The Cloudcast

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the next few years? SHOW: 762CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Reduce 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 Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:The Software Paradox (Stephen O’Grady - Redmonk) GitHub CoPilot hits $100M ARRUnity CEO steps down after pricing changesFree or Free is Often Complicated (Eps.738)The Future of Software? (Eps.740)Cloud and Software Economics (Eps.744)Will LLMs replace OSS software licenses?  (Joseph Jacks)ARE THERE ANY VALID SOFTWARE BUSINESS MODELS LEFT?Software business models keep running into road blocksVC funding is slowing down, and interest rates are risingCan OSS as marketing survive? WILL THE NEXT GENERATION PAY FOR SOFTWARE, IN ANY WAY? SaaS seems to work, if you can survive the burn rate to capture customers.Is SaaS too expensive? Will variations emerge?Any changing models (free to fee, open core, etc.) disenfranchise the usersOSS is getting less fundingGaming is tied to engines and app storesWill AI open up new business models? New licensing models?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Anish Bishen, Jay Rawal, and Ieva Jonaityte discuss scaling infrastructure and data services at a startup with FinOps enabled. They explore challenges in managing data across multiple cloud platforms, balancing user experience and cost in a multi-cloud environment, and implementing cost optimization in a startup. Lessons learned include the importance of simplicity, seeking help, and partnering with experts to enhance communication and efficiency.

This podcast provides guidance and strategies for navigating annual reviews with your manager. Topics covered include managing the review process throughout the year, the good and bad of annual reviews, pay transparency, making yourself visible, and navigating senior feedback and mentorship.