
cloud2030
An excellent source for industry thought leadership in Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Open Source base on discussions at.the2030.cloud
Latest episodes

Sep 8, 2023 • 58min
VMware Explore, Hashicorp & Industry Update
What’s going on from VMWare to Broadcom to HashiCorp and their license changes. We discuss current topics, even to the sad news about Kris Nova passing during a mountaineering expedition.
If you'd like to catch up on the tech news, then this topic hopefully has aged well and you will enjoy it!
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/J18ecRKKwc8As_TLyChs_IdI_Ao?utm_source=copy_url
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Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 3min
Edge (and Beyond!) Industry Update
How do Edge and Compute and SaaS and cloud influence everything that we do? We covered topics from VMware explorer and talked a lot about Edge. That led to AI ml, which led to another topic, which led to another topic.
If you enjoy hearing about how interconnected our technology and choices are, everything from Bitcoin to edge, and cloud and government interaction, this is the podcast for you because we cover pretty much all of it and connect it together.
Remember that on September 14, we are having one of our quarterly book club meetings on the death of expertise.
Resources:
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/telcos-and-road-digital-promised-land
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/wf2OahZkgp9tzF7eJu0-V08-8jY?utm_source=copy_url
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Aug 26, 2023 • 52min
Can we regulate LLMs? Should we?
John Willis, panelist on the episode, shares a bonus story about APIs and Jeff Bezos. The podcast explores the challenges of regulating large language models (LLMs) and discusses the EU's AI Act, UK's adoption of EU regulations, and the National Association of Insurance Careers' realistic approach to LLM regulation. They also discuss consent, ownership, and the legality of using scraped data. The importance of data provenance, metadata management, and similarity search in traditional databases is highlighted. They delve into transforming artifacts into monetary value and invite the listener to join future discussions on regulating LLMs.

Aug 26, 2023 • 48min
LLMs adding to Technical Debt? Maintenance?
What is technical debt, and how does it apply to large language models? We dive into a really interesting conversation that goes from technical debt into system and code maintenance, which is probably a much better way to think about the challenges we have in maintaining the infrastructure systems, code, data and data lakes that we have to deal with on an everyday basis.
How do we maintain, store, track and update the LLMs themselves? How do we know and manage which model is being used when we retire a model?
References:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-google-measures-manages-tech-debt-abi-noda/
https://devops.com/are-llms-leading-devops-into-a-tech-debt-trap/
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/ngUClgtMmLLKXCFalDxFNsNdVr4?utm_source=copy_url
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Aug 18, 2023 • 44min
Data Darkages - do LLMs drive paywalls?
A coming Data Darkage is on its way, where we're watching Reddit, Twitter and other companies take what used to be publicly available information and put it behind a paywall or gate.
Because of the way large language models are using this data and the value of the data, we are expecting to see that trend accelerate. This will have profound implications for how we think of, share, and use data in the coming years.
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/e1XCyhSa9V81bgMpbox8ujZObuo?utm_source=copy_url
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Aug 18, 2023 • 1h
Hashicorp BSL vs OSS License Discussion
Hashicorp made a license change into a BSL, a business license which is not open source that allows or makes code available, but instead restricts the use of Hashicorp products to people who are effectively paying customers or enterprise customers.
If you're embedding or repackaging the software or competing with Hashicorp, you are prohibited from using it. We spent this podcast looking into why, how, and what implications there were, as well as historical precedents.
References
* https://www.runtime.news/hashicorp-closes-a-door/
* https://opentf.org
* https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca
* https://spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-latest-statement-on-hashicorp-bsl
* https://ir.hashicorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hashicorp-announces-first-quarter-financial-results-fiscal-0
* https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#competitive-product-bsl-coverage
* https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rhirschfeld_hashicorp-closes-a-door-activity-7097631727665233920-MxcP/
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Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/ZjTzZZiYh_dXri3rSkjkD50GPuc?utm_source=copy_url

Aug 4, 2023 • 50min
Data + Operations = DataOps
We talk about DataOps, but if you’re expecting this to be DevOps for data - you are mistaken. Today we talk about engineering data through the idea of data stewardship or how you manage and control the data.
Beyond permissions and access into the costs and how things are stewarded, how logs are handled, who controls how much access and how quickly people have access, where you're putting the data to improve its effectiveness, and more. There is so much going on above the infrastructure, but below that actual analytics, this conversation will open your mind to a whole layer of challenges related to governing and managing data.
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/SDaRomv41JtQYM7a6C1Hy7cOpy8?utm_source=copy_url
Photo by Taryn Elliott: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-holding-cupcake-with-white-icing-on-top-4099125/

Jul 29, 2023 • 58min
Book Discussion: Investments Unlimited
This is the second installment of our book group, which is a discussion about Investments Unlimited. We have one of our authors, and a great all around DevOps enthusiast, John Willis, on the call with us.
As you might expect, while we talk about the book and John gives a lot of background and details about the book, we treat it with the classic cloud2030 style, and bring in AI, large language and advanced DevOps.
We take the topics of the book to the next level, and frame it in the moment of the year, looking beyond and into how the concepts of compliance, validation, team coordination and risk assessment are incorporated into the coming AI and how it changes in our landscape.
Sources
Book https://www.amazon.com/Investments-Unlimited-Compliance-Thriving-Digital/dp/1950508536
https://techstrong.ai/aiops/the-rise-of-shadow-ai/
https://guidehouse.com/insights/financial-services/2021/public-sector/garp-three-lines-of-defense
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/uC9c3xJS4oATQx7BrYeHAOjFHsY?utm_source=copy_url
Image is book cover

Jul 22, 2023 • 49min
20230614 Kubernetes Portability
Is Kubernetes actually creating the amount of cloud portability of infrastructure agnosticism that we hope it will? If we're using the same platform across multiple clouds, multiple infrastructures, multiple management teams, does that actually create portability?
It's a key question for us in building cloud architectures, making decisions about the architect and about how we build architect applications, and even how we structure our teams. In this conversation, we get to the heart of answering that question, but our answers might surprise you.
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/ASE9dLnP8qo2jednZB5CoDhqLVc?utm_source=copy_url
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Jul 15, 2023 • 47min
Future of Centos and Enterprise Linux
The Red Hat changes in how they publish the source code for CentOS sent a stream specifically, but unlike all the other conversations that I've heard, we dive into how enterprises can inoculate themselves from this type of disruptive change. We also address what it means for the ecosystem of vendors and how we can build better software in response to the potential fragmentation of Red Hat, Linux Enterprise Linux or Enterprise Linux distros.
This was a surprising conversation, because we addressed a lot of important trends in how companies depend on Linux stability, and what they could do. If you are in this boat with all of us looking at how to have stable long term secure infrastructure using Linux, you will love this podcast.
Sources:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/oracle_ibm_rhel_code/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-takes-on-red-hat-in-linux-code-fight/
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-snap-and-flatpak-make-linux-a-better-os-for-the-average-user/
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/dmrcCulS0X1CC4YGHOWtzMdXyio?utm_source=copy_url
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