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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SHOW NOTES:
- Press Release: MongoDB Unveils Vision for a Developer Data Platform at MongoDB World 2022
- Forbes: MongoDB Extends Developer Data Platform For Modern Applications
- TechCrunch: MongoDB puts a spotlight on its developer data platform
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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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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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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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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- Gain visibility and control of your cloud spend with Datadog Cloud Cost Management
- Datadog introduces Cloud Cost Management
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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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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- gMaestro from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%
SHOW NOTES:
- The Cloudcast on Mastodon: @thecloudcastnet@hackyderm.io
- How to Find Your Twitter Followers on Mastodon
- Twitodon - Find Twitter Users you Follow
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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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?
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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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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?
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Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.
SHOW: 665
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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)
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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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SHOW NOTES:
- The Dead End (Redmonk)
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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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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- Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimization
- gMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easy
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- Harness.io
- Nick on The Cube, KubeCon 2021
- 8 Deployment Patterns to transform CI/CD
- {unscripted} 2022 conference
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?
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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.
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SHOW NOTES:
- 2022 Look Ahead to SuperCloud (Eps.586)
- SuperCloud 3.0 Definition (Wikibon)
- Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious VI: The Nightmare Continues
- The emergence of Cloud 3.0 and independent vendor exclusion
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
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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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SHOW NOTES:
- Steadybit (homepage)
- Steadybit wants developers involved in Chaos engineering before production (TechCrunch)
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?
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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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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?
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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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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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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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- Google CEO demands higher employee productivity
- Google asks employees to find 20% more productivity(“Simplicity Sprints”)
- Amazon builds internal team to keep developers from being bored
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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Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Founder/CEO of @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of cloud engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code.
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SHOW NOTES:
- Pulumi (homepage)
- Cloud Software will be built differently (Protocol)
- New Tools for Cloud-Native Developers (Eps388 - Pulumi - 2019)
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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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.
SHOW: 656
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SHOW NOTES:
- Cost of Cloud Paradox (a16z)
- Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management (Eps.520)
- Leading VCs to commit $1.25B to startups building on Cloudflare Workers
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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Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.
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- Chainguard (homepage)
- Sigstore - standard for signing, verifying and protecting software
- CISA SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)
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?
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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.
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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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Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.
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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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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 NOTES:
- Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats.
- IRS Reaches Milestone on Paper Return Backlog
- FedNow℠ Service instant payments in July 2023
- Amazon’s API Mandate
- Gartner Bi-Modal IT
- Cloud Adoption will fail with the skills gap (Gartner)
- There is no talent shortage (Andrew Clay Shafer)
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?
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Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.
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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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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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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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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.
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SHOW NOTES:
- Istio (homepage)
- Introducing Istio Ambient Mesh
- Istio added to the CNCF
- IstioCon 2022 (videos)
- ServiceMeshConEU 2022 (videos)
- Istio in Action (book) by Christian Posta
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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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?
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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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Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.
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- Vendia (homepage)
- Vendia raises $30M Round B
- Vendia overview (60s video)
- Vendia technical overview
- Why blockchains, databases, and APIs don’t cut it on their own
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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Secure Software Supply-Chain
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Sometimes Boring is OK
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