cloud2030

Joining us this week is Scott Lowe, Staff Field Engineer at Heptio recorded at Interop ITX 2018. Scott is well known for his impact on virtualization and VMware, follow him at his weblog and podcast called The Full Stack Journey. Highlights • Coming new to container space and view of infrastructure within the stack • Why he chose Heptio and its transition up the stack away from virtualization • Heptio strategy? Open source based • Commercial strategy to support open source in Kubernetes • Monetization of open source projects challenges • Building applications to run on “standard” Kubernetes

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector review the newly released State of the Edge Report https://www.stateoftheedge.com). The report does require your email address to obtain and we basically go through the major content in the report and offer our thoughts.

Joining us this week is the team from Blockchain Technology Partners: Duncan-Johnston-Watt, Kevin O’Donnell, and Mike Zaccardo live from GlueCon 2018 in Colorado. Blockchain Technology Partners is an Edinburgh-based technology startup: • Mission – to radically simplify the enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies • Goal - to reduce the cost and complexity of doing business through decentralization while ensuring trust, transparency and accountability in a distributed world • Focus – providing a production-ready blockchain platform and partnering with businesses to deliver blockchain-based solutions Highlights • Who is Blockchain Technology Partners and Company Objectives • What is Blockchain: Distributed Transaction Log and Consensus • Decentralization of Ledgers and Centralization Weakness (Bitcoin e.g) • Use Cases for Blockchain • Publication Components of Blockchain; its Middle-Ware • Trusted Authorities and Broker Replacement (Shipping e.g.) • Edge Computing and Blockchain Examples • Data Responsibility and Local Blockchains • Blockchain Technology Partners Open Source Model and Technology

Joining us this week is Simon Crosby, CTO at SWIM.AI. Simon discusses the architecture for Edge and its differences from existing cloud infrastructure and how the SWIM.AI solution meets the needs for Edge services. Highlights • Challenges in Edge • Data is Complete Disruption in Current Models • Don’t Train in Cloud for Edge; Instead Learn on Fly • All About Data – Apps can’t be Written for Data Specifically • Example of Sensor Model at Traffic Light in Self-Learning Model • Digital Twin Concept & Actor Model • SWIM.AI Innovation ~ always as though its local • Independent Management of Latency and Resource Utilization • Write the Program from the Data • Example of Manufacturer with Millions of RFID Tags • Limitations of Having People Involved in Everything

Joining us this week is Matt Trifiro, CMO of Vapor.io. Matt offers insight into how Edge infrastructure and 5G will be deployed to meet the increased demand for low latency, high data distributed technology. Highlights • Edge is a place: the last mile network • Jitter at the Edge (Jitter definition) • Data sovereignty and location • Apps for Edge have are not similar to existing apps for communication processes • Edge as multi-vendor data sharing environment • Real estate problem – solved by Akamai • Vision of schedulers on keeping apps running vs keeping apps fast • Cloud providers will extend into the Edge • Augmented reality discussion of video and latency (Digital Twin) • Importance of 5G to Edge and commercial impact • Real estate is key in Edge computing • Building and Managing Edge infrastructure • What does Vapor do?

Joining us this week is Rich Miller, CEO and Managing Director of Telematica, Inc. Highlights • GitHub and Microsoft Discussion ~ Why is GitHub so Valuable? • Evolution of Open Source and its Commercial Aspects • Monetization of Open Source Depends on Services for Success • Container Management and Marketplace for Innovation • ISV Ecosystem ~ All About Big Money and the New Tech Investment Thesis • Multi-Platforms / Multi-CSP Change the Nature of Innovation from the Independents • Edge Computing will Disrupt the Locus of Opportunities • The Edge Marketplace and Cloud Platform Marketplace Must Appear Unified to Developers • Edge Infrastructure Multi-Tenancy and Development Challenges • Distributed Ledger at Edge is the Killer Edge App • How will Cloud, Blockchain and Edge be Driven toward Integration in the Future? Email Example

Joining us this week is Chris Short, Senior DevOps Advocate, SJ Technologies. Chris is also a CNCF Ambassador managing an excellent newsletter, DevOps’ish. Highlights • Site Reliability Engineering & DevOps relationship & philosophy • SRE details in budgets, toil, and security • Pipeline infrastructure, configuration management, and immutability • Cultural aspects of DevOps • Why Kubernetes? Ecosystems? Build for Kubernetes apps • SaaS vs Licensing models (answer to all things software)

Joining us this week is Aaron Delp, Director of Technical Solutions, Cohesity. Aaron and Brian Gracely manage the well-known podcast, The Cloudcast, with over 340 podcasts. Highlights • Data returns to the data center in data transformation • Best of breed world and impact of refresh cycles on hardware and software • Data in the edge and hardware processors at the edge • Latency issues for long haul data center(s) storage & Metadata about location • Fragmented market coming for multi-vendor IoT processing? • Is open source a good model for vendors? Issue on monetization of open source o Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore • Commercial drivers impact on open source sustainability • Community vs Ecosystem

Joining us this week is Jordan Rinke, Principal Software Engineer, Walmart Labs. Jordan offers his views on various technologies and open source projects as it relates to the scale and connectivity issues faced by Walmart. Highlights • Technical Gaps in Kubernetes Technologies and Installer Issues • Tooling and Orchestration Focus for Kubernetes and Other Tools • Core OS Model for Bootstrapping Kubernetes • Discussion on Immutability: Middle Ground for Jordan • Edge Computing – Emerging markets lead to disconnected edge sites • Data location challenges in edge and cloud services • Skills issues for medium sized clusters

Joining us this week is Christine Yen, Co-founder at Honeycomb coming from a recording at SRECon Americas in March 2018 at Santa Clara Convention Center Hyatt. Highlights • Understanding of what developer tools are today • Observability vs Monitoring • Instrumenting Apps for Diagnostics to help Developers do More • Tool to build not just better engineers but teams as well to support customers • Brief history of Honeycomb and where it came from (Parse and Facebook) • How debug containers that are most likely gone by time problem arises? • AI / Machine Learning – can it really help today? • 2nd Wave of DevOps • Impact of listening to users at a startup – people problems vs technology