The Cloudcast

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

Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what works and maybe doesn’t work.SHOW: 652CLOUD 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:Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats.IRS Reaches Milestone on Paper Return Backlog FedNow℠ Service instant payments in July 2023Amazon’s API MandateGartner Bi-Modal ITCloud Adoption will fail with the skills gap (Gartner)There is no talent shortage (Andrew Clay Shafer)DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPSDevs don’t want to do OpsBlameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be commonHybrid Cloud didn’t really materialize into real applications BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track? Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.SHOW: 651CLOUD 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:Granulate (homepage)gMaestro - Kubernetes Cost Optimization Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Granulate. Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Cost Optimization. What’s a good framework to think about this problem? Is it a focus on over-provisioning, or optimizing applications, or a different approach?Topic 3 - What are some of the most common areas where Kubernetes needs to better manage costs? Is it more at the infrastructure layer, or at the application layer?Topic 4 - Tell us about the recently launched gMaestro. How does it work, and what are the common ways that companies would begin to use it to optimize their environments?Topic 5 - Are some optimizations more immediately impactful? Are some optimizations more focused on long-term cost savings?Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to engage around gMaestro? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing cracks? SHOW: 650CLOUD 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:The Book of Reed Hastings, RevisitedThe New Cloud WarWE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIESWhen things are good - low interest rates, stock price is up, VC money is flowing in, disruption gets valued at high multiples - lots of stories get written about the disruptors. But when things change - the stories are written about their failures. BUT THE DISRUPTION RARELY LAST FOREVER. It’s important to match the disruption era with the economic era. A lot of stories will be written about how badly the economics of the “disruptor companies” were during the halcyon days (Uber, WeWork, Netflix, etc.)Frauds will be called out. Culture will remain important, but impossible to replicate cultures will get dissected, and profitability will take precedence over culture.The ecosystems of the largest companies will start to wonder if it’s still a good idea, as the largest expand their offerings. Good new technologies will have lower visibility and have to build staying power.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

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