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Marko Anastasov (@markoa, Co-Founder Semaphore CI) talks about how to manage the evolution of monoliths to microservices using modern CI/CD.SHOW: 667CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsFujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most secure, scalable and efficient way. Find out more at builtontape.fujifilmusa.comCDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and SecurityCDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits. SHOW NOTES:SemaphoreCI websiteSemaphore CI/CD ResourcesTransitioning from Monolith to Microservices (ebook)Topic 1 - Marko, let’s start with a quick introduction. How did you get involved with SemaphoreCI?Topic 2 - You have been working on CI/CD for 10+ years. Many listeners are familiar with the concepts of CI and CD but what brought you into the space and what are the primary benefits you see in clients you work with?Topic 3 - We hear success stories from organizations that are doing hundreds to thousands of deployments a day (Netflix, Twitter, etc.). Many didn’t start out that way. Some didn’t even start with microservices, but started with monoliths and moved to microservices as they outgrew a monolithic architecture. Is this common?Topic 4 - What are the tradeoffs between monoliths and microservices? Also, does the concept of a greenfield deployment vs. a brownfield deployment factor into the decision? Where does an organization start?Topic 5 -  What are the guidelines to building a successful microservices strategy? Where do you even start to split up a monolith? Is it a line of business function, technical boundary in the application, keeping the size of the development team small?Topic 6 -   In the journey to microservices, what are the first advantages seen? What are the first pitfalls encountered?Topic 7 - Developers just want to go fast and automate all the things. Once a microservices strategy is built, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, security & cost. All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Many people are asking about the future of KubeCon now that Kubernetes isn’t the central focus. How does it evolve? Is it like re:Invent or VMworld or something else? SHOW: 666CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:JetBrains Datalore: Collaborative data science for your whole organizationEnhance your core data team’s performance by bringing real-time collaboration, a first-class coding experience, and no-code automations to Jupyter notebooks. Make conversation with business stakeholders easy through the sharing of interactive data apps. Start for free at datalore.team/cloudcast.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:The Cloudcast Eps.665 - Reviewing KubeCon DetroitLessons Learned from OpenStack (Eps.489) WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF KUBECON / CLOUDNATIVECONKubeCon feels like it’s at a cross-roads now that Kubernetes is not the central focus of the event. So where does it go from here? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE ISN’T A CENTRAL FOCUS?Is it OpenStack Big Tent 2.0?Is the CNCF trying to define a stack anymore, or just a governance home?Is it VMworld post-2012?Is it the re:Invent of Cloud-native technologies?Could some company be the GTM for many of the companies at KubeCon?Would it be good or bad to have individual project conferences? Are the pre-event event good or bad for people trying to learn a specific domain?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.SHOW: 665CLOUD 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:CNCF Announcements - KubeConNA 2022 (Detroit)KubeCon Vendor ListTopic 1 - Let’s start with what was good or bad at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon. Overall vibes at the conference? 7,000 attendees, 300 vendor-companies, good amount of end-usersGood: Well-organized, live interactionsBad: City choice, keynotes, Day1 & 2 pricing modelsIs this Big Tent 2.0? (Aaron - I don’t think so…)Topic 2 - Interesting technologies or technology trends? Kubernetes is no longer the center of this conferenceService Mesh, WASM (Web Assembly), Cost-Mgmt, various forms of SecurityStarting to see fragmentation (e.g. Cloud-Native Security is it’s own conference)Topic 3 - Are we in a bubble? Lots of companies in each technology category? Will we see consolidation, failures or buyers? What’s the mission for CNCF - place for projects to incubate with no “horse in the race”, all areas will eventually consolidate down to a few players over time?Topic 4 - What’s next for KubeCon? Can it survive as a big event without a central technology? Will it splinter into lots of little events?Did the CNCF turn this into too much of a marketing event?What’s in it for the sponsors? Especially if it splits into different events?Why do they keep making bad location choices? (Amsterdam 4/20, Chicago - Nov ‘23)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

What is the new intersection between open-source communities, vendors and VCs? Is it changing? Should we be concerned about the future of open source?SHOW: 664CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsFujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most secure, scalable and efficient way. Find out more at builtontape.fujifilmusa.comSHOW NOTES:The Dead End (Redmonk) OPEN SOURCE ISN'T THE SAME AS 20 YEARS AGOOpen source is the new default for innovation, and many companies have made it their default. But do they think about open source and technology differently now?IT'S THE DEFAULT, BUT THE USAGE EXPECTATIONS HAVE EVOLVED TOOThere's a difference between open source usage for infrastructure vs. app-devWho should care about open source licensing?How much are VCs dictating the open source license strategy?Does open-core have a place, or is it killing open source?It is OK to treat customers and competitors differently?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Nick Durkin, Field CTO & VP of Engineering at Harness talk about how the journey to success for cloud-native often runs through CI/CD fundamentals.SHOW: 663CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:FujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most secure, scalable and efficient way. Find out more at builtontape.fujifilmusa.comGranulate, 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:Harness.ioNick on The Cube, KubeCon 20218 Deployment Patterns to transform CI/CD{unscripted} 2022 conferenceTopic 1 - Nick, let’s start with a quick introduction.Topic 2 - Let’s dig into CI/CD pipelines a bit. Some like to treat CI different from CD, others say they must be combined. When you talk to customers about deployment strategies and patterns, how do you approach this? Where does GitOps fit into the conversation?Topic 3 - We hear success stories all the time about top performing organizations that do hundreds to thousands of deployments to production a day. Is this a realistic expectation for the average organization? If they want to improve, where do they start? Topic 4 - For organizations that are just beginning the journey, how do you convince internal teams to embrace automation and build confidence over time?Topic 4.5 -  Once confidence is built internally, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, & cost? All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price and builds tension?Topic 5 - Where does security fit into all of this as automation increases? What other design considerations should be taken into consideration creating pipelines? What are the common mistakes you see?Topic 6 - How does AI and ML fit into the present and future for CI/CD?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

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