taking over from a legend is never easy? What personality does the next leader bring?
  • Does Hybrid Cloud change how they go-to-market? How they partner?


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SHOW: 487

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW AWS SHAPED AND RESHAPED CLOUD COMPUTING (Andy's Influence)

  1. Brought on-demand computing to IT infrastructure (and beyond)
  2. Established that AWS was "the cloud"
  3. Brought the Amazon psychology of "low-cost" to IT
  4. Focused on "price reductions" and the new economics of cloud (vs. IT)
  5. Focused on highlighting big name customers early (e.g. Netflix) 
  6. Refused to acknowledge competitors (in the early years)
  7. Used data to see customer-usage patterns, to inform the next services.
  8. Announced new capabilities all the time, not big releases.
  9. And many more....

WHAT COMES NEXT FOR AWS?

  • Who takes over at the leader of AWS?
  • How does AWS manage slowing growth rates?
  • Taking over from a legend is never easy? What personality does the next leader bring?
  • Does Hybrid Cloud change how they go-to-market? How they partner?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7709044 Sun, 07 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 1157 AWS, Andy Jassy full false Automating Analytics Teams Automating Analytics Teams Derek Knudsen (@dsknudsen, CTO at @Alteryx) talks about the differences between analytics and data science teams, critical analytics workflows, aligning culture and technologies, and best practices in presenting data. 

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what makes you passionate about helping analytics teams improve their businesses? 

Topic 2 - Can we start by talking about how you think about Analytics teams vs. Data Science teams vs. AI/ML teams? Are these different only in name, or are their functional/skill differences, or places where one group is more appropriate than others? 

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Analytics in the context of workflows. Are you seeing it still be mostly a business analyst “offline” function, or are more workflows and applications introducing more “real-time” analytics capabilities? 

Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about DevOps and Developer Productivity, in the context of more frequently changing applications. How does that apply to Analytics groups? Where do they have bottlenecks today? How do they get around those bottlenecks?

Topic 5 - How do platforms like the Alteryx Analytics Platform help teams improve their analytics velocity and productivity? And how much do you find that the right tools help improve how teams organize, or do they need to be well organized to best take advantage of the right tools? 

Topic 6 - Can you give us some examples of the types of results that companies often achieve when they better align their analytics teams to self-service and automated environments?


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SHOW: 486

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what makes you passionate about helping analytics teams improve their businesses? 

Topic 2 - Can we start by talking about how you think about Analytics teams vs. Data Science teams vs. AI/ML teams? Are these different only in name, or are their functional/skill differences, or places where one group is more appropriate than others? 

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Analytics in the context of workflows. Are you seeing it still be mostly a business analyst “offline” function, or are more workflows and applications introducing more “real-time” analytics capabilities? 

Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about DevOps and Developer Productivity, in the context of more frequently changing applications. How does that apply to Analytics groups? Where do they have bottlenecks today? How do they get around those bottlenecks?

Topic 5 - How do platforms like the Alteryx Analytics Platform help teams improve their analytics velocity and productivity? And how much do you find that the right tools help improve how teams organize, or do they need to be well organized to best take advantage of the right tools? 

Topic 6 - Can you give us some examples of the types of results that companies often achieve when they better align their analytics teams to self-service and automated environments?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7642267 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2091 Derek Knudson, Alteryx, Data Science, Analytics, AI, ML, MLOps, Data Visualization full false A Transformation Look Ahead for 2021 A Transformation Look Ahead for 2021 Andrew Clay Shafer (@litteidea, VP Transformation @RedHat ) & John Willis (@botchagalupe, Sr.Dir. Transformation) talk about the importance of "learning organizations",   aligning change to business value, and the evolution of self-service and automated governance.

SHOW: 485

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re both really well known in the DevOps communities, but give us the TL;DR of your backgrounds for anyone not familiar with your work. 

Topic 2 - Whether people are tired of the term “Digital Transformation” or not, change is a huge part of our industry, especially as it relates to corporate culture and organization. What’s the framing for that type of discussion in 2021? 

Topic 3 - I’ve heard you both say “technology is easy, people are hard”. How do you think about these conflicts of transformation, whether people’s individual motivations aren’t always aligned to a business goal? 

Topic 4 - One of the biggest differences between existing companies and start-ups is the level of self-service that they build around their systems. The self-service systems allow experimentation, allow automated deployments, etc. But is there a way to bring a concept of automated governance to these end-to-end models? 

Topic 5 - Oftentimes transformations are aligned with cloud-native technologies, cloud-native apps. The model of Ops in a cloud-native world is different. What are some of the areas you both focus on to make cloud-native Ops successful, or better aligned to the technology part of transformations? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best and worst “getting started” steps that you see various groups (or companies) take in their transformation journeys? 


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SHOW: 485

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re both really well known in the DevOps communities, but give us the TL;DR of your backgrounds for anyone not familiar with your work. 

Topic 2 - Whether people are tired of the term “Digital Transformation” or not, change is a huge part of our industry, especially as it relates to corporate culture and organization. What’s the framing for that type of discussion in 2021? 

Topic 3 - I’ve heard you both say “technology is easy, people are hard”. How do you think about these conflicts of transformation, whether people’s individual motivations aren’t always aligned to a business goal? 

Topic 4 - One of the biggest differences between existing companies and start-ups is the level of self-service that they build around their systems. The self-service systems allow experimentation, allow automated deployments, etc. But is there a way to bring a concept of automated governance to these end-to-end models? 

Topic 5 - Oftentimes transformations are aligned with cloud-native technologies, cloud-native apps. The model of Ops in a cloud-native world is different. What are some of the areas you both focus on to make cloud-native Ops successful, or better aligned to the technology part of transformations? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best and worst “getting started” steps that you see various groups (or companies) take in their transformation journeys? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7507228 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2751 Andrew Clay Shafer, John Willis, DevOps, Transformation, Learning Organizations, full false A Cloud-First Look Ahead for 2021 A Cloud-First Look Ahead for 2021 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

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for a while. You’ve had tremendous success in Leadership, Product and Marketing roles in the past. Tell our audience a little bit of your background and what ultimately brought you to your role at CEO of Observe. 

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. 

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SHOW: 484

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for a while. You’ve had tremendous success in Leadership, Product and Marketing roles in the past. Tell our audience a little bit of your background and what ultimately brought you to your role at CEO of Observe. 

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. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7385635 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2191 Jeremy Burton, Observability, SaaS, Cloud-First, Cloud-only, Observe, full false An Event-Driven Apps Look Ahead for 2021 An Event-Driven Apps Look Ahead for 2021 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

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve known you for quite a while, going back to working together on very early Cloud stuff. You’ve always enjoyed being focused on complex, distributed systems. Tell us what you’re focused on these days. 

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?  


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SHOW: 483

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve known you for quite a while, going back to working together on very early Cloud stuff. You’ve always enjoyed being focused on complex, distributed systems. Tell us what you’re focused on these days. 

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?  


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7267555 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2552 James Urquhart, Event-Driven, Distributed Systems, Flow, Kafka, NATS, Digital Twin, IoT, Real-Time, Streaming full false A Hybrid Cloud Look Ahead for 2021 A Hybrid Cloud Look Ahead for 2021 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:


CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell the audience a little bit about what you do in the day job, and then a little bit about Software Defined Talk. 

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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SHOW: 482

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:


CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell the audience a little bit about what you do in the day job, and then a little bit about Software Defined Talk. 

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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7152037 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0500 2001 Hybrid Cloud, MultiCloud, Red Hat, VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP, Migrations, Replatforming, Modernization full false Introduction to Cloudcast Basics Introduction to Cloudcast Basics SHOW: Season 0, Show 1 - Introduction

OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce the new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.  This podcast is designed to help anyone new to Cloud Computing get up to speed quickly. Each season will cover a specific topic, from the basics to more intermediate levels of depth.

Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.). NOTE: Cloudcast Basics will be in a NEW podcast channel, separate from The Cloudcast channel that you currently subscribe to.

SHOW SUMMARY: This shows introduces the new podcast, Cloudcast Basics, and it also introduces Season 0 - "Introduction to Cloud Computing". Each month a new season will be released, focusing on a different technical or business aspect of cloud computing. It season is designed to allow the listener to progress from the most basic concepts to more intermediate levels of knowledge. 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

LEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:
Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. 

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]]> SHOW: Season 0, Show 1 - Introduction

OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce the new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.  This podcast is designed to help anyone new to Cloud Computing get up to speed quickly. Each season will cover a specific topic, from the basics to more intermediate levels of depth.

Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.). NOTE: Cloudcast Basics will be in a NEW podcast channel, separate from The Cloudcast channel that you currently subscribe to.

SHOW SUMMARY: This shows introduces the new podcast, Cloudcast Basics, and it also introduces Season 0 - "Introduction to Cloud Computing". Each month a new season will be released, focusing on a different technical or business aspect of cloud computing. It season is designed to allow the listener to progress from the most basic concepts to more intermediate levels of knowledge. 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

LEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:
Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-7131973 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:00:00 -0500 357 full false 2020 in Review, 2021 Predictions 2020 in Review, 2021 Predictions Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends from 2020, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2021

SHOW: 481

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:


CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

PodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.com

SHOW NOTES:

PODCAST BUSINESS:

  • Over 1.5M listens in 2020
  • Thank you to all our 2020 sponsors: Datadog, MongoDB, UpCloud, DivvyCloud, strongDM, Logz.io, Taos, Studio3T, CloudAcademy, BMC, Fauna, Okta
  • 2020 Cloudcast Alum Acquisitions: 8 - Thousand Eyes (Cisco), Cumulus (NVIDIA), SwiftStack (NVIDIA), SaltStack (VMware), DivvyCloud (Rapid7), Big Switch (Arista), Rancher (SUSE), Kasten (Veeam)
  • The (live) Krispy Kreme Challenge is postponed in 2021 due to COVID-19. Need to figure out a fundraising initiative.

FORMAT CHANGES in 2021

  • “Look Ahead in 2021” shows in January
  • Still doing the normal, weekly technical shows, starting in February
  • Will be doing a shorter (15mins) technical show on Sundays, preview the Wed show
  • Will be launching the Cloudcast Basics podcast series in 2021 (@cloudcastbasics). 

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2020:

  • COVID sent everybody home. 2020 was the year of VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service.
  • Conferences went all virtual. Did anybody miss them? Did anybody do them well? 
  • More companies adopted the public cloud, since they couldn’t get into their data centers.
  • But we also found out the public cloud isn’t infinite resources (e.g. Azure had to prioritize existing customers, healthcare customers). Long-term investments matter. 
  • Did you have a favorite video conference service in 2020?
  • AWS: $46B, Azure: $30B-ish , GCP: $12-13B, Alibaba: $6-8B - Azure still doesn’t break out their revenues.
  • OSS-companies are growing their Cloud/Managed business (MongoDB, Confluent, RedisLabs, Red Hat, etc. - as well as others like VMware, Nutanix)
  • More companies are going cloud-only in their offerings (Snowflake, Tecton, Observ, etc.). Atlassian is moving away from the on-prem offerings (over next couple years)
  • ARM chips made their name in mobile phones, and now they are poised to take over desktops and public cloud (cheaper, faster) - NVIDIA bought ARM
  • AWS had an outage just before Thanksgiving - nobody is actually sure how AWS works behind the scenes. 
  • Hybrid Cloud is now officially a thing - AWS, Azure and GCP all have offerings, as well as every traditional vendor. 

2021 PREDICTIONS: Our 2020 Predictions from last year

Aaron’s Predictions

  • GitLab gets gobbled up
  • Event Driven Architecture (FaaS/Serverless) hits early majority status
  • (agreeing with Brian) 2021 will be the

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SHOW: 481

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:


CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

PodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.com

SHOW NOTES:

PODCAST BUSINESS:

  • Over 1.5M listens in 2020
  • Thank you to all our 2020 sponsors: Datadog, MongoDB, UpCloud, DivvyCloud, strongDM, Logz.io, Taos, Studio3T, CloudAcademy, BMC, Fauna, Okta
  • 2020 Cloudcast Alum Acquisitions: 8 - Thousand Eyes (Cisco), Cumulus (NVIDIA), SwiftStack (NVIDIA), SaltStack (VMware), DivvyCloud (Rapid7), Big Switch (Arista), Rancher (SUSE), Kasten (Veeam)
  • The (live) Krispy Kreme Challenge is postponed in 2021 due to COVID-19. Need to figure out a fundraising initiative.

FORMAT CHANGES in 2021

  • “Look Ahead in 2021” shows in January
  • Still doing the normal, weekly technical shows, starting in February
  • Will be doing a shorter (15mins) technical show on Sundays, preview the Wed show
  • Will be launching the Cloudcast Basics podcast series in 2021 (@cloudcastbasics). 

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2020:

  • COVID sent everybody home. 2020 was the year of VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service.
  • Conferences went all virtual. Did anybody miss them? Did anybody do them well? 
  • More companies adopted the public cloud, since they couldn’t get into their data centers.
  • But we also found out the public cloud isn’t infinite resources (e.g. Azure had to prioritize existing customers, healthcare customers). Long-term investments matter. 
  • Did you have a favorite video conference service in 2020?
  • AWS: $46B, Azure: $30B-ish , GCP: $12-13B, Alibaba: $6-8B - Azure still doesn’t break out their revenues.
  • OSS-companies are growing their Cloud/Managed business (MongoDB, Confluent, RedisLabs, Red Hat, etc. - as well as others like VMware, Nutanix)
  • More companies are going cloud-only in their offerings (Snowflake, Tecton, Observ, etc.). Atlassian is moving away from the on-prem offerings (over next couple years)
  • ARM chips made their name in mobile phones, and now they are poised to take over desktops and public cloud (cheaper, faster) - NVIDIA bought ARM
  • AWS had an outage just before Thanksgiving - nobody is actually sure how AWS works behind the scenes. 
  • Hybrid Cloud is now officially a thing - AWS, Azure and GCP all have offerings, as well as every traditional vendor. 

2021 PREDICTIONS: Our 2020 Predictions from last year

Aaron’s Predictions

  • GitLab gets gobbled up
  • Event Driven Architecture (FaaS/Serverless) hits early majority status
  • (agreeing with Brian) 2021 will be the

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6978610 Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0500 3501 Predictions, AWS, Azure, GCP, GitLabs, Zoom, Hybrid Cloud, BuildSecOps, OSS, Cloud-Only full false AzureStack for Hybrid Cloud AzureStack for Hybrid Cloud 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: 480

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 - Welcome to the show. Todd has been a guest before, but Carmen is new. Tell us a little bit about both of your backgrounds.

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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SHOW: 480

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 - Welcome to the show. Todd has been a guest before, but Carmen is new. Tell us a little bit about both of your backgrounds.

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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6868592 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0500 2090 Microsoft, Intel, AzureStack, HybridCloud, VMs, Containers, Kubernetes, Backup, VDI full false Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2020 Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2020 Brian provides some commentary on the state of AWS in 2020, and then reviews the highlights and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2020.

SHOW: 479

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

PodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.com

SHOW NOTES:

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SHOW: 479

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

PodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.com

SHOW NOTES:

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6763054 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0500 1841 AWS, Andy Jassy, re:Invent, EKS, ECS, ARM chips, Hybrid Cloud, Contact Centers full false The State of Kubernetes The State of Kubernetes 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: 478

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 - 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?  

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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: 478

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 - 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?  

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6643258 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:00:00 -0500 2059 Nigel Poulton, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud, Public Cloud, DevOps, Containers full false Great Data Models Need Great Features Great Data Models Need Great Features 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

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 - 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? 

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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

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 - 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? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6546883 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:00:00 -0500 2107 Cloud, Cloud Data Models, Uber, AI, ML, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, DevOps, Tecton full false eBPF & Cilium Cloud-native Networking eBPF & Cilium Cloud-native Networking 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

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 - 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? 

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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

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 - 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? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6431761 Wed, 18 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0500 2175 Isovalent, eBPF, Cloud-native Networking, Cilium, SDN, Dan Wendlandt, Kubernetes full false Managing SAP in the Cloud Managing SAP in the Cloud 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

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 - 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? 

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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

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 - 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? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6054097 Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0500 2386 SAP, Cloud, DevOps, Migrations, HANA, LemonGrass, Big Data, ERP, CRM full false Serverless Data APIs Serverless Data APIs 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

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been at the forefront of really interesting tech in the past. Can you tell us a little bit about your background?

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? 

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SHOW: 474

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 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been at the forefront of really interesting tech in the past. Can you tell us a little bit about your background?

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? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6213331 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:00:00 -0500 2195 Fauna, Evan Weaver, FaunaDB, Serverless, NoOps, Database, API, Jamstack, GraphQL, OLTP full false Continuous Application Profiling Continuous Application Profiling 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

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 - Welcome to the show and welcome back to the show. Before we dig into today’s topic, can you give us a little bit of your background and how you became focused in this area? 

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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]]> 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

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 - Welcome to the show and welcome back to the show. Before we dig into today’s topic, can you give us a little bit of your background and how you became focused in this area? 

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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-6097651 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2142 Datadog, Markus Hilt, Hugo Kaczmarek, Application Profiling, APM, Continuous, Production, Observability full false Confidential Computing Confidential Computing 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

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

PodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.com

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dig into today’s discussion, can you give us a little bit about your background?

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?


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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

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 - Welcome to the show. Before we dig into today’s discussion, can you give us a little bit about your background?

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?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5989900 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2383 Azure, Intel, Confidential Computing, SGX, Secure Enclave, Encryption, Defense in Depth, AKS, Containers, VMs full false Understanding the Jamstack Understanding the Jamstack 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

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been trying to make websites easier for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background and what motivates you about Netlify.

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?

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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

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 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been trying to make websites easier for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background and what motivates you about Netlify.

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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5885176 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2337 Matt Biilman, Netlify, Jamstack, Serverless, APIs, CDNs, Twilio, Stripe, Lambda, Agolia full false Women of Color in Tech Women of Color in Tech 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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:


CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into our discussion today, tell us about your background and some of the areas that you’re passionate about.

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.? 

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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

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 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into our discussion today, tell us about your background and some of the areas that you’re passionate about.

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.? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5775562 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2597 Susanne Tedrick, IBM, Women of Color in Tech, Mentorship, Sponsorship, STEM full false Learn Streaming from the Experts Learn Streaming from the Experts 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

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 - Welcome to the show. It’s good to have you back on the show (Oct.2016). You’re very well-known in the CNCF community, but give folks some details on your background and what you’re working on these days.

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? 

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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

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 - Welcome to the show. It’s good to have you back on the show (Oct.2016). You’re very well-known in the CNCF community, but give folks some details on your background and what you’re working on these days.

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? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5661811 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2044 Chris Short, OpenShift, Live Streaming, YouTube, Twitch, Community Engagement full false Security Management & SIEM Security Management & SIEM 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

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 - Ariel, welcome to the show, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in the SIEM space?

Topic 2 - Let's start with some basics. SIEM (pronounced SIM with a silent E) or Security Information and Event Management isn’t new but it is the combination of a few different security trends. Explain to everyone your thoughts on the evolution of this industry and how we got here.

Topic 3 - How does it work and why is it important and what benefits? What are the primary use cases you see at Coralogix today?

Topic 4 - I have to ask the flip side, where are the rough edges and limitations typically?

Topic 5 - How does the trend towards migration of “as a service” offerings affect SIEM? What’s left to monitor?

Topic 6 - This sounds like an area where AI/ML could play a role as well, what advancements and trends do you see here?

Topic 7 - For listeners new to the topic, how can they get started and learn more?

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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

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 - Ariel, welcome to the show, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in the SIEM space?

Topic 2 - Let's start with some basics. SIEM (pronounced SIM with a silent E) or Security Information and Event Management isn’t new but it is the combination of a few different security trends. Explain to everyone your thoughts on the evolution of this industry and how we got here.

Topic 3 - How does it work and why is it important and what benefits? What are the primary use cases you see at Coralogix today?

Topic 4 - I have to ask the flip side, where are the rough edges and limitations typically?

Topic 5 - How does the trend towards migration of “as a service” offerings affect SIEM? What’s left to monitor?

Topic 6 - This sounds like an area where AI/ML could play a role as well, what advancements and trends do you see here?

Topic 7 - For listeners new to the topic, how can they get started and learn more?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5563180 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1859 Coralogix, Ariel Assaraf, SIEM, Security Management, full false Identity Across Multiple Clouds Identity Across Multiple Clouds 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

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 - 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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]]> 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

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 - 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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5461690 Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1893 Rapid7, DivvyCloud, Brian Johnson, MFA, IAM, PAM, IGA, MSP, Security, Identity, Policy full false How Tensorflow is Evolving How Tensorflow is Evolving 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

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 - 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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]]> 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

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 - 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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5339716 Wed, 09 Sep 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2187 Intel, Google Cloud, Tensorflow, AI, ML, Python, OSS, GitHub, Andres Rodriguez full false Migrating to the Cloud Migrating to the Cloud 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

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 - 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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SHOW: 465

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SHOW NOTES:

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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5253055 Wed, 02 Sep 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2002 Microsoft, Azure, Cloud Migrations, Jeremy Winters, Testing, COVID-19, ROI full false Multi Cloud with Google Anthos Multi Cloud with Google Anthos Todd Christ (Sr. Solutions Architect @Intel) talks about Google Anthos, core elements, design considerations, mulitcloud, application modernization, and the latest services available.

SHOW: 464

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SHOW NOTES:

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? 

Topic 2 - Today we’re talking about the Anthos offering from Google Cloud. A few years ago, the cloud providers were all-in on just public cloud. What have you seen shift in the market that has now created their hybrid or multi-cloud offerings that have broader reach? 

Topic 3 - Lets talk about Google Anthos. What are the core elements, what types of services does it deliver, and what is the overall customer experience? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the newer Anthos capabilities that have been announced and how do they help with hybrid or multi-cloud? (Anthos Migrate, Anthos on AWS/Azure, is there an Anthos “appliance” available for on-premises)?

Topic 5 - Running applications in cloud vs. on-premises is always going to be somewhat different. What are some of the things that Intel does with Google to help improve the overall experience? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the use-cases that you’ve found are early successes for Anthos, or some of the early lessons that companies are finding when using Anthos? 


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SHOW: 464

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

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SHOW NOTES:

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? 

Topic 2 - Today we’re talking about the Anthos offering from Google Cloud. A few years ago, the cloud providers were all-in on just public cloud. What have you seen shift in the market that has now created their hybrid or multi-cloud offerings that have broader reach? 

Topic 3 - Lets talk about Google Anthos. What are the core elements, what types of services does it deliver, and what is the overall customer experience? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the newer Anthos capabilities that have been announced and how do they help with hybrid or multi-cloud? (Anthos Migrate, Anthos on AWS/Azure, is there an Anthos “appliance” available for on-premises)?

Topic 5 - Running applications in cloud vs. on-premises is always going to be somewhat different. What are some of the things that Intel does with Google to help improve the overall experience? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the use-cases that you’ve found are early successes for Anthos, or some of the early lessons that companies are finding when using Anthos? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5133583 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1716 Intel, Google, Anthos, Public Cloud, Multicloud, Multi Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud, Kubernetes, Containers, DevOps, GKE full false Robotic and Intelligent Process Automation Robotic and Intelligent Process Automation 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

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what attracted you to the interaction of business processes and technology automation.

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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]]> 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

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 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what attracted you to the interaction of business processes and technology automation.

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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-5054600 Wed, 19 Aug 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2412 Mike Kalinowski, Infor, RPA, API, AI/ML, Intelligent Process Automation, SaaS full false Introduction to GraphQL Introduction to GraphQL 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

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 - Welcome to the show. You both have an entrepreneurial background. Tell us a little bit about yourself and then what drove you to start Hasura? 

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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]]> 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

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 - Welcome to the show. You both have an entrepreneurial background. Tell us a little bit about yourself and then what drove you to start Hasura? 

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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4959698 Wed, 12 Aug 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2440 Tanmai Gopal, Hasura, Rajoshi Ghosh, GraphQL, Rest API, Data, API Queries full false Delegated Identity in the Cloud Delegated Identity in the Cloud 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

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve both been at Microsoft for a little while, but give us a little bit of your background and the things you focus on today. 

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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SHOW: 461

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 - Welcome to the show. You’ve both been at Microsoft for a little while, but give us a little bit of your background and the things you focus on today. 

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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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4857824 Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2334 Microsoft, Azure, Identity, Active Directory, Christos Matskas, John Patrick Dandison, Security, VPN full false How to Secure DevOps How to Secure DevOps 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

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 - Welcome to the show. I first got to know you through your podcast The POPcast, but you’re been around this evolution of the cloud for quite a while. Tell us a bit about your background. 

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?


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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

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 - Welcome to the show. I first got to know you through your podcast The POPcast, but you’re been around this evolution of the cloud for quite a while. Tell us a bit about your background. 

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?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4758188 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2069 PopCast, DevSecOps, Secure DevOps, Sysdig, Falco, Dan Papandrea, Containers, Kubernetes full false Introduction to Data Mesh Introduction to Data Mesh 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

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 - 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?


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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

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 - 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?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4669586 Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:00:00 -0400 2654 Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani, Thoughtworks, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, CI/CD, Data Pipelines, Data Truthfulness full false Natural Language Understanding with AI for IT Support Natural Language Understanding with AI for IT Support Vaibhav Nivargi (CTO & Founder @Moveworks) talks about Natural Language Understanding (NLU), interacting with users using chatbots, and augmenting customer service with AI. 

SHOW: 458

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 - 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?

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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

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 - 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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4586720 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:00:00 -0400 1679 full false 2020 in Review - Midyear Edition 2020 in Review - Midyear Edition Aaron and Brian review the first half of 2020, which feels like it’s lasted 6 years. 

SHOW: 457

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 - 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?  

  • Zoom becomes a verb

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:

  • AWS - Goes over $10B for the quarter, not a lot of big announcements
  • Azure - Lots of interesting growth around GitHub; pushing Teams hard with COVID; but had some scaling issues with COVID - also has made several acquisitions
  • Google - Getting very sales focused (CEO Kurian); pushing Anthos into other clouds (AWS now, Azure soon)
  • Oracle - Are they becoming the low-cost bandwidth cloud?

Topic 3 - Should anybody be running their own software anymore? 

  • MongoDB, Confluent, Datastax, Hashicorp, Red Hat, VMware (and many more) now have managed cloud-based versions of their core software.

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? 


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SHOW: 457

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 - 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?  

  • Zoom becomes a verb

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:

  • AWS - Goes over $10B for the quarter, not a lot of big announcements
  • Azure - Lots of interesting growth around GitHub; pushing Teams hard with COVID; but had some scaling issues with COVID - also has made several acquisitions
  • Google - Getting very sales focused (CEO Kurian); pushing Anthos into other clouds (AWS now, Azure soon)
  • Oracle - Are they becoming the low-cost bandwidth cloud?

Topic 3 - Should anybody be running their own software anymore? 

  • MongoDB, Confluent, Datastax, Hashicorp, Red Hat, VMware (and many more) now have managed cloud-based versions of their core software.

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? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4483721 Wed, 08 Jul 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2705 2020, COVID-19, AWS, Azure, GCP, VDI, Collaboration, WFH, SaaS, GitHub, full false Building a Next-Generation of Serverless Building a Next-Generation of Serverless 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.

SHOW: 456

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 - 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?


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SHOW: 456

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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?


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4295684 Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1898 Stackery, Serverless, DevOps, Tim Zonca, AWS Lambda full false MLOps, GPUs and AI Developers MLOps, GPUs and AI Developers 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

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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?

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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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4210097 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 08:00:00 -0400 1513 AI/ML, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AI, ML, GPUs, CI/CD, Developers, MLOps full false Security Visibility from Observability Data Security Visibility from Observability Data 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.

SHOW: 454

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 - 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? 

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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.

SHOW: 454

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 - 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? 

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4110935 Wed, 10 Jun 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1885 Datadog, Security, DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, Observability, Marc Tremsal full false AI for the Mainstream AI for the Mainstream Venkat Rangan (Co-Founder & CTO @ Clari) talks about AI and application into more mainstream areas and revenue generation.

SHOW: 453

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 - 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.

Topic 2 - Today we’re going to dig back into AI as a topic. Let’s start at the start. In your current role you have been involved in technology over the years and Clari has been around for awhile. What compelled you to focus on this space?

Topic 3 - AI has suffered from a perception issue. It often is seen as unapproachable with a pretty high barrier to entry. We’ve spoken to companies in the past about specific industry or vertical applications (manufacturing for instance). Many architects and our listeners are practitioners vs. data scientists. How do we solve this problem and “bring AI to mainstream”

Topic 4 - In order for that to happen, what does our industry need? Is it SaaS based, services from public clouds, etc?

Topic 5 - Having been in field sales for years, it’s always been somewhere between complete and utter guesswork all the way to precision, rocket science level analysis. - What are your thoughts here and how can AI improve this situation?

Topic 6 - What’s next for industry? What are the use cases both today and in the future?

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]]> Venkat Rangan (Co-Founder & CTO @ Clari) talks about AI and application into more mainstream areas and revenue generation.

SHOW: 453

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 - 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.

Topic 2 - Today we’re going to dig back into AI as a topic. Let’s start at the start. In your current role you have been involved in technology over the years and Clari has been around for awhile. What compelled you to focus on this space?

Topic 3 - AI has suffered from a perception issue. It often is seen as unapproachable with a pretty high barrier to entry. We’ve spoken to companies in the past about specific industry or vertical applications (manufacturing for instance). Many architects and our listeners are practitioners vs. data scientists. How do we solve this problem and “bring AI to mainstream”

Topic 4 - In order for that to happen, what does our industry need? Is it SaaS based, services from public clouds, etc?

Topic 5 - Having been in field sales for years, it’s always been somewhere between complete and utter guesswork all the way to precision, rocket science level analysis. - What are your thoughts here and how can AI improve this situation?

Topic 6 - What’s next for industry? What are the use cases both today and in the future?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-4021709 Wed, 03 Jun 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1599 AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud, Clari, SaaS full false Continuous Reliability Continuous Reliability 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.

SHOW: 452

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 - 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?

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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.

SHOW: 452

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 - 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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3929753 Wed, 27 May 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1912 SRE, DevOps, Continuous Reliability, OverOps, Tal Weiss, Cloud-native patterns full false Network Security with Adaptive DDI Network Security with Adaptive DDI 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.

SHOW: 451

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Andrew, tell everyone a little about yourself.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is all about network security and foundations. Over the years, our networks have become complex and we have multiple infrastructure systems to maintain such as on-prem DHCP, VPC connections to public cloud, public facing, etc. Tell everyone a little bit about the challenge and your findings with customers in the industry.

Topic 3 - I’ve heard Enterprise DNS and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), what’s the difference? Doesn’t everyone just use a spreadsheet still? :)  What’s changed?

Topic 4 - How has an era of new devices (VOIP, IoT, Edge, etc.) affected management and security approaches?

Topic 5 - What are the tradeoffs and design considerations when it comes to all of the above (multiple clouds, multiple types of devices, multiple vendors with management tools). Are we talking about an overlay, a replacement tool? How does this unification happen? Aren’t there differences for instance in DNS implementations between vendors?

Topic 6 - What’s next for industry? What are the use cases both today and in the future?

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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.

SHOW: 451

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 - Andrew, tell everyone a little about yourself.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is all about network security and foundations. Over the years, our networks have become complex and we have multiple infrastructure systems to maintain such as on-prem DHCP, VPC connections to public cloud, public facing, etc. Tell everyone a little bit about the challenge and your findings with customers in the industry.

Topic 3 - I’ve heard Enterprise DNS and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), what’s the difference? Doesn’t everyone just use a spreadsheet still? :)  What’s changed?

Topic 4 - How has an era of new devices (VOIP, IoT, Edge, etc.) affected management and security approaches?

Topic 5 - What are the tradeoffs and design considerations when it comes to all of the above (multiple clouds, multiple types of devices, multiple vendors with management tools). Are we talking about an overlay, a replacement tool? How does this unification happen? Aren’t there differences for instance in DNS implementations between vendors?

Topic 6 - What’s next for industry? What are the use cases both today and in the future?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3807647 Wed, 20 May 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1953 Network Security, Adaptive Security, DNS, IPAM, DDI, Andrew Wertkin, BlueCat Networks full false Cloud BI for Everyone Cloud BI for Everyone 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.

SHOW: 450

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 - 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?

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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.

SHOW: 450

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 - 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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3735461 Wed, 13 May 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1716 GCP, Looker, Cloud BI, Business Intelligence, Pedro Arellano, Data Visualization full false Making Microservices Work at Scale Making Microservices Work at Scale 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.

SHOW: 449

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 - 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? 


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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.

SHOW: 449

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 - 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? 


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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3638542 Wed, 06 May 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2030 Microservices, Sarah Wells, Financial Times, A/B Testing, Service-centric Culture, DevOps, SRE full false Managing App Sprawl with SaaSOps Managing App Sprawl with SaaSOps Aaron talks to Jim Brennan (CPO @ BetterCloud) about SaaSOps and the challenges of managing SaaS applications in a world when IT is becoming decentralized.

SHOW: 448

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Jim, welcome to the show. tell everyone a little about yourself and what has you so passionate about making SaaS better?

Topic 2 - Over the years on the podcast we have watched the growth of the SaaS market. It seems a market isn’t truly it’s own until you attach Ops to it… We’ve seen DevOps, SecOps, NoOps, and many others. So, today we are going to talk about SaaSOps. What is SaaSOps?

Topic 3 - At the core of SaaSOps is the ability to discover all the SaaS capabilities that are being used across a company. There is no longer a central place in IT to discover things, and no longer a fixed perimeter for input and output. So how do you discover things in SaaSOps?

Topic 3a - On the flip side of that, how do you manage data discovery, because if things didn’t go through a known exit point, how do you connect what data left the company (or might be insecurely stored somewhere?)

Topic 4 - Every industry has growing pains. What are some in the SaaS industry? Security seems to always be a pain for everyone...

Topic 5 - How is this space different from straight up identity management and the classical dashboard of SaaS and other apps that may be provided to me as an employee of a company?

Topic 6 - Your background is non-Silicon Valley and the company locations reflect that. How has it been building a company outside the bubble?

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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.

SHOW: 448

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Jim, welcome to the show. tell everyone a little about yourself and what has you so passionate about making SaaS better?

Topic 2 - Over the years on the podcast we have watched the growth of the SaaS market. It seems a market isn’t truly it’s own until you attach Ops to it… We’ve seen DevOps, SecOps, NoOps, and many others. So, today we are going to talk about SaaSOps. What is SaaSOps?

Topic 3 - At the core of SaaSOps is the ability to discover all the SaaS capabilities that are being used across a company. There is no longer a central place in IT to discover things, and no longer a fixed perimeter for input and output. So how do you discover things in SaaSOps?

Topic 3a - On the flip side of that, how do you manage data discovery, because if things didn’t go through a known exit point, how do you connect what data left the company (or might be insecurely stored somewhere?)

Topic 4 - Every industry has growing pains. What are some in the SaaS industry? Security seems to always be a pain for everyone...

Topic 5 - How is this space different from straight up identity management and the classical dashboard of SaaS and other apps that may be provided to me as an employee of a company?

Topic 6 - Your background is non-Silicon Valley and the company locations reflect that. How has it been building a company outside the bubble?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3554803 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:00:00 -0400 1835 full false Cloud Observability with ELK and Grafana Cloud Observability with ELK and Grafana 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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Let's talk about your background as both a technologist and entrepreneur, and what excites you about the open-source ecosystem (what motivated you to found Logz.io)?

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? 

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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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:


Topic 1 - Let's talk about your background as both a technologist and entrepreneur, and what excites you about the open-source ecosystem (what motivated you to found Logz.io)?

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? 

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SHOW: 446

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SHOW NOTES:

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)?

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SHOW: 446

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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)?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3365803 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2456 SRE, DevOps, IncidentLabs, Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo, Culture, SLO, Error Budgets full false A Practical Approach to Cloud-native Patterns A Practical Approach to Cloud-native Patterns 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

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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?

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SHOW: 445

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3272467 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 01:00:00 -0400 2205 Container Solutions, Cloud-native, Patterns, AppDev, Kubernetes, Ian Crosby, Culture, Process full false SecOps in the Cloud SecOps in the Cloud 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

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - You have an interesting background in both the Israel military and cyber-security. Can you give a quick introduction for everyone please?

Topic 2 - Brian and I both do not come from security backgrounds and I’m sure we have some listeners out there just learning. Let’s start at the start. SecOps, what is your definition and why is it important today?

Topic 3 - You recently published an article in Security Boulevard (link in show notes) on Non-Human Entities in the Cloud. I found it very fascinating. Can you tell everyone what that expression means and why it is so important in a cloud and SaaS world?

Topic 4 - What are the top challenges with security in the cloud today? I come from the days of the old secure perimeter model. What has changed and why? I would imagine automation and API driven systems have changed this perspective a lot.

Topic 5 - Tell us a bit about your company Polyrize. What problems are you trying to solve? What are the most common use cases? What are the challenges to securing multiple platforms (SaaS, IaaS, etc.)

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SHOW: 444

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - You have an interesting background in both the Israel military and cyber-security. Can you give a quick introduction for everyone please?

Topic 2 - Brian and I both do not come from security backgrounds and I’m sure we have some listeners out there just learning. Let’s start at the start. SecOps, what is your definition and why is it important today?

Topic 3 - You recently published an article in Security Boulevard (link in show notes) on Non-Human Entities in the Cloud. I found it very fascinating. Can you tell everyone what that expression means and why it is so important in a cloud and SaaS world?

Topic 4 - What are the top challenges with security in the cloud today? I come from the days of the old secure perimeter model. What has changed and why? I would imagine automation and API driven systems have changed this perspective a lot.

Topic 5 - Tell us a bit about your company Polyrize. What problems are you trying to solve? What are the most common use cases? What are the challenges to securing multiple platforms (SaaS, IaaS, etc.)

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]]> https://www.thecloudcast.net/2020/04/secops-in-cloud.html Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3196279 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400 1826 Cloud, Security, SecOps, Nati Hazut, Polyrize, ZeroTrust full false GitHub Actions and the DevOps Lifecycle GitHub Actions and the DevOps Lifecycle 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

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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SHOW: 443

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:


CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3123433 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:00:00 -0400 1693 Chris Patterson, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Microsoft, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Developer Platform full false Tips for Working from Home Tips for Working from Home 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

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SHOW NOTES:

  • Wash your hands
  • Don't touch your face
  • Practice Social Distancing

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.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics. What are the first steps to both keep your sanity and be productive? (Making sure your calendar is public, your company has a standard for chat/video/etc, don’t they? You are available during business hours, etc.) Set up a dedicated work space, etc. Don’t use Slack to replace email….

Topic 3 - At our last company together, Ken pushed hard for certain work from home inclusion rules, what were they? Video camera on, video camera off? People will always assume the worst.

Topic 4 - Weekly report on work to a distributed team: this week, next week, GYR status, upcoming PTO, etc.

Topic 5 - Have a start and stop time (that is friendly to your HQ)

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SHOW: 442

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:


CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

  • Wash your hands
  • Don't touch your face
  • Practice Social Distancing

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.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics. What are the first steps to both keep your sanity and be productive? (Making sure your calendar is public, your company has a standard for chat/video/etc, don’t they? You are available during business hours, etc.) Set up a dedicated work space, etc. Don’t use Slack to replace email….

Topic 3 - At our last company together, Ken pushed hard for certain work from home inclusion rules, what were they? Video camera on, video camera off? People will always assume the worst.

Topic 4 - Weekly report on work to a distributed team: this week, next week, GYR status, upcoming PTO, etc.

Topic 5 - Have a start and stop time (that is friendly to your HQ)

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-3042382 Wed, 18 Mar 2020 01:00:00 -0400 1811 Working From Home, Working Remotely, Coronavirus, Pandemic Corona Virus, Slack, Email, Conference Calls, Video, Collaboration full false Next-Generation Developer Collaboration Next-Generation Developer Collaboration 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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> Cloudcast Media Buzzsprout-2980441 Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0400 1925 Collaboration, Developers, GitHub, ZenHub, Aaron Upright, Teams, Roadmaps, Prioritization full false API Driven Edge Networking and 5G API Driven Edge Networking and 5G 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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2911963 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:00:00 -0500 2909 Mobile, Edge, Edge Computing, 5G, LTE, APIs, Transport, Developers, Development, AR/VR full false DevOps and Incident Response Evolution DevOps and Incident Response Evolution 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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself, you’ve been active in the DevOps space for quite some time.

Topic 2 - About a year ago we had your peer and good friend of the show, Josh Atwell, on to talk about the State of DevOps in 2019. What are your thoughts on changes over the last 12 months and where we headed in 2020?

Topic 3 - One item in particular that has drawn my attention is your discussions on Incident Response and Machine Learning. Can you tell everyone a little bit about that and why you believe it will be valuable going forward?

Topic 4 - This in a way feels almost like a transition into the next evolution of our model. First we had separate dev and ops and no one talked, then we put them together, then we had every device and app start spitting out logs and alerts and next thing you knew, we were drowning in data… The complexity of the systems has grown exponentially. Fair?

Topic 5 - You recently did a post over on the Victor Ops blog about SRE and the meaning of the “S” in that blog. You propose more and more it should stand for Service Reliability Engineer vs. the more traditional Site Reliability Engineer, especially as we move into a subscription based model world. Can you explain to everyone your thoughts there?

Topic 6 - When I think Incident Response, I think production environments. As part of VictorOps I’m sure you see a lot of use cases and have solved some pretty unique customer problems. How can this be applied outside of production, say for application testing or quality before hitting production? Is that a valid approach?

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SHOW: 439

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself, you’ve been active in the DevOps space for quite some time.

Topic 2 - About a year ago we had your peer and good friend of the show, Josh Atwell, on to talk about the State of DevOps in 2019. What are your thoughts on changes over the last 12 months and where we headed in 2020?

Topic 3 - One item in particular that has drawn my attention is your discussions on Incident Response and Machine Learning. Can you tell everyone a little bit about that and why you believe it will be valuable going forward?

Topic 4 - This in a way feels almost like a transition into the next evolution of our model. First we had separate dev and ops and no one talked, then we put them together, then we had every device and app start spitting out logs and alerts and next thing you knew, we were drowning in data… The complexity of the systems has grown exponentially. Fair?

Topic 5 - You recently did a post over on the Victor Ops blog about SRE and the meaning of the “S” in that blog. You propose more and more it should stand for Service Reliability Engineer vs. the more traditional Site Reliability Engineer, especially as we move into a subscription based model world. Can you explain to everyone your thoughts there?

Topic 6 - When I think Incident Response, I think production environments. As part of VictorOps I’m sure you see a lot of use cases and have solved some pretty unique customer problems. How can this be applied outside of production, say for application testing or quality before hitting production? Is that a valid approach?

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2844079 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:00:00 -0500 2148 DevOps, Machine Learning, SRE, Incident Response, VictorOps, Splunk, DevRel, Developer Evangelist full false Scalable Databases on Kubernetes Scalable Databases on Kubernetes 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

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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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

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2789767 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:00:00 -0500 1355 CockroachDB, Kubernetes, SQL, Peter Mattis, Global Scalability, Kubernetes Operators full false A "AI & ML" Look Ahead for 2020 A "AI & ML" Look Ahead for 2020 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

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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SHOW: 437

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2744935 Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:00:00 -0500 2555 full false New Trends in Serverless New Trends in Serverless SHOW: 436

DESCRIPTION: Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn, Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless applications in the public cloud, adoption rates, as well as how serverless is deployed along with containers. 

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SHOW NOTES:

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. 

  • Are you able to tell anything about the types of companies being monitored? (industries, size of company, etc.)

Topic 3 - Highlights from the State of Serverless report

  • The majority of functions are still fairly small, and don’t run very long (small memory footprint). 
  • Node.js and Python are the leading languages/frameworks being used (almost 90%)
  • Nearly half of EC2 users have adopted Lambda
  • Early adopters of Containers (ECS) have adopted Lambda - 80%+
  • Discuss which event-driven data sources are the most frequently used

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?

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DESCRIPTION: Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn, Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless applications in the public cloud, adoption rates, as well as how serverless is deployed along with containers. 

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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. 

  • Are you able to tell anything about the types of companies being monitored? (industries, size of company, etc.)

Topic 3 - Highlights from the State of Serverless report

  • The majority of functions are still fairly small, and don’t run very long (small memory footprint). 
  • Node.js and Python are the leading languages/frameworks being used (almost 90%)
  • Nearly half of EC2 users have adopted Lambda
  • Early adopters of Containers (ECS) have adopted Lambda - 80%+
  • Discuss which event-driven data sources are the most frequently used

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?

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2646349 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 01:00:00 -0500 1896 Datadog, Serverless, FaaS, Lambda, Containers, Python, node.js, concurrency limits full false A “API” Look Ahead for 2020 A “API” Look Ahead for 2020 SHOW: 435

DESCRIPTION: James Higginbotham (@launchany; Founder, Author, API Architect) talks about frameworks for evaluating API usage, developer perspectives on APIs, versioning APIs and some thoughts on new trends in API usage. 

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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DESCRIPTION: James Higginbotham (@launchany; Founder, Author, API Architect) talks about frameworks for evaluating API usage, developer perspectives on APIs, versioning APIs and some thoughts on new trends in API usage. 

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2588290 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:00:00 -0500 1938 API, Microservices, DevOps, James Higginbotham, LaunchAny, Security, Business Process, Agile, Versioning, API-First full false A “Service Mesh” Look Ahead for 2020 A “Service Mesh” Look Ahead for 2020 SHOW: 434

DESCRIPTION: Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talks about the trends that are shaping the Service Mesh space, including emerging standards, application patterns, and interactions with API gateways. 

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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DESCRIPTION: Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talks about the trends that are shaping the Service Mesh space, including emerging standards, application patterns, and interactions with API gateways. 

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2538394 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:00:00 -0500 2225 Christian Posta, Solo, Service Mesh, API Gateway, Microservices, Proxy, Sidecar, Distributed Services, Istio full false The Unicorn Project with Gene Kim The Unicorn Project with Gene Kim SHOW: 433

DESCRIPTION: Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim, Author, DevOps Researcher) talks about his new book “The Unicorn Project”, the follow-on to “The Phoenix Project, and the newest trends shaping DevOps and business success. 

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

  • THE FIRST IDEAL: Locality and Simplicity
  • THE SECOND IDEAL: Focus, Flow, and Joy
  • THE THIRD IDEAL: Improvement of Daily Work
  • THE FOURTH IDEAL: Psychological Safety
  • THE FIFTH IDEAL: Customer Focus 

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim, Author, DevOps Researcher) talks about his new book “The Unicorn Project”, the follow-on to “The Phoenix Project, and the newest trends shaping DevOps and business success. 

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

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?

  • THE FIRST IDEAL: Locality and Simplicity
  • THE SECOND IDEAL: Focus, Flow, and Joy
  • THE THIRD IDEAL: Improvement of Daily Work
  • THE FOURTH IDEAL: Psychological Safety
  • THE FIFTH IDEAL: Customer Focus 

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? 

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2501845 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:00:00 -0500 2189 Gene Kim, DevOps, Unicorn Project, Phoenix Project, DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOps Handbook full false A "SaaS" Look Ahead for 2020 A "SaaS" Look Ahead for 2020 SHOW: 432

DESCRIPTION: Aneel Lahkani (@aneel, Go To Market Consultant and Advisor) talks about how SaaS impacts today's cloud computing decisions, the challenges of running a profitable SaaS business, migrating to SaaS services, and how public clouds compete and partner with SaaS offerings. 

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SHOW NOTES:

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aneel Lahkani (@aneel, Go To Market Consultant and Advisor) talks about how SaaS impacts today's cloud computing decisions, the challenges of running a profitable SaaS business, migrating to SaaS services, and how public clouds compete and partner with SaaS offerings. 

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

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? 

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]]> The Cloudcast Buzzsprout-2455061 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:00:00 -0500 2158 Aneel Lakhani, SaaS, AWS, Azure, Business Process, Migration, Marketing, Engineers full false A "Data" Look Ahead for 2020 A "Data" Look Ahead for 2020 SHOW: 431

DESCRIPTION: Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen, Director of Technology Evangelism at @NetApp) talks about the growing importance of data to reshape business, emerging data trends and standards, working around 5G networks and more.

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SHOW NOTES:

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen, Director of Technology Evangelism at @NetApp) talks about the growing importance of data to reshape business, emerging data trends and standards, working around 5G networks and more.

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

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? 

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2397479 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:00:00 -0500 1909 Greg Knieriemen, Data, 5G, AI/ML Models, Data Gravity, CCPA full false 2019 in Review & 2020 Predictions 2019 in Review & 2020 Predictions SHOW: 430

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of 2019, and make bold cloud computing predictions for 2020. 

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PODCAST BUSINESS: 

  • Why are Aaron and Brian both on the show recently?
  • Krispy Kreme Challenge (“The Donut Run”) fundraising
  • Announcing “The Cloudcast Basics” - coming in early 2020!! 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Cloudcast in 2019:

  • Over 1.6M+ listens, up 40% YoY
  • Guest Acquisitions: (total: 9) Cloudability (Apptio), Bromium (HPE), Docker (Mirantis), Shippable (JFrog), SignalFX (Splunk), Pivotal (VMware), NGINX (F5), ParkMyCloud (Turbonomics), Twistlock (Palo Alto) - also had 9 in 2018
  • IPO: Datadog

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2019:

2020 PREDICTIONS

Brian:

  • We’ll start talking about GitHub as one of the major cloud platforms, in the same way we do AWS, Azure and Google. 
  • We’re going to start seeing more and more vertical-centric AI/ML companies emerge, that curate data and provide insights-as-a-service. 
  • We’re going to start seeing companies that offer distributed versions of the large “monolithic” systems of today (Core Banking, ERP, etc.) that lets new companies and business models emerge.

Aaron:

  • The “trough of disillusionment” will hit Kubernetes, and it will be fine…
  • Serverless will get a new name and will hit stride
  • GitLab and HashiCorp will have breakout years

STARS WARS DISCUSSION:
For the 1st time ever, we indulge Aaron and talk a little bit of sci-fi on the

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of 2019, and make bold cloud computing predictions for 2020. 

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

PODCAST BUSINESS: 

  • Why are Aaron and Brian both on the show recently?
  • Krispy Kreme Challenge (“The Donut Run”) fundraising
  • Announcing “The Cloudcast Basics” - coming in early 2020!! 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Cloudcast in 2019:

  • Over 1.6M+ listens, up 40% YoY
  • Guest Acquisitions: (total: 9) Cloudability (Apptio), Bromium (HPE), Docker (Mirantis), Shippable (JFrog), SignalFX (Splunk), Pivotal (VMware), NGINX (F5), ParkMyCloud (Turbonomics), Twistlock (Palo Alto) - also had 9 in 2018
  • IPO: Datadog

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2019:

2020 PREDICTIONS

Brian:

  • We’ll start talking about GitHub as one of the major cloud platforms, in the same way we do AWS, Azure and Google. 
  • We’re going to start seeing more and more vertical-centric AI/ML companies emerge, that curate data and provide insights-as-a-service. 
  • We’re going to start seeing companies that offer distributed versions of the large “monolithic” systems of today (Core Banking, ERP, etc.) that lets new companies and business models emerge.

Aaron:

  • The “trough of disillusionment” will hit Kubernetes, and it will be fine…
  • Serverless will get a new name and will hit stride
  • GitLab and HashiCorp will have breakout years

STARS WARS DISCUSSION:
For the 1st time ever, we indulge Aaron and talk a little bit of sci-fi on the

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2323025 Wed, 25 Dec 2019 01:00:00 -0500 3082 AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, Kubernetes, VMware, AI, ML, Cloudcast Basics, GitHub full false 2010's Decade in Review & Reader Mailbag Questions 2010's Decade in Review & Reader Mailbag Questions SHOW: 429

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of the 2010s decade, and answer reader mailbag questions from 2019. 

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TRENDS FROM THE DECADE (2010-2019):

  • Hype or Not?: OpenStack, HCI, Docker, Cloud Foundry (or any PaaS), Kubernetes, Blockchain, AI/ML, Serverless
  • The re-invention of Microsoft (Azure, GitHub, Open Source, dropping failed efforts (Nokia, Windows Mobile)
  • It’s hard to believe that Google is still only 3rd or 4th in public cloud (and it’s leadership is questioning its future)
  • The rise of open-source in the Enterprise, and all the challenges this created across the industry
  • The rise of developer-lead decision-making (shadow IT, mobile apps, decentralized decision-making, serverless as NoOps)
  • Everyone still sucks at security, but now it’s a headline problem
  • 10 years of DevOps discussions and most companies still haven’t figured out that it’s org-charts and culture.
  • The shift from Config-Mgmt (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt) to things like Immutable infrastructure, Declarative schedulers, GitOps, etc.)

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.


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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of the 2010s decade, and answer reader mailbag questions from 2019. 

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TRENDS FROM THE DECADE (2010-2019):

  • Hype or Not?: OpenStack, HCI, Docker, Cloud Foundry (or any PaaS), Kubernetes, Blockchain, AI/ML, Serverless
  • The re-invention of Microsoft (Azure, GitHub, Open Source, dropping failed efforts (Nokia, Windows Mobile)
  • It’s hard to believe that Google is still only 3rd or 4th in public cloud (and it’s leadership is questioning its future)
  • The rise of open-source in the Enterprise, and all the challenges this created across the industry
  • The rise of developer-lead decision-making (shadow IT, mobile apps, decentralized decision-making, serverless as NoOps)
  • Everyone still sucks at security, but now it’s a headline problem
  • 10 years of DevOps discussions and most companies still haven’t figured out that it’s org-charts and culture.
  • The shift from Config-Mgmt (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt) to things like Immutable infrastructure, Declarative schedulers, GitOps, etc.)

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.


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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2317748 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:00:00 -0500 2750 OpenStack, HCI, Docker, Cloud Foundry (or any PaaS), Kubernetes, Blockchain, AI/ML, Serverless, Azure, AWS, Career Advice full false Bringing DevOps to the Database with Automation Bringing DevOps to the Database with Automation SHOW: 428

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Robert Reeves (@robertreeves, Co-Founder / CTO of @Datical) about how to bring agility to databases to match the speed of cloud-native applications.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW NOTES:

  • Datical Homepage
  • Liquibase Homepage - leading open-source tool for database schema change management.

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?

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Robert Reeves (@robertreeves, Co-Founder / CTO of @Datical) about how to bring agility to databases to match the speed of cloud-native applications.

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  • Datical Homepage
  • Liquibase Homepage - leading open-source tool for database schema change management.

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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian reviews the big themes from AWS re:Invent 2019, as well as “most” of the new announcements.

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DESCRIPTION: Brian reviews the big themes from AWS re:Invent 2019, as well as “most” of the new announcements.

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2239457 Sat, 07 Dec 2019 15:00:00 -0500 1967 AWS, re:Invent, 2019, Outposts, Sagemaker, AI, ML, Fraud full false Building an Effective Developer Program Building an Effective Developer Program SHOW: 426

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Weitzel (@weitzlm, VP & General Manager, New Relic One at @NewRelic) about building effective developer platforms including lessons learned, best practices and trade offs to consider

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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 - 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?

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Weitzel (@weitzlm, VP & General Manager, New Relic One at @NewRelic) about building effective developer platforms including lessons learned, best practices and trade offs to consider

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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?

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2180312 Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:00:00 -0500 2039 Cloud, NewRelic, Mark,Weitzel, Developer, Advocates, Advocacy, Developer Programs, DevOps full false Reviewing Microsoft Ignite 2019 Reviewing Microsoft Ignite 2019 SHOW: 425

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian take a look at the Docker acquisition and review the Microsoft Ignite show and announcements

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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

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian take a look at the Docker acquisition and review the Microsoft Ignite show and announcements

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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

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2135822 Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:00:00 -0500 2038 Microsoft,Ignite,Azure,GitHub,Cortex,AI,ML,Cloud,Public,Public Cloud,O365,DevOps full false Azure Cloud Adoption Framework Azure Cloud Adoption Framework SHOW: 424

DESCRIPTION: Aaron talks with Evelyn Padrino (@evepadrinosanta, Azure Customer Success) & Brian Blanchard (@brianblanchard, Azure Cloud Adoption Framework Team) about adopting cloud, patterns of adoption, use cases and how the Azure Adoption Framework is helping their customers.

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron talks with Evelyn Padrino (@evepadrinosanta, Azure Customer Success) & Brian Blanchard (@brianblanchard, Azure Cloud Adoption Framework Team) about adopting cloud, patterns of adoption, use cases and how the Azure Adoption Framework is helping their customers.

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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?

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2079792 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0500 1606 Azure,Cloud,Framework,Adoption,IaaS,PaaS,Migration,Public full false Simplifying Healthcare Interactions Simplifying Healthcare Interactions SHOW: 423

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (Smiletronix and LazarusAI) about how technology is helping to give people more control over their health and use AI to improve doctor's ability to detect cancer and other deadly diseases.

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SHOW NOTES:

Smiletronix (@Smiletronix) - Yashar Faranjani (@yashar_f), Co-Founder & CEO -  Personalized dental health screenings, handheld device

  • Does this augment dentists, or eventually replace the dental check-up?
  • Doctors tend to hate Web.md (everyone being an online doctor). How have dentists reacted to this service?
  • Being based in Europe, are there unique characteristics of European markets or healthcare that make this more applicable to adoption?

Lazarus (Cambridge, MA) - Ariel Elizarov (@aelizarov12), Co-Founder & CEO - AI for cancer screenings

  • Isn’t skin cancer (and moles) a fairly well-understood science at this point? What does AI bring to the equation?
  • How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?
  • Your skin is a lifelong part of your health. How would this service work over a lifetime?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (Smiletronix and LazarusAI) about how technology is helping to give people more control over their health and use AI to improve doctor's ability to detect cancer and other deadly diseases.

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

Smiletronix (@Smiletronix) - Yashar Faranjani (@yashar_f), Co-Founder & CEO -  Personalized dental health screenings, handheld device

  • Does this augment dentists, or eventually replace the dental check-up?
  • Doctors tend to hate Web.md (everyone being an online doctor). How have dentists reacted to this service?
  • Being based in Europe, are there unique characteristics of European markets or healthcare that make this more applicable to adoption?

Lazarus (Cambridge, MA) - Ariel Elizarov (@aelizarov12), Co-Founder & CEO - AI for cancer screenings

  • Isn’t skin cancer (and moles) a fairly well-understood science at this point? What does AI bring to the equation?
  • How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?
  • Your skin is a lifelong part of your health. How would this service work over a lifetime?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (The Difference, and Zogo Finance) about how people are trusting some of their most important and personal relationships and learning to new services offered via the Internet instead of face-to-face. We explore this generational change in how we've evolved to trust the Internet.

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The Difference (@thedifferenceAI) - Bea Arthur (@BeaArthurLMHC), Co-Founder/CEO - on demand therapy via phone (or Alexa)

  • How has the personality profile of people changed/evolved such that they are OK with sharing personal information with “unknown” doctors?
  • How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?
  • Is there a technology aspect that is reviewing calls and tagging discussions or making recommendations (e.g. helping the doctor or patient)?


Zogo Finance (@zogofinance) - Bolun Li, Co-Founder & CEO - Teaching kids personal finance through incentives

  • Who is typically creating the initial interaction for the child? (the child or the parent?)
  • What type of curriculum is involved? What’s the scope? Are there collaborative aspects between kids?
  • How do you walk the line between financial literacy learning and lack of trust for the banks since 2008?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (The Difference, and Zogo Finance) about how people are trusting some of their most important and personal relationships and learning to new services offered via the Internet instead of face-to-face. We explore this generational change in how we've evolved to trust the Internet.

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

The Difference (@thedifferenceAI) - Bea Arthur (@BeaArthurLMHC), Co-Founder/CEO - on demand therapy via phone (or Alexa)

  • How has the personality profile of people changed/evolved such that they are OK with sharing personal information with “unknown” doctors?
  • How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?
  • Is there a technology aspect that is reviewing calls and tagging discussions or making recommendations (e.g. helping the doctor or patient)?


Zogo Finance (@zogofinance) - Bolun Li, Co-Founder & CEO - Teaching kids personal finance through incentives

  • Who is typically creating the initial interaction for the child? (the child or the parent?)
  • What type of curriculum is involved? What’s the scope? Are there collaborative aspects between kids?
  • How do you walk the line between financial literacy learning and lack of trust for the banks since 2008?

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-2004643 Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:00:00 -0500 2030 The Difference, Zogo Finance, Metlife, TechStars, Online Therapy, Online Financial Literacy full false Understanding HTTP/S, CDNs and Edge Proxies Understanding HTTP/S, CDNs and Edge Proxies SHOW: 421

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Julia Evans (@b0rk, software engineer, data scientist, ‘zine artist) about the fundamentals of HTTP/HTTPS, and the interaction of web traffic with CDNs, Load-Balancers and Edge Proxies. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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SHOW NOTES:

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Julia Evans (@b0rk, software engineer, data scientist, ‘zine artist) about the fundamentals of HTTP/HTTPS, and the interaction of web traffic with CDNs, Load-Balancers and Edge Proxies. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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 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? 

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-1958164 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 01:00:00 -0400 2448 Julia Evans, CDN, HTTP, HTTPS, L4, L7, Load-Balancers, Edge Proxies, Web Traffic full false Buying & Selling SaaS Services Buying & Selling SaaS Services SHOW: 420

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Nicolas Vandenberghe (@NicolasVDB, Co-Founder at @ChiliPiper) about the buying and selling of SaaS services, how to streamline interactions, and how to better engage with potential SaaS users. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Nicolas Vandenberghe (@NicolasVDB, Co-Founder at @ChiliPiper) about the buying and selling of SaaS services, how to streamline interactions, and how to better engage with potential SaaS users. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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SHOW NOTES:

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?

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-1921007 Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:00:00 -0400 1902 Chili Piper, Nicolas Vandenberghe, SaaS, Hubspot, Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce, Twillio full false From the Battlefield to the Boardroom From the Battlefield to the Boardroom SHOW: 419

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Sarah Catanzaro (@sarahcat21, Principal at @AmplifyPartners) about approaches to evaluate complex markets and business models.  


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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:
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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?  

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Sarah Catanzaro (@sarahcat21, Principal at @AmplifyPartners) about approaches to evaluate complex markets and business models.  


SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:




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?  

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-1857478 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:00:00 -0400 2079 Sarah Catanzano, Amplify Partners, Machine Intelligence, Market Intelligence Models, full false Building a Cloud Practice in Azure Building a Cloud Practice in Azure SHOW: 418

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Joseph Landes, (@josephlandes, Chief Revenue Officer @GetNerdio) about the unique characteristics of the Azure Cloud, how MSPs are able to differentiate or partner in the market with public clouds, and how Nerdio helps bring together popular services in simple ways.  


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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:


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SHOW NOTES:

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Joseph Landes, (@josephlandes, Chief Revenue Officer @GetNerdio) about the unique characteristics of the Azure Cloud, how MSPs are able to differentiate or partner in the market with public clouds, and how Nerdio helps bring together popular services in simple ways.  


SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:




CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:


SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:


SHOW NOTES:

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Ellen Korbes (@ellenkorbes, Developer Relations at @garden_io) about the emerging sets of tools and frameworks to make it easier for application developers to interact with Kubernetes. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:


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SHOW NOTES:

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? 

  • Debugging - Squash, KubeFwd, Stern
  • “Connect” - KubeFwd, Telepresence, Ksync
  • Development Orchestrators - Garden, Skaffold, Tilt

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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Ellen Korbes (@ellenkorbes, Developer Relations at @garden_io) about the emerging sets of tools and frameworks to make it easier for application developers to interact with Kubernetes. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:


SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:


SHOW NOTES:

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? 

  • Debugging - Squash, KubeFwd, Stern
  • “Connect” - KubeFwd, Telepresence, Ksync
  • Development Orchestrators - Garden, Skaffold, Tilt

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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Björn Rabenstein (Engineer at @Grafana) about the intersection of Dashboards, Metrics, Monitoring and Observability.

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Björn Rabenstein (Engineer at @Grafana) about the intersection of Dashboards, Metrics, Monitoring and Observability.

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Paul Osman (@paulosman, SRE Engineering Manager @UnderArmour) about aligning business value to Chaos Engineering, measuring its impact, and changing team culture to embrace the chaos.

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Paul Osman (@paulosman, SRE Engineering Manager @UnderArmour) about aligning business value to Chaos Engineering, measuring its impact, and changing team culture to embrace the chaos.

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa, CTO/Co-Founder at @TriggerMesh) about the evolution of the Knative project.

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa, CTO/Co-Founder at @TriggerMesh) about the evolution of the Knative project.

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Heidi Waterhouse, (@wiredferret, Developer Advocate @LaunchDarkly) about the challenges of balancing stability and agility, from a technology perspective and a cultural perspective. 

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Heidi Waterhouse, (@wiredferret, Developer Advocate @LaunchDarkly) about the challenges of balancing stability and agility, from a technology perspective and a cultural perspective. 

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host of Software Defined Talk podcast) about the tech/cloud trends that have shaped the first half of 2019.

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host of Software Defined Talk podcast) about the tech/cloud trends that have shaped the first half of 2019.

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Brian Platz (@bplatz, CEO/Co-Founder at @Flureee) about blockchain use-cases outside of cryptocurrencies, immutable data, graph databases, and building APIs on data. 

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Brian Platz (@bplatz, CEO/Co-Founder at @Flureee) about blockchain use-cases outside of cryptocurrencies, immutable data, graph databases, and building APIs on data. 

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Kevin McHale (Senior Staff Engineer at Etsy) about the migration of their Big Data / Data Science platform from on-premises to Google Cloud, the business drivers for the migration, and the lessons the team has learned throughout the multi-year process.

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Kevin McHale (Senior Staff Engineer at Etsy) about the migration of their Big Data / Data Science platform from on-premises to Google Cloud, the business drivers for the migration, and the lessons the team has learned throughout the multi-year process.

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Corey Hynes, (@CoreyJHynes, CEO Learn on Demand Systems, @LoDSystems) talks about the need for hands-on ways to learn new skills, train IT professionals, and how innovative companies and individuals are adapting to the new culture of tech learning challenges. 

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Corey Hynes, (@CoreyJHynes, CEO Learn on Demand Systems, @LoDSystems) talks about the need for hands-on ways to learn new skills, train IT professionals, and how innovative companies and individuals are adapting to the new culture of tech learning challenges. 

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Devesh Garg (Co-Founder/CEO of @arrcusinc) about the growth of Arrcus, the evolution of the network (5G, IoT Edge, DC to Cloud, SDN), and the new economics of networking. 

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Devesh Garg (Co-Founder/CEO of @arrcusinc) about the growth of Arrcus, the evolution of the network (5G, IoT Edge, DC to Cloud, SDN), and the new economics of networking. 

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Stu Miniman, (@stu, Sr Analyst, Host of @theCUBE, and GM of Content at SiliconANGLE Media) about the Amazon re:MARS event, and how it addressed technology trends in Smart Cities, Drones, Voice-Controlled Apps, IoT, Alexa, AR/VR, and AI/ML.

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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?

  • Sessions include Smart Cities, Drones, Voice-Controlled Apps, IoT, Alexa, AR/VR, AI/ML

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Stu Miniman, (@stu, Sr Analyst, Host of @theCUBE, and GM of Content at SiliconANGLE Media) about the Amazon re:MARS event, and how it addressed technology trends in Smart Cities, Drones, Voice-Controlled Apps, IoT, Alexa, AR/VR, and AI/ML.

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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?

  • Sessions include Smart Cities, Drones, Voice-Controlled Apps, IoT, Alexa, AR/VR, AI/ML

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Steve Kearns (@skearns64, VP Product Mgmt @Elastic) about how search is being used in many ways of our day-to-day life, how search has evolved to be a core element of Analytics platforms, and how Elastic search is evolving to help the next generation of developers in area like APM, Security, Metrics, etc. 

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Steve Kearns (@skearns64, VP Product Mgmt @Elastic) about how search is being used in many ways of our day-to-day life, how search has evolved to be a core element of Analytics platforms, and how Elastic search is evolving to help the next generation of developers in area like APM, Security, Metrics, etc. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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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? 

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-1420102 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 01:00:00 -0400 2035 Elastic, Steve Kearns, Search, Analytics, Open Source, Cloud, Metrics, APM, Security, full false Understanding Graph Database Patterns Understanding Graph Database Patterns SHOW: 405

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Emil Eifrem, (@emileifrem, Founder/CTO @Neo4j) about the emergence of graph databases, common use-cases, and how developers are thinking about new ways to leverage graph databases.  

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Emil Eifrem, (@emileifrem, Founder/CTO @Neo4j) about the emergence of graph databases, common use-cases, and how developers are thinking about new ways to leverage graph databases.  

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Alexis Richardson (@monadic, CEO @weaveworks, Chair of TOC @CNCF) about the carbon footprint of technology conferences and a growing interest in making them more environmentally friendly.  

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Alexis Richardson (@monadic, CEO @weaveworks, Chair of TOC @CNCF) about the carbon footprint of technology conferences and a growing interest in making them more environmentally friendly.  

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Jose Nino (@junr03, Software Engineer @Lyft) about how they evolved from a monolithic application to 300+ microservices, including a service mesh using the Envoy proxy.

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Jose Nino (@junr03, Software Engineer @Lyft) about how they evolved from a monolithic application to 300+ microservices, including a service mesh using the Envoy proxy.

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with David Aronchick (@aronchick, Head of Open Source Machine Learning @Azure) about the history of the KubeFlow project, how it has evolved as a community, and how KubeFlow is making it easier to get started with Machine Learning on Kubernetes. 

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with David Aronchick (@aronchick, Head of Open Source Machine Learning @Azure) about the history of the KubeFlow project, how it has evolved as a community, and how KubeFlow is making it easier to get started with Machine Learning on Kubernetes. 

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on community engagement. Then Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja, Director Influence Marketing @VMware) about the importance of finding a community for technical learning, career advice, mentorship, and helping you find the joy in your current or future jobs. 

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on community engagement. Then Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja, Director Influence Marketing @VMware) about the importance of finding a community for technical learning, career advice, mentorship, and helping you find the joy in your current or future jobs. 

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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on engineering career opportunities. Then Brian talks with Nick Weaver (@lynxbat, Engineering Leader) about transitioning from customer to vendor, from junior to senior engineers, and the realities of Digital Transformation. 

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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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on engineering career opportunities. Then Brian talks with Nick Weaver (@lynxbat, Engineering Leader) about transitioning from customer to vendor, from junior to senior engineers, and the realities of Digital Transformation. 

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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? 

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-1208720 Wed, 29 May 2019 11:00:00 -0400 2682 Nick Weaver, EMC, Intel, VMware, Engineering Leadership, Job Changes, Digital Transformation full false How Big is your Public Cloud bill? How Big is your Public Cloud bill? SHOW: 399

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on following the money in cloud computing. Then Brian talks with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist @ Duckbill Group) about the economic realities of being all-in on the public cloud.

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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? 

  • Excitement - bypass IT, everything seems cheap
  • Curiosity - so many new services to explore and use
  • Confusion - so many services, they don’t all fit on the dashboard, where are the neglected services running?
  • Fear - the bills come in and they are more than we expected

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? 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on following the money in cloud computing. Then Brian talks with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist @ Duckbill Group) about the economic realities of being all-in on the public cloud.

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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? 

  • Excitement - bypass IT, everything seems cheap
  • Curiosity - so many new services to explore and use
  • Confusion - so many services, they don’t all fit on the dashboard, where are the neglected services running?
  • Fear - the bills come in and they are more than we expected

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? 

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-1141628 Wed, 22 May 2019 01:00:00 -0400 1838 Corey Quinn, Cloud Economics, AWS, Public Cloud, Cloud Spending, ELAs, Contracts, SLAs full false Focusing Apps only on Business Value Focusing Apps only on Business Value SHOW: 398

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian kick off "Four for Four Hundred" by discussing the massive evolutions of the industry over the last 8 years. Then Brian talks with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison, Co-Founder/CTO at Branch Insurance) about the next generation of serverless technologies to help develop applications, focusing only on creating business value, communicating this new approach to engineers, and leveraging technology to take on big markets. 

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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)?

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian kick off "Four for Four Hundred" by discussing the massive evolutions of the industry over the last 8 years. Then Brian talks with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison, Co-Founder/CTO at Branch Insurance) about the next generation of serverless technologies to help develop applications, focusing only on creating business value, communicating this new approach to engineers, and leveraging technology to take on big markets. 

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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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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)?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matthew Creager (@matt_creager, Co-Founder & VP Developer Relations @manifoldco) about the challenges of cloud silos, connecting apps to multiple cloud services, the importance of collaboration beyond just coding, and how Manifold makes it simpler to integrate apps to align to business needs. 

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matthew Creager (@matt_creager, Co-Founder & VP Developer Relations @manifoldco) about the challenges of cloud silos, connecting apps to multiple cloud services, the importance of collaboration beyond just coding, and how Manifold makes it simpler to integrate apps to align to business needs. 

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Renaud Boutet (@boutetren, VP Product Management @datadoghq) about logging, monitoring, observability, and the challenges of balancing the collection of the right data with the costs of all the data.

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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. 

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Renaud Boutet (@boutetren, VP Product Management @datadoghq) about logging, monitoring, observability, and the challenges of balancing the collection of the right data with the costs of all the data.

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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. 

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Dr. Steve Herrod (@herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst @gcvp) about the transition from CTO to VC, the role of AI and Security in today’s startups, the impact the public cloud has on his evaluations, and tips for selecting the right companies and leaders.

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Dr. Steve Herrod (@herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst @gcvp) about the transition from CTO to VC, the role of AI and Security in today’s startups, the impact the public cloud has on his evaluations, and tips for selecting the right companies and leaders.

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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?

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Evan Kaplan (@evankaplan, CEO of InfluxData) about why companies choose time-series databases, commons use-cases, how time-series patterns align to changing business goals, and how to translate business demands to developer capabilities. 

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Evan Kaplan (@evankaplan, CEO of InfluxData) about why companies choose time-series databases, commons use-cases, how time-series patterns align to changing business goals, and how to translate business demands to developer capabilities. 

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matt Oswalt (@mierdin, NRE @JuniperNetworks) and Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad, Product Marketing Manager @JuniperNetworks) about how networking has adapted to DevOps and SRE, internally marketing the evolution to teams, and how NRE Labs are helping network engineers get up to speed. 

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matt Oswalt (@mierdin, NRE @JuniperNetworks) and Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad, Product Marketing Manager @JuniperNetworks) about how networking has adapted to DevOps and SRE, internally marketing the evolution to teams, and how NRE Labs are helping network engineers get up to speed. 

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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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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-1028845 Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:00:00 -0400 2542 Juniper, NRE, NRE Labs, Matt Oswalt, Derick Winkworth, DevOps, SRE, Networking full false Navigating the Engineering Career Paths Navigating the Engineering Career Paths SHOW: 392

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Uma Chingunde (@the_umac, Engineering Manager at @Stripe) about engineering career paths as an IC or Manager, how managers can be effective mentors, job rotations, and how diversity is an opportunity for every team. 

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Uma Chingunde’s Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/336620

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Uma Chingunde (@the_umac, Engineering Manager at @Stripe) about engineering career paths as an IC or Manager, how managers can be effective mentors, job rotations, and how diversity is an opportunity for every team. 

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Uma Chingunde’s Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/336620

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Gustavo Franco (@stratus, Customer Reliability Engineer at Google) about real-world experience as SRE/SRE Manager and CRE Manager, a discussion about how to measure SRE success, as well as how to onboard the SRE/CRE concepts and processes to new teams. 

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Gustavo's Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/150125

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Gustavo Franco (@stratus, Customer Reliability Engineer at Google) about real-world experience as SRE/SRE Manager and CRE Manager, a discussion about how to measure SRE success, as well as how to onboard the SRE/CRE concepts and processes to new teams. 

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Gustavo's Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/150125

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Go To Market Consultant and Advisor) about the difference between traditional Enterprise software and B2B SaaS offerings, how the sales and marketing models work, and how development and operations is significantly changed with SaaS.

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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.

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Go To Market Consultant and Advisor) about the difference between traditional Enterprise software and B2B SaaS offerings, how the sales and marketing models work, and how development and operations is significantly changed with SaaS.

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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.

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Adam Hunt (CTO and Chief Data Scientist at @RiskIQ) about the breadth of security breaches, how AI/ML can play a role if used properly, and immediate steps to improve protection for breaches.

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Continuous Delivery Foundation launched by Linux Foundation
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VC Investment in the Service Mesh space
Bouyant ($10M)
Tetrate ($12.5M) 

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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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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Adam Hunt (CTO and Chief Data Scientist at @RiskIQ) about the breadth of security breaches, how AI/ML can play a role if used properly, and immediate steps to improve protection for breaches.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK

AWS Announced Open Distro for ElasticSearch
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Rebuttals or Commentary on Open Distro for ElasticSearch  

Continuous Delivery Foundation launched by Linux Foundation
https://devops.com/the-linux-foundation-launches-continuous-delivery-foundation/

VC Investment in the Service Mesh space
Bouyant ($10M)
Tetrate ($12.5M) 

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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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Description: Brian talks with Eric Rudder (@ericrudder; Co-Founder and Executive Chairman @PulumiCorp) about the evolving tools and supply-chain for both developers and operations in a cloud-native world. 

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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? 

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Description: Brian talks with Eric Rudder (@ericrudder; Co-Founder and Executive Chairman @PulumiCorp) about the evolving tools and supply-chain for both developers and operations in a cloud-native world. 

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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? 

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Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Armon Dadgar (@armon, Founder/CTO @HashiCorp) about the problems service mesh can solve, the underlying technologies, control plane vs. data plane considerations, and who is making decisions about service meshes within an IT organization.

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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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Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Armon Dadgar (@armon, Founder/CTO @HashiCorp) about the problems service mesh can solve, the underlying technologies, control plane vs. data plane considerations, and who is making decisions about service meshes within an IT organization.

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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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Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Jeff Aden (@aden_jeff, Founder/EVP at @2ndWatch) about the evolution of 2ndWatch as a Cloud Integrator as AWS has grown and shifted their focus from startups to Enterprise customers. 

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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? 

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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? 

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Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) about jobs around the IT industry, and the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs in making various types of mid-career job changes. 

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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?

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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?

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Description: Aaron talks with Harry Sverdlove (@TheSecureWord, Founder & CTO Edgewise Networks) about the evolution of security to embrace both a micro-services and multi-cloud world.

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Topic 1 - Briefly Introduce yourself and tell everyone a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - The topic of security historically has been a weakness for Brian and I, let’s start at the start and cover a few base topics first. What are some of the big challenges customers are facing today in hybrid and public cloud?

Topic 3 - I came from the “secure the perimeter” world back in the day. How has this concept evolved and does it still apply to operations today?

Topic 4 - Are we evolving into an anomaly detection mindset going forward? How does AI/ML assist (if at all) in this area vs. historical trends and pattern matching?

Topic 5 - As applications move to more cloud native architectures joined with a loose coupling of microservice, how does this change play into approaching the problem?

Topic 6 -  Last question, what implications does multi-cloud present?

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Description: Aaron talks with Harry Sverdlove (@TheSecureWord, Founder & CTO Edgewise Networks) about the evolution of security to embrace both a micro-services and multi-cloud world.

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Topic 1 - Briefly Introduce yourself and tell everyone a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - The topic of security historically has been a weakness for Brian and I, let’s start at the start and cover a few base topics first. What are some of the big challenges customers are facing today in hybrid and public cloud?

Topic 3 - I came from the “secure the perimeter” world back in the day. How has this concept evolved and does it still apply to operations today?

Topic 4 - Are we evolving into an anomaly detection mindset going forward? How does AI/ML assist (if at all) in this area vs. historical trends and pattern matching?

Topic 5 - As applications move to more cloud native architectures joined with a loose coupling of microservice, how does this change play into approaching the problem?

Topic 6 -  Last question, what implications does multi-cloud present?

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-945078 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 01:00:00 -0500 1945 Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Containers, DevOps, Security, Micro-Services, AWS, Azure, Google, Serverless full false A Serverless Look Ahead for 2019 A Serverless Look Ahead for 2019 Show: 383

Description: Aaron and Brian talk with  Paul D. Johnston (@PaulDJohnston, Co-Founder ServerlessDays (creator of “Jeff”), CXO Serverless Consultant) about the current state of Serverless, Serverless vs. FaaS, how to economically think about functions of code, and areas where Serverless needs to improve. 

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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?

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Description: Aaron and Brian talk with  Paul D. Johnston (@PaulDJohnston, Co-Founder ServerlessDays (creator of “Jeff”), CXO Serverless Consultant) about the current state of Serverless, Serverless vs. FaaS, how to economically think about functions of code, and areas where Serverless needs to improve. 

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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?

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Description: Brian talks with Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Machine Learning & AI analyst, advisor & host of “This Week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast) about trends in the industry, the evolution of AI at the edge, new research areas in 2019, and a discussion about adding AI and ML to business applications. 

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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?


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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?


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Description: Brian talks with Ethan Banks (@ecbanks, co-founder of @PacketPushers) about the state of ITOps and Infrastructure heading into 2019.

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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?


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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?


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Description: Brian talks with Jeff Meyerson (@the_prion, Host of @software_daily) about the state of Cloud-native application development heading into 2019.

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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?


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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?


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Description: Brian talks with Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell, Sr. Technology Advocate @Splunk and co-host of @SpeakingInTech) about the state of DevOps and NewOps heading into 2019.

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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?


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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?


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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-907914 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:00:00 -0500 1650 Josh Atwell, DevOps, NewOps, SRE, Observability, Automation, HugOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes full false 2018 Year in Review 2018 Year in Review Show: 378

Description: Aaron and Brian review the biggest news, trends and topics of 2018.

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  • Thank you to our sponsors, both A Cloud Guru and DataDog
  • 64% of Krispy Kreme Funding - http://bit.ly/Cloudcast-Donuts2019
  • 51 Shows, Avg Listens (show): 18-20k (+19%), Avg Rank iTunes Technology: 63
  • Over $50B in M&A and VC Funding for guests (all-time)
  • Acquired: Red Hat, Rightscale, CoreOS, GitHub, Evident.io, Loggly, CloudHealth, VictorOps, Bonsai
  • IPO: Pivotal
  • Funding: SWIM.AI, Stryth Leviathan, Atomist, Kasten, Lightstep, Rubrik, Hashicorp, A Cloud Guru

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Big Trends:

  1. Gartner IaaS MQ is down to 6 companies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, IBM, Oracle)
  2. AWS growing +40% ($25B revenues) and Azure revenues ~ $28-30B (but not explicitly broken out) - AWS claimed at re:Invent to have 51% market-share.
  3. Big acquisitions around Open Source (Red Hat, GitHub, Hortonworks)
  4. A new push by Open Source companies (Redis, Confluent) to change their licensing model to help protect them from public cloud providers taking their software and not giving back - http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/
  5. Big funding and investments around HCI and Backup HCI
  6. Kubernetes continues to dominate containers and cloud-native (see: @PodCTL podcast)
  7. New CEO at Google Cloud (Thomas Kurian)
  8. Blockchain seems to need a new PR agency
  9. Interest rates are rising (2 more raises are projected in 2019), which changes all the VC models

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  • Thank you to our sponsors, both A Cloud Guru and DataDog
  • 64% of Krispy Kreme Funding - http://bit.ly/Cloudcast-Donuts2019
  • 51 Shows, Avg Listens (show): 18-20k (+19%), Avg Rank iTunes Technology: 63
  • Over $50B in M&A and VC Funding for guests (all-time)
  • Acquired: Red Hat, Rightscale, CoreOS, GitHub, Evident.io, Loggly, CloudHealth, VictorOps, Bonsai
  • IPO: Pivotal
  • Funding: SWIM.AI, Stryth Leviathan, Atomist, Kasten, Lightstep, Rubrik, Hashicorp, A Cloud Guru

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Big Trends:

  1. Gartner IaaS MQ is down to 6 companies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, IBM, Oracle)
  2. AWS growing +40% ($25B revenues) and Azure revenues ~ $28-30B (but not explicitly broken out) - AWS claimed at re:Invent to have 51% market-share.
  3. Big acquisitions around Open Source (Red Hat, GitHub, Hortonworks)
  4. A new push by Open Source companies (Redis, Confluent) to change their licensing model to help protect them from public cloud providers taking their software and not giving back - http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/
  5. Big funding and investments around HCI and Backup HCI
  6. Kubernetes continues to dominate containers and cloud-native (see: @PodCTL podcast)
  7. New CEO at Google Cloud (Thomas Kurian)
  8. Blockchain seems to need a new PR agency
  9. Interest rates are rising (2 more raises are projected in 2019), which changes all the VC models

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Description: Aaron talks with Brad Rydzewski (@bradrydzewski, Co-Founder of Drone.io) about the current state of CI/CD in our industry.

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Description: Aaron talks with Dave Blakey, CEO and Founder of @SnaptADC, about the international startup scene, the evolution of application delivery and the emerging trends around the intersection of networking and DevOps.

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Description: Aaron talks with Dave Blakey, CEO and Founder of @SnaptADC, about the international startup scene, the evolution of application delivery and the emerging trends around the intersection of networking and DevOps.

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Description: Brian talks with Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle) and Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa), Co-Founders of @TriggerMesh, about the evolution of serverless and functions-as-a-service in the Kubernetes ecosystem, the new Knative framework, and how companies are considering the use of functions for new applications.

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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?


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Description: Brian talks with Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle) and Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa), Co-Founders of @TriggerMesh, about the evolution of serverless and functions-as-a-service in the Kubernetes ecosystem, the new Knative framework, and how companies are considering the use of functions for new applications.

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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?


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Description: A review of all of the AWS 2018 re:Invent announcements

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Categorizing The AWS Roadmap

  • The retail approach to all shapes and sizes (EC2, DBs, etc)
  • The combined features (“solution”) approach
  • The “we don’t know” approach - becoming “serverless” (e.g. DB, LBs, AI)
  • Customers - what do we hate about a big vendor we use
  • Amazon is the 1st customer in a new business


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Description: A review of all of the AWS 2018 re:Invent announcements

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Categorizing The AWS Roadmap

  • The retail approach to all shapes and sizes (EC2, DBs, etc)
  • The combined features (“solution”) approach
  • The “we don’t know” approach - becoming “serverless” (e.g. DB, LBs, AI)
  • Customers - what do we hate about a big vendor we use
  • Amazon is the 1st customer in a new business


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Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Venkat Venkataramani (@iamveeve, Co-founder and CEO of @RocksetCloud) about building apps without pipelines, and serverless search and analytics with native SQL.

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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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Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Venkat Venkataramani (@iamveeve, Co-founder and CEO of @RocksetCloud) about building apps without pipelines, and serverless search and analytics with native SQL.

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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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Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Kurt Schrader (@kurt, Founder/CEO of @Clubhouse) and Mitch Wainer (@MitchWainer, CMO of @Clubhouse) about the evolution of project management for software development teams. 

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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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Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Kurt Schrader (@kurt, Founder/CEO of @Clubhouse) and Mitch Wainer (@MitchWainer, CMO of @Clubhouse) about the evolution of project management for software development teams. 

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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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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-867360 Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:00:00 -0500 2029 Clubhouse, Kurt Schrader, Project Management, Software Development, Agile, Stories, Mitch Wainer full false Getting Started with UX Research Getting Started with UX Research Show Number: 371

Overview: Aaron talks with Melissa Eggleston (@melissa_egg, Director of UX @teamworks | Co-founder of @ladiesthatuxDUR) at All Things Open about her work on UX research, how to ask the right questions, and balancing past research vs. analytics and new research

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  • Aaron and Melissa talk about her talk "Getting Started with UX Research", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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Overview: Aaron talks with Melissa Eggleston (@melissa_egg, Director of UX @teamworks | Co-founder of @ladiesthatuxDUR) at All Things Open about her work on UX research, how to ask the right questions, and balancing past research vs. analytics and new research

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  • Aaron and Melissa talk about her talk "Getting Started with UX Research", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-861105 Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:00:00 -0500 1176 All Things Open, Open Source, UX, Research Teamworks, Analytics, Usability Heuristics, Melissa Eggleston full false Tales From a DevOps Transformation Tales From a DevOps Transformation 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.

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  • Aaron and Lee talk about Lee's talk "Tales from a DevOps Journey", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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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.

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  • Aaron and Lee talk about Lee's talk "Tales from a DevOps Journey", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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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.

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  • Aaron and Pam talk about Pam's talk "What We Know (now) About Serverless", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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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.

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  • Aaron and Pam talk about Pam's talk "What We Know (now) About Serverless", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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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. 

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  • Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you came to be part of TechStars and this program at MetLife?
  • Topic 2 - In our previous shows, we’ve spoken to all of the founders and gotten their perspective. What were your early goals as the leader of this program, and what has surprised you throughout the process?
  • Topic 3 - Walk us through the stages of the program for these companies? It’s more than just, “Have an idea, go execute that idea.”
  • Topic 4 - You’ve been both a Founder/Entrepreneur and Attorney, so you’ve seen your fair share of ideas. How do you manage to know when you listen, when to give advice, and when to hold your tongue?
  • Topic 5 - What has been your perspective, as an outsider to the area, of the RTP/Triangle area in terms of culture, people, community, etc.?
  • Topic 6 - What happens next for all of these companies that we profiled, and when does the program get started again for Year 2?

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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. 

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  • Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you came to be part of TechStars and this program at MetLife?
  • Topic 2 - In our previous shows, we’ve spoken to all of the founders and gotten their perspective. What were your early goals as the leader of this program, and what has surprised you throughout the process?
  • Topic 3 - Walk us through the stages of the program for these companies? It’s more than just, “Have an idea, go execute that idea.”
  • Topic 4 - You’ve been both a Founder/Entrepreneur and Attorney, so you’ve seen your fair share of ideas. How do you manage to know when you listen, when to give advice, and when to hold your tongue?
  • Topic 5 - What has been your perspective, as an outsider to the area, of the RTP/Triangle area in terms of culture, people, community, etc.?
  • Topic 6 - What happens next for all of these companies that we profiled, and when does the program get started again for Year 2?

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]]> Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely Buzzsprout-840793 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 1290 Mee-Jung Jang, TechStars, MetLife Digital Accelerator, Entrepreneur, Triangle, RTP, full false (Part II) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars (Part II) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars Brian talks with the founders from FIX Health, Portabl and Safely, as part of a behind-the-scenes engagement with TechStars and the MetLife Digital Accelerator in Cary, NC. This show is Part 2 of a series of interviews with companies that are innovating and disrupting the insurance industry, in cooperation with corporate partner MetLife in Cary, NC.

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Company 1: FIX Health
[Update] FIX has secured a MetLife pilot to build a new short term disability product.
CEO: Mike Tinney
Atlanta, GA

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


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

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


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

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


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Company 1: FIX Health
[Update] FIX has secured a MetLife pilot to build a new short term disability product.
CEO: Mike Tinney
Atlanta, GA

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


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

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


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