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Nov 19, 2023 • 54min

2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey

What happened in the lead-up to the Internet Bubble burst of 2001? What went right, what went wrong, and what lessons did we learn? (Part 1 of 3)SHOW: 772CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itSHOW NOTES:All the Shows Notes Research Original Tweet that inspired the show: https://x.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1719827334834913283?s=20“Looking for recommendations: what’s the best book ever written about the dotcom bubble? Specifically looking for something that captures the emotions of that time as well as the mechanics”THE BROWSER, THE NETWORKS, THE CARRIERS AND POSSIBILITIESInformation was freely exposed to the Internet (and Intranets)It was Digital Transformation 1.0 era - Everything on the Internet The New Industrial RevolutionLots of focus on new Online PurchasingLots of focus on new Telecommunications services (VoIP, VoD, etc.)Lots of focus on new media partnershipsEVERYTHING ALWAYS GOES UP, EVERYDAY, RIGHT? Massive network build outsLots of Engineers and MBAs moved out to Silicon ValleyEvery startup built their own data-centers, networks, applications, etc.IPOs were happening every weekTelecom vendors vs. Internet/Networking vendorsStock prices going up $1-2 per dayLESSONS LEARNED:Infrastructure has to match the ambitionsBusiness models always come back to revenues and profitabilityEach wave can create the new big winners (and losers)Understand Manias vs. Fundamentals (where in the wave are we?)Stupid money eventually finds a bottomFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
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Nov 15, 2023 • 26min

Intro to Vector Databases

Jeff Huber, Co-Founder and CEO @ Chroma, discusses vector databases and their importance to AI. Topics include the basics of vector databases, integration into models, trade-offs between fine-tuning and retrieval, and creating an AI stack. They also touch on Chroma's OSS project.
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Nov 12, 2023 • 23min

Is AI the new Oppenheimer event?

Discussion on the potential risks and consequences of AI, including speculations of human destruction. Exploring the need for regulations and guardrails to address concerns about the impact of AI technology. Drawing parallels to historical events and exploring the US government's executive order on AI security and transparency. Emphasizing the importance of considering societal and environmental concerns. Exploring different opinions regarding AI regulations.
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Nov 8, 2023 • 30min

Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration

Eli Aleyner talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. They discuss the importance of developer testing, the evolution of CI, CD, and testing, creating AtomicGR, the concept of shifting testing left, and the advantages and adoption of test containers.
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Nov 5, 2023 • 34min

The Challenges of Pre-Announcements

Discover the challenges and strategies behind product pre-announcements, including the impact and strategic considerations. Learn about behind-the-scenes involvement, guidelines, and media interactions. Explore new approaches for cloud security and attack path analysis in multi-cloud environments. Delve into comprehensive cloud native application security and the benefits of a color-coded system for risk identification.
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Nov 1, 2023 • 37min

Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis

Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud. SHOW: 767CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Panoptica (homepage)Outshift by Cisco (Emerging Technologies)Panoptica - Open Clarity (open source projects)Tim Miller (LinkedIn)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days at Outshift by Cisco. Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the security challenges that come with modern applications and cloud environments.  Topic 3 - The classic challenges of security have always been too many tools, not enough people, lots of misconfigurations, tons of red on the dashboard. Are there new approaches that are trying to address these challenges?Topic 4 - Talk to us about this concept of “Attack Path Analysis”. What is it? What is it trying to accomplish that we didn’t/couldn’t do before?Topic 5 - How does Panoptica address many of these challenges? How does it integrate with the many areas of the entire picture, from IaC to CI/CD to Observability?Topic 6 - What are some differences that DevOps teams might experience by using Attack Path Analysis? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
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Oct 29, 2023 • 23min

A New Perspective on The Cloudcast

Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules. SHOW: 766CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTINGCommutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less importantVC funding is slowing down, people are more focused on results vs. “new”AI is a regular part of the conversation, but how much is too much?WHAT WILL CLOUDCAST 2.0 LOOK LIKE? Moving to three shows a week: Sunday Perspective, Tuesday Umbrellas & Sunnies, Thursday On The HorizonCloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the MonthBring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionalityBring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & BrianBetter balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do TodayDo you want us to do Video?Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
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Oct 25, 2023 • 38min

Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success

Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS.SHOW: 765CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.appCode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20SHOW NOTES:Acorn Labs (homepage)Meet Acorn - A Cloud Platform for EveryoneTopic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWSTopic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’tTopic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
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Oct 22, 2023 • 34min

Lessons Learned from a Decade of CNCF Projects

As Docker talks about their successes and failures after 10 years, what lessons can be learned by open source companies, projects and foundations over the past decade.SHOW: 764CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendReduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.appDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Docker at 10 - Three Things we got Right, Three Things we got Wrong (TNS)Lessons Learned from Docker (Eps.505 - 2021)Lessons Learned from OpenShift (Eps. 489 - 2021)If Kubernetes is Boring, what’s next? (Eps.509 - 2021)IT’S HARD TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREESDocker was the transition between OpenStack (bad foundation) and Kubernetes (CNCF)Was Docker a Community or a Cult? How did Leadership work?Docker was stuck between VMware and DevelopersWHAT HAS THE INDUSTRY LEARNED FROM THE DOCKER DAYS?Customers and communities are very hesitant to adopt another single-vendor offeringCould Docker have succeeded as a “free” implementation?As much as DevOps and PlatformEngineering are happening, it’s tough to have an “in between” technology (used by both Infra and AppDev)It’s OK to adapt your monetization model, but it’s not OK to not have oneOpen source can’t be the driving force of a business. It’s not a charity. If somebody offers you $3B, maybe consider taking it….FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
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Oct 18, 2023 • 34min

Inside Open Source Software

Joe Curley (VP/GM Software & Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (@arungupta, VP/GM Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosystems.SHOW: 763CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20SHOW NOTES:Intel Open EcosystemsLike Water for Fish: Intel’s Elemental Support for DevelopersAnnouncing the Unified Acceleration (UXL) FoundationOur kid’s graduating from college!Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Joe and Arun, give everyone a brief background please.Topic 2 - For many of our listeners, they may not equate Intel with Software and Open Source. Can you give everyone some background on how the intersection of Intel and Open Ecosystems came to be and your involvement today? What’s in it for developersTopic 3 - How does Open Source Software fit into Intel’s broader software strategyTopic 4 - What are the trends you are seeing in OSS and how does that impact Intel? How does that impact organizations today?Topic 5 - What kind of investments does Intel make into Open Source and Open Tools? There is Intel’s oneAPI for instance… Topic 6 - Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere, how does AI fit into Intel’s hardware and software vision and strategy?Topic 7 - Any final closing thoughts on the future and what to expect from Intel in the future?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

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