SUMMARY: With @bwhichard, we dig into how daily work-life changes when you make @AnthropicAI @claudeai the center of all workflow activities. SHOW: 1013SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1013 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/zEmEH0t67jsSHOW SPONSORS:VENTION - Ready for expert developers who actually deliver?Visit ventionteams.comSHOW 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1012SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1012 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aXOr91q76yMSHOW SPONSORS:VENTION - Ready for expert developers who actually deliver?Visit ventionteams.comSHOW NOTES:NVIDIA GTC 2026 (Keynote)NVIDIA NemoClaw - OpenClaw + OpenShell + NVIDIA Agent ToolkitNVIDIA adds Groq LPU to their rack systemsNVIDIA to invest $26B in Open Weight ModelsInterview with Jensen about Accelerated Computing (Stratechery)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 modelFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SUMMARY: Morgan Foster talks about the Kagenti project, which enables an AI Agent agnostic framework for security, authentication, identity and zero-trust.SHOW: 1011SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1011 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/djFZruLEDiwSHOW NOTES:Kagenti (homepage)Kagenti (use-cases)“Old Things that look like Agents”“What makes Agents different?”CNV - What Makes Agents Different?“Handing your phone to a stranger, why Agents need their own identity”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?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1010SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1010 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/tFyLlCnkbsMSPONSORS:VENTION - Ready for expert developers who actually deliver?Visit ventionteams.comSHOW NOTES:WHY THE NEED FOR A CODE RED? Velocity of Code (new companies)Velocity of Productivity (employees)Velocity of Analysis (strategy)AgentOpsToken FactoriesDevs for Business, Re-Wiring the Concept of Business AnalystFEEDBACK? Email: show @ reasoning dot show Bluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.social Twitter/X: @ReasoningShow Instagram: @reasoningshow TikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1009SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1009 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7xARBtgiMQgSPONSORS:VENTION - Ready for expert developers who actually deliver?Visit ventionteams.comSHOW NOTES:OpenClaw - Personal AI AssistantOpenClaw - RedditOpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future (Peter Steinberger - OpenClaw creator)OpenClaw Foundation (coming soon)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.FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1008SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1008 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/eA8vpPmSW0YSPONSORS:VENTION - Ready for expert developers who actually deliver?Visit ventionteams.comSHOW 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 1007SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1007 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/4tdj0S0AyhMSHOW SPONSOR:VENTION - Ready for expert developers who actually deliver? Visit ventionteams.comSHOW NOTES: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 tasksLanguages and frameworksAbility to orchestrate multiple agentsHuman-in-the-Loop vs. AutonomousOther?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 READINGBuilding Effective Agents" by Anthropic: designing agents with tools, memory, reasoning loopsA Comprehensive Review of AI Agents: how agents perceive, reason, decide, actTop 20 AI Agent Concepts You Should Know: covering ReAct, Chain of Thought, memory typesAI Agents in Action: Foundations for Evaluation and Governance: structured foundation for safety aspects of agent deploymentEssential ViewingAI Agentic Design Patterns w/ AutoGen: build autonomous agents that use toolsAI Agent Systems w/ crewAI: orchestrating teams of agentsLangGraph Course: how to build stateful, reliable agentsFrameworks & Tools LangGraph: standard for complex, stateful agents (nodes, edges, loops)CrewAI: Best for structured task delegation and multi-agent collaborationAutoGen: Microsoft's framework for multi-agent conversational systemsModel Context Protocol (MCP): standard for connecting agents, tools, datan8n: no-code/low-code visualFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1006SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1006 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Link to February 2026 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian discuss how The Cloudcast will be changing going forward, signaling an industry shift from Cloud Computing to AI.  SHOW: 1005SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1005 TranscriptSHOW 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 logoSome 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 nowCloud has become mostly stable, AI is at the beginning and so much is changingWe’re not abandoning Cloud, just giving it the amount of coverage needs (monthly Cloudcast, monthly CNOTM)Social media algorithms have changed audience acquisitionTopic 3 - Hasn’t The Cloudcast already been covering AI for a while? Yes, it’s been about 50/50 since 2024We’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 SundayBoth 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 exclusivelyAI Technology, AI Economics, AI Trends, AI (Business) Use-Cases, AI Things to Watch, AI Productivity, AI RegulationWe’ll still do a “Cloudcast” once a month, as the Cloud underpins almost everything AIWe’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 podcastSubscribe to the social media channels (show notes)Leave a 5-star review on the podcast playersTell a friend to check out the showFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1004SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1004 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"CHAPTERS00:00 - Celebrating Milestones and AI Insights02:48 - The Cost of AI Agents and Realizations06:05 - Centralization vs. Decentralization in AI08:51 - The Evolution of AI Economics12:03 - Future Trends in AI and Project Management14:52 - Connecting AI to Real-World EconomicsKEY TOPICS:AI agent costs and pricing modelsThe shift from centralized to decentralized computingToken budgets and project economics in AIHistorical transitions in computing infrastructureFuture trends in AI project managementSHOW NOTESWhen AI Tokens cost more than your employees Should you own (or generate) your own tokens? On running a startup of Claude Code agents: 1 Billion tokens a monthCan AI grow corn? WE'VE REACHED A POINT WITH AI WHERE PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO THINK ABOUT THE BUSINESS IMPACTSHow 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1003SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1003 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Last Week in AI Podcast #234Artificial Analysis.AIOpus 4.6 ReleaseGPT Codex 5.3 ReleaseGLM-5 ReleaseOpenAI Preparedness FrameworkSam’s Tweet that 5.3 Codex hit “high” ranking for cybersecurityFortune Article on 5.3 high rankingTAKEAWAYSThe 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1002SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1002 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" A FLY ON THE WALL IN 3 ROOMS IN 2026Room1 - NVIDIA’s M&A Room (Chips, Software Stack, Hosting Services, Agentic Tools, etc.)Room 2 - Anthropic’s Agentic VisionRoom 3 - TSMC’s 2028-2030 PlanningFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1001SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1001 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Stratechery (Ben Thompson)WHAT DO WE WISH WE KNEW ABOUT AI IN 3 YEARS?EconomicsPoliticsTechnologyRegulationsPartnershipsBuying PatternsUsage PatternsDevicesJob Creation/DestructionFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 1000SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1000 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Chainguard introduces Factory 2.0On running a startup of Claude Code agentsAgentic Product Development and the Theory of ConstraintsSoftware AbundanceHOW 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 999SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #999 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTESThe SPAC-king is going to fix legacy software All Enterprise software is dead Microsoft and Software Survival (Stratechery)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 998SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #998 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTESAWS European Sovereign Cloud Azure European Sovereign ServicesGoogle Cloud Sovereign CloudRed Hat Digital SovereigntyBroadcom Digital SovereigntyOracle Digital SovereigntyDigital Sovereignty in Europe, What’s the Plan B? (IDC)Digital Commons EDIC Established (2025)EU AI Act“Sovereign Clouds and the Digital Sovereignty Imperative: Europe's Quest for Digital Independence” (IDC #EUR149098122, December 2022)The Evolution of Digital Sovereignty: Moving Beyond Data and Cloud” (Rahiel Nasir, IDC, January 13, 2023)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 metTechnical 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2026.SHOW: 997SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #997 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to January 2026 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Following on the discussion of the Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 2.0 transition, we explore what that future cloud might look like. SHOW: 996SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #996 TranscriptSHOW 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 995SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #995 TranscriptSHOW 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]FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 994SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #994 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTESAWS in 2026: The year of proving they still know how to operate (This Week in AWS)WHAT IS AND ISN’T CLOUD IN 2026?Cloud isn’t a single companyCloud isn’t just public cloudA CIA cloud isn’t a Gov cloud isn’t your Enterprise CloudMulti-cloud is a real thing that needs technologyGoogle, the people that invented “cloud” are a real company in cloudDefining cloud by purity, or IaaS/PaaS/SaaS terms doesn’t really matterDoes 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?)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Adam Kamor (@tonicfakedata, Founder & Head of Engineering) talks about building RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems in production for AI data. SHOW: 992SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #992 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Tonic.ai websiteTonic Validate Product PageTonic Validate GitHubTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Peter Zairsev (@PeterZaitsev, Founder of @Percona) talks about the history of OSS databases, and how AI is reshaping the demands on modern databases. SHOW: 991SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #991 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Percona websiteTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from December 2025.SHOW: 990SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #990 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to December 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 989SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #989 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - NOV 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - OCT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - SEPT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - AUG 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUL 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUN 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAY 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - APR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAR 2025 (show)2026 CLOUD + AI PREDICTIONS (AND BIG ISSUES TO REVIEW)OpenAI Revenues and Focus AreasNVIDIA customer profitabilityCompanies moving to GOOG TPUsEnterprise success beyond CoPilot/GeminiEnterprise data+model trainabilityEnterprise price hikesBroadcom, AMD, Groq - alternative HW optionsData Center buildoutsDoes AI spending shiftWhat is Agentic AI?Long term spending + short term refocusesPREDICTIONS: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 OpenAIAI will be a central issue in the 2026 US elections, either about job losses or electricity pricesOne major LPU/TPU/dedicated inference chip will break through in 2026Azure 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 securityGemini will dominate the consumer/prosumer space, OpenAI will go through the trough of disillusionmentThe industry will shift to a base/instruct and a reasoning split of modelsAWS and Azure will double down on being a solutions provider instead of a primitive supplier for AI and infrastructureFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 988SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #988 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTESIT WAS AN INTERESTING YEAR IN CLOUD AND AI TECHNOLOGYAI has become a mainstream technology, political and social talking pointAI went through 7yrs of news cycles in 1 yrDeepSeek - Maybe NVIDIA chips aren’t needed?NVIDIA acquihired Grok and their technologyMaybe AWS’ lead in the cloud is now in questionGoogle got their act together with GenAI, after inventing the technology in 2017Microsoft and OpenAI sort of broke up, or at least they are seeing other peopleOpenAI forecasts 100x their current revenue in future computing needsThe US Gov’t either bailed out, or socialized IntelBitcoin - 94k, up to 125k, down to 84kFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 987SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #987 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:SHOW NOTESCLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - NOV 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - OCT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - SEPT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - AUG 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUL 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUN 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAY 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - APR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - FEB 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JAN 2025 (show)2025 AI YEAR IN REVIEWThe Year of OpenAIThe Year of NVIDIAThe Year of MicrosoftThe Year of GoogleThe Year of OracleThe Year of China AIThe Year of AppleThe Year of Coding Agents (Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, CLIs, etc..)The Year of Data CentersAI Highlights and Lowlights (Corporate Layoffs, Acquihires, Funding, etc..)2026 AI DraftFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 986SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #986 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTESPlanning for AGI and Beyond (OpenAI) Machines of Loving Grace (Anthropic)Microsoft and Google has different visions/opinions on AGIAmazon reorganizes around new AGI team reporting to Andy JassyMistral CEO says that AGI is a marketing move AGI is defined by an independent committee in new Microsoft and OpenAI agreementWhy does being first to AGI matter?Bret Taylor on the current status of AGI (Acquired/AC2 podcast, 2025)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 accessThe % of people with a smartphoneThe % 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 AGIWhat 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 985SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #985 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - NOV 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - OCT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - SEPT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - AUG 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUL 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUN 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAY 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - APR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - FEB 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JAN 2025 (show)2025 CLOUD YEAR IN REVIEWCloud of the year Cloud concept of the year (non-AI)Cloud memory of the yearCloud revenues in 2025Are 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 984SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #984 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 NOTESOpenAI looks to train their models to replace junior bankersWHAT 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 contextTrain 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 983SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #983 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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”.[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for freeSHOW NOTES:Hitachi Vantara (website)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 982SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #982 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 NOTESVercel v0Building Web Apps with just English and AI (Acquired podcast, Feb 2025)Vercel on The Cloudcast (2024)Vercel on The Cloudcast (2021)8 tools to build your own PaaS (2025)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 specificCloud specificAbstracting the infrastructure and securityFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2025.SHOW: 981SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #981 TranscriptSHOW 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”.[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for freeSHOW NOTES:Link to November 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about. SHOW: 980SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #980 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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”.[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/cloudcastSHOW NOTESTHINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:Thankful for healthHappy Birthday to ChatGPTThe feature on an iPhone that remembers the code sent in an SMS messageRole playing, brain storming, scenario planning on ChatGPT/GeminiTools 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 emergesThe beginnings of alternatives to NVIDIA in the AI HW Acceleration marketThe evolution of wearables like fitness trackers, or AirPods (better sound quality, noise cancelling, language translation, etc.) FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 979SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #979 TranscriptSHOW 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 freeSHOW NOTES:InfluxData homepageEvan on The Cloudcast #394SpaceNews article on Time Series and AI in SpaceTime Series is critical to Physical AITopic 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 yearsTopic 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. FEEDBACK?EmailFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 978SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #978 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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[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:NVIDIA Earnings (Q3FY2026 - November 2025)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)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 977Rohan 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 TranscriptSHOW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:Sunday Perspective touches on Shadow AINightfall websiteTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 976SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #976 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:A whole bunch of AI-related statsSam Altman on BG2 podcastDO 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 serversOpenAI in 2035 - 50 gigawatts could power between 37 million to 173 million modern GPU serversFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

James Higginbotham (@launchany) discusses the evolution of API usage across developers, modern applications and APIs. SHOW: 975SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #975 TranscriptSHOW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:LaunchAny websiteapicoach.io (note)Lessons learned after a decade of API StrategyLatest book: “Principles of Web API Design: Delivering Value with APIs and Microservices (Addison-Wesley under the Vaughn Vernon signature series)Upcoming report on AI-Assisted API DesignJames on The Cloudcast #153James on The Cloudcast #435Topic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 974SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #974 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 Benefit of Bubbles (Stratechery)Cube Research - Energy needs of AIAre we building AI for Progress or Power? (Prof G Markets)Amazon earnings call (Oct 2025) transcriptMicrosoft Azure earnings call (Oct 2025) transcriptWHAT WAS THE LEADING AI TREND FOR EACH YEAR?2022 - What is ChatGPT2023 - 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 Involvement2026 - ???FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2025.SHOW: 973SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #973 TranscriptSHOW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:Link to October 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 SHOW: 972SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #972 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:Staying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organization (Amazon, Oct 2025)Strengthening our culture and teams (Amazon, Sept 2024)Amazon Leadership PrinciplesWHERE 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 themEmployee motivation driving by stock price as much as work activitiesCulture evolves and erodes over time as the business changes and evolves - it’s nearly impossible to reset the company cultureCompanies can rebound from being lost in the woods, but it’s very, very difficultDeath 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 mistakesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 971SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #963 TranscriptSHOW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:WisdomAI websiteTopic 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 RubrikTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 970SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #970 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:MIT Study - The State of AI in Business (2025)The Information - Interview with Vihod Khosla (Oct 2025)WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?Why are Businesses struggling with AI projects in 2025?What are simple steps to make AI projects successful?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Monzy Merza (@monzymerza, CEO/Founder @Crogl) talks about build a next-generation Enterprise SOC by leveraging AI to stay ahead of Cybersecurity threats.SHOW: 969SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #969 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:Crogl websiteTechCrunch articleForbes ArticleIntellyx ArticleLast WatchDog ArticleTopic 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 tFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 968SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #968 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:Tokens are getting more expensiveNvidia Earnings, Moats and China, Nvidia vs. the AI LabsOracle Assures Investors on AI Cloud Margins as It Struggles to Profit From Older Nvidia ChipsWHERE 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 chipsThe 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 967SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #967 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:PlayerZero websiteTopic 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 likeTopic 6 - Let's talk about scale and complexity. How does PlayerZero handle large, distributed systems with microservices, databases, and complex architecturesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 966SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #966 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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: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 metRight now, there is no simple way for Enterprises to build AI AgentsRight now, there is no simple way for Enterprises to share AI experience / learning curve - AI is a very individualized experienceFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 965SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #965 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:WebsiteStrongestLayer ResearchTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 964SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #964 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:Clouded Judgement (Jamin Bell)100 Biggest SaaS CompaniesCOULD 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2025.SHOW: 963SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #963 TranscriptSHOW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:Link to August 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 962SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #962 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 AIThe early years of the Internet, we tried to replicate physical-based activitiesThe 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 longevityCloud had “lift and shift”; AI has “get everyone a GenAI license”Where is the middle? Where is the rational discussion?Massive FundingMassive # of Consumer UsersFrom Ed to Sam, from Dario to Satya, from Jensen to Larry …. Big spectrums of opinionsUnprofitable (except NVIDIA, Broadcom)Near monopoly of GPUs by NVIDIAEvery 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 AIUnknown “killer” use-cases beyond chatbots, therapy, developer-assistants, writing, document handlingToday’s mantra is “Rub some AI Agents on it”FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 961SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #961 TranscriptSHOW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:AODocs websiteTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 960SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #960 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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?AcquihiresEarly Stock BuyoutsAI = Aggregated (or Augmented) InternsDomain-ExpertsSenior White Collar WorkersFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 959SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #959 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:OpenMetal websiteTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 958SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #958 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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? The Cloudcast #330 - Oracle’s Next-Generation Cloud IaaSOracle Chosen as TikTok’s Secure Cloud Provider- [Oracle Press Release]Oracle Cloud and OpenAI sign $300B deal - [WSJ]Oracle Cloud - [Platformnomics]Oracle and OpenAI - [Ed Zitron]FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 957SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #957 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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:TestKube - A Kubernetes-native platform that powers Continuous Testing for today’s AI-accelerated developmentTestKube (open source)Why did we start TestKube (Ole Lensmar)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 todayTopic 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 TestKubeFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 956SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #956 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR AI? Consumer: Ad-supportedConsumer: Understandable tiersEnterprise: ELAs for Co-Pilot, GeminiEnterprise: Model building tools (e.g. AWS Sagemaker, Google Vertex, etc.)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2025.SHOW: 955SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #955 TranscriptSHOW 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:Link to August 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

From extreme ups to startling downs, every week can feel like the peak of expectations and the trough of disillusionment for AI.  SHOW: 954SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #954 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 CYCLEHealthy 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 choicesIt’s unclear if AI companies have created any moats yet; it’s unclear if LLMs can be differentiatedChatbots, 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 understoodWill AI + Ads (business model) be a big bang event, or happen gradually? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 953SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #953 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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:DoIT - Intent Aware FinOpsDoIT hires Citigroup FinOps Star as ExecutiveFinOps FoundationFinOps X (event)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 952SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #952 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 AIThe early stages of a new era tends to be separate (cloud-native, AI-native), but eventually tends to build upon the previous era’s foundationsIt usually takes a decade before an era stops being important or prioritized It usually takes 3-5 years before best practices for new applications emergeFinding 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 enterpriseThere will be a lot of numbers/reports coming out that seem completely contradictory - $B investment, but $0 ROI from usersFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 951SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #951 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:7 Powers of Competitive DynamicsMicrosoft (Vol 1, Vol 2)Google Meta AWSNVIDIA (Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3) LESSONS FROM THE GREATEST BUSINESS MODELSFounder control, nearly immediately profitable, growth strategies, How long Enterprise businesses take to matureIs 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, AdSenseAWS - Meta - Adapting the offeringsNVIDIA - Vertical integration (HW + SW)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 950SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #950 TranscriptSHOW 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:Rafay websiteTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 949SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #949 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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:Unframe websiteTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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…SHOW: 948SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #948 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:CLOUD 1.0 vs. CLOUD 2.0Cloud 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 gravityFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelpt) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2025.SHOW: 947SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #947 TranscriptSHOW 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.[DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.SHOW NOTES:Link to July 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 946SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #946 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:Amazon Q2 (July 2025) ResultsReviewing Amazon/AWS Q2 2025 Results (CNBC)AWS QoQ Earnings Growth Rates (2014-2025)Andy Jassy defends Amazon/AWS AI strategyAmazon Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptUpdate from Andy Jasay Amazon Generative AI (Amazon Internal)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 shareDon’t have a Top 5 Frontier LLMDon’t have a productivity suite to attach AI to (on-going revenue)Don’t have a leading coding-assistant appDon’t have an immediate “acquisition” target (e.g. Anthropic valuation near $150B)AWS isn’t breaking out their AI revenuesAWS’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” modelGenAI buying (at this point) looks similar to Shadow IT going to public cloud – it’s not centrally controlledIs 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?FEFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 945SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #945 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[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 websiteSHOW NOTES:Anomalo websiteThe Cloudcast #598 - Data QualitySnowflake invests in AnomaloTopic 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 intersectionTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: sFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

If the AI Agent hype ends up being real, how will businesses manage AI Agents from the perspective of people vs. non-people? SHOW: 944SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #944 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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.[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[DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.SHOW NOTES:Batch jobs vs Cron jobsRobotic Process AutomationWhat is AIOps?AI Platform goes rogue, deletes company database (Replit)How do consultants think about AI AgentsWHAT 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 943SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #943 TranscriptSHOW 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.[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:HelixML websiteHelixML GitHubHelix 1.0 Announcement BlogTopic 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 componentsTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 942SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #942 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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.[DoIT] Visit doit.com (that’s d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.SHOW NOTES:Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley EcosystemAndreessen Horowitz’s Casado Plays Talent Broker for CursorCognition acquires Windsurf after CEO and Researchers go to GoogleAre AI Acquihires Screwing Up the Startup Space?How ‘Acquihires’ Are Reshaping Silicon Valley’s AI InvestmentsWHY 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 companiesLarge tech companies are able to acquihire without paying for non-foundersNot every company will be ChatGPT and grew without massive sales and marketingWhat would anyone join an AI Startup if you’re not the Founder or AI Researcher? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the big changes happening around AI developer-assistants, across Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI and Google. SHOW: 941SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #941 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[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 websiteSHOW NOTES:Cursor Series-C Funding ($9.9B valuation)New Cursor Pricing TiersUpdated Cursor Pricing (June 2025)Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes (TechCrunch) Promiscuity of Modern Developers (Redmonk)Aaron Levie speculates that coding-assistants are involved with 50% of AI usage todayAnysphere, the startup behind coding app Cursor, hired two former Anthropic leadersMeasuring the actual impact of AI coding (Changelog)Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart (TechCrunch)Windsurf 2-3x’d headcount, and then the founding team walked. Pretty wild (X.com)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?FEEDBACK?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 940SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #940 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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:AI Eats the World (Benedict Evans)East Meets West 2025 (keynote presentation) The State of Consumer AI (2025 - Menlo Ventures)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 runAI 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 pointNobody knows good AI KPIs at this pointNobody understands AI costs at this pointThe “older” generation can build on their existing domain experienceThe “younger” generation has always figured out new ways to work, be creativeEven CEOs aren’t the ultimate boss - the market, boards, peer pressure, etc. - they will push trends, sometimes without all the dataFEEDBACK?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 939SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #939 TranscriptSHOW 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.[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 websiteSHOW NOTES:Astonomer.io websiteApache AirflowTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 938SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #938 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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/featuresEast 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)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from June 2025.SHOW: 937SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #937 TranscriptSHOW 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.[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 websiteSHOW NOTES:Link to June 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 936SHOW VIDEO: Watch the YouTube Live Recording of SDT Episode 525CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud[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: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 525RUNDOWNFormat inspired by DitheringAn Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael TruellFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 935SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #935 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Hasura websiteHasura GitHubTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 934SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #934 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud[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:Andy Jassy (Amazon CEO) - Thoughts on Generative AI AWS quarterly revenue growth OpenAI struggling to meet deadline for $20B investment (including Microsoft)Inside Microsoft’s complex relationship with OpenAIGoogle Cloud quarterly revenuesBG2 PodcastEast Meets West 2025 (keynote presentation)TECHNOLOGY WAVES CHANGE MARKET DYNAMICS; INCUMBENTS DON’T ALWAYS LEADRevenues: 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 strategyAzure + OpenAI alignment strategy went from strategic to questionedGoogle start-stop AI strategy, but coming together; but company breakup loomingApple AI strategy seems completely unknown (Siri,Apple Intelligence, devices, models?)Oracle seems to be rebounding around Oracle Cloud InfrastructureNew hypercloud AI providers emerging? The Amazon/AWS 20%FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcaFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 933SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #933 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Speakeasy websiteSpeakeasy MCP HubThe NewStack article on MCP with SpeakeasyTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 932SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #932 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud[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:SOMETIMES WE FORGET HOW CHALLENGING THAT FIRST JOB WASSometimes your first job(s) are just cogs in a machine - you work, but you don’t really careA 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 931SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #931 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Nutanix Cloud NativeThe Cloudcast #211 - Mesosphere DCOSTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 930SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #930 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud[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:I Am Disappointed in the AI Discourse (Steve Klabnik)All My AI Skeptical Friends are Nuts (Thomas Ptacek)Pearl Jam - Porch (1991)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 availableIf you choose not to engage with it, your job prospects might be limited in the futureThere 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 dailyYou probably have a choice nowAI won’t have binary impacts on everyone (good/bad), but it’ll have impactsI understand that we don’t understand everyone else’s context, but we do have historical contextFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 929SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #929 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Link to May 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 928SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #928 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud[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 McGuffin “Challenge” - Software Defined Talk (May 30, 2025)McGuffin (Wikipedia)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 companyDistract the market from current company challengesDistract your competitors to chase something where they don’t have strengthsProbe the market for ideas - sort of like a “leak”Get the market to pump your valuation, so you can take other actionsStall your customers from potentially buying a competitive offerFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Anand Kannappan (@anandnk24, CEO @PatronusAI) talks about evaluating AI models for hallucinations, managing data quality, automating the process, and optimizing models. SHOW: 927SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #927 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Patronus AI websiteTopic 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 hallucinationTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 926SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #926 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud[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 final 5% of AI successHOW 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 humansWe 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 925SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #925 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:View.io websiteTopic 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 RepresentationTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 924SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #924 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES: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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 923SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #923 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Runway websiteBehind What Seems Like an Overnight Success (video)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 922SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #922 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Amazon 2024 CEO Letter to Shareholders - A Why CultureUber CEO says “it is what it is” about changing benefitsWHEN 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 strongOutside of finance, tech tends to pay at the high end of salaries and perksWe’re in an interesting time of challenging economics and pressure from AI Perks are difficult to pull back, because business success isn’t evenly rewardedWhy is positioned as open culture, or strategy, but it’s also about day-to-day behaviorIt is what it is a decision, but it’s also accountability and continued viabilityMost leaders are going to have to manage between Why and It is what it is in 2025Most workers are going to have to work between Why and It is what it is in 2025FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 921SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #921 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Link to April 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 920SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #920 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:AI Horseless Carriages (AI user-experiences)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 bundlingExpect 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 curveSharing still seems to be lacking within the AI tools. Not just sharing of an individual task, but sharing of learning curves, best practices, datasetsIs there a dataset collection opportunity? This feels like Big Data or Data Lake 5.0. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Mark Freydl (CEO/Founder @codiacio) talks about the challenges of blending IaaC, DevOps and Platform Engineering to drive efficient software development lifecycles.SHOW: 919SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #919 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Codiac websiteCodiac at Tech Field DayTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 918SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #918 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Anthropic warns that fully AI employees are a year awayAuthZ Agents ChaosWhy we need to get AuthZ rightAI Agent Gateway and AI Agent MeshAuth in the age of AI Agent (Cloudcast Eps. 885)Trust will make or break AI Agents Introducing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A - Google)Introducing the Model Context Protocol (MCP - Anthroopic)Top 9 AI Agent FrameworksHOW 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 917SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #917 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Postman - The World’s Leading API PlatformOpenAPI SpecificationMCP - Model Context Protocol (Anthropic)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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 916SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #916 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:CEOs choose more AI, fewer jobsOpenAI plots charging $20,000 per month for PhD-level AgentsWhy AI isn’t giving Salesforce a boostThe one person $Billion dollar companyHUMAN-AUGMENTED vs HUMAN-REPLACEMENT IS A COMPLEX AI STRATEGYMost AI projects today as either augmenting or replacing humansTechnology has augmented, shifted or replaced human tasks for a while, this isn’t anything newManagement/owners have tried to replace workers with technology for a long timePricing 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 replacingThe 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.”FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Evan Powell (@epowell101, CEO at DeepTempo) talks about the intersection of CyberSecurity, Deep Learning and new AI techniques to improve operational security. SHOW: 915SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #915 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudTry Postman AI Agent Builder TodaySHOW NOTES:DeepTempo websiteThe Promise of CyberSecurity Foundation ModelsEvan on The Cloudcast #165Topic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 914SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #914 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Why AI isn’t meeting expectations (The Artificial Intelligence Enterprise)IS THREE YEARS ENOUGH TIME FOR ANY TECHNOLOGY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?Costs are still high, and positive ROI is still evolvingThe technology stack and standards are still evolvingEnterprise expectations are being confused with consumer expectationsAI predictions and timelines are overly aggressiveHow 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 distributedMost people don’t like to talk about the augment vs. replace issueMiscellaneous stuff:ChatGPT is the fasting growing tech ever AGI will be here at any momentFor the first 18+ months, it was only an OpenAI + NVIDIA marketAll software development will be done by AIThere will be $1B companies with 1 personGenAI, Frontier Models, Open Source Models, Agents, etc.Deep Seek, MCP, etc. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 913SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #913 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Nooks.ai websiteNooks Founders on Forbes 30 under 30 for AITopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 912SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #912 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudBook a Call Today with US CloudTry Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from March 2025 including recent M&A activity.SHOW: 911SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #911 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Link to March 2025 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Recent M&AGood Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 910SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #910 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Software Defined Interviews - Episode with Brian GracelyWHAT HAPPENS DURING AND AFTER AN ACQUISITION? Moving from an IC to Leadership role is a complex choiceMoving from a technical to a less technical role is a difficult choiceWhat 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 FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

With Kubecon coming up next week, we speak to Lukas Gentele (@LukasGentele, Co-Founder/ CEO at Loft Labs (@loft_sh)), about virtualizing Kubernetes SHOW: 909SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #909 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Loft Labs websiteLoft Labs on TechCrunchLoft Labs vCluster CloudTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 908SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #908 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW 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 approachDid 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 closetsRetention of key people? Expectations of key people? How long do the leaders stay?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, CEO/Founder @thesysteminit) talks about the evolution and intersection of DevOps 2.0, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and what’s nextSHOW: 907SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #907 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:System Initiative websiteAdam on The Cloudcast #729Topic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 906SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #906 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Jon Duren, Sr. Practice Manager, AI & Data @wwt_inc & Druce MacFarlane, Product @Infoblox talks about the intersection of AI, Startups, and Enterprise Trends.SHOW: 905SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #905 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:WWT websiteWWT AI Proving GroundInfoblox websiteStartup Lantern PodcastTopic 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 yetTopic 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 monthsTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 904SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #904 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Jeff Bezos’ API Mandate, and 5 Rules surrounding itJensen Huang’s NVIDIA “Top 5 Things” emailDO 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 haveHow 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)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from February 2025 including NVIDIA’s earnings,  Hashicorp, Intel’s CEO trio, Developer Co-Pilots, and RIP Skype.SHOW: 903SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #903 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Link to February 2025 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 902SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #902 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Most AI Investments Will Lose Money as Market Enters ‘Greed’ Cycle (Vinod Khasla, VC)My LLM CodeGen workflow (Harper Reed)"Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?" (Goldman Sachs) Microsoft cancels leases on Data Centers for AINVIDIA announces Q4 earnings An interview about AI unknowns (Stratechery)IF YOU’RE CONFUSED ABOUT AI, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. There is a ton of AI out there, but it’s not always simpleThere’s a ton of AI out there, but it’s not always affordableThere’s a ton of AI out there, and sometimes it blows our mindThere’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 fastThere’s a ton of AI out there, and people are struggling with technology and politics overlapping so muchFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Andrew Filev (@andrewsthoughts, Founder @zencoderai) talks about the state and future of developer coding co-pilots.SHOW: 901SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #901 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:ZenCoder websiteTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 900SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #900 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Cloud News of the Month - January 2025 - DeepSeekBest 100 Technology PodcastsTop Cloud Computing PodcastsTop Software Engineering PodcastsTop IT PodcastsWHAT 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 899SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #899 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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:Platform 9 (website)Platform 9 Press Release on VMware MigrationsThe Cloudcast #158 - Private Clouds with Platform 9The Serverless Cast #1 - Project FissionTopic 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 FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 898SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #898 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 levelSHOW: 897SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #897 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Drew Saur Executive Coaching (homepage)Drew Saur Coaching CommunityTopic 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 thinkingTopic 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 thisTopic 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 mostTopic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, where can they go for more info or to contact you?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 896SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #896 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Public cloud providers are missing the market with AI (David Linthicum, 2025)Why digital business needs bi-modal IT (Gartner, 2015)Microsoft / Azure earnings (Jan 2025)Alphabet / Google Cloud earnings (Feb 2024)Amazon / AWS earnings (Feb 2025)WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BUSINESS HAS TO PRIORITIZE THE LOWER REVENUE PATHSWe’ve come full circle after 10+ yearsCan 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 895SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #895 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to January 2025 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 894SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #894 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:United States vs. IBMUnited States vs. MicrosoftOracle vs. Google (Java)EU vs. Apple (AppStore)EU vs. Google“Shut up and dribble” (2018)THE OLD SWIM LANES ARE NO LONGER INDEPENDENT AND ISOLATEDVendors 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, AmazonCompanies are involved in 1st Amendment situations - Google, Amazon/WashPostAll tech companies are bidding for Gov’t contractsIntel is the target of the US Chips Act - govt subsidyAI overlaps copyright, data sovereignty, govt regulations/restrictionsNation-state funded security attacksFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 893SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #893 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Lucihub (homepage)Lucihub - AI powered video creation platform (YouTube)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 892SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #892 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Brian Gracely on Software Defined Interviews (podcast)The Stargate Project (Jan 2025)Deepseek models attempts to rival OpenAI (Jan 2025)Will Deepseek threaten US equity markets? (CNBC)REACTING AND PLANNING WHEN SO MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE HAPPENINGWhy 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 GrowthSHOW: 891SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #891 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Monevate (homepage)Capturing Value: The Definitive Guide to Transforming SaaS Pricing and Unshackling Growth (James Wilton new book)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 ofTopic 3 - How to eliminate revenue losses caused by misaligned pricing or unnecessary discountsTopic 4 - Exploring the science and discipline behind pricing - particularly for ventures with subscription offeringsTopic 5 - The do's and dont's when migrating your current customers to new pricing strategies Topic 6 - How AI Is redefining SaaS pricing modelsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 890SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #890 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Capture low-hanging AI fruit with AgentsHow to make your product idea go viral in your companyWHAT CONSIDERATIONS SHOULD GO INTO AN AI-FIRST STRATEGY3-month, 6-month, 12-month projectsWhat are the AI possibilities?AI Center of Sharing ExperiencesBase Models vs. Trained/Aligned ModelsAugment vs. Replacement (or AI Beginning) activitiesVendor offering vs. Open Source evolutionCost Modeling and Cost MonitoringThe 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian and Michael Cote (@cote, Co-Host @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about the ethics of using AI at for internal and external facing work.SHOW: 889SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #889 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Software Defined Talk (Eps.500)How do teachers know if students use AI for projects?Cote’s Newsletter (go subscribe!)How to play DnD with AI 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 888SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #888 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:WordPress CEO doesn’t know what his Sustainability team doesSalesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR CEO DOESN’T KNOW WHAT YOUR GROUP DOES?Elon Musk eliminated 80% of Twitter/X workforceCEOs/CFOs are starting to think about AI in terms of reduced workforceWFH/RTO policies will be an on-going issue for the next few yearsHow 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 887SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #887 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Considerations when evaluating a startup vs. a more traditional roleRed FlagsConsidering BurnoutHow has the macro environment changed funding and employmentNetworkingKeeping a routineFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 886SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #886 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:SOME TIPS, TRICKS, SUGGESTIONS AND REFLECTIONS AS WE BEGIN YET ANOTHER YEARGeneral 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 885SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #885 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Authzed (homepage)SpiceDB - Authorization that scales (GitHub)Google’s Zanzibar (research paper)Annotating Zanzibar (by AuthZed)Authzed CEO discusses Auth for AI RAG and Agents (TheCUBE)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 884SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #884 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Cloud + AI News of the Year 2024 (shows, summaries, links)LINK TO TOPIC DETAILSPredictions, or 2025 areas of focus?Aaron2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worseThere will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI2025 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 883SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #883 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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.?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

It’s that time of the year… Aaron and Brian answer emails and questions for the second half of the year.SHOW: 882SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #882 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES: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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 881SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #881 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Yacht Rock Documentary (HBO Max - Trailer)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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 880SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #880 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR:While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversationFollow Data Citizens Dialogues on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcastsSHOW NOTES:AWS re:Invent 2024 - CEO Keynote with Matt GarmanTop Announcements of 2024 AWS re:InventWhat hath AWS wrought? (Forrest Brazzeal newsletter)Prince guitar solo during George Harrison tributeOverall Takeaways:The new CEOThe overall themesAndy Jassy’s appearanceBrian’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 primitivesAWS 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 CEOAWS 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 879SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #879 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:AI Eats the World (Presentation - Benedict Evans)IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?Companies are investing tons of moneyBreakthrough results haven’t emerged yet (business models, profits)It’s not clear that there is a technology moat; but maybe a capital moatModel training costs are expected to rise 5x to 10x - worse economics??Lots of VC investment and vendor 2nd-order investmentsLLM 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 AssistantsConsulting 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 peopleNo real conclusionFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 878SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #878 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:Link to November 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 877SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #877 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Love the insights from this episode? Make sure you never miss a beat with Chatpods! Whether you're commuting, working out, or just on the go, Chatpods lets you capture and summarize key takeaways effortlessly.Save time, stay organized, and keep your thoughts at your fingertips.Download Chatpods directly from App Store or Google Play and use it to listen to this podcast today!SHOW NOTES:The case against living in the Bay area (Forrest Brazeal) Cost of living calculatorBest quality of life cities (US) Best quality of life cities (Europe)Best quality of life cities (Asia)Top 15 Wealth Creating Stocks of last 10 years (Vanguard)IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?Amazon, Microsoft, Space X , BYD, TSMC, are not in Silicon ValleyTHE PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN SILICON VALLEY DURING A BOOM?Density of ideasDensity of people that obsess over technologyWork from Office vs. Work from AnywhereLocation of customers - and physical vs. digitalAbility to make money vs. life changing moneyNon-work considerations (family, non-work activities, etc.)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Andrew Manoske (@a2d2, VP Products @Kindo)  talks about the intersection of GenAI and DevSecOps, the WhiteRabbitNeo model, and learning adversary behavior.SHOW: 876SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #876 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversationFollow Data Citizens Dialogues on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcastsSHOW NOTES:Kindo (homepage)WhiteRabbitNeo (open source project)Open Source GenAI models advances support for CyberSecurity and DecSecOps teamsTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 875SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #875 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Love the insights from this episode? Make sure you never miss a beat with Chatpods! Whether you're commuting, working out, or just on the go, Chatpods lets you capture and summarize key takeaways effortlessly.Save time, stay organized, and keep your thoughts at your fingertips.Download Chatpods directly from App Store or Google Play and use it to listen to this podcast today!SHOW NOTES:New research shows widespread adoption of GenAINetflixOSS (homepage)WHAT DID NETFLIX DO FOR THE CLOUD ERA?Provided a face for a new style of doing workProvided validation that a new model could workEncouraged people to explore older, “bad practices”Began to define metrics of what the new world could look likeWHY 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-casesOr is AI going to be a big-bang approach?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Sunil Mallya (@sunilmallya, Co-Founder & CTO @_FlipAI) talks about building AI models to help IT Operations teams simplify troubleshooting, incident response and pattern detection.  SHOW: 874 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #874 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Flip AI (homepage)Enterprise AI Agents: Bringing LLMs to Enterprise DataTopic 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 873SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #873 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:STUFF THAT FEELS UNCERTAIN OR FRAGMENTED RIGHT NOWTransition 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 alignedSocial 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 plateauCloud providers aren’t really talking about anything but AIVCs 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 872 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #872 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR:While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversationFollow Data Citizens Dialogues on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcastsSHOW NOTES:Kentik - The Network Observability Platform (homepage)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 871SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #871 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Dithering - Trump Tech PolicyStratechery - Big Tech, Little Tech, Chips and HardwarePivot - How Trump will Impact Tech, EconomyCube Podcast - https://www.thecube.net/cube-podcastSHOW SPONSOR:Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureCAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?It’s very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known nameIt’s more difficult to prove “what if” (future) vs. something that already happenedFigure out messaging velocity and variability (change the story vs. stick to the story)Plans tend to defeat a lack of plans (or vagueness)Fear is as powerful a motivator as hope/joy/possibilitiesComplex topics (eg. democracy, DevOps) are difficult for people to understand, if they aren’t well defined.People tend to make decision with their wallet, based on their current situationAre you speaking to a niche audience, or a large audience? If your competition defines you, you need to reframe it quicklyIf your competition finds a liability, you need to address it quicklySometimes small things can be the center of the discussionKnow where your audience is getting their information from (traditional vs. modern channels)Are you trying to get people to align on an issue, or a set of virtues (align to a group)?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.SHOW: 870SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #870 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversationFollow Data Citizens Dialogues on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcastsSHOW NOTES:Link to October 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 869SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #869 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR:While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversationFollow Data Citizens Dialogues on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcastsSHOW NOTES:IBM Watsonx Code Assistant (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z (homepage)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)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 868SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #868 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:“Machines of Loving Grace” (Dario Amodei - Anthropic)Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism (Decoder from The Verge)“The Intelligence Age” (Sam Altman - OpenAI)THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)Biology and HealthNeuroscience and MindEconomic Development and PovertyPeace and GovernanceWork and meaningFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 867Want to go to All Things Open in Raleigh for FREE? (Oct 27th-29th)We are offering 5 Free passes, first come, first serve for the Cloudcast CommunityRegistration Link - www.eventbrite.com/e/916649672847/?discount=Cloudcastfree  Instructions:Click reg linkClick “Get Tickets”Choose ticket optionProceed with registration (discount will automatically be applied, cost will be $0)SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #867 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Mechanical Orchard (homepage)Startup led by ex-Pivotal CEO lands $50M to modernize apps (TechCrunch)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

After several months of travel and giving keynote at multiple events, Brian gives some new tips for building keynotes, capturing audience attention, managing regional differences and avoiding mistakes.SHOW: 866SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #866 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Building a Keynote Presentation (Cloudcast Eps. 798)THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONSDifferent types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, MixedDifferent types of keynote context - New, Updates, Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/PanelsOther considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.SHOW: 865Want to go to All Things Open in Raleigh for FREE? (Oct 27th-29th)We are offering 5 Free passes, first come, first serve for the Cloudcast Community -> Registration Link Instructions:Click reg linkClick “Get Tickets”Choose ticket optionProceed with registration (discount will automatically be applied, cost will be $0)SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #865 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Dremio (homepage)Hands-on with Apache Iceberg TutorialApache Iceberg Crash CourseData Lakehouses and Apache Hudi (Cloudcast Eps. 694)Apache Iceberg, the Definitive Guide (eBook)Apache Iceberg (homepage)Iceberg + Nessie Catalog (homepage)Iceberg + Polaris Catalog (homepage)AlexMerced.comDataLakehouseHub.comTopic 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 theFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 864SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #864 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?Internet infrastructure (router) came from CiscoWeb Browser / Web Server came from NetscapeMainstream Linux came from Red HatSocial Media came from Twitter, FacebookCloud came from AmazonSmart Phone came from AppleAI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) What’s Similar? What’s Different?Funding, Founders, Market CompetitorsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 863Want to go to All Things Open in Raleigh for FREE? (Oct 27th-29th)We are offering 5 Free passes, first come, first serve for the Cloudcast CommunityRegistration Link - www.eventbrite.com/e/916649672847/?discount=Cloudcastfree Instructions:Click reg linkClick “Get Tickets”Choose ticket optionProceed with registration (discount will automatically be applied, cost will be $0)SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #863 TranscriptCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Freeman and Forrest (homepage)DevOps for Dummies (book)97 Things every Cloud Engineer should know (book)Forrest Brazeal (homepage)Developing Multi-Cloud Skills (Eps.602 Cloudcast)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Topic 2 - Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and startTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024. SHOW: 862SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #862 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ONDo business leaders understand what LLMs do?Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all modelsDoes OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot? What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.SHOW: 861SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #861 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to September 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Do we put too much emphasis on the leaders of the tech industry and not enough on the millions that support it? SHOW: 860SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #860 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  SHOW NOTES:Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equityLinkedIn Profile RoasterBrian’s “roasted” LinkedIn profileTHE BIG NAMES GET A LOT OF ATTENTIONWe talk a lot about how much CEOs makeWe 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 FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.SHOW: 859Want to go to All Things Open in Raleigh for FREE? (Oct 27th-29th)We are offering 5 Free passes, first come, first serve for the Cloudcast CommunityRegistration Link - www.eventbrite.com/e/916649672847/?discount=Cloudcastfree  Instructions:Click reg linkClick “Get Tickets”Choose ticket optionProceed with registration (discount will automatically be applied, cost will be $0)SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #859 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Persona webpageTech Crunch Article on PersonaTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 858SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #858 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  SHOW NOTES:Amazon announces new Manager/Employee Ratio and RTO policy for 2025IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIMEPeople have adapted their life to working from homePeople have adapted their families to working from homeDaily commutes seem like a poor use of resourcesIT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIMEBeing around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharingRTO 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 workersFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 857SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #857 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Eve HomepageTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 856SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #856 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO:  https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  SHOW NOTES:LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE USDiffusion of informationCurrency exchangeGovernment laws, embargoes, tariffsLanguage and timezone differencesLocal culture, norms, expectationsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.SHOW: 855SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #855 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to August 2024 news and articlesSubscribe to Cote's newsletter. SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe 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.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 854SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #854 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  SHOW NOTES:ARE CORE PILLARS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE?Google and antitrustIntel and chipsOpen source and licensingAI and monetizationGovernments and regulationFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform engineering and IaC.SHOW: 853CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:On The CUBE discussing VMware in April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wIClYI6bDQSoftware Development Times discussion Platform Engineering: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/analyst-view-whats-new-whats-now-and-whats-next-in-platform-engineering/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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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…SHOW: 852SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #852 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?Fine-Tuning vs. RAGPredictive AI vs. Generative AIAndrew Ng (always worth a watch IMO) https://youtu.be/sal78ACtGTc?si=dCoKXb5o4KB2XSerHarrison Chase (LangChain) https://youtu.be/pBBe1pk8hf4?si=lAit69_pDeRKcBGqhttps://blog.langchain.dev/what-is-a-cognitive-architecture/https://thenewstack.io/lets-get-agentic-langchain-and-llamaindex-talk-ai-agents/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IYzyi86yYhttps://blog.langchain.dev/what-is-an-agent/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/autogen/https://www.crewai.com/ HOW SHOULD WE DECIDE WHICH AI MODEL TO USE FOR OUR APPLICATION?Build, buy, use open source, augment with your own data - so many decisionsHow often do you update models with new data? HOW DO WE BRING OUR COMPANY DATA / KNOWLEDGE TO OUR AI MODELS?Large Static Models - Predictive AILLMs + Slow-Changing Data - Align the ModelLLMs + Fast-Changing Data - RAGLLMs + Agent-Learned Data - Agentic AIFEEDBFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 851SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #851 TranscriptCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:How Twingate WorksTwingate vs. VPNsArchitecting Network Connectivity for a Zero Trust FutureSolving the usability problem to unlock Zero Trust adoptionReddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/twingate/ Signup for Twingate for freeTopic 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 teamsWhat 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 solutionIs 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 850SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #850 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:AWS CEO says developers might stop coding soon (Business Insider)Amazon CEO highlights the impacts of co-pilots on code (Andy Jassy)I’m tired of fixing customer’s AI-generated codeThe New Kingmakers (Stephen O’Grady)Exploring Generative AI (Martin Fowler)The Death of the Junior DeveloperSalary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers (The New Stack)THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)The value of the developer exploded over the last decadeSoftware has reshaped most industries over the last decadeWE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERSCode assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenueDo 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 849SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #849 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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 implementedTopic 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 848SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #848 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST LEADING OFF THE SHOW - AFTER 13 YEARSWHAT PARTS OF THE CLOUD EVOLUTION HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR TODAY?[BAD] Shadow IT set Enterprise IT back 5-10 years, with the same responsibilities[GOOD] Technology experimentation has become the norm, from technologists to business leaders. [BAD] We still don’t really know how to measure the cost or return (ROI) of technology spending.[GOOD] We have a new appreciation for the power of software and software development to change businesses and markets.[BAD] But we still haven’t figured how to normalize great software development[GOOD] Open source communities (e.g. CNCF, etc.) provided a blueprint for bringing new innovation to the marketplace[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.[GOOD] The “cloud” way of doing things has laid the foundation for what might/will come next. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 847SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #847 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Caddis Cloud Solutions (homepage)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 plansFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 846SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #846 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:VCs are looking to get out (Business Insider)Microsoft earnings (31%), Google earnings (29%), Amazon earnings (19%) - QtoQ earnings for the hyperscalersTHE ECONOMY WILL BE THE STORY OF 2H 2024 DUE TO THE US ELECTIONSBUT WILL ANY OF THESE OTHER STORIES GET THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE?Are VCs going to be out on AI startups?Will tech antitrust discussions become prominent in the US elections? When will we start seeing all the early-2024 AI demos turn into reality?How much are the hyperscale cloud earnings boosted by AI spend vs. usage?Will any alternatives to VMware start to show progress in displacing the virtualization leader?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Aaron Delp (@aarondelp)  and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2024.SHOW: 845SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #845 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR JULY  2024 CLOUD NEWSSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe 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?  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 844SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #844 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:It’s Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Valley (NY Times)VCs for KamalaThe Little Tech Agenda: Why We Support Trump (a16z)BG2 Podcast - Silicon Valley’s Political 180SHOW NOTES:TECHNOLOGY IS A CRITICAL DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTHVCs are becoming more visible and vocal in their political agendasBillionaires have the wealth, power and influence of nation statesEuropean and APAC tech policy are more defined than USDOES GROWTH ALLOW YOU TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY OR ACCOUNTABILITY?Has there been an “unwritten” agreement between WashDC and Silicon Valley?Crypto is not just another technologyIssues: Antitrust, Taxes, Future of AI, etc.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Jeff Denworth, (@JeffDenworth, Co-Founder of @VAST_Data) talks about building data platforms for new AI application demands. SHOW: 843SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #843 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:VAST Data (homepage)Understanding AI IO performance (whitepaper)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 842SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #842 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:The Crowdstrike outage and market-driven brittlenessNetwork Engineering is a Dying ProfessionVista Equity writes off Pluralsight after $3.5B buyoutSHOW NOTES:WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO THE FUTURESystems are more interconnected and more criticalCompanies under-staff critical operationsDevelopers are the new kingmakers, but where are all the kings?PEOPLE DON’T IGNORE STABLE FOUNDATIONS, THEY FORGET ABOUT THEMNot enough people have home labs, or go after certificationsThe industry highlights the content creators, instead of the builders/fixersThere might be an opportunity to restart a focus on foundational skillsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Scott Stephenson (@deepgramscott, CEO of @deepgram) talks about building Voice AI into your applications.SHOW: 841SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #841 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSOR NOTES:Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:Deepgram (homepage)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 840SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #840 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:WHY DO PLATFORMS MAKE SENSE FOR MODERN APPLICATIONS?Reduce the cognitive load on application teamsDeliver self-service capabilities where it makes senseDeliver consistent services across teams, with efficient operationsReduce 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 teamsApplication teams wanting snowflake environmentsBuying and budgeting centers not aligning to platform deliveryGetting application team buy-in to platform servicesGetting cross-functional team alignment and coordinationBalancing stability and pace of innovationFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 839SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #839 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Amazon acqui-hiring - Adept.ioInflectionAmazon building ChatGPT Competitorhttps://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-wooed-wall-street-overhauled-bloated-tech-giant-2024-7The InfraRed ReportMAILBAG 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 838SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #838 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:DATA GRAVITY AND BUSINESS CONCERNS ABOUT GEN AIMost large companies keep their data on-premisesCompanies are concerned about mixing their data with public LLMsCompanies are unsure about hallucinations and their quality of their offeringsWHAT 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 yetEnterprises may use the public cloud GPUs to train or tune private modelsEnterprises will large the consumer market in usage of GenAI - need to identify use-casesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Chris Chapman (CTO at @MacStadium) talks about Mac-centric backend development, DevOps tools chains, and the best ways to take advantage of MacStadium.SHOW: 837SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #837 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:MacStadium (homepage)Mac Virtualization, using Orka 3.0Topic 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 MacStadiumTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 836SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #836 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES US WITH A LOT OF FREEDOMSFreedom of jobs, of location, or company or group to work withFreedom of technology choicesFreedom to choose when to use technology vs. human skillsBUT THE FREEDOMS DON’T ALWAYS COME WITHOUT A PRICECompanies get acquired and technologies go away/discontinuedTechnologies stop being supportedTechnologies might get too expensive to continue to useLaws might change how/what technologies can be usedSome services are free, in exchange for your dataFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 835SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #835 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR JUNE 2024 CLOUD NEWSSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 834SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #834 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:10 Years of Kubernetes30 Years of Linux10 Years of OpenStack25 Years of JavaWHAT 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 MongoDBLess projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business modelsPlenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development modelWHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStackComplex projects vs. “it just works”Critical security - VaultComplex data services - MongoDB, KafkaMany companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, KubernetesManagement / Observability Engines - Crossplane, PrometheusProgramming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.Cloud services hiding complexityCloud services stretching across cloudsSingle vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensingSingle vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scaleFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Matt Butcher (@technosophos, CEO at @FermyonTech) talks about the evolution of WASM, the relationship with Kubernetes, and managing Developer Experiences with platforms.SHOW: 833SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #832 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Fermyon (homepage)Fermyon Open SourceBuilding Apps with WebAssembly (Cloudcast Eps. 633)Kubernetes is (not) a cost optimization problem (InfoWeek)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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 832SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #832 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:What’s Stranger than AI? These new Job Titles (ZDNet)“Outliers” book and the “10,000 Hours Rule” (Malcom Gladwell)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 MeshPaaS / Developer PortalsGitOpsFinOpsXX as codeFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Reid Robinson (@Reidoutloud_, Lead AI Product Manager @Zapier)  talks about automation, application integrations and how to integrate AI in projects with Zapier SHOW: 831SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #831 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Zapier AI homepageZapier integration with OpenAIZapier Central - AI Workspace to Teach AI Bots to work with AppsZapier Chatbots - Build AI ChatbotsZapier Canvas - Diagram AI WorkflowsTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Let’s explore how today’s early AI era is like the unicorn-filled, heavily VC-funded early 2020s. (Part 3 of 3)SHOW: 830SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #830 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)Part 2: How Today’s AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)THE EARLY 2020s were SHAPED by COVID and FREE CASHVCs were pouring money into startups; “unicorns” were a daily occurrenceMany assumed that “today’s normal” would be the “forever normal”Business models were drowned out by technology fascinationDO CURRENT AI ECONOMICS AND FUNDING LEVELS MAKE SENSE?VCs and cloud providers are funding infrastructure like it’s 1997-2000Business models around AI are still being sought outFunding valuations have no basis in anything real, at least not yetAre we near an AI (economic) crash, or at least deflation of the bubble?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Solomon Hykes (@solomonstre, Co-Founder @Dagger_io) talks about the evolution of the container industry, fixing broken CI/CD systems, and modern DevOps.SHOW: 829SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #829 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSOR:Neo4j explores knowledge graphs and vector search (graphstuff.fm podcast)See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developerSHOW NOTES:https://dagger.io/InfoQ Article on DaggerDaggar and GPTScript for AI (video)Tech Crunch ArticleSolomon’s first time on The Cloudcast - Episode #66Topic 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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)SHOW: 828SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #828SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)Part 2: How Today’s AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)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 ITIt’s a new generation of computing, so the future winner is unknown.Many companies are trying to have centralized IT policies - one size fits allData governance and legal liability is driving corporate policies (education needed)Consumer AI is widely available and applicable to some job functionsExecutives are starting to talk about “AI First” policiesCloud-native and Cloud-migrated were very different things, with different resultsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, from @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from May 2024SHOW: 827SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #827 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: The Cloudcast YouTube ChannelCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Neo4j explores knowledge graphs and vector search (graphstuff.fm podcast)See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developerSHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR MAY 2024 CLOUD NEWSSegments Covered in the Show:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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)SHOW: 826SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solutionSHOW NOTES:Building the Information Super Highway (pre-2000)Executives discuss the Information Super Highway2001 - A DotCom Bubble Odyssey (Cloudcast Eps.772)Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)Part 2: How Today’s AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)WE’RE FASCINATED BY THE IDEA OF TECHNOLOGY CHANGING EVERYTHING2000s era Internet was going to change everythingGenAI is predicted to change everythingMOST TECHNOLOGY’S SHIFT HAPPEN WITH CONSUMERS FIRSTGenAI still can’t validate accuracy (e.g. hallucinations)GenAI is still extremely expensive to create, maintainGenAI still doesn’t have a widely-adopted business modelShadow GenAI groups will emerge in the EnterprisePeople are still mostly thinking about GenAI as a way to offload things they don’t want to do vs. improving their existing skillsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 825SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #825 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: The Cloudcast YouTube ChannelCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR:Neo4j explores knowledge graphs and vector search (graphstuff.fm podcast)See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developerSHOW NOTES:AVOA WebsiteTim’s article on HashiCorpTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

When you see the headline “ says AI strategy is in chaos”, what does it really mean? Is any company’s AI strategy NOT in chaos at this point? SHOW: 824SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Ex-Google says Google's AI strategy is in chaos (Decoder)The Transformer Paper from Google (foundation of GenAI)NVIDIA coverage on Stratechery (Ben Thompson)DBRX LLM from DatabricksArtic LLM from SnowflakeOpenElm LLM from AppleOpenAI and Apple sign deal, Apple still wants a Google optionIBM and Red Hat bring Open Source to AI with InstructLabWE OVERESTIMATE IN 1YR, AND UNDERESTIMATE IN 10YRS“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” - Bill GatesDOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE THEIR AI STRATEGY FIGURED OUT? NVIDIAGoogleOpenAIMicrosoft / Azure / GitHubAmazon / AWSMetaAppleIBM / Red HatOracleSnowflakeDatabricksVCsStartupsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 823SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #823CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR:Neo4j explores knowledge graphs and vector search (graphstuff.fm podcast)See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developerSHOW NOTES:Jonas’ session abstract from All Things Open (ATO) 2023Session slides and description of the talkHit Save! - Video Game Preservation OrganizationCIQ Enterprise Linux PlatformTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 822SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #822SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement“There’s no AI without the cloud”, says AWS CEO (Decoder podcast)Six things to know about the new AWS CEO, Matt GarminAWS 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 CEOProbably don’t take the job immediately after someone is the Nick Saban of techDon’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 reportThe post-ZIRP CEO of AWS2021 - $62B, , 2022 - $80B, 2023 - $90B, 2024 - $100+BLost key peopleBehind on GenAI vs. other clouds“Wartime CEO” vs. “Peacetime CEO”FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 821SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #821CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSOR:See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developerSHOW NOTES:Mark’s Talk at ATOEU AI Act PassesHow Tech Giants Cut Corners Harvest DataThe EU Guide Act - A Guide for DevelopersOpenInfra FoundationTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Happy Mothers Day! And let’s explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI. SHOW: 820SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #820SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:InstructLab Project (github homepage)LAB: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots (research paper)Granite LLMs (IBM research - Hugging Face)7b-base model7b-lab modelInstructLab: What is contributing to AI LLM models was easy? (Redmonk)HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMSCall you mom, be good to your wife, and be a role model for the young girls in your lifeOPEN SOURCE MEETS AIThe 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)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 819CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Vercel (homepage)Elevate your frontend with AIV0.devTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 818SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #818SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 FLAGSAre 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024SHOW: 817TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR APRIL 2024 CLOUD NEWSSegments Covered in the Show:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues - Speed RoundTrend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcementsTrend 2 - We’re starting to see some (early) reality set in with AITrend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMware and AI discussionsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 816SHOW TRANSCRIPT:  The Cloudcast #816SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog)“figure out how to play nice with competition” (Twitter)The will never be another Red Hat - Economics of OSS (a16z)OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODELThere are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainersFREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONESRed Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributorsYellow 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more.SHOW: 815CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Inference.ai (homepage)TechCrunch postSiliconAngle post on ChatGPUTopic 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 showTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 814SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #814SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:AWS increased the price of longer-running EKS clusters by 6xBroadcom changes VMware licensing from perpetual to subscriptionBroadcom offers security patches to perpetual license customersIncreasing the Kubernetes support window to 1 yearDiscovering the XZ backdoor (Oxide and Friends, podcast)IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)The costs of maintenance are real and opportunityMaintenance often goes unappreciated and unseenNaming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos EngineeringTECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCEShould 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI.SHOW: 813CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:DataCebo (homepage)Synthetic Data Vault - SDVTechCrunch ArticleMIT News ArticleTopic 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 showTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 812SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #812SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW IN TECH?Cloud was all new, but not completelyThe pace of cloud innovation seemed fast, but not in comparison to AIThe focus was around one cloud vs. a new source every weekPICK A TOPIC, READ, BE CONFUSED, LOOK FOR CONFIRMATION, RINSE, REPEATWhere 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 811CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:TrackIt (homepage)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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 810SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #810 SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:WHAT WERE THE PATTERNS FOR ENTERPRISE IT AND CLOUD?Shadow ITHigh-scalability or Short-term Projects (and experimentation)Migration via “Cloud First” initiativesDifficult stuff came lastWHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT AI vs. CLOUD?CPU to CPU was easier to calculate vs. CPU + GPUHave 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024.SHOW: 809SHOW TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/cloudcast-809-transcriptCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR MARCH 2024 CLOUD NEWS Segments Covered in the Show:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues - Speed RoundTrend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partnerTrend 3 - NVIDIA held a pretty massive GTC eventFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023. SHOW: 808CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th)WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers insteadSHOW NOTES:What VMware might look like under Broadcom (Eps.629, June 2022)What to do about VMware (Day Two Cloud, Feb 2024)VMware 10X Price Increase Leaves Companies Looking for AlternativesVMware pricing in the Broadcom EraBROADCOM IS FITTING VMWARE INTO THEIR BUSINESS MODELAt least with acquisitions, Broadcom has a well-defined set of business metrics they expect from their companiesBroadcom acts somewhere like private equity in terms of investment, innovation, revenue generationIT'S A BOLD STRATEGY BROADCOM, LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR THEMIn essence, the bet is that there is no replacement for VMware in the EnterpriseThe timing is interesting with the shifting of budgets for AI projectsIt 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 outSHOW: 807CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before August 30th)WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers insteadCloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:SkyFlow (homepage)Partially Redacted PodcastSoftware Engineering DailyTopic 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 806CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th)WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers insteadSHOW NOTES:The Year Ahead in Cloud and Expectations for AI in 2024 (Altitude podcast)IF YOU WANT TO DO AI WELL, YOU NEED TO HAVE DONE CLOUD WELLWhen 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 AI5 IMPORTANT CLOUD CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO SUCCEED WITH AIAutomate everything - Make automation mission-criticalBuild the right abstractions and flexibilities (e.g. sharing GPUs, Devtools, etc.)Leverage platforms to bring together Data Science, MLOps and AppDevKnow how much things cost (e.g. FinOps)Socialize success, and socialize learnings across teamsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 805CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th)WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers insteadSHOW NOTES:Fireflies.ai (homepage)Fireflies MIT ArticleTopic 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?FEEDBACK?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 804CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th)WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers insteadSHOW NOTES:CNCF LandscapeCNCF Trail MapWHY 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 sponsorsHOW 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 803CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Lunar.dev (homepage)Lunar.dev blogLunar.dev on TechCrunchTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 802CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Linkerd changes publishing model of imagesPlanetScale discontinues Free Tier (“Hobby”) of serviceWHY 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Welcome to the "second monthly" Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest tech stories and five trends from February 2024.SHOW: 801CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR FEB 2024 CLOUD NEWS HERESegments Covered in the Show:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues - Speed RoundTrend 1 - Microsoft is branching out from just OpenAI as a partner, as they shouldTrend 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 NVIDIATrend 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 actorsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 800CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES: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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Ronald McCollum (@RonaldMcCollam, Solutions Engineering @GrafanaLabs) talks about updates in the observability space and learning more about Grafana and data visualization.SHOW: 799CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to date with Enterprise Tech with theCUBELearn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from SHOW NOTES:Grafana (homepage)Getting Started with Grafana Book by RonaldTopic 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 GrafanaFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 798CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:BUILDING THE OVERALL STORYThink 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 ONAre 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)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 797CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to date with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Guardrails AI (homepage)Guardrails AI HubGuardrails AI GitHubGuardrails AI DiscordShreya on TWIML podcastGuardrails AI on TechCrunchTopic 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 offeringFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Stu Miniman (@stu, Senior Director of Market Insights @RedHat) talks about the experience of The Sphere (@SphereVegas) in Las VegasSHOW: 796CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:The Sphere (Las Vegas)What’s inside of The Sphere (video overview)Postcard from Earth (trailer)Stu’s “In the Clouds” interview seriesTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 795CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to date with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Kong (homepage)What is an AI Gateway?Kong launches AI Gateway (Marco's blog on Kong homepage)Kong introduces AI Gateway (Silicon Angle)Hugging Face (AI model community)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 794CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendLearn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsSHOW NOTES:Microsoft invests $10B into OpenAIAmazon invests $b in AnthropicGoogle invests $2B in AnthropicCloud GPUsCan you trust AI valuations, MANG investments (BG2 Podcast)  Big Cloud deploys 1000s of GPU for AI - but revenues should be higher (El Reg) Tracking CAPEX by the big 3 cloud providersSam Altman seeks (up to) $7 trillion for new chip building (and comps)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 PROVIDERSIs 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Welcome to the inaugural Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest tech stories from January 2024.SHOW: 793CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW 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/CiliumTopic 5 - There was a lot of buzz around Basecamp’s numbers for repatriating back to their private cloud.Topic 6 - AI Speed Round...Microsoft hits 3T company valuationMicrosoft forms GenAI Team (less dependence on OpenAI)Meta’s Llama 3 and quadruple’s GPU’s in 2024GPUs might be under-utilized in the public cloudGoogle Cloud partners with Hugging FaceOpenAI Launched GPT StoreApple is changing podcast terms and rules (downloads, transcripts, etc.)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 792CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:​​Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsCloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:How does anyone use the Internet? (SDT eps.451)“Enshitification” - The 2023 Digital Word of the YearEnshitifcation is also known as platform decay (Wikipedia)How to success in business by bundling and unbundling (Jim Barksdale)IN THE DIGITAL WORLD, IT’S EASY TO BUNDLE THINGS TOGETHERThe only way to unlock valid is through bundling and unbundlingThere is a fine line between innovation, growth and platform creep. Nobody likes when free stuff goes away or gets complicatedCAPITALISM, FREE-ISM, AND ALIGNMENT OF INCENTIVESExpected growth rates are set by the companies. People in tech are always asking “what’s next?”There’s a difference between early adopters and mainstreamFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 791CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendLearn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsSHOW NOTES:Crane VC homepageAneel’s 2023 Look Ahead ShowAneel’s 2022 Look Ahead ShowThe Problem with Money in (Open Source) Software - Monktoberfest 2023Topic 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 yourselfTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 790CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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:Harnessing AI’s Full Potential for Enterprise Adoption (Forbes)GETTING STARTED AND ESTABLISHING THE FUNDAMENTALSDoes 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 COMPLEXITIESAligning AI Strategy With Business GoalsCultivating An AI-Friendly CultureSkills And ExpertiseEthics And TrustData Management And ProtectionFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 789CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Wiring the Winning Organization (book) (w/ Steven Spear)The Unicorn Project (homepage)The Unicorn Project (resource guide)The Unicorn Project on The Cloudcast (Eps. 433)The Phoenix Project on The Cloudcast (Eps.79)The DevOps HandbookDevOps Enterprise Summit (event)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? FEEDFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 788CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW 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-caseFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about comparing AWS vs Azure, evaluating alternatives and what changes over the next 3-5 years. SHOW: 787CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendLearn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.SHOW NOTES:Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (2023)Q3 2023 Cloud CAPEX (Platformonomics)Industry fallout from OpenAI (Eps.781)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 786CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Amazon’s Silent Sacking (blog) and Changelog podcastSigns it’s time to leave a company (Adrian Cockroft)Tech company layoffs in JanuaryBroadcom ends VMware partner programWHY 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/accelerateCompanies often overestimate needs and under-estimate fixesThere are new competitive dynamics happening all over techThere will be lots of bankruptcy and acquisitions in 20242024 WILL BE A YEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITYThe pendulum of workers vs management is swinging back to management15 minutes of “blame management” fame might be short livedBusiness doesn’t necessarily work like Reddit trendsFocus on alignment to revenues, customer successFocus on results, not excusesActively look for efficiencies and inefficienciesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about surviving the annual planning process and Q1 goals, KPIs, politics, priorities, etcSHOW: 785CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendReduce 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.appSHOW NOTES: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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 784CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEDatadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 pricingOn-demand resourcesSomeone else manages it for youAPI access to systemsA wide breadth of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS servicesWHAT MIGHT BECOME A FEATURE OF MODERN SYSTEMS?DevOps becomes integrated Co-Pilots via LLMsFinOps gets built into the systems, like vMotion from VMwarePre-Testing, Pre-Planning gets built in (like System Initiative)Chaos engineering gets built-inCollaboration gets built-inThe OS becomes like containers and gets deterministicUpgrades are built-inTraining, Docs, Examples are built-inLESSONS LEARNEDThe cross the chasm adoption isn’t just for a specific technology, it’s for bigger systems tooRarely 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 stepsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle, Founder @peripety_labs) about enabling AI to drive personal productivity, AI experimentation and AIOps soft skills.SHOW: 783CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.appCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Peripety Labs - Adopt AI today to improve Business EfficiencyThe Artificially Intelligent Enterprise (newsletter)Archive.org for Artificial Intelligence (hosted by Cornell) Fireflies.ai (automater notetaker)Llamaindex (middleware)Langchain (middleware)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

@AaronDelp and @BGracely talk about the biggest stories, trends and events of cloud in 2023, and some predictions for 2024.SHOW: 782CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 spendFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:All the 2023 Year In Review Show Notes2023 Year-End Mailbag2022 Year-End Mailbag2022 Year in Review and PredictionsOur 2021 PredictionsOur 2020 PredictionsTHE 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: Our 2020 PredictionsOur 2021 PredictionsOur 2022 Predictions AARON’S PREDICTIONS:A Hyperscaler that isn’t 1 or 2 throws in the towel - We start to see consolidation in the categoryPlatform Engineering hits its Trough of DisillusionmentCompact, 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 AIBRIAN’S PREDICTIONS:We’ll see the 1st 500M-user FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 781CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Benedict Evans - AI, and Everything Else (2024 looking forward)Is AI the next Oppenheimer event? (Eps.770)Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud (Eps.774)Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle (Kara Swisher)NVIDIA - The Dawn of the AI Era (Acquired - Part III)Software Defined Talk PodcastTopic 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 lasFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 780CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 spendSHOW 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 complianceSHOW: 779CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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 SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Luzmo HomepageTopic 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 costTopic 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 todayTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 778CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendReduce 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.appSHOW NOTES:Top announcements from AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:Invent Keynotes (2023)AWS MANAGES THE TRANSITION FROM ONE CLOUD ERA TO THE NEXT Reviewing AWS’ AI strategyNVIDIA DGX Cloud in AWSFurther alignment with AnthropicAWS QCost Optimization HubMemory-optimized Graviton 4 ARM compute nodeszero-ETL integration for a number of database and data-ingestion platformsAurora Limitless DatabaseIBM DB2 comes to AWSProject Kuiper - Satellite InternetFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

GUEST: Alex Kvamme (@KwameKvamme, CEO @GetPathlight) talks about using AI to unlock market insights from discussions with customers and partners.SHOW: 777CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Pathlight (homepage)VentureBeat article on Pathlight & AI AgentsArticle on Real World Productivity of LLMsTopic 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 overwhelmingTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 776CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "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.appDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 spendSHOW NOTES:All the show notes from this week's show.2001 - a dotCom Bubble Odyssey (Part 1 of 3) Building the Foundations of Modern Cloud (Part 2 of 3)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 775CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 spendSHOW NOTES:DoIT HomepageSimplifying FinOps for AI Workloads (Eps.719)Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup (Eps. 761)DIKW Pyramid - Framework for data classificationTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 774CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:All the background research for the showA BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE OPEN AI COUP ATTEMPTSam Altman (CEO) got fired, then returnedHOW DID DOTCOM BUBBLE LEAD TO HOUSING CRASH AND CLOUD?Google made Internet advertising available to every businessSaaS companies emerge, to replace core business functionsThe “sharing economy” took off (music, pictures, blogs, etc.)Shadow IT caused problems for Corporate ITFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 773CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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. 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 cFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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)SHOW: 772CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itSHOW NOTES:All the Shows Notes Research 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 POSSIBILITIESInformation was freely exposed to the Internet (and Intranets)It was Digital Transformation 1.0 era - Everything on the Internet The New Industrial RevolutionLots of focus on new Online PurchasingLots of focus on new Telecommunications services (VoIP, VoD, etc.)Lots of focus on new media partnershipsEVERYTHING ALWAYS GOES UP, EVERYDAY, RIGHT? Massive network build outsLots of Engineers and MBAs moved out to Silicon ValleyEvery startup built their own data-centers, networks, applications, etc.IPOs were happening every weekTelecom vendors vs. Internet/Networking vendorsStock prices going up $1-2 per dayLESSONS LEARNED:Infrastructure has to match the ambitionsBusiness models always come back to revenues and profitabilityEach wave can create the new big winners (and losers)Understand Manias vs. Fundamentals (where in the wave are we?)Stupid money eventually finds a bottomFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Jeff Huber (@jeffreyhuber, Founder/CEO @trychroma) talks vector databases, data integration, RAG, Embedded models, and AI integration.SHOW: 771CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Chroma HomepageChroma Reaches Major MilestoneChroma GitHubTopic 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 runningFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 770CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:OpenAI’s former top safety researcher says there’s a ’10 to 20% chance’ that the tech will take over with many or most ‘humans dead’The Dawn of the AI Era 2022-2023 (Acquired Podcast)An AI Capitalist PrimerTechno-Optimist Manifesto (a16z)The AI Bill of Materials (Redmonk)US Gov’t Executive Offer on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI (Oct 2023)Regulating AI by Executive Order (Steven Sinofsky)The Philanthropy of Silicon Valley“The Trolley Problem”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 destructionWHAT ARE THE OPEN, REGULATIVE AND STRUCTURAL GUARDRAILS OF AIWhat is good or bad with AI?Should societal concerns be considered? By whom?Should environmental concerns be considered? By whom?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. SHOW: 769CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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-shirtSHOW NOTES:AtomicJar homepageTestcontainers CloudTestcontainers.com LinkTestcontainers on Twitter/XTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create AtomicJarTopic 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, etcTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 768CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itSHOW 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 767CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Panoptica (homepage)Outshift by Cisco (Emerging Technologies)Panoptica - Open Clarity (open source projects)Tim Miller (LinkedIn)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 766CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTINGCommutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less importantVC 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 HorizonCloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the MonthBring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionalityBring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & BrianBetter balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do TodayDo you want us to do Video?Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 765CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce 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.appCode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20SHOW NOTES:Acorn Labs (homepage)Meet Acorn - A Cloud Platform for EveryoneTopic 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 AWSTopic 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’tTopic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 764CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendReduce 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.appDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Docker at 10 - Three Things we got Right, Three Things we got Wrong (TNS)Lessons Learned from Docker (Eps.505 - 2021)Lessons Learned from OpenShift (Eps. 489 - 2021)If Kubernetes is Boring, what’s next? (Eps.509 - 2021)IT’S HARD TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREESDocker 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 DevelopersWHAT HAS THE INDUSTRY LEARNED FROM THE DOCKER DAYS?Customers and communities are very hesitant to adopt another single-vendor offeringCould 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 oneOpen source can’t be the driving force of a business. It’s not a charity. If somebody offers you $3B, maybe consider taking it….FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Joe Curley (VP/GM Software & Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (@arungupta, VP/GM Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosystems.SHOW: 763CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce 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.app20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20SHOW NOTES:Intel Open EcosystemsLike Water for Fish: Intel’s Elemental Support for DevelopersAnnouncing the Unified Acceleration (UXL) FoundationOur kid’s graduating from college!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 developersTopic 3 - How does Open Source Software fit into Intel’s broader software strategyTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 762CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "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.appDatadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 spendSHOW NOTES:The Software Paradox (Stephen O’Grady - Redmonk) GitHub CoPilot hits $100M ARRUnity CEO steps down after pricing changesFree or Free is Often Complicated (Eps.738)The Future of Software? (Eps.740)Cloud and Software Economics (Eps.744)Will LLMs replace OSS software licenses?  (Joseph Jacks)ARE THERE ANY VALID SOFTWARE BUSINESS MODELS LEFT?Software business models keep running into road blocksVC funding is slowing down, and interest rates are risingCan 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 usersOSS is getting less fundingGaming is tied to engines and app storesWill AI open up new business models? New licensing models?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 761CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.Free Pass (auto-applied until they are gone!)Once the free pass have been claimed, use this link for 20% off!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.appCode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Sliide HomepageDoIT HomepageTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 760CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:HOW TO MANAGE THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEARThe 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 REVIEWHR 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 itPromotions 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Mike Long (CEO @_kosli) talks about the challenges of enabling Governance and Compliance into DevOps teams and processesSHOW: 759CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.Free Pass (auto-applied until they are gone!)Once the free pass have been claimed, use this link for 20% off!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:Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Kosli (homepage)Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)DevOps Automated Governance (Reference Architecture)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 toFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 758CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:I BROKE INTO THE INDUSTRY THROUGH A TECHNOLOGY TRACK, BUT I BROUGHT MORE TO THE TABLELots 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 JOYGain 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 757CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce 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.appSHOW NOTES:Microsoft hiring to build small reactors near data centersThe economic case for Generative AI (a16z)AWS invests (up to) $4B in AnthropicNVIDIA DGX CloudNVIDIA’s new computing model (Acquired podcast)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.)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 756CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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.AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageSHOW NOTES:AI’s $200B Question (Sequoia)5 years and $15B later, a fiber venture fails (Global Crossing)Dot com bubbleThe history of Switch Data CentersInterest rates over the last 30 yearsThe Cost of Cloud, A Trillion Dollar Paradox (a16z)VCs vs the Cloud (Eps.656)BACK IN THE DOT COM DAYS, WE ASSUMED THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE INTERNETLet's remember how we transitioned from the late 1990s to the early 2000sVCs used to have a $50M "hardware tax" on investmentsCloud and Low Interest Rates changed everythingNew Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business ModelsNOW WE ASSUME THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE AI (and GPUs)Interest rates have come back up to 2001 levelsVCs are back to paying the "hardware tax", and aren't happyNew Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business ModelsLet's see if history repeats itself.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 755CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.appFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:SnorkelAI (homepage)SnorkelAI on The Cloudcast #523Topic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

As OSS projects continue to look for ways to balance community, sustainability and profitability, let’s explore some alternative considerations for companies and communities. SHOW: 754CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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. AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Troubles with Open Source Gig Economy (Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF)Open Source Needs Maintainers, How Do They Get Paid? (TNS)A New Way to Think about Open Source Sustainability (InfoWorld)OPEN SOURCE HAS BECOME CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUSINESSESDocker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Java are all mission-critical to businesses. Cloud providers have disrupted the previous OSS models - operationalize vs. contributionsHow 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 ActionEstablish some timelines around various types of projectsPatents have a timeline to explore - can there be OSS licenses that have timelinesGovernment tax credits for paying OSS contributorsShould governance foundations create forks at established times?Should groups like CNCF be more active in recruiting forks after a period of time?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Matt Spitz (@mattspitz, Head of Engineering at @TrustVanta) talks about the challenges of developer security and compliance. SHOW: 753CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce 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.appSHOW NOTES:Vanta (homepage)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 752CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Fair Use doctrine The legal issues presented by generative AI (MIT)Generative AI in Healthcare and Liability RisksGenerative AI and Intellectual Property (Benedict Evans)Microsoft claims it'll pay if you get sued for IP infringements for using CoPilotShow educators would block AI usage for legal reasons (Matt Brown)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 transformationsThe 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 CORRUPTIONWhat 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 751CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.appFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Pulumi (homepage)Pulumi Insights (LLM - Generative AI)New Features (NewStack article)The Cloudcast #388, The Cloudcast #657Sept 14th WebinarSept 19th WebinarTopic 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 750CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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.AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageSHOW NOTES:Amazon tells employees to come back to the officeZoom is making staff return to the officeSalesforce offers employees $10/day to return to the officeGO 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 749CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendReduce 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.appSHOW NOTES:OctoML (homepage)OctoML makes it easier to put AI/ML models into productionOctoML launches OctoAITopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the clouFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 748CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEAWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageSHOW NOTES:An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman on the AI Hype Cycle (Stratechery)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 modelsMany 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Yaniv Ben Hemo (@yanivbh1, Founder/CEO at @memphis_Dev) talks about Memphis Cloud, an alternative architecture to delivering streaming data for applications.  SHOW: 747CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.appCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendAWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageSHOW NOTES:Memphis.dev (homepage)Getting Started with Memphis (docs page)Apache Kafka vs. MemphisMemphis on GitHubTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Memphis.DevTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 746CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEAWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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:3 Steps into a 10k race (Episode 428 on Software Defined Talk)There’s no AI without the cloud (AWS CEO Adam Selipsky) - Decoder podcastWhat comes after Zoom? (Benedict Evans)Crossing the Chasm  - Geoffrey MooreLooking at Cloud hyperscaler CAPEX spending in Q2 2023 (Charles Fitzgerald)Amazon has over half of all ARM servers (The Register)IF ONLY 10-15% OF APPS ARE IN THE CLOUD, HAVE WE CROSSED THE CHASM?AWS is $85B/yr business, after 17 yearsAWS claims that 10-15% of IT is in the cloudAWS has attracted startups, and mostly competes against legacy IT companiesAWS MOATS AND WHAT MIGHT COME NEXT?Amazon/AWS has always made large CAPEX investmentsAWS claims to have the largest farm of GPUs, and ARM serversOpen source projects are moving to licensing that reduces competition from AWSAWS growth rate has been slowing since Q4 2021Innovation? 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 maturityAWS doesn’t have a large set of “owned/branded” applicationsWhat does a future AWS look like that is mostly infrastructure? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitteFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 745CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce 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.appSHOW NOTES:Tecton (homepage)State of Applied Machine Learning 2023 ReportHello Fresh adopts Tecton - Good article on features and feature storesWhat is real-time machine learning?Feature Platform vs. Feature StoreTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgroundTopic 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 measurFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 744CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 spendSHOW NOTES:Hashicorp adopts Business Source LicenseNew Relic to be acquiredDatadog Consumption TrendsCloud Giants Q2 TrendsHugging Face adds new licensingThe open source licensing war is overBEING A SOFTWARE COMPANY - JUST BUILD A MOATAre we sure every company wants to become a software company?Lots of software licensing changes in the newsMaking money as a software business, at scale, is difficultPEOPLE DON’T LIKE MOATS AROUND THEIR SOFTWAREOpen source is good for collaborationOpen source could be good for marketingSoftware margins attract VCsOpen source mostly hates software marginsWhat happens to all the software companies funded by VCs over the last 3 yrs?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 moreSHOW: 743CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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.appFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Noname Security (homepage)Moveit attack blogNoname academy - Learn about API securityTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 742CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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:The Combination Pizza Hut and Taco BellTaco Town2023 ACC PreviewWHEN EVERYTHING IS A PLATFORM, FOR PLATFORM ENGINEERING TEAMSIs 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 6FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 741CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce 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.appSHOW NOTES:2022 Look Ahead to SuperClouds (Cloudcast Eps.586)SuperCloud 3 (event)SuperCloud 2 (event)The Rise of SuperCloud (2021)theCUBE (homepage)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 740CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "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.appSHOW NOTES:Are Software Companies Bad Business? - Clouded Judgment Aggregation Theory - StratecherySOME VCs ARE QUESTIONING IF SOFTWARE IS A GOOD BUSINESSVCs 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 739CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesEquinix 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.Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Run:ai - Build Your Next Large Model (homepage)Ronen Dar, Run:AI's CTO, on managing computation resources in ML pipelinesTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 738CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesEquinix 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.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Meta’s LLAMA-2 is not Open Source (OSI opinion)LLAMA-2 doesn’t fit the definition of open source (Twitter)Are Software Companies Bad Businesses? (Clouded Judgment)John Rockefeller Jr. and Grand Teton National ParkGrand Tetons National Park (Wyoming, USA)History of Standard Oil, Trusts and MonopoliesTHE TECH WORLD HAS A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH FREEThis past week I didn’t think about tech very oftenBut 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 737CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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.Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesSHOW NOTES:Cloud-native Service for Apache Kafka (Confluent) Apache Kafka - Open Source Event Streaming PlatformKora: The Cloud-Native Engine for Apache KafkaKora Engine - 10x Better than Apache KafkaTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 736CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEGCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesEquinix 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:A few charts about Q2 VC funding (Josh Wolfe)“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 betterEXPECTATIONS OF HIGHER QUALITY ARE GOING TO RISE SIGNIFICANTLYThe unicorn boom of 2020-2022 will face a reckoning by the end of 2023 or mid-2024VC funding is getting harder to obtain Higher interest rates are going to create higher (internal) hurdle rates within companiesSocial media channels are fragmentingWorking collaboratively is getting more difficult because of both WFH fragmentation and generational fragmentationCollaboration will be needed to teach what is expected and acceptableAI is going to create a new level of “commodity” of tasks and product capabilitiesCustomers are going to have new pricing power as they watch vendor sales slow downFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Jonathan Morin (Product Lead @datadoghq) & Jason Manson-Hing (Product Manager) talk about emerging trends in Database monitoring and observability. SHOW: 735CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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.GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesEquinix 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:Troubleshoot blocking queries with Datadog DBMDatadog DBMAlwaysOn availability groups with Datadog DBMAlso, recently, Datadog announced a feature availability for DBM, the ability to create monitors and alerts on data surfaced from Datadog DBM. Here's a doc written by the engineers of Datadog on the feature announcement. Try Datadog Database Monitoring with a free trial to begin tracking and analyzing query metrics from your database fleet.  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 bFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 734CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesEquinix 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.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Meta launches Twitter-clone called “Threads”IT’S GETTING OBVIOUS THAT TWITTER IS STRUGGLING AND YOU’D LIKE SOMETHING BETTERIt’s an important tool, but it’s not keeping up with the needs of the modern worldThe alternatives all seems to have more questions than answersBut the pain is enough to consider modernization optionsBUT 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 733CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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. GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES: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 2023Topic 7 - Any early predictions about the 2nd half of 2023? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 732CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Kubernetes the Hard Way KubeCon 2023 AMA - From Community to CustomersTHE WORLD IS FULL OF SMART PEOPLE - BUT NOT ALL SMART IDEAS GET COMMUNICATEDLots of people in the DevRel world want(ed) to be like Kelsey HightowerHe 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 demonstratedHe believed that community was bigger (and more important) than companyHe seemed to believe in the rule of “2 vs 1” - listen more than talkHe didn’t take himself too seriouslyHe connected with crowds of people, and individual peopleHe highlighted the good more often than he criticized the badHe was always demonstrating the art of the possibleFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 731CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Snowflake (homepage)Snowflake Summit 2023Snowflake SnowparkNVIDIA NeMo Framework (build customized generative AI models)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 companyTopic 4 - Evolution of data cloud platforms and emerging pattern of “bringing apps to the data” - the why and the howTopic 5 - Generative AI / LLMs for enterprise - peeling back the hype, enterprise considerations, tech opportunities.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 730CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:“The Man in the Arena” - Theordore Roosevelt, 1910 (speech)Perspective on Competition in Tech - Cloudcast #632 SOME PASSIONS GET INSIDE YOU AT A YOUNG AGEWhen I was a young kid, I loved the College World Series. SOMETIMES YOU WIN, SOMETIMES YOU LOSE, SOMETIMES YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEWMy 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 729CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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.Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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:System Initiative (homepage)System Initiative (demo)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 728CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Speed vs Security - Protecting CloudNative EnvironmentsCloud-native Security and Compliance (VMware Tanzu Talk)THANK YOU TO ALL THE DADS OUT THERE ON FATHER’S DAYHappy Father’s Day!WHAT’S THE RIGHT ANSWER TO DEVELOPERS AND SECURITY?Every IT survey places Security in the Top 3 priorities, year after yearWho is actually able to measure the value of good vs bad security?The independent IT group called Security is frequently dislikedDevSecOps, Shift-Left and Secure Supply Chain has been invented to fix thisDevelopers generally don’t want to think about security, because it impacts their productivity and measured KPIsIs 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Randall Degges (@rdegges, Head DevRel & Community @snyksec) talks about best practices of how to integrate security into application development environments.  SHOW: 727CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Snyk homepageSnyk Open SourceTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

'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'SHOW: 726CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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. Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:VCs comment on how 80% of software is all the same (WSJ)218 Booths at Kubecon AnalyzedTHE MARKET USUALLY ONLY SUPPORTS THREE OPTIONSWalking around KubeCon,nearly every segment had 6-10 companies offering solutionsMarkets 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 SOFTWAREOpen source typically highlights the creator, largest contributor to a projectBeyond that, open source is “integration” companies, or “lifecycle” companiesLarge companies (or platforms) can buy up the “feature” companies to fill in their gapsCompanies 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 PEThe unsuccessful middle (great tech, bad execution) may get picked off by large vendorsThe unsuccessful middle (average tech, bad execution) will go underFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 725CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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:Cloudian websiteTopic 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 724CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE​​CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:How to Calculate ROI to Justify a Project (HBR)Guide to Calculating ROIInvesting in New Business Tech: How to Calculate ROI WHY ARE MANAGERS ALWAYS ASKING FOR THE ROI?Businesses, and IT groups, always have more projects than they have budgetHow 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, TimeTech 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 RateGood ROI vs. Bad ROI?  Basics: Build a “Before and After” ModelStuff 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 724CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 spendSHOW NOTES:Open Source on AzureArrested DevOps PodcastDevOps DaysWeb Assembly, Docker, Containerd, and Kubernetes (YouTube)Microsoft Open SourceRevive WG-LTS · Issue #7259 · kubernetes/community · GitHubKubernetes 1.23: Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 Networking Reaches GA  Develop serverless WebAssembly apps with Spin | Fermyon • Experience the next wave of cloud computing. GitHub - jpetazzo/container.training: Slides and code samples for training, tutorials, and workshops about Docker, containers, and Kubernetes.xkcd: Dependency 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the clFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 722CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Why Digital Business needs BiModal IT (Gartner 2015)Slack getting an AI ChatbotNVIDIA shares spike on demand for AI chipsAI announcements from Microsoft Build 2023Windows and the AI Platform ShiftGoogle I/O and the coming AI BattlesRed Hat extends OpenShift for the Generative AI eraStackOverflow usage is down since ChatGPT launchEVERY VENDOR NOW HAS A PATH TO AI-INTEGRATED CAPABILITIESWhen cloud emerged in 2010s, IT projects became Bi-Modal (technology & people)Projects become classified as fast vs slow, old vs newGroups  become classified as fast vs slow, old vs newWILL AI-ENABLED CAPABILITIES CHANGE HOW AI PROJECTS ARE MEASURED?Expect AI to be asked about for every IT project, by leadershipExpect to see AI being pushed into every IT projectEvery vendor is going to highlight the AI integrations in their productsStart learning how the economics change if IT is potentially part of a projectExpect people-reduction to be a real consideration with AI projectsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 721CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:PlatformCon homepagePlatformEngineering homepageTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 720CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Good article from Adrian Cockroft on the Prime Video take on Serverless vs. MonolithsAWS grows 16% as margins narrowHere Comes the Anti-Cloud Crowd (The Cloudcast Feb 2023)THE CLOUD-NATIVE MOVEMENT WAS BUILD ON A FEW PRINCIPLESPublic Cloud would be the dominant place to run appsPublic Cloud would be cheaper to build/operate than DIY or on-premisesJust use open source softwareBuild new applications with microservicesMulti-cloud is not a real thing anyone will doIT’S VERY RARE THAT ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TECHNOLOGYCNCF / KubeConEU just had 10,000 people in attendanceWe’re seeing backlash against some of the modern technologies as “one-size fits-all”.We’re seeing cloud-cost-optimization becoming a focus areaWe saw layoffs, and we continue to see companies not invest in internal skillsOne story doesn’t make a trends (but it is easy to repeat)From lulls and economic downturns have historically come great technology advancesCompanies value experience and expertiseFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 719CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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:DoIT (homepage)DoIT Flexsave (dynamic cost management)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?   SHOW: 718CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Rise of AI also Raises Demand for Creative SkillsAn Early Look at the Impact on the Labor Market for LLMsCreativity is in more demand than ever DON’T FORGET TO CALL YOUR MOTHER, OR SUPPORT YOUR MOTHERHow 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 EXPERIENCEDKnowing 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Jason Edelman (@jedelman8, Founder/CTO @networktocode) talks about the challenges of managing complex networks in a world of DevOps and automation.SHOW: 717CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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 Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Network to Code (homepage)Nautobot (homepage)The Cloudcast Eps.114 - Evolving to SDN DevOpsThe Cloudcast Eps.150 - Evolving from Plumbers to CodersTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?  SHOW: 716CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Upland Software: Modern, secure fax solutions for businesses of all sizes.Digital transformation that safeguards sensitive information. Upland Software’s got the goods.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Discussing AI in the Cloud-native Ecosystem (theCUBE at KubeConEU 2023)What’s New - OPAL Co-Pilot Powered by GPT (from Observ)Honeycomb Query Assistant (Honeycomb)Using ChatGPT to document your software project (Aista)Tech Assistant for Writing Code (StarCoder)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 documentationConfiguration generationConfiguration Best-Practices - Interactions with Docs | Consulting SystemsInteractive Support - Bots, ChatOps, etcAIOps - Self-correcting, self-adjusting systemsChaos EngineeringLog Interpretation and RemediationWriting Code | Pair Programming  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 715CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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-shirtSHOW NOTES:Start Contributing to Open Source Projects (blog)Finding Your Way Into Cloud Native (blog)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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 balanceSHOW: 714CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 spendSHOW NOTES:Buchatech.com (Steve’s site)Steve on PluralsightTopic 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.)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

KubeConEU 2023 in Amsterdam had over 10,000 attendees. What were the highlights and new trends happening in the CNCF ecosystem? SHOW: 713CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEUpland Software: Modern, secure fax solutions for businesses of all sizes.Digital transformation that safeguards sensitive information. Upland Software’s got the goods.SHOW NOTES:Conference sessions, and keynotes are available on-demand to in-person and virtual registrants in the event platform until 5 May 2023. They will also be available publicly on the CNCF YouTube channel by 8 May. CNCF-hosted co-located events will be available on the CNCF YouTube channel within 72 hours post-event.CNCF Announcements (from vendors)CNCF Press conference recordingWhat’s Next in Cloud Native roundtable Platform Engineering roundtableCNCF Envoy Documentary10,000 ATTENDEES, 58% OF THEM ARE NEW TO CNCFThank 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 LinkerdLarge 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 conFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Shawn Freligh (SVP/GM, Content Lifecycle Automation @UplandSoftware) talks about cloud delivery, AI and Security in managing document workflows and fax integrations.  SHOW: 712CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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-shirtSHOW NOTES:Upland Software - Enterprise Software for Getting Things DoneInterfax - Cloud based FaxUpland Filebound named 2022 Gold Medalist in ECM Data Quadrant Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Shawn. Tell us a little bit about your backgroundTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 711CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Upland Software: Modern, secure fax solutions for businesses of all sizes.Digital transformation that safeguards sensitive information. Upland Software’s got the goods.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:How Incumbents Thrive and Survive (HBR) - Jullian BirkinshawCHANGE 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 MUCHDisruption is about more than just newer/better technologyExisting brand relationships, trust, physical locations, supply-chains, partner-networks all play a key role for incumbentsEveryone 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 awayFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 710CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Edgebit (homepage)Edgebit (YC Launch)Introducing the Real-time SBOMUnderstanding VDR and VEXOpen VEX supercharges SBOM (Cloud Native Podcast)SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange)SBOM Sharing Lifecycle ReportTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 709CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEUpland Software: Modern, secure fax solutions for businesses of all sizes.Digital transformation that safeguards sensitive information. Upland Software’s got the goods.SHOW NOTES:AI’s iPhone Moment20 AI Tools to Future-Proof YourselfML Developer ExperienceAI and Enterprise DataGrowth of AI Through a Cloud Lens8 AI Apps built using ChatGPT (and writing no code)Takeaways from The Future of AI in Cerebral ValleyVoice-generation using AI2023 State of AI in ChartsPause Giant AI Experiments: An Open LetterNEW TECHNOLOGY TRENDS USUALLY COME OUT OF DOWNTURNSSaaS came out of the Internet bubble burstCloud came out of the Housing bubble burstAI isn’t new, but usable AI is coming out of COVIDHOW TO MAKE SENSE OF NEW +  CHAOS + UNCERTAINTYThere’s lots of ways to dive in - learn the basics, build some intro applications, etc.Follow the money, and find the fraudsFigure out the ecosystem and how to be involvedFigure out what might be sustainable vs. just being a wrapperDon’t get overwhelmed by everything at once. Pick something that interests you, or applies to your job (or a side hustle)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. productSHOW: 708CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW 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 spendDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Clouded Judgment SubstackBrandon’s SDT PodcastTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 707CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Upland Software: Modern, secure fax solutions for businesses of all sizes.Digital transformation that safeguards sensitive information. Upland Software’s got the goods.Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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 SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:A Decade of DockerDocker No Longer Sunsetting the Free Team PlanMinio pulls Weka’s OSS license (and Weka responds)FREE AS IN BEER, FREE AS IN PUPPIES, FREE AS IN LUNCHVendored open source software is free, until it isn’tBE CAREFUL WHEN YOUR DEPENDENCIES ARE BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE’S COSTSIt’s hard to ask for money when something has been free forever. Vendors will screw this up now and into the futureVCs love free marketing, but don’t love on-going costs without returnsSet your expectations right about “free” software. It might change without notice.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Gordon Radlein (@maascamp, Engineering Director at @Datadoghq) talks about the evolution of Open Telemetry (OTel), Logging, Metrics and Observability.  SHOW: 706CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProMake Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableKubeConEU Virtual Event Registration Code: Please use the code KCEUVCCP, while supplies last.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:OpenTelemetry (OSS project)OpenTracing + OpenCensus = Open Telemetry (OTel)What is Open Telemetry?Open Telemetry Slack Channel Components of Open TelemetryOpenTelemetry in DatadogTrace Collection through Open TelemetryTopic 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-sFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

The managers vs. workers leverage pendulum is swinging back again. Will management continue investing in IT Skills, or hollow out the IT future? SHOW: 705CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Make Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableKubeConEU Virtual Event Registration Code: Please use the code KCEUVCCP, while supplies last.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Gartner’s Maverick Research group - Stop investing in IT SkillsStackOverflow’s survey of Emerging TechnologiesAmazon’s head of HR rejects employee petition to work from home“Does IT Matter?” (book, 2004, Nicholas Carr)Hollowing Out (definition)WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE GREAT RESIGNATION AND QUIET QUITTING?Economic changes put the leverage back into management’s handsEverything gets re-evaluated when budgets get tightenedManagers look to offload accountability to external sourcesHOW TO COMMUNICATE VALUE vs PRODUCTIVITY vs COST SAVINGSMany 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)FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 704CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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. Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProMake Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableKubeConEU Virtual Event Registration Code: Please use the code KCEUVCCP, while supplies last.SHOW NOTES:Backblaze (homepage)B2 Cloud Storage (1/5th the price of AWS S3)Backblaze Blog Questions for Gleb? 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 strFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 703CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendMake Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableKubeConEU Virtual Event Registration Code: Please use the code KCEUVCCP, while supplies last.SHOW NOTES:Microsoft brings AI-powered Co-pilot to its productivity suiteUS Gov’t looks to secure the cloud (by default)AWS’ hidden anti-competitive move is hidden in plain sightTHERE’S A LOT TO KEEP UP WITH RIGHT NOWAll 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 nowThe weather is getting better - springtime is nearMarchMadness - NCAA Basketball is happeningLEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICSMicrosoft 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 702CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProMake Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableGitOpsCon + CDCon Registration Code: PODCAST10 for 10% offDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:CNCF Backstage ProjectRoadie.io - Backstage as a SaaSCNCF On-Demand Webinar: Driving Adoption of your Backstage IDPTopic 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 FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 701CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSolve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProMake Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableGitOpsCon + CDCon Registration Code: PODCAST10 for 10% offSHOW NOTES:FDIC Creates a Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara to Protect Insured Depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California (March 10)FDIC Update on SVB Bank and Access to Deposits (March 12)Joint Statement by Department of Treasury, Federal Reserve and FDIC (March 12)HOW CAN A BANK WITH SO MUCH MONEY SHUT DOWN?Banks never hold all the money that they have on the books as depositsBanks manage a portfolio of investmentsBanks try and manage the portfolio within certain ratiosBanks have regulationsLEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICSBasics Part I - Systems built on Trust, Regulations to Enforce ActionsBasics Part II - What is SVB?, Deposits vs. Investments, Leverage, Interest RatesHigher interest rates increases the risk of existing investmentsValuations vs. Valuations on PaperInsurance, Diversified PortfolioCloud Analogies - Single vs. Multi-Cloud, Shared Resources Risks, Profitability of a Service, Best Practices vs. Practicality, Rising Costs (or Shortages) FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

James Governor (@monkchips, Co-Founder @Redmonk) talks about Developer experience in 2023. Topics include trends, platforms, languages and culture.SHOW: 700CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Make Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableGitOpsCon + CDCon Registration Code: PODCAST10 for 10% offDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProSHOW NOTES:Redmonk - The developer focused analyst firm (homepage)Redmonk Programming Language RankingsMonktoberfest - Developer Conference (Portland, ME)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 yFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

It’s now been 3 years since the world was disrupted by COVID-19. How has the tech industry been impacted, changed, and altered? SHOW: 699CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Make Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableGitOpsCon + CDCon Registration Code: PODCAST10 for 10% offCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Eps.499 - Did COVID change tech?Eps.552 - Developing New Habits in COVIDRemote Work Should be (Mostly) Asynchronous (HBR)GOOD PREDICTIONS, BAD PREDICTIONS, AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIESHow long the pandemic would lastHow much this would accelerate cloud adoptionHow efficient remote work would make companiesThe future of in-person events vs. virtual eventsGOOD HABITS, BAD HABITS, AND LESSONS LEARNEDToo 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 peopleSaaS services did not figure out how to be more profitable, and have laid off peopleRemove work hasn’t become more efficient, and it’s not creating new management / teamwork / collaboration challengesWe’ve created very unusual and awkward human interactions, and tried to normalize themA new round of layoffs and economic uncertainty will end up creating another new set of behaviors - still TBD.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Zachary Smith (@zsmithnyc, Head of Edge Infrastructure @Equinix) talks about Edge Computing, the evolution of CoLocation, Cloud Interconnects and Emerging Trends.SHOW: 698CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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-shirtCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Equinix (homepage)Deploy in Minutes, not MonthsFuture First SustainabilityTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 697CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSection 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:ChatGPT-style search will cost 10x more for Google, MicrosoftStratechery on Apple ATTApple App Tracking TransparencyApple ATT change in IOS will have $10B impact on Facebook (Spotify)Is streaming really cheaper than the cable bundle?Google eliminates free Gmail accountsTwitter will start charging for SMS 2FABMW charging monthly for heated seatsTHE EVOLUTION OF HOW THE INTERNET WAS PAID FOROriginal Internet - Funded by the US Gov’t (ARPANET)Walled Gardens - AOL, CompuserveThe Rise of Web Browsers, Search Engines and the Open InternetThe Rise of Consumer Broadband and Over-the-Top ServicesAdvertising as the dominant business model, and building moatsTHE DISRUPTION OF THE AD-CENTRIC INTERNET AND ITS IMPACTSGoogle moats for ads/search - Maps, Gmail, Android, Weather, Flights, Stocks, etc.Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple have build huge ad businessesApple is disrupting mobile adverFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 SecuritySHOW: 696CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:How to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF)Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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.Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProSHOW NOTES:Sysdig (homepage)Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report 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 trustWhere can we save time and reduce riskTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Public cloud usage. Cloud-native application development. Developer relations. In a down economy, everything gets questioned. Expect a lot of naysayers and doubters. SHOW: 695CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSection 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!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.SHOW NOTES:Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction (and this thread)Cloud players sound a cautious tone in 2023Is DevRel as an idea being abandoned?THE CURVE IS BENDING DOWN, SO QUESTION EVERYTHINGThe public cloud is no longer economically viableDistributed systems are not practicalKubernetes is now too difficult to useDeveloper relations (DevRel) is no longer needed by vendorsTHE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EARLY ADOPTERS AND MAINSTREAMEarly adopters typically have a specific problem they are trying to solveNear-term and long-term goals don’t always alignThe ROI of technology doesn’t always happen immediatelyResume-driven-development is a real thing in good timesEconomic downturns shine a light on practicality and profitabilityGreed is a factor in good times and bad timesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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 HudiSHOW: 694CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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. Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProHow to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF)SHOW NOTES:Onehouse (homepage)Onehouse raises $25M Series A fundingApache Hudi (homepage)Delta Lake (homepage)Apache Iceberg (homepage)​​Apache Hudi vs Delta Lake vs Apache Iceberg - Lakehouse Feature ComparisonTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 693CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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!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.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:AWS earnings - $21.4B, up 20% (down from 27% QoQ)Microsoft Azure earnings - $21.5B, up 31% (down from 35% QoQ)Google Cloud earnings - $7.32B, up 32% (down from 38% QoQ)Google claims that Azure is losing moneyCloud leaders AWS, Azure, Google show the market is cooling down2022 CAPEX spend by the cloud providersCloud players being cautious in 2023THE GROWTH OF CLOUD PROVIDERS IS BEGINNING TO SLOW DOWNThe cloud providers are still growing at a high rateBut the rate of grow, and CAPEX investment is slowing downIs this the new normal?WHAT’S CAUSING THE SLOW DOWN?Increased interest rates, so slower overall spending across techCloud cost optimization tools and company-wide programsEnterprise companies managing to post-COVID “new normals”SaaS companies cutting back, especially VC-funded companiesLots 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 opportunFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 694CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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 ProHow to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF)Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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-shirtSHOW NOTES:Voltron Data (homepage)Apache Arrow (homepage)CRN 10 Hottest Big Data Startups of 2022 (CRN)Voltron grabs 110M Series A (TechCrunch)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 FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

The tech industry is going through an employment level downturn at the moment, so what should you do? What shouldn’t you do? SHOW: 691CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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.Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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:An Analysis of Recent Layoffs2023 Tech Layoff TrackerFrom diversity and inclusion to adversity and expulsionThe five stages of griefLAYOFFS ARE NEVER FUN, AND THEY HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTSHiring tends to happen in waves, and layoffs happen in blastsSometimes layoffs happen for solid reasons, and sometimes for emotional reasonsHOW TO NAVIGATE A LAYOFF, OR BEING AROUND AFTER A LAYOFFEventually, everybody gets fired - whether they should or notTry not to make it too emotional, which is initially difficultCompanies never really take ownership, but they can be compassionateAllow yourself to go through the grieving processDecide if you still want to stay in the tech industryStay active in life - get up, find a routine, stay healthy, make a plan each dayBegin looking while you have financial buffersFind something creative - build thingsStay active with your skills - volunteer, side projects, etc.Stay active with your networksAt some point, be realistic - family needs, sunk costs, titles, etc.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 690CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:How to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF)CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:CNCF HomepageCNCF End-User Technology RadarCNCF Annual Report 2022CNCF LandscapeCNCF Project Velocity for 2022Predictions for 2023 (LinkedIn)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 689CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSolve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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:Presenting Service Mesh and Cloud-native to Cloud Field DayDad’s trying to understand a Tesla without reading the manualSteve Jobs introduces the iPhone in 2007LETS CONNECT THE DOTS BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIESIntroducing Cloud-native technologies to non Cloud-native peopleTrying to figure out a Tesla Model 3 from the rental agency without the manualHOW TO EXPLAIN NEW THINGS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT EXPERIENCEWhat 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Matt Ray (@mattray, Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) talks about the evolution of FinOps, alignment between Eng and Finance, and FinOps best practices. SHOW: 688CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.Eaton HomepageEaton 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:FinOps FoundationOpenCost (open source project)5 Strategies to Control Cloud CostsTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 687CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave 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!CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience (Redmonk) GREAT SLIDES AND DEMOS DON’T ALWAYS WORK IN THE REAL WORLDPlatforms vs. Services. Centers of Excellence vs. Centralized Services vs. Distributed ServicesWho makes the initial investment? Incremental investments? Who owns maintenance? Business Goals? Technical Goals? THINGS THAT WORK AND THINGS THAT OFTEN BREAKWhat 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 686CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Eaton HomepageEaton 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 Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Crane VC homepageAneel’s 2022 Look Ahead ShowHow Interest Rates Impact Cloud ValuationsGoogle Issues a “Code Red” on OpenAI threats"Sea Change"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 yourselfTopic 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’sTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 685CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsSection 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:EMC acquires VMware for $625M (2004)VMware’s 1st IPO (2007)History of VMware acquisitionsDiane Greene replaced by Paul Maritz as CEO (2008)VMware revenue history (2005-2022)VMware acquires Nicira (2012)Pat Gelsinger named CEO (2012)VMware launches VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (2013)VMware launches vSAN hyper converged (2013)VMware acquires Airwatch (2014)VMware on AWS cloud service announced at AWS re:Invent (2016) HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWNVMware 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 SUBTRACTIONSWhat 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 ofFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, host @twimlai podcast) talks about the evolution of AI & ML in 2023, and the possibilities of ChatGPT.SHOW: 684CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OTHER NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 HomepageEaton 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:This Week in AI & ML (podcast, homepage)Sam talks to ChatGPT to create a podcast(2017) - Sam on Eps.321(2019) - Sam on Eps.382(2020) - Sam on Eps.437Topic 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, whFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

The evolution of Microsoft under Satya Nadella provides a blueprint for how to transition companies from one focus to another.  SHOW: 683CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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 SavingsSHOW NOTES:Bill Gates write about “Internet Tidal Wave” (1995)Microsoft Revenues (since 2000)How Microsoft Shifted from Software to the Cloud (2014)Microsoft Revenue Breakdown by Products (2022)CAPEX spending by the leading cloud vendors (2001-2021)Microsoft acquisitions History of Microsoft Azure How the Windows team transitioned to cross-platform HOW MICROSOFT EVOLVED FROM A CLOSED SW COMPANY TO CLOUD COMPANY2001: $31B, 2007: $62B, 2014: $88B, 2019: $153B, 2022: $198B90+ acquisitions since 2014Office 365, Gaming (XBox), GitHub, LinkedInHOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS2001: XBox, Office 3652008: Azure2017: Microsoft Teams2018: GitHubBe patient: Many of Microsoft’s investments required 10+ years to growBuy new capabilities: AcquisitionsBreak 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+HardwareEmbrace new business models: SaaS services, pay-as-you-go Cloud servicesInvest for the Future: Microsoft has caught up to Google in CAPEX spendingFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle Founder & CEO @rackngo) talks about how Platform Engineering has evolved from DevOps and SRE and how it aligns to Cloud Platforms. SHOW: 682CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Eaton HomepageEaton 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 MonitoringGet 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:RackN websiteWhat is Platform Engineering? - GartnerPlatform Engineering: What is it and Who Does it? - NewstackSpotify BackstageTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

You asked, we answered. A year-end mailbag of the best of the questions we received from our community in 2022.SHOW: 681CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageEaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!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.comSHOW 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 680CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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 TeamsEaton HomepageEaton 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:HOW TO CREATE A PERSPECTIVEWhy did we create the Sunday Perspective shows?CAN YOU USE THE SUNDAY PERSPECTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR WORK DECISIONS?Understand things from different perspectivesUnderstand both the technologies and the economicsUnderstand how people will impact the decisionsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian discuss the 2022 Year in Review, highlighting the biggest trends, as well as making 2023 predictions. SHOW: 679CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwSHOW SPONSORS:Eaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!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.comAWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageSHOW NOTES:THE BASICS:The show grew nearly 20% YoY (2nd year in a row), with our first 2M listen year.The Cloudcast named to Top 20 Kubernetes resources of 2022The Cloudcast hosts named to “Who’s Who of Cloud (2022)” listThank you to all our sponsors throughout the year (Datadog, CloudZero, JumpCloud, Mergify, BMC, Teleport, NewRelic, StrongDM, Polyscale, LoadForge, NetApp, Revelo, Lightstep, Granulate, CDN77, Jetbrains, Eaton, Cloudfix)THE BIG NEWS AREAS:Tech layoffs in 2HCY22VMware got acquired by Broadcom (will be part of CA+others)The US made a big investment in CHIPSNVIDIA’s acquisition of ARM fell throughAWS - $60B>$85B (+28%), Azure - $35B>$50B (+42%), GCP - $15B>$27B (+38%)Microsoft is now 50/50 in Software and Cloud revenuesAWS re:Invent is different under Adam SelipskyBetween 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 money2023 PREDICTIONS: Our 2020 PredictionsOur 2021 PredictionsOur 2022 Predictions Aaron’s Predictions:We’ll see a Twitter clone founded by folks that leftAzure will become #1 public cloud (pulled from 2022 predictions)Docker will become a unicorn again and prove everyone wrong2023 will be the year of the down rounds:Worldwide: 450 unicorn and 24 decacornA unicorn will go underApple 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 pricesSerFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 678CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.Eaton HomepageEaton 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: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 TIMESHistory 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Bryan Thompson (VP  Product Management of @HPE_GreenLake Cloud Services) talks about managing private and hybrid cloud services and bringing the Cloud to data.SHOW: 677CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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.comAWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageEaton HomepageEaton 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:HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise–Take a test driveHPE GreenLake adds new capabilities for Hybrid Cloud (Dec.22)HPE Discover (2022)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Looking at the Battery Ventures “State of OpenCloud 2022” for trends that will impact 2023.SHOW: 676CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.Eaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:Battery Ventures “State of OpenCloud 2022”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 rewardedSoftware “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 levelsLots of highly “valued” private companies may become acquisition targets in 2023Most 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 675CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. Cloudfix HomepageEaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!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.comSHOW NOTES:2022 AWS re:Invent announcements (AWS Website)2022 AWS re:Invent announcements (Cloudcast notes)~130 new announcements (features, services, partner-related capabilities) FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 674CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Eaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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:AWS re:Invent Keynotes2022 AWS re:Invent announcementsWHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM AWS IN YEAR 2 OF ADAM SELIPSKY?AWS is the profit center of Amazon50-60,000 attendeesNo 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 reductionsGreat focus on “solutions” - 99% of the building blocks are in placeWHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM ATTENDEES AND PARTNERS/VENDORS?2300 breakout sessions (KubeCon has 200+)Less competition with technology partnersLots of cloud cost-management companiesVery healthy community supportConcern about AWS competing the channel partners - consultingDifficult to get a focus in the show - too many focus areasMore focus on dataFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastneFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Edo Liberty (@edoliberty, Founder/CEO @Pinecone) talks about vector databases and building applications that leverage data in new and unique ways. SHOW: 673CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsJetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organizationEnhance 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 Video85% 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:Pinecone - Fully Managed Vector Search (homepage)What is Vector Search? (InfoWorld)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

It’s that time of year when we step back and consider the important things for which we are thankful. SHOW: 672CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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 organizationEnhance 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:Alice’s Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie)Alice’s Restaurant (Wikipedia)BE THANKFUL ALL THE TIME, BUT BE THOUGHTFUL IN YOUR THANKFULNESSBe thankful for good healthBe thankful for friends and familyBe thankful for traditions that bring you joyBe thankful for the chance to learn, and to shareBe thankful for the opportunity to help othersBe thankful for people that challenge you, and offer opportunities to see the worldBE THANKFUL FOR SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU LAUGH, THINK and GET ALONGSometimes life is dumbSometimes justice is blindSometimes you need to be part of something biggerSometimes you need to get along with othersFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 671CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:Press Release: MongoDB Unveils Vision for a Developer Data Platform at MongoDB World 2022Forbes: MongoDB Extends Developer Data Platform For Modern ApplicationsTechCrunch: MongoDB puts a spotlight on its developer data platformTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Kin Lane (@kinlane, Founder API Evangelist  & Chief Evangelist @Postman) talks about getting started with APIs. We also cover API lifecycle & governance.SHOW: 670CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgProfiler from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60%CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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 organizationEnhance 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:API Evangelist websiteBreaking Changes PodcastPostman websiteTopic 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 focuFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Kayla Taylor (Sr. Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about taking control of cloud costs and managing costs along with observability and troubleshooting.SHOW: 669CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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.CDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits. SHOW NOTES:Gain visibility and control of your cloud spend with Datadog Cloud Cost ManagementDatadog introduces Cloud Cost ManagementTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 668CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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 organizationEnhance 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 optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Reduce Kubernetes costs by up to 60% SHOW NOTES:The Cloudcast on Mastodon: @thecloudcastnet@hackyderm.ioHow to Find Your Twitter Followers on MastodonTwitodon - Find Twitter Users you Follow IT’S CRAZY NOW, BUT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN SORT OF CRAZY….AND USEFULLots of apps tell you what you know, Twitter helps you find what you don’t knowTwitter can be real-time, or the beginning of deep-dive scrollingTwitter is the most difficult to understand, but the most valuableDEPENDENCE ON TWITTER IS MORE COMPLEX THAN A SINGLE CLOUDTwitter removes the barriers of journalists, we get news and opinions and insightsTwitter has always given us a way to do research into new things Twitter has helped us build friendships with people we’ve never metDid we make a mistake in being too reliant on Twitter? Were there other options?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Marko Anastasov (@markoa, Co-Founder Semaphore CI) talks about how to manage the evolution of monoliths to microservices using modern CI/CD.SHOW: 667CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsFujiFilm. 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.comCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits. SHOW NOTES:SemaphoreCI websiteSemaphore CI/CD ResourcesTransitioning from Monolith to Microservices (ebook)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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 666CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organizationEnhance 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 optimizationgProfiler from Granulate - Production profiling, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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:The Cloudcast Eps.665 - Reviewing KubeCon DetroitLessons Learned from OpenStack (Eps.489) WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF KUBECON / CLOUDNATIVECONKubeCon 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.SHOW: 665CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits. SHOW NOTES:CNCF Announcements - KubeConNA 2022 (Detroit)KubeCon Vendor ListTopic 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-usersGood: Well-organized, live interactionsBad: City choice, keynotes, Day1 & 2 pricing modelsIs 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 conferenceService Mesh, WASM (Web Assembly), Cost-Mgmt, various forms of SecurityStarting 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 664CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsFujiFilm. 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.comSHOW NOTES:The Dead End (Redmonk) OPEN SOURCE ISN'T THE SAME AS 20 YEARS AGOOpen 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 TOOThere's a difference between open source usage for infrastructure vs. app-devWho 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 663CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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.comGranulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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:Harness.ioNick on The Cube, KubeCon 20218 Deployment Patterns to transform CI/CD{unscripted} 2022 conferenceTopic 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 662CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:2022 Look Ahead to SuperCloud (Eps.586)SuperCloud 3.0 Definition (Wikibon)Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious VI: The Nightmare ContinuesThe emergence of Cloud 3.0 and independent vendor exclusion NAMING IS IMPORTANT, BUT SOMETIMES NEW CONCEPTS ARE HARD TO NAMEWhen 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 IMPORTANTMulti-Cloud is a real thing (for various reasons), but Multi-Cloud-App is an anomaly.Maybe it’s a SuperApp, instead of a SuperCloudClouds, Politics, InsuranceWhat 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, CDNsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Benjamin Wilms (@MrBWilms, co-founder/CEO of @Steadybit) talks about the importance of resilience for SREs, DevOps, and developers through chaos engineering platformsSHOW: 661CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 optimizationgProfiler from Granulate - Production profiling, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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: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?FEEDBACK?Email: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 660CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:WE GLAMORIZE INNOVATION BECAUSE ROI IS HARD TO MEASUREThere 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 EFFICIENTThink of things in terms of quarters, or six-months, or twelve-monthsWhere 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 659CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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 AnalyticsStart 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:90 Days of DevOpsTopic 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 658CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Google CEO demands higher employee productivityGoogle 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 FUNWe’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 EFFICIENTGoogle 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 ambitionsGoogle “Simplicity Sprints”Amazon “Amazon Software Builder Experience” (ASBX)20% more productive33% do repetitive workIs this good or bad for the concept of Platform EngineeringFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Founder/CEO of @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of cloud engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code.SHOW: 657CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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: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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 656CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.  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 WorkersVCs USED TO LOVE THE CLOUDIn 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 CREATEVCs are learning that bandwidth costs never come downVCs would like to get more of the profits, which are going to AWSNow VCs are putting their money behind other cloudsIs this a trend that will continue? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.SHOW: 655CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 Video85% 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:Chainguard (homepage)Sigstore - standard for signing, verifying and protecting softwareCISA 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 654CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.  SHOW NOTES:RIGHT NOW, THINGS SEEM PRETTY BORINGCrypto 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 REDESIGNEDCompanies 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.   SHOW: 653CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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 Video85% 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:Baseten (homepage)Intro to Baseten (video)Baseten get $20M in funding from GreylockTopic 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 652CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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: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 2023Amazon’s API MandateGartner Bi-Modal ITCloud 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 DEVOPSDevs don’t want to do OpsBlameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be commonHybrid 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.SHOW: 651CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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 Video85% 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:Granulate (homepage)gMaestro - Kubernetes Cost Optimization 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?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 650CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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:The Book of Reed Hastings, RevisitedThe New Cloud WarWE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIESWhen 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 649CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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 Video85% 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:Istio (homepage)Introducing Istio Ambient MeshIstio added to the CNCFIstioCon 2022 (videos)ServiceMeshConEU 2022 (videos)Istio in Action (book) by Christian PostaTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 648CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% 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:Labor DaySHOULD 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.SHOW: 647CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Vendia (homepage)Vendia raises $30M Round BVendia overview (60s video)Vendia technical overviewWhy blockchains, databases, and APIs don’t cut it on their ownTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 646CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Hurdle Rate 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends. SHOW: 645CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easySHOW NOTES:Datadog State of Serverless 2022Best practices by Datadog for monitoring AWS LambdaMonitoring AWS serverless applications with DatadogMonitoring Azure serverless applications with DatadogTopic 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 contFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Kenneth White (@kennwhite, Security Principal @MongoDB) talks about the causes of internal breaches, querying encrypted data vs encryption-at-rest, and database evolutions.SHOW: 644CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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:MongoDB Queryable EncryptionWired article with more backgroundMongoDB World presentation from June 2022Product page with FAQ & DocumentationPodcast interview with The New Stack from MDBW in JuneTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Maya Kaczorowski (@MayaKaczorowski, Product @Tailscale) talks about the new world of remote systems access, zero-config VPNs, and why everyone loves using Tailscale. SHOW: 643CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Tailscale (homepage)WireGuardHow NAT traversal works blog postHow Tailscale works blog postBSidesSF talk: WireGuard from the ground upTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 642CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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 TeamsStreamline 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:Software is no longer eating the world (article) 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 apartThe monopolies are disrupting the monopolies (Apple/ads), Web3 is going through a trough of disillusionmentMeta lost $10B, which aligns to what was their metaverse investment planSoftware ate business models, but there is a hardware resurgence comingPeople want a “what’s next”” technology trend, but there’s still a lot of Web2 to play out. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 641CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsStreamline 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.Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:Jordan Novet (on CNBC)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 640CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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.Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Niall Dalton (@0x01dea, Co-Founder @seaplane_io) talks about simplifying the deployment of complex application and improving Day 2 operations.SHOW: 639CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Seaplane.io (homepage)Seaplane gets $15M in funding from SequoiaIntroducing Seaplane (blog)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 638CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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.Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:What is DevRel?DevRel success tipsMarketing to Developers is Not Hard2022 Look Ahead - Developer Careers (Cloudcast Eps.582)WHY DID DEVREL HAPPEN?Software is eating the world - Marc Andreessen (2011)Every company is a software company - (2013)Developers are the New Kingmakers - Stephen O’Grady (2013)Kubernetes the Hard Way - Kelsey Hightower (2015)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Maxim Fateev (@mfateev, Co-Founder/CEO of @temporalio) talks about building modern applications, rethinking microservices, and orchestrating business logic. SHOW: 637CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.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 LightstepIncident Response t-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Temporal.io (homepage)Temporal (open source)Temporal’s “Reply” Conference - Aug 25-26 (Seattle)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Webb Brown (@webb_brown, Co-Founder/CEO @kubecost) talks about the evolution of Kubecost, and better management of Kubernetes costs. SHOW: 636CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 Intelligence for Engineering TeamsStreamline 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:Kubecost (homepage)Kubecost raises $25M Round AKubecost on GitHub (open source)OpenCost project (CNCF sandbox)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Ken Ahrens (@kahrens_atl, Co-Founder @Speedscaleai) talks about the challenges of testing applications in Kubernetes environments.  SHOW: 635CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 LightstepIncident Response t-shirt.Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Speedscale (homepage)Kubernetes Load Test (tutorial)Speedscale Traffic Replay 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 634CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsStreamline 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.Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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:InfluxData (homepage) - InfluxDB - Time Series PlatformUnderstanding Time Series Database Platforms (Cloudcast Eps:394)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Matt Butcher (@technosophos, Co-Founder/CEO @fermyontech) talks about building the next-generation PaaS platform around WebAssembly. SHOW: 633CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Fermyon (homepage)Fermyon launches WebAssembly PaaS platform (June 2022)Fermyon Open SourceFinicky Whiskers (WebAssembly game)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 632CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.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:TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION IS NOT LIKE SPORTS COMPETITIONThere is not "end of season" in technologyTechnology carries the past forward (technical debt)Technology doesn't have trades or relegationThe lifecycle of tech is different that sports fandomCOMPETITION IN TECHNOLOGY TAKES ON SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELSPeople stay at companies far less than beforePeople compete in technology at personal levels, at team/group levels, at company levels and at technology levels. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Bryan Woodworth (Solutions Strategist @Aviatrix) talks about the evolution of Cloud migrations, security best practices, and how to organize for migration success. SHOW: 631CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Aviatrix (homepage)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 630CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:Software Defined Talk - go subscribe to Brandon’s podcast!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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, CEO/Co-Host of @theCube) talks about the VMware acquisition by Broadcom and the potential future of the combined organization. SHOW: 629CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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/signupRevelo: 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:SiliconAngle - The Voice of Enterprise Tech (homepage)theCube - Event CoverageBroadcom will tame the VMware beast (Dave Vellante)Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61BBroadcom to transit VMware to subscription model (The Register)Brian Madden’s perspective on VMware (former VMware employee)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 ProfitabilityTopic 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?  TopicFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 628CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsNew Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.SHOW NOTES:2022 State of the Cloud (Bessemer Venture Partners)Kent Bennett (Bio - BVP)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 627CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/signupRevelo: 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/cloudcastDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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 2008We’re had 10+ years of public cloud adoptionWe’ve had 5+ years of microservices adoption (containers, Kubernetes, etc.)We’ve seen Digital Transformation dominate the headlinesHOW WILL THE CONVERSATION AROUND TECH CHANGE?We're seeing stories about moving back to Private CloudWe're seeing stories that microservices are badWe're seeing stories that Automation and Security spending will increaseWe'll hear less and less about Digital TransformationWe'll hear about hiring slow downs, and some rationalization of salariesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 626CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:WhyLabs (homepage)TechCrunch Articlehttps://mlops.communityTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Priyanka Vergadia (@pvergadia, Staff Developer Advocate @GoogleCloud) talks about how to use creative visualization to convey complex cloud topics.SHOW: 625CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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/cloudcastDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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.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:The Cloud Girl (homepage)Visualizing Google Cloud (book) - #1 Best SellerPriyanka Vergadia (LinkedIn)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 624CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsNew Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.SHOW NOTES:SADA (homepage)Miles Ward (SADA CTO, bio)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 623CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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/signupRevelo: 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 MENTORKnow if you’re job hunting or trying to find a mentorBe visible in the community. Define a scope of what you’re asking of the mentorCome with ideas and potential solutionsUnderstand the time commitment needed for successFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 622CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:RSA Conference 2022Andrew Grotto - https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/andrew-j-grottoSteven Weber - https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/steven-weberTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 621CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/signupRevelo: 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/cloudcastDatadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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:Bloomberg Content and DataBloomberg launches Real-Time Data in the Cloud for Global ClientsTopic 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 theyFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 620CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsNew Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.Spot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)SHOW NOTES:PlanetScale - The Databases for DevelopersVitess - open source databasePlanetScale Rewind - Zero Downtime RevertsTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 619CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/signupDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PAST ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS AND HOW THEY IMPACT THE TECH INDUSTRYLESSONS FROM PREVIOUS ECONOMIC DOWNTURNSGet your finances in orderMake sure you're aligned to near-term business needsInvest in yourself (health, family, learning, etc.)Align with communities and mentorsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Danny Fields (CTO/EVP @Avalara) talks about operating large SaaS environments, customizations for customer demands, and transitioning from traditional software. SHOW: 618CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.Spot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:Avalara - Tax Compliance Software for your industryDanny Fields - EVP and CTO EngineeringTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 617CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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/cloudcastMonitor CI Pipelines and Tests with Datadog CI VisibilityDatadog 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/signupSHOW NOTES:Datadog Sensitive Data ScannerBest practices for reducing sensitive data blindspots and riskBuilding a Modern Compliance Strategy [video]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?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 616CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSpot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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:apply(conf) - May 18th & 19th, free virtual event!Digital Ocean - The Developer CloudTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

In this new series, we’ll look at ways to explain complex technical topics. This week we’re looking at Service Mesh. SHOW: 615CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/cloudcaststrongDM - 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/signupSHOW NOTES:Istio Service Mesh[Diagram] Compare a Service Mesh to a Growing Family 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 614CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Spot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsNew Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.SHOW NOTES:Tackle - Accelerate Revenue through Cloud Marketplaces2021 State of Cloud Marketplaces ReportTackle secures $100M Round C fundingTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 613CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/cloudcastDatadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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/signupSHOW NOTES:Nobl9 - websiteThe Cloudcast #502 - Reliability as a ServiceTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 612CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:LoadForge - Modern, developer-first load testing and stress tests for websites, APIs and servers.LoadForge uses your cloud to rapidly scale large numbers of simulated users to load test your website, store, API, or application for cheap - just cents per test! Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with TeleportSpot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)SHOW NOTES:Datadog acquires Undefined Labs (2020)Borja on The Cloudcast (Eps.231) to discuss Tutum CloudDatadog CI Visibility supports shift-left testingIdentify and resolve front-end issues on your web applications before your customers notice. Start a free trial today.Master is the new Prod, Devs are the new OpsTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 611CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsstrongDM - 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/signupMonitor CI Pipelines and Tests with Datadog CI VisibilityStart monitoring the health and performance of your CI environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Back to the Future of Twitter (Ben Thompson, Stratechery) 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 APARTWhat 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 610CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with TeleportSpot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)LoadForge - Modern, developer-first load testing and stress tests for websites, APIs and servers.LoadForge uses your cloud to rapidly scale large numbers of simulated users to load test your website, store, API, or application for cheap - just cents per test! 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 609CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/signupDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams SHOW NOTES:I DON’T WANT TO LOSE MY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR REPUTATIONIt’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 TRANSITIONYour 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.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 608CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Spot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)LoadForge - Modern, developer-first load testing and stress tests for websites, APIs and servers.LoadForge uses your cloud to rapidly scale large numbers of simulated users to load test your website, store, API, or application for cheap - just cents per test! Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with TeleportSHOW NOTES:Polyscale.ai - The Edge First Data PlatformPolyscale announces GA and Round-A of FundingTopic 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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?  SHOW: 607CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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 TeamsstrongDM - 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/signupSHOW NOTES:Why Enterprise software moves so slow, despite tech innovations (Matt Asay, TechRepublic) IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX ITFor 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 MANAGEThe 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

William Collins (@@WCollins502, Principal Cloud Architect @AlkiraNet) talks about how to seamlessly build multi-cloud networks for any applications.SHOW: 606CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:LoadForge - Modern, developer-first load testing and stress tests for websites, APIs and servers.LoadForge uses your cloud to rapidly scale large numbers of simulated users to load test your website, store, API, or application for cheap - just cents per test! Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with TeleportSpot by NetAppMore Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp)SHOW NOTES:Alkira - Cloud Networking as a ServiceAlkira - ExplainedAlkira Overview - 1 Click Cloud NetworkingTopic 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-termTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 605CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsstrongDM - 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/signupDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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: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 TOOLWhat 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Loren Goodman (CTO @InRule) talks about the intersection of AI/ML, DevOps, and Low Code/NoCode and making complex decisions using automation.SHOW: 604CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/signupDatadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure 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 Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:InRule Technology (homepage)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?  SHOW: 603CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterprisePolyscale.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.SHOW NOTES:Microservices: Why are we doing this? (Michael DeHaan)Why developer freedom might be worth microservices headaches (Matt Asay) DEVELOPERS WANT MORE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE AND MAKE CHANGESSince 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?” FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 602CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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 TeamsstrongDM - 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/signupSHOW NOTES:The Cloud Resume Challenge BookThe Read Aloud Cloud Cloud Irregular (Forrest’s blog)The Best Jobs in CloudAdvice for transferring IT skills to Cloud skills (Twitter thread)Are you multicloud engineer yet? (Google Cloud)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 FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 601CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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.BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseSHOW NOTES:Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, with Slash (podcast) SOMETIMES HARD DECISIONS ARE HARDThere 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 DESTINATIONAt 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.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 600CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsstrongDM - 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/signupDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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:Makara (homepage)Strix Leviathan (homepage)The Cloudcast #339 with JesseBitcoin Information & ResourcesHow Money Got Free (Book)Cryptoassets (Book)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 ouFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 599CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterprisePolyscale.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. SHOW NOTES:DevOps, What’s in a Name? (The Cloudcast Eps.593 - Feb ‘22)SoloCon 2022 - Videos LOCATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS ARE BECOMING MORE DISTRIBUTEDData 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.. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 598CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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/signupCloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:Anomalo (homepage)Anomalo raises 33M Series A (TechCrunch)Anomalo watches your data for weirdness (Forbes)Anomalo brings data quality platform to Snowflake (TechTarget)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? ArFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 597CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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/signupDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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 LEVELWe 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 JOBOver 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.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 596CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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.BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseSHOW NOTES:strongDM (homepage)strongDM raises $54M (VentureBeat)Year of Access Infographic (strongDM)Year of Access Full Report (strongDM)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.FEEDBACK?Email:FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 595CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with Teleport CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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:Kubernetes - The Documentary - Part 1Kubernetes - The Documentary - Part 2Software Defined Talk - Eps.344 - Kubernetes Documentary 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?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.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].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.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).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, yFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Kevin Hu (@kevinzenghu, Co-Founder | CEO at @Metaplane) talks about the concepts behind Data Observability and the unique challenges for Data Engineers.SHOW: 594CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseUsage.ai (homepage)Start saving up to 57% of your AWS EC2 spend in under 5 minutes with Usage AI. No code change, no downtime, no engineering work required.New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.SHOW NOTES:Metaplane (homepage)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?SHOW: 593CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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.Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with Teleport SHOW NOTES:Shades of DevOps Roles (Patrick Dubois) 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 FUNCTIONSIt 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 592CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Usage.ai (homepage)Start saving up to 57% of your AWS EC2 spend in under 5 minutes with Usage AI. No code change, no downtime, no engineering work required.New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseSHOW NOTES:CloudZero (homepage) - Cloud Cost IntelligenceTopic 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 CloudFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 591CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart 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.Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with Teleport CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams SHOW NOTES:Shadow ITWhy Software is Eating the World (WSJ, 2011)“Does IT Matter” (Nicholas Carr, 2014)Bi-Modal IT (Gartner, 2015) 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?Everybody has the ability to get access to (almost) any technology, via open-source or public cloud, or freemium services.Everybody has the ability to learn something new (YouTube, ACloudGuru, Developer Evangelists, etc.IT organizations have less influence over company-wide architectures and strategies.IT still is often tasked with maintaining applications/security/compliance, even after another group deployed it. 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..There are hybrid applications, but they aren’t hybrid in the sense of consistently being deployed everywhere to manage vendor lock-in.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).There are many, many pains-of-glass. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 590CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.Usage.ai (homepage)Start saving up to 57% of your AWS EC2 spend in under 5 minutes with Usage AI. No code change, no downtime, no engineering work required.SHOW NOTES:Duckbill Group (homepage)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.  SHOW: 589CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure Get started with Teleport CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:As Kubernetes matures, the Edge needs containment (The Next Platform)Kubernetes Documentary - Part 1 (CNCF)Kubernetes Documentary - Part 2 (CNCF)41% drop in views for Serverless training (O’Reilly) 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?Is the technology media only interested in origin stories and ending stories?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)?Serverless was supposed to replace Kubernetes - why have we lost interest in Serverless?Serverless didn’t have any “wars”, and it didn’t have any major startups or acquisitions (at least not yet)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 588CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Usage.ai (homepage)Start saving up to 57% of your AWS EC2 spend in under 5 minutes with Usage AI. No code change, no downtime, no engineering work required.New Relic (homepage)Services down? New Relic offers full stack visibility with 16 different monitoring products in a single platform.SHOW NOTES:Hashicorp Cloud Platform (homepage)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 587CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Podcorn - The leading podcast influence marketplaceHuge 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 EnvironmentsStart 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:Great Resignation (“The Big Quit”) - WikipediaWho is Driving the Great Resignation? (HBR)The Great Resignation? More like the Great Renegotiation (NPR) 20-25% OF PEOPLE IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE CHANGED JOBS IN THE LAST 18 MONTHSLots 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 COMPANYKeep 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.But everyone is watching what you do to make a judgment of “are they a good fit?”.Find out what’s important to your boss. Understand the things that they are measured on.Identify an area that is either broken or needs improvement. And try to fix it. Read as much as you can (read the docs!), and try to be valuable in your group and somewhere else in the company. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 586CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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:The Rise of the Supercloud (SiliconAngle)theCUBE (homepage)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 585CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsMergify - 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 MonitoringGet 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:The Cloudcast - YouTube ChannelCloudcast Basics (podcast) CAN WE MAKE IT EASIER TO SHOW MORE TECHNOLOGYWe 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. #CloudcastDemosSUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOUIt's often difficult to understand new companies and new technologies. Demos are often times too much marketing, or don't answer the questions you have. How can we make it easier to find the right technology for your business needs?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?Give us your feedback using #CloudcastDemos to @thecloudcastnet or show@thecloudcast.netFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 584CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"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 TeamsDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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:One Month (homepage)Stacks.btc (homepage)Columbia Business School"WEB 3 vs  WEB 2" Reading Lists (Eps.578)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? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 583CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Kubernetes Solution : Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsGet started monitoring your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:The Great Switch: distributed work first (Redmonk article)The Great Switch: distributed work first (Twitter thread)Software Defined Talk - Slack Channel (come discuss The Cloudcast) COVID HAS REDEFINED WHERE AND HOW PEOPLE WORKJames 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 WORKERSpend timing understanding how time zones AND cultural norms will affect your communications. Expect that different people will work different hours (length of day).Establish some team norms (standards) about how you will communicate, track goals, share information, and notifications. Figure out ways to have complex or difficult conversations. Just using Green / Yellow / Red status updates often lead to problems down the road. Managers will need to spend time doing “quality control” between groups in different locations. It’s very easy to let the separation create gaps. Create mentorship or big-brother / big-sister programs, where people are paired together to help each other. Just like we design cloud failure domains, it might be useful to organize around failure domains that incorporate locations. Budget for f2f get togethers (quarterly, every 6 months)  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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: 582CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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 CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Kubernetes Solution : Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsGet started monitoring your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Shawn’s homepageTemporal.io (homepage) - open source microservice orchestrationLearning in Public - The Coding Career HandbookThe Coding Career (community)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? Cloud distros https://www.swyx.io/cloud-distros/Self provisioning runtimes https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime/ Video in DevRel https://sacra.com/research/lenny-bogdanoff-milk-video-infrastructure/?highlight=ecommerce 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?FEEDBACK?EmFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 581CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsJumpCloud (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:Software Defined Talk - Slack Channel  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 YOUIf you’re a team leader, remember to over communicate. Hallways don’t exist anymore, and Slack/Email threads often get ignored. Take stock of where people are with regard to their priorities, their goals, and their frustrations. 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.Find ways to socially interact with people in fun ways.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 580CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsJumpCloud (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 Datadog Database Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsGet started monitoring performance analytics from any database with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Crane VC (homepage)Aneel’s homepageTopic 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)?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 578CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet 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=sharingOther interesting Twitter Threadshttps://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1471736495023149061https://twitter.com/JoeEmison/status/1471213852918435840 FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.SHOW: 577CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner accountMegaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedSHOW NOTES:PODCAST BUSINESS:Crossed out 11yr anniversary We crossed 500 shows (March ’21)Most listens in history, up about 20% from last yearWe launched Cloudcast Basics (4 seasons)We launched the Sunday Perspectives showsWe got named #1 Cloud podcastWe got named top 20 security podcastsListeners in 130 countries | 4200 CitiesIPOs from our guests - $2.678BVC Funding for our guest - $2.516BTRENDS 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 - $15BAWS 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 developersVMware 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: Our 2020 Predictions from last yearOur 2021 Predictions from last yearAARON’s PREDICTIONSZero Trust Models (again…) - Also security has been/will be the hardest part of cloud and hot job market will continueMicrosoft will become top public cloud worldwide, AWS will fall to #2Google will settle into 3rd, 4th, even 5th spot… BRIAN’s PREDICTIONS Alphabet/Google decides if they FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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?  SHOW: 576CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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 Datadog Security Solution:  Modern Monitoring and Security - 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:AWS US-East-1 Outage (Dec.10,  2021) - Post Mortem (AWS Blog)AWS US-West outage (Dec.5, 2021)AWS is Too Big to Fail (The Information - Corey Quinn)YouTubeTV loses ESPN and other Disney channels (Dec.18, 2021)The Tech Industry after a Year of Burnout (The New Stack) 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?Cloud service failures happen, and tend to last less than a full work day. Most are only a couple hours.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. 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.We could all use a break in our extended hours work days.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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. SHOW: 575CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Megaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedCBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner accountSHOW NOTES:Salto (homepage)Companies today have, on average, 800 SaaS applicationsSalto (OSS code) - manage business applications by codeTopic 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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 574CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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.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:AWS US-East-1 Outage (Dec.10,  2021) - Post Mortem (AWS Blog)Your Response to AWS Going Down Shouldn’t Be Multicloud (Tech Republic)Larry Ellison brags about Oracle Cloud after AWS outage CLOUD OUTAGES ARE A PART OF USING A SHARED SERVICEThis 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 OUTAGES5 levels of grief - denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.The cloud providers (typically) don’t snipe at either other - they’ve all been there.The post-mortems are becoming more consistent - any highly anticipatedWe continue to learn about differences in cloud architectures, and where failures points (and failure actions) occur.We still don’t understand the internal cloud architectural dependencies of each cloud.How many companies actually follow multi-region best practices? How much does multi-region cost? Multi-cloud is often a knee-jerk reaction, but it’s never that simple - cost, complexity, skills FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

We review the new strategic directions of AWS under CEO Adam Selipsky, as well as major announcements from AWS re:Invent 2021. SHOW: 573CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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 Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart 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:AWS re:Internet 2021 - What’s NewTop Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021“What’s New at AWS” on TwitterThe Official AWS Podcast: Keynote recaps each day and moreAWS OnAir: Livestreaming from the show floorBIG ANNOUNCEMENTS:Private 5G Managed WANServerless Data ServicesNew Low-Code Development platformGraviton v3Mainframe MigrationIoT TwinMaker (digital twins)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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? SHOW: 572CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Megaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedCBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account SHOW NOTES:Dell offers $67B for EMC - 2015Dell finalizes acquisition of EMC (and VMware) - 20163 Years Later, Was it Worth the Debt? (TechCrunch)Dell’s Public Journey from Private Equity to VMware Share Swap (2018)Dell spins out VMware - Dell (2021)A New Day for VMware - VMware (2021)EMC Revenues (2015-16)Dell Revenues (2015-2021)VMware Revenues (2015-2021) 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?VMware - 26 acquisitions (2016-2021)VMware grew revenues 66% (2016-2021), 11% annuallyVMW shares grew from $70 to $118 (+68%)Dell grew revenues from $50B to $94B (EMC revenues $25B)VMware on AWS launched in 2016 - grown to around $3B business (26% revenues)Michael Dell gets an A+ for financial engineeringDell/EMC/VMware missed an opportunity to create an alternative to the Big3 cloud providers.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Shanea Leven (@ShaneaLeven, Founder/CEO @CodeSeeio) talks about enabling development teams to better understand the complexities and interdependencies of their code throughout the lifecycle.SHOW: 571CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Megaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedCBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner accountSHOW NOTES:CodeSee (homepage)OSS Port (homepage)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?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

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.SHOW: 570CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Juniper Networks – Experience-First NetworkingLearn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutionsDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart 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:What is web3? (CB Insights)Notes on Web3 (Robin Sloan)An Engineer’s Hype-Free Observations on web3 (PSL)Why Microsoft might beat Zuckerberg to the metaverse (Venture Beat)It’s a web3 world now, how does the hype compare to Web 2.0? (The NewStack)The Facebook Company is now Meta 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?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”.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. There will (likely) be many metaverses, and this will be OK, and people will ask for standards and things to interoperate. There will be consumer metaverses and Enterprise (“work”) metaverses. People will wish the work one was more like the consumer one - but not always. 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. A lot has changed since we first tried this 15 years ago (e.g. Second Life). There is a lot more psychology involved in these virtual worlds than you initially think, especially outside of the “native” community.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. Experiment. Ask questions. To research with problems in mind.  FEEDBACK?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow