cloud2030

Cloud provisioning is very difficult when you go beyond simple provisioning and start thinking about how to to stitch together infrastructure in a repeatable way! Specifically, today's episode is a deep dive into Terraform usage patterns. We get very hands on as we talk about how you manage state files and how you connect things together with Terraform. We will spend a significant amount of time discussing in the fall because building infrastructure in a scalable automatable way, is a critical topic for the group. This is an ongoing topic for us - stay tuned for more episodes! Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/A-NgZOfa1xeIPA1uQOh8_bSStck Photo by Artem Beliaikin from Pexels [ID 1079033]

In this episode, we question the IT talent pipeline. We really work through boot camps and how we are building talent and skills for the generation of IT workers. We ask some key questions like: Are degrees necessary? Can you teach these things quickly? How do we actually learn the skills that are necessary to build resilient systems? And what would it look like if we were creating certification programs, real certification programs, like we have in other trades? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/FTOvatXEYSxNze00HKXVz8OZHxU Photo by Yan Krukov from Pexels [ID 8613305]

Is open source driving innovation? And Is it a necessary component of Right to Repair and ownership? Are there commercial drivers where people want those open capabilities? We transition into a deeper conversation about what's going on with open source. Is it being innovative? Who is leading? How is it working? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/vto0yPpBuZtqngkc_zqMDp9J39M Photo by Jeffrey Czum from Pexels [ID 4118958]

Good APIs are hard to design! Making them long lasting and scalable is even harder. We discussed two aspects of API design. First, making about Event Bus for system integration and then RackN CTO, Greg Althaus, discusses what his team considers a good API design from Digital Rebar. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/2Pz3LwG4qPl58s3ewwGFCCFmg8w Photo by Tsunami Green from Pexels [ID 5192790]

Building an edge control plane is challenging! It's not clear even what is currently available. As always, data, data pipelines, data orchestration, and data choreography are all influential for edge infrastructure. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/yfa6Kzsd6CTjXOJ1MQjHBxp2J4Q Photo by Taryn Elliott from Pexels [ID 3889936]

IPUs, intelligent processing units, are also known as smart NICs, side cars, or supervisory computers. A well known example is Amazon's Nitro. We discuss the impacts of these supervisory processors, and how they can change the industry. This is clearly the trend of the future. Building supervisory systems as additional processing capability into our core servers that then abstract out how the bus is interfaced how the routine peripherals, network activity, GPU or storage is abstracted in these systems. BUT will they create a new way to manage heterogeneity and diversity inside of our hardware and server ecosystems? Can they have a dramatic impact on edge computing? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/NXx-LgMzI5jEmP2irldOwGpeKlg Photo by RF._.studio from Pexels [ID 3825581]

The "right to repair" is a really thorny and political issue! We talked a lot about John Deere, Apple and Tesla not letting people fix the products they've bought from those companies. We have a lot of questions! Why they do that? What the challenges are with RTR? How we could avoid them? What pressures keep us coming back to companies that are offering goods that we don't have the ability to repair? Transcript: otter.ai/u/mDxnSfDXWqKOFA5Gbw8rG6TkDkE
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How can cloud economics of hyperscalar clouds be used to ended or limit their control? We discussed the state of the cloud ecosystem with a focus on where its going to go. After a full, rich, and dynamic conversation, we came back to security security, software (as opposed to SaaS), owning your own infrastructure, and the ROI of that infrastructure. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Y7ZO7Y6e0JQr5Wz4hOWyyMRsGb8 Photo by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels [ID 77335782]

To understand CI/CD of infrastructure, you have to actually understand how the systems work together. In this podcast, we talked about low code, no code and how you would do integration testing for that. We also explore the idea of unit tests and code coverage for CI/CD presents challenges. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/oPGkPe8w-hG2LKXkQJhHAeJebe0 Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels [ID 4021773]

How do we secure service meshes for zero trust? Especially since we don't know how they're going to be used or integrated? We went very deep into what it takes to secure service mesh. That included what type of application frameworks are going to be required to provide multi-service infrastructures that are secure and trusted in a performing way. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/CUJdKeyT_hHLAZG9XKqzb-Y9N00 Photo by Alexas Fotos from Pexels [ID 2317932]