We dig into the news of the day instead of a scheduled topic on today’s podcast. This news was about Twitter, and what is going on in the social media landscape. We have a fantastic 2030 style conversation, not specifically about Twitter, or even its new owner, but social media and its needs, how people think about social media, what societal purpose it serves, and how we construct the back ends to support those systems. We talked about alternative platforms and historical platforms, as well as objectives and benefits of a social media platform including content moderation and who pays for it. A fascinating conversation for everybody who's consuming social media. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/yLpHcxsbpGojZgBuckid_TLT7JI Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-grasshopper-on-grass-in-nature-7987527

Klaus and I go through what happened at the Kubecon North America event in Detroit. Specifically, lessons learned in watching how the community reacts to new technologies like CRDs, declarative programming, and cluster APIs. We also discuss the health of the community and the operators and vendors who were involved. We give our impressions and insight - this conversation deep dives into practical use and futures in Kubernetes. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/8sNj_ZMTbKuJxAhOZhlvLAckWhc Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/elderly-man-and-woman-looking-outside-window-7551662/

Distributed ID is a web three concept of being able to use zero trust and identify users without having a central authority. In this conversation, we talk about critical concepts like Open ID trust government actions, and how this could be influential and important in a web three and IoT context. We really drill into how the system works, and I know you will enjoy the conversation Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/X_5lffVEG0LUTgsyoDOx5sJDwYM Images: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-putting-a-passport-on-bag-842961/

How does the moniker Supercloud apply to how cloud providers are changing over time? Specifically when facing market pressures, trying to lock in, get bigger and become essential. Today we discuss the changing nature of service providers, specifically cloud providers. This topic has been coming up on Twitter, and I know you will find this conversation fascinating. It talks both about the hypothetical and very practical drivers behind concepts like supercloud. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/MjuLlkt2JO095bMgPHi-rqeaqi8 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/flying-airplane-in-the-sky-12846027/

How do Helm charts and operators interact with Kubernetes? Today we have a fascinating discussion about the interesting components of Kubernetes including Helm charts, admission controllers and things that are changing and being revised and updated. We discuss potential topics in anticipation for Kubecon, and if you're at all interested in Kubernetes, whether you're attending the conference or not, you will find this to be a must follow list of topics related to Kubernetes. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/I9Fyk_wiGxwvtha_tESikR2Bj3U Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-black-jacket-standing-in-front-of-red-and-blue-building-5615440/

What happens in the age of cloud scarcity, and are the major public clouds going to become our next OPEC, where they regulate and control prices to such a degree that they can float things up and down? In doing that, does that mean that cloud computing has become a commodity that can be traded and bought from different providers with a marketplace? All of these questions and more are on our minds as we think about how the market for compute will evolve in the future. Is there a coming compute scarcity based on greenhouse gas or silicon limitations or the ability to generate power? All of these things could have major impacts on how we make choices to consume compute. In our discussions, a lack of resources is not the driving factor that we see - it's more about the market power of providers. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/nHY8KLgcaNbu_hp6TJkKMOgMpFI Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/fuel-dispenser-1563510/

Our discussion about development methodologies quickly turns into one about product management methodology. Those things are interlinked, and we spend a lot of time talking about how product management and the influence on user and operational experience has been transformed by the forces of the market. We also discuss how difficult it is to then organize team development processes to fit these quickly evolving, targeted product delivery challenges. It’s a fascinating conversation about just how interlinked our development process is to the way we consume products in general. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/_Kljix8Hom5nhuhMbkDISjOL6fM Image:https://www.pexels.com/photo/newlywed-couple-showing-each-other-tongue-12194401/

We talk about understanding analyst reports and engaging with analysts. How do analysts shape the industry and the industry shapes the analysts? Today we discuss how every part of this ecosystem has to work together in order for us to build serviceable technology, because fundamentally, we count on the analysts to help understand what's ready, what the problems are, and what's working or not working in the enterprise. It's easy to pitch stuff, it's much harder to use stuff and sell tech, and the analysts are a reasonable filter for that, and we break down how and why. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/A3BlbqbPObA1_2erEfKZsFPqURs Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-person-holding-a-spoon-3889850/

Special guest Bill Mulligan (https://twitter.com/breakawaybilly/) talks to us about the use cases for BPF and how it works. We discuss eBPF, the kernel extensions that allow you to write small programs that work inside of kernel space in a safe sandbox way. These have a lot of applications, and they’ve been creating a lot of hype inside of the Kubernetes community as a way to address networking shortfalls. Our conversation starts broad, but eventually zeros in on eBPF. I know that you will learn a lot about how eBPF can enhance and improve your infrastructure operations environment. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/VhW6tKfPHD0yky63eDneQ3dIScQ Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/cobblestones-in-a-sandpit-8180645/

How do you build, manage and fund your systems? Today's episode is about talent, staffing and hiring the right people to do the job for you. How you make hiring decisions is inexorably linked to how you think about solving, funding, and structuring solutions around those problems. You cannot hire people without also having straightforward answers for those questions. We have a fantastic conversation about staffing, that we find to actually be about building the foundations for your hiring. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/DPCdAh4CiJPXOQss2WpX2INysfA Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/cute-girls-in-halloween-costumes-standing-outside-modern-house-5859723/