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Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new data plane for Istio service mesh.SHOW: 649CLOUD 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.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:Istio (homepage)Introducing Istio Ambient MeshIstio added to the CNCFIstioCon 2022 (videos)ServiceMeshConEU 2022 (videos)Istio in Action (book) by Christian PostaTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh. Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves. Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it’s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we’re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we’re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode? Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Each year we celebrate labor with a day of no labor. Throughout our careers, labor means different things to different people. What does this Labor Day mean to you? SHOW: 648CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCDN77 - 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:Labor DaySHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LABOR OR THE OUTPUT OF LABOR?Do you live to work, or work to live? Are you changing the world, or fine with incremental change?HOW DOES YOUR VIEW OF LABOR CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR CAREER?In tech, there is never an end of work. Either at the day level, or at the volume level. For a majority introverted industry, we seem to be OK working from home, but we also desire to do things in person (just not driving to the office)It’s OK to have a broken relationship with labor after the pandemic. It’s been three years. Nothing is the same. Lots of habits developed. Lots of things broke. Remember that you don’t always have the same relationship with labor throughout your career, and neither do your co-workers. It’s good to figure out where they are. Breaks are good. Uninterrupted breaks are very important. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.SHOW: 647CLOUD 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 easyDatadog 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:Vendia (homepage)Vendia raises $30M Round BVendia overview (60s video)Vendia technical overviewWhy blockchains, databases, and APIs don’t cut it on their ownTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since you smashed servers on stage at a keynote. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you decided to leave AWS and found Vendia.Topic 2 - The public cloud did a really good job of accelerating application growth, and data sprawl, but it didn’t really organize it very well. So we have apps across multiple clouds and data across multiple clouds. How do companies start to cope with this distributed “mess”?Topic 3 - When does a customer’s application or data challenges become such that Vendia becomes a way to solve their problem?Topic 4 - You’re known as Mr. Serverless. What role does Serverless play in the Vendia platform, and what other technologies are under the covers? Topic 5 - What types of applications make the most sense on the Vendia platform?Topic 6 - Blockchain is part of the Vendia platform. Why choose this for the backend data vs. some other database or storage technology? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Can you justify what you spend on software? On DevOps activities? Like actually put a number on it, not just explain that it’s needed to solve the digital challenges of the business?  SHOW: 646CLOUD 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 easyDatadog 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.Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Hurdle Rate HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO CREATE AND RUN SOFTWARE?How much does a better customer experience cost? How valuable is it to add new partners? Some questions are easy to measure, while others are not. So how do you measure them?DOES YOUR PROJECT CLEAR THE HURDLE RATE?Who decides if a project is important? Is viable?How do you measure cost-savings projects vs. business expansion projects?Does the CFO decide, or the CMO, or the CRO? Who resolves conflicts?Are you prepared to have projects rejected due to missing the hurdle rate?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends. SHOW: 645CLOUD 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. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easySHOW NOTES:Datadog State of Serverless 2022Best practices by Datadog for monitoring AWS LambdaMonitoring AWS serverless applications with DatadogMonitoring Azure serverless applications with DatadogTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been around the serverless market for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on today?Topic 2 - We’re seeing adoption of serverless in all the major clouds. Have the offerings in each cloud gotten to about the same level, or do you think this is mostly a factor of companies using multiple clouds?Topic 3 - Node.js and Python lead the way in terms of language used with Serverless, but most companies are using 3+ languages. Are you surprised at the breadth of language usage by companies? Topic 4 - Nearly 50% of all serverless is tied to API-Gateway usage. This surprised us - expected more to be tied to event-driven services. Any insights into how they are using serverless in this context?Topic 5 - There’s quite a bit of variety between usage patterns between the cloud offerings - from container images, to integration with ECS/Kubernetes, to Cloud Run to Azure Container Instances. It seems to show that the market and usage-patterns are still evolving. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Kenneth White (@kennwhite, Security Principal @MongoDB) talks about the causes of internal breaches, querying encrypted data vs encryption-at-rest, and database evolutions.SHOW: 644CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog 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.SHOW NOTES:MongoDB Queryable EncryptionWired article with more backgroundMongoDB World presentation from June 2022Product page with FAQ & DocumentationPodcast interview with The New Stack from MDBW in JuneTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a distinguished career in security and cryptography-adjacent. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB?Topic 2 - Unfortunately, we’re hearing about more and more attacks that have an internal origination. From a security and cryptography perspective, what typically breaks down to allow this to happen? Topic 3 - MongoDB has recently launched a database that enables querying encrypted data. Give us some background on how this new concept came into being. Topic 4 - What are the technology components involved in making this happen - on the database side, on the application side, on the key management side? Topic 5 - What are some of the application use-cases where this new database technology makes sense?Topic 6 - How can people start exploring this technology? Is it available in both the software and SaaS offerings?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Maya Kaczorowski (@MayaKaczorowski, Product @Tailscale) talks about the new world of remote systems access, zero-config VPNs, and why everyone loves using Tailscale. SHOW: 643CLOUD 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 easyDatadog 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.Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Tailscale (homepage)WireGuardHow NAT traversal works blog postHow Tailscale works blog postBSidesSF talk: WireGuard from the ground upTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.Topic 2 - Let’s start with some praise and some confusion. We see tons of people saying “we love Tailscale”, and yet most people hate VPNs or are trying to get rid of VPNs. Help us get smart about what Tailscale does. Topic 3 - Step back a little bit. Help us understand what a modern CISO has to think about regarding remote access vs. zero trust vs. encrypting communications? What are the critical things they worry about?Topic 4 - What are some of the unique things that Tailscale does with VPNs? Why does everyone seem to love using it? Topic 5 - Tailscale seems to work on all the modern OSs (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, etc.). How does Tailscale work with existing networking devices? Topic 6 - What are some of the common customer outcomes that happen when they enable Tailscale? What lessons can be learned from this approach?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Over the last decade, software ate the world.  So what are the byproducts of all that eating, and is there anything left on the table? SHOW: 642CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS: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.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsStreamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. SHOW NOTES:Software is no longer eating the world (article) HOW DID SOFTWARE EAT THE WORLD?A decade of projects that spun out of the big cloud companies and became open source projects (Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.)All the things your mom used to do for you is now a mobile app (rides, grocery delivery, making your meals, We’ve had a decade+ of growth economy (low interest rates, lots of VC funding)ARE THE INCUMBENTS FINALLY EATING THEIR OWN SOFTWARE?Incumbents are starting to adopt new business models (Streaming TV/Movies, Electric Cars, Analytics built into Farming/Sports/etc.) and leveraging their previous investments.Many of the business models of the last 5+ years is falling apartThe monopolies are disrupting the monopolies (Apple/ads), Web3 is going through a trough of disillusionmentMeta lost $10B, which aligns to what was their metaverse investment planSoftware ate business models, but there is a hardware resurgence comingPeople want a “what’s next”” technology trend, but there’s still a lot of Web2 to play out. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Jordan Novet (@jordannovet, Technology Reporter @CNBC) talks about how to analyze earnings from the big clouds, Microsoft’s position as the #2 cloud, and what might disrupt the Big 3 in the future.SHOW: 641CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsStreamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.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:Jordan Novet (on CNBC)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.Topic 2 - We’re now into a different phase of the economy from the pandemic years of 2020-early2022. What are the trends we’re now seeing for the major cloud companies? Topic 3 - Beyond looking at quarter to quarter earnings, how do you think about the trends for the bigger cloud companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the challenger clouds (Cloudflare, etc.)?Topic 4 - Are you seeing anything that tells you that we’ll see a change in the standings (AWS, Azure, GCP) anytime soon (e.g. forward CAPEX spending, etc.)? Do you see the challenges/disruptors making any dents in their growth? Topic 5 - We saw some slowing down in the growth rates of all the cloud providers this past quarter. Do you think that’s just the impact of post-COVID slowdown plus some supply-chain issues around getting new servers, or does this potentially signal that movement to the cloud might be slowing down? Topic 6 - What types of things does the financial community wish they knew about the cloud providers that either aren't broken out (e.g. different reporting across the cloud providers), or what areas are lacking transparency?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

As much as we talk about tech, our industry is people-centric. Knowing how to find a mentor, or eventually becoming a mentor is an important skill to have. So how does it work? SHOW: 640CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.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 TeamsSHOW NOTES:WHY DO WE HAVE MENTORS WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS?When I was early in my career, I thought you could just ask executives questions. And you can, but you might not always get the answers you expect. So a lot of people read books. But sometimes it’s good to find the in-between. HOW DOES THE MENTOR / MENTEE PROCESS WORK?Is Mentor/Mentee a formal process?When should you look for a Mentor?What should the relationship look like? What are the dynamics?What should both sides expect in the relationship?Should you pay for a mentor?When should you look outside your normal circle for some new insight?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet