The Cloudcast

Let’s take a look at the evolution of “SuperCloud”, and if it’s a trend, an architecture, an application model, or something else all together. SHOW: 662CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:2022 Look Ahead to SuperCloud (Eps.586)SuperCloud 3.0 Definition (Wikibon)Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious VI: The Nightmare ContinuesThe emergence of Cloud 3.0 and independent vendor exclusion NAMING IS IMPORTANT, BUT SOMETIMES NEW CONCEPTS ARE HARD TO NAMEWhen something new comes along, do we spend more time talking about the name or the value of the new concept? Does anyone remember “Serverless”?WHAT IS SUPERCLOUD, AND WHY MIGHT IT BE IMPORTANTMulti-Cloud is a real thing (for various reasons), but Multi-Cloud-App is an anomaly.Maybe it’s a SuperApp, instead of a SuperCloudClouds, Politics, InsuranceWhat happens if applications “span” availability zones? Span regions? Can SuperCloud be a thing for the application, or mostly the data?The cost of moving data makes these types of applications very difficult to build and manage.Load-balancing, DNS, CDNsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Benjamin Wilms (@MrBWilms, co-founder/CEO of @Steadybit) talks about the importance of resilience for SREs, DevOps, and developers through chaos engineering platformsSHOW: 661CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog 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. Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgProfiler from Granulate - Production profiling, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:Steadybit (homepage)Steadybit wants developers involved in Chaos engineering before production (TechCrunch)Topic 1 - Benjamin, give everyone a quick introduction.Topic 2 - Let’s start with the concept of chaos engineering. In its simplest form, chaos engineering intentionally takes down parts of a test or production environment (typically after software has shipped) randomly so teams, typically SRE’s/ops/dev, are forced to make the applications more resilient over time. It’s not a matter of if systems will go down, it’s a matter of when. This makes the systems better over time. Benjamin, you have a consulting background in this area that ultimately led to founding Steadybit. What were the limitations to this approach?Topic 3 - What you’re talking about is a more proactive approach to downtime. I’ll call this resilience engineering and it requires a shift in mindset in an organization. How do you get developers onboard to embrace the need? Are we asking developers to share responsibility for outages with the SRE organization?Topic 4 - On the surface, the obvious benefit is reduced downtime. That can be hard to quantify in business value. Outages can be measured, a lack of outages is harder to quantify. Does this become an issue in convincing an organization to embrace this methodology?Topic 5 - When you say we are going to move chaos engineering into the CI/CD pipeline, what does that mean? Is this code that is added? Testing simulations that have to be passed? Real time failures of databases or nodes or simulated? What are the common use cases?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Technical Debt has a branding problem, and in a shifting economy, it becomes increasingly important to have a focus on projects that drive positive ROI.  SHOW: 660CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog 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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:WE GLAMORIZE INNOVATION BECAUSE ROI IS HARD TO MEASUREThere is an outward perspective that everyone wants to work on something new, because it gets a lot of attention. But there are plenty of opportunities to focus on foundational, stabilizing capabilities. SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENTThink of things in terms of quarters, or six-months, or twelve-monthsWhere can you measure improvement?Where can you leave things alone, but still have room to improve?How can you link to improvement in other areas?How can you have an incremental improvement mindset?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Michael Cade (@michaelcade1) talks about learning in public and his creation of "90 Days of DevOps" to enable others by teaching the process and principles of DevOps from the ground up.SHOW: 659CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.Datadog 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:90 Days of DevOpsTopic 1 - We’ve known each other for a long time. For those out there not familiar, give us a quick introduction.Topic 2 - Before we dig into the 90 Days of DevOps project, tell everyone about your career journey at Veeam and now Kasten. You’ve made the transition from infrastructure technologist to DevOps and cloud native technologies. How did that come about?Topic 3 - You started the project on Jan 1, 2022. Did you have this all mapped out before you started or did you create the content and topics as you went along?Topic 4 - Tell everyone a little bit about what they can learn if they complete the program. What made you choose these topics? What I like best about the program is the wide variety of topics. Everything from conceptual items (OSI model) to hands on with Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc.Topic 5 - What stuck out to you going through the process? What was most impactful to you in the journey? I remember following along from a far on Twitter while you were doing this. You struck a nerve in the community somewhere along the way (18k stars on GitHub). When did you think this might get bigger than you anticipated?Topic 6 - What’s next? Do you have plans to continue the project or create another project? What are folks out there asking for? Anything you would change in the current program?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

It’s important to remember not to “equate fun with money”, especially when you have to do repetitive and boring things that aren’t fun and don’t get you more money. SHOW: 658CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.Datadog 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:Google CEO demands higher employee productivityGoogle asks employees to find 20% more productivity(“Simplicity Sprints”)Amazon builds internal team to keep developers from being bored SOMETIMES THINGS GROW AND IT’S FUNWe’re hiring! Launches! Everyone is a rock-star! Nobody cares about accountability during the good times, because growth hides all the flaws.SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENTGoogle added 25k people per year (2019-2021)Do less hiring (less interviews, less new hire-stuff, less “where is?”)Don’t put the burden on the employees to fix leadership ambitionsGoogle “Simplicity Sprints”Amazon “Amazon Software Builder Experience” (ASBX)20% more productive33% do repetitive workIs this good or bad for the concept of Platform EngineeringFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Founder/CEO of @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of cloud engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code.SHOW: 657CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyCDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:Pulumi (homepage)Cloud Software will be built differently (Protocol)New Tools for Cloud-Native Developers (Eps388 - Pulumi - 2019)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since Pulumi was last on the show (2019), so give us an update on how things are growing.  Topic 2 - There’s been a lot of change in the IaC market over the last few years - Ansible/IBM, Hashicorp/IPO, Chef/Puppet went to Private Equity, VMware bought Salt - Why do you think we’ve seen so much change in the market in such a short period of time?Topic 3 - With more companies using the public cloud, and multiple clouds, what does Infrastructure-as-Code look like these days? Are there a new set of challenges to be solved?Topic 4 - Pulumi has a development model that sort of straddles between IaC and applications. How does it get used in actual customer environments? Has it surprised you how it’s used by customers? Topic 5 - What are some of the new ways in which Pulumi can take advantage of new cloud capabilities, or new trends you’re seeing from your customers? Topic 6 - If someone was using a different IaC tool before, are there easy ways to migrate to Pulumi, or is there a steep learning curve? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

VCs used to love the public cloud because it disrupted old guard vendors. Now the cloud is keeping more of the profits and the VCs are starting to fight back. SHOW: 656CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.  SHOW NOTES:Cost of Cloud Paradox (a16z) Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management (Eps.520)Leading VCs to commit $1.25B to startups building on Cloudflare WorkersVCs USED TO LOVE THE CLOUDIn the old days, the first $50M of VC funding went to Cisco, EMC, Sun and Oracle. And then the public cloud came along, and that shifted to the first $5M going to AWS. NOW VCs ARE ACTIVELY FIGHTING AGAINST THE MONSTER THEY HELPED CREATEVCs are learning that bandwidth costs never come downVCs would like to get more of the profits, which are going to AWSNow VCs are putting their money behind other cloudsIs this a trend that will continue? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.SHOW: 655CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:Chainguard (homepage)Sigstore - standard for signing, verifying and protecting softwareCISA SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and led you to found Chainguard. Topic 2 - Over the last couple years, we’ve seen several high-profile hacks where malicious code was a big part of the problem. As an industry, where are we in terms of managing the security around software? Topic 3 - Now that we’re building software much faster, and software is coming from so many different (and often unknown/untrusted) places, what are some of the technology shifts that are happening to address these new environments?Topic 4 - Chainguard is focused on both secure container images and now secure supply-chain solutions. Walk us through how your offers fit into today’s software challenges.Topic 5 - There is a new term we’re hearing quite a bit, SBOM (Secure Bill of Materials). How does SBOM fit into this bigger picture? What are the technologies behind the scenes that make it possible?Topic 6 - For anyone focusing on this area, what are some good ways to get involved with the new technologies and way of thinking about software security?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Headlines are boring. New technologies are boring. Companies aren’t changing the world right now. And all this boring is OK. Sometimes being pragmatic is a good thing. SHOW: 654CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.  SHOW NOTES:RIGHT NOW, THINGS SEEM PRETTY BORINGCrypto crashed and burned. Unicorns have to generate profits. The hyperscalers want to cut costs. From a headlines perspective, things seem pretty boring right now. And that’s OK. BORING IS WHEN THINGS GET MORE AUTOMATED, MORE SECURE, AND REDESIGNEDCompanies are focused on profitability.Companies are focused on accountability.Companies are slowing hiring, and rethinking resources.Security is a focus area.Automation is a focus area. This is when things get redesigned for sustainability. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.   SHOW: 653CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog 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.CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.SHOW NOTES:Baseten (homepage)Intro to Baseten (video)Baseten get $20M in funding from GreylockTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you started Baseten.Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Data Scientists. Not an easy job. They build models and analyze data. But what typically happens after that? How do the models typically get seen and what needed to happen to make that possible?Topic 3 - What parts of those pain points does Baseten focus on? How does Baseten bring together low-code (or serverless) concepts with the complexity that Data Scientists need to deal with day-to-day?Topic 4 - What are some of the technologies running behind the scenes to make Baseten easy to use, or that are exposed to the Data Scientists? Topic 5 - How does a Data Scientist typically get from “I have a useful model” to “I’m making this part of a useful application”? How does Baseten create building blocks to help them not have to be front-end or back-end engineers?Topic 6 - What are some of the types of use-cases or applications that your customers have been building?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet