This episode explores the intersection of infrastructure automation and security through the lens of the Crowd Strike outage. We'll discuss the tension between maintaining stable, reliable data center infrastructure and the need to embrace change and innovation. Recent events like the CrowdStrike outage demonstrate the paradox that infrastructure teams face. We'll dive into the importance of having multiple control planes and standardized processes that can adapt to rapid industry changes. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Wos9IOPfpSGPOYNT-A4muQccA5w

We start talking about walled gardens and the momentum and push that causes us to get into vendor active environments in this episode. This is going to be a multi-part discussion where we look at the drivers of AI in the future. In this case, we used up a lot of time before this recording talking about Kubernetes and what's next for Kubernetes and containers, as well as how that ecosystem has been shaping up. This conversation is about the wall gardens that could be broken down, and in some cases, have actually been built taller because of containerization and Kubernetes and infrastructure and how infrastructure works. After that background before going into the discussion, we pick it up on how these ecosystems and walled gardens are self reinforcing as well as chinks in the armor that will allow us to go back to interoperable standards. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/oZiuGGiJwjsvycVosq4FA7-r4gc?utm_source=copy_url

Power, electrical power, and how the upcoming trend of AI data centers is intersecting as a load with generation, storage, transportation, Bitcoin mining and mining all use power. These are all highly interconnected in how we use and manage the grid, but are using power in different ways. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/mszdgZE5_TG_H6lywY6S8-RqPsw?utm_source=copy_url

Analog computing is the idea of non-digital computing. Not quanta, but non-digital, basically using analog circuits, either electrical circuits or potentially even mechanical or fluid circuits, to perform calculations and control systems. These are surprisingly common, especially in older devices, but less common in current and modern devices. But they're making a comeback, in part because they're very fast and efficient, but also because with AI tooling and digital twinning, we can design these circuits much more effectively. With 3D fabrication we can actually create these circuits more effectively if they're mechanical. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/WRIb_V_hWt9KBcbCXYX6z_dD1Ps?utm_source=copy_url

We revisit where we are with Crypto - more specifically where we are with distributed ledger technology or DLT. We give pertinent and real examples of places where the core technology behind Crypto is thriving and making a big difference, as well as has regained its value. We discuss the human impacts of that and what went wrong. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/1je6MzCQuv0U_9_MOaQtDNMWAQw?utm_source=copy_url

Martez Reed and I have an in depth conversation about the challenges of propagating technology inside of enterprises, this core challenge of selling silos and individual technologies. What Martez describes as beneficial tool sprawl versus building up systems and integrating things and end to end technology. This is what I've been calling infrastructure pipelining. We break down what's going on in the street related to Open Source technology, Kubernetes, other aspects of what's happening and how things fit together in an interesting and dynamic way. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/2M4P8U1haMsoT2ahg3s4V4_sf-A?utm_source=copy_url

We dive into Shoshana Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Full of amazing insights, predictions and really insightful work, you can literally scan every page and read something fascinating. You don't need the book to follow today’s discussion. We start by watching Apple's new iPad ad before we dive into the book, and I highly recommend that you watch it as well, link in the show notes. It's a good tie into the surveillance capitalism discussion and I think you will enjoy our commentary about it. References: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152236/apple-ipad-pro-commercial-artists-ai https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541758005/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Y-bm0QL3Vnfjcy4hgmTIiqkUpNU?utm_source=copy_url

How do you define infrastructure to support inferencing? Today we discuss that and more, including training. We walk through what it's going to take to understand what to buy, what to build, how to build, how to put it together, and how hard it is to actually know what goes into the infrastructure behind an AI cluster. Importantly, exploring why we don't have the answers is the first phase of understanding. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/2SIZyiLDtfyi_zGrol8qHvHc0gA?utm_source=copy_url

We continue our TechOps series, this case diving deep and cheap into out of band management. One of the things about out of band management is that it quickly turns into an alphabet soup of protocol names, vendor names, specific pieces and even the way we talk about out of band management. We have different acronyms for the same action. In this conversation. Greg Althouse reckons CTO and my co-founder explores lessons learned and things that you need to understand for technical details and a really core understanding of how to build BMC integrations. We even cover why it's so hard to do this well. Even if you have no plans in ever touching an out of band interface, the architectural lessons will help you. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Feahh05PQI-1fxVXDRuiFDkgt5M?utm_source=copy_url

System D is our topic for today discussing system processes, how do you manage and control processes, services, and fundamental components of Linux operating systems. In this discussion, we cover how to think about it, how it works, alternatives, process controls, and even how they get applied to containers. Containers were a nice bridge from our previous discussions when we were talking about container management systems. If you are interested in Linux and Linux management, Linux automation, this is a good episode for you! Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/KCK3f95lbUEAEzLgA60k-HbDlGk?utm_source=copy_url