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Shanea Leven (@ShaneaLeven, Founder/CEO @CodeSeeio) talks about enabling development teams to better understand the complexities and interdependencies of their code throughout the lifecycle.SHOW: 571CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Megaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedCBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner accountSHOW NOTES:CodeSee (homepage)OSS Port (homepage)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had an interesting background prior to CodeSee. Tell us a little bit about your journey, and what led you to create CodeSee.Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about developer productivity and the types of things that create bottlenecks for teams. Help us understand where CodeSee fits into the flow of how applications are built and lifecycled. Topic 3 - Teams change, teams grow, projects evolve over time. How does CodeSee help teams improve the learning curve of what’s in code and how to understand what came before them?Topic 4 - Walk us through a day, or week, in the life of application teams that are working with CodeSee and without CodeSee. I’ve seen you use the term “Continuous Understanding” - what does that mean to you?Topic 5 - Development teams have all sorts of tools in front of them. What are some of the interesting ways that CodeSee integrates with the other tools that are commonly put in front of them? GitHub recently called out a nice integration.Topic 6 - We talk alot about developer productivity. How do you find companies measuring improvement when using CodeSee?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

You’ve been hearing about Web3 and metaverse and crypto, and everything is changing. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? Let’s yell at the metaverse and see what echoes back.SHOW: 570CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Juniper Networks – Experience-First NetworkingLearn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutionsDatadog 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:What is web3? (CB Insights)Notes on Web3 (Robin Sloan)An Engineer’s Hype-Free Observations on web3 (PSL)Why Microsoft might beat Zuckerberg to the metaverse (Venture Beat)It’s a web3 world now, how does the hype compare to Web 2.0? (The NewStack)The Facebook Company is now Meta WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO CHANGE THE EXISTING INTERNET?The metaverse is part of a bigger evolution called “Web3”, which is looking at new interaction models, new payment models, and new ways to represent life in a fully digital world. How did we get here? What lessons from the past can we learn? HOW MIGHT THE METAVERSE CHANGE THE INTERNET, FOR GOOD OR BAD?Like Web 1.0 and 2.0, Web3 is initially being positioned as “for the youth”, but there’s already a subculture of people trying to make it “for the Enterprise, as well”.Metaverse and Web3 have all-digital versions of things (identity, goods, payments, etc.) that seem complicated and confusing to anyone that doesn’t start there. There will (likely) be many metaverses, and this will be OK, and people will ask for standards and things to interoperate. There will be consumer metaverses and Enterprise (“work”) metaverses. People will wish the work one was more like the consumer one - but not always. Metaverse assumes that we want to blur the lines between what had been a distraction (e.g. gaming) and what we want in the rest of our lives. A lot has changed since we first tried this 15 years ago (e.g. Second Life). There is a lot more psychology involved in these virtual worlds than you initially think, especially outside of the “native” community.Be cautious around the people that talk very fast when you ask questions, and always tell you that you don’t understand it and need to be authentic. Experiment. Ask questions. To research with problems in mind.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Jim Walker (@jaymce, Principal Product Evangelist at @CockroachDB) talks about how serverless has moved from compute to backing data services, and focuses on improving application developer productivity. SHOW: 569CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Megaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedCBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner accountSHOW NOTES:Cockroach LabsCockroachDB Serverless(Eps.438) Scalable Databases on KubernetesTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention at Cockroach Labs. Give us a quick overview of CockroachDB.Topic 2 - We’ve covered “Serverless” quite a bit on the show, mostly focused around compute services, but there seems to be a growing trend around serverless as it relates to data services. Can you give us some background on what’s driving these new capabilities?Topic 3 - Implementations of Database-as-a-Service have been around for quite a while now. What’s new or different around service database offerings? Topic 4 - CockroachDB is fairly unique in its ability to span locations (e.g. in essence be multi-cloud). Help us connect the dots between the core elements of CockroachDB, and where the new serverless capabilities enhance that (for an application, for a DB team, for an Operations team, etc.)Topic 5 - What are some of the new use-cases that can potentially be unlocked with the new serverless offering? Topic 6 - How do you expect the new serverless offering to change the way that application teams and operations teams interact with systems going forward? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Many people ask us about technical product marketing - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful technical product marketer.SHOW: 568CLOUD 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.Juniper Networks – Experience-First NetworkingLearn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutionsSHOW NOTES:HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETERIs marketing just lies and double-speak? If a product or technology is great, does it even need marketing? These are the questions that people often ask themselves before exploring roles that have some aspect of “marketing” in their name. WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETERThere are lots of different types of marketers - product-specific, go-to-market, regional, technical marketing, evangelist/advocate, etc.There is value in lots of different skills around marketing - technical, speaking, writing, critical listeningThe timeline of a marketer is somewhat different than a product manager. Both have to manage short and long-term. But marketing tends to be more focused on today’s problems/challenges/opportunities.Marketers have to understand the technology, but also how to translate it to business problems and business value. Marketers need to understand the difference between drills and holes. The role of marketing has significantly changed in the last few years. We’ve moved from more directed marketing to more automated and data-driven marketing.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

In October and November, Microsoft hosted the GitHub Universe and Ignite 2021 conferences, focused on Developers and Cloud Computing. We review the important announcements and analyze the future directions for Azure, GitHub, etc SHOW: 567CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Megaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedBMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseSHOW NOTES:Microsoft Ignite 2021 AnnouncementsMicrosoft Ignite 2021 (Keynote)Everything new from GitHub Universe 2021GitHub Universe 2021 (Keynote)Azure - Bigger Announcements Azure OpenAI Service - access to GPT-3 Azure Cognitive Service for LanguageAzure Cosmos DB Azure Managed Instance of Apache CassandraAzure Synapse Analytics Azure Container Apps (preview) Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes(Java EE) Oracle Weblogic  on Azure Kubernetes Service. (Java EE) Websphere Liberty on Kubernetes/OpenShiftEnhancements to Azure DevOps (see GitHub)GitHub - Bigger AnnouncementsImproved CI/CD workflows with GitHub ActionsImprovements to GitHub CodespacesCustom repository roles (security)Improved “Issues” and “Discussions”FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Hashicorp has been on The Cloudcast more than any other company. As they prepare for their upcoming IPO, we look back at what makes them successful vs. other OSS-centric companies. SHOW: 566CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Juniper Networks – Experience-First NetworkingLearn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutionsBMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseDatadog 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:Hashicorp (Eps.157) - Automating Data Center Scale InfrastructureHashicorp (Eps.173) - AtlasHashicorp (Eps.246) - Quest for 1M containersHashicorp (Eps.309) - Secrets ManagementHashicorp (Eps.387) - Service Mesh ArchitecturesHashicorp - Benchmarking the S1 Data (Clouded Judgement) WHAT MADE HASHICORP UNIQUE IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE SPACE?Hashicorp was not alone in the Infra-as-Code space, or the Security space, but they have been successful in building a commercial business based on OSS projects. Let’s look at what made them unique and successful. HOW DID HASHICORP GET HERE?Hashicorp Revenue - $295M | Gross Margin 82% | Revenue Growth (LTM) 55%Funding - $350M | NRR 124%  | Operating Margin 22%Funding - $350M GitLab - $179M | Gross Margin 88%  | Revenue Growth (LTM) 72% | Funding $414M | NRR 152% | Operating Margin 50% Pivotal - $509M | Gross Margin 55%  | Revenue Growth (LTM) 22% | $1.7BPivotal (Subscription/ARR) $300M  Always a pragmatic approach, from the perspective of usersAbandoned an early approach to building a “stack” (Hashicorp Atlas)Aligned to the public cloud Didn’t try to change the worldDidn’t actively fight with their community; weren’t unpleasantHad a single revenue producing product (Vault), and maybe TerraformGood timing (hot market)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Mike Rockwell (Global Head of Solutions @Megaport) talks about the evolution of Cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, SASE, and how Megaport is helping companies adapt to more needs for virtual edge networking. SHOW: 565SHOW SPONSORS:BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseCBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringStart 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.SHOW NOTES:Megaport (homepage)Megaport (resources)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways Megaport helps businesses connect to the cloud. Topic 3 - Can you walk us through some of the various ways that businesses use to connect to the cloud and why they choose to use Megaport? Topic 4 - Megaport recently launched a product named Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), which helps businesses connect branches to clouds within their SD-WAN and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solutions. You’ve announced some major partnerships with Cisco, Fortinet, and Versa. Tell us a little bit about MVE and these partnerships and how they’ll help customers.Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about modernizing their enterprise WAN - do they use MPLS, do they use SD-WAN, and what role does the cloud play in their network - what considerations do they need to make?Topic 6 - Why do you think it’s so important for businesses to enable their SD-WAN or SASE solutions for multicloud? Tell us about a sample use case.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Many people ask us about technical product management - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful product manager.SHOW: 564CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Juniper Networks – Experience-First NetworkingLearn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutionsMegaport (homepage) - Get to the Cloud from AnywhereMegaport (resources) - Cloud Interconnectivity Simplified SHOW NOTES:HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A PRODUCT MANAGERMany people in the tech industry believe that they know how to build a better mousetrap. But what does it really take to be a product manager? How is the job challenging, how is it difficult, and what does it take to be successful?WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT MANAGERBeing a product manager means that you’re a crystal ball reader (predict the future), a technology expert, a business analyst, a salesperson, a great communicator, and an expert priorities manager.Not all product managers are alike. It’s important to understand what part of the product (or all of the product) that you’re responsible for. Cheap, feature-rich, or delivered quickly - pick any two.You’re solving today’s problems and guessing about future problems, not always in that order. You have to be a great communicator, even if you’re an introvert. Are you going to work in an area where the company will be able to make your product successful? You’ll make a lot of mistakes.There is no end-game…..the game is always in motion.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Nick Davey (Sr. Product Manager, Cloud & SDN @JuniperNetworks) talks about the evolution of SDN networking for Kubernetes, cross-cluster and cross-cloud networking, and Tungsten Fabric.  SHOW: 563CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Megaport - Network as a Service PlatformTry Megaport - Cloud Connectivity SimplifiedCBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account SHOW NOTES:Juniper (homepage)Juniper Cloud ServicesJuniper SDN and OrchestrationJuniper Networks Day One: Building Containers Using Kubernetes and Contrail Tungsten Fabric from The Linux FoundationTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus at Juniper?Topic 2 - There’s lots of talk about Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud, but it’s often in the context of Kubernetes or an application running in multiple places. Let’s talk about how we interconnect clouds.Topic 3 - How should we think about the networking interconnections between end-users, the service providers, and the public cloud providers? Topic 4 - Help us understand the similarities and differences between the orchestration of workloads (e.g. containers and Kubernetes) and orchestration of networks (e.g. SDN, Contrail, etc.). Who needs to know about each system?Topic 5 - How does this all evolve as things like Kubernetes, KubeVirt (VMs) extend out to the edge? Topic 6 - What are some of the newer use-cases or application-types that are starting to push the need for new cloud networking technologies? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

While developers are the new kingmakers, it’s rare that any two companies will use the same systems, the same platforms, or the same models to enable developers to be successful. Let’s explore why.   SHOW: 562CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:The Developer Experience Gap (Remonk, 2020)KubeConNA 2021 Key Takeaways DevX Day KubeConNA 2021 Seed, Grow, Scale Developer Relations (PostHog)CNCF Landscape (interactive map) DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO TOOLSBetween open source tools, improved local hardware (laptops), online tutorials, free tiers, cloud-based tools, SaaS-based platforms and public repositories, there has never been a better time to be an application developer. Yet we still hear complaints about developer productivity, and developers feeling like too many things are in their path to success. AND DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO PLATFORMSIn a perfect world, there would be a platform that would align to all of a developers needs and patterns, and make everything else “invisible”. But platforms (by definition) have opinions, and limitations and have to eventually be maintained by someone (or groups).Developers don’t like their tools to be dictated to them.Developers don’t mind having access to too many tools, if they can somehow solve a problem, or a piece of a problem.People aren’t staying in jobs long enough to really care about long-term technical debt, or the ramifications about their platform decisions.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet