cloud2030

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/

How do we help junior people build the right skills to do advanced automation system administration, and actually build systems that are resilient and robust? Then, after understanding that that is a learned skill that's predominantly learned by doing the work, troubleshooting. We started the conversation talking through how to teach troubleshooting and find opportunities for that. But we transformed the discussion into the challenge of teaching people skills that they then walk away with, that, as you're mentoring people, you're increasing their value, and potentially giving them the keys to leave and find a better job. We talked about this as an industry trend, and some expectations on what you can do about it, and how you can approach that situation. Overall a very robust conversation about building great teams, through junior engineers, and what it takes to be thorough and complete in a process like that. Both from what you can do, and what you have to watch out for. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/cOP6v9HEYv6_YVrrRwA_sxjvNaQ Image:https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-girl-using-binoculars-9290029/

VMware Explore is a show at the end of August where VMware brings together its community, its vendors and tells what's going on. VMware is dominating in their market, they are making the right moves, and doing a good job for their customers and their partners. This is a surprising summary of the conversation, because this conclusion is certainly not where we started out. In this conversation, we start from the position of VMware not doing what it needs to do. It's fumbling its message, it's not doing the right things. Then we talk through all of the things that contribute to VMware’s position in the market. If you listen through, the conversation follows a fascinating path to our concluding position. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/NO-lHxp4EfDy9cmyP8Yr-dayi9Q Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-brown-leather-jacket-using-binoculars-3811807/

How do you build effective, productive platform teams? What should their mission be, and what type of tools and dangers do they have? We start by questioning if there are such things as platform teams and their roles, as well as how they can go awry in modern organizations. At the end, we recognize that they do and can provide a very important role. In this conversation, you will learn the right ways to form a platform. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Kf-Hi9H6bTmhufavGaa1ae9w_R4 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-beside-woman-in-train-1970830/

How do supply chain, ecologic, capital, and political issues limit our ability to continue to build big data centers? Today we expand on this continued conversation. We're already seeing this in the news, and we need to rethink how we are building a lot of the core infrastructure we depend on. That includes power, data centers, networking and connectivity. Potentially even human logic, which we get into. The purpose of this conversation was to look at the bigger picture, and then pull it back into how we build IT systems. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/herJl7zHewHfDIIEhdI_tdUewA8 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-paper-cup-on-top-of-gray-marble-surface-1101124/

How do we build advanced innovative products and companies? We discuss the Chips act and global supply chain of silicon and manufacturing in today’s episode. We took that apart into its component parts: supply chains, raw materials, power, whether talent, real estate, and put it back together in ways that look forward towards how we think these forces and global politics are going to shape manufacturing for the next decade. Absolutely fascinating and critical discussion that will impact every single person's health, their careers, and frankly, what they can buy on the store shelves. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/JPNiGOfYD8WZzyqGcbQ9y4biN5k Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/closed-up-photo-of-black-dell-central-processing-unit-1432680/