The Cloudcast

Rob Parsons (Practice Director, Network and Integrated Security, Insight Enterprises) talks about advances in edge computing, connections to edge using 5G, and CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) as an emerging use case.SHOW: 521SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Security Monitoring Homepage: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsGet started monitoring your serverless environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)Insight Enterprises Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s focus, tell us about your background and how you’ve come to focus on CBRS. Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the basics of CBRS. What are the underlying technologies, how does it work? Topic 3 - What are some of the most common use-cases for CBRS technologies? What are some of the problems it solves that can’t be solved with 5G/LTE or WiFi? Topic 4 - What are some of the design considerations that companies need to make in deploying and maintaining CBRS systems? Topic 5 - Is there an ecosystem of applications that are specifically built to run on CBRS systems, or are they more specific to the use-case (e.g. municipalities, manufacturing, etc.)?Topic 6 - How much of a learning curve does CBRS present to teams that have networking and security background? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

While there are scenarios where public cloud is much less expensive than data centers, there are times when it’s much more expensive. Is repatriation a viable way to manage cloud costs? SHOW: 520SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Security Monitoring Homepage: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsGet started monitoring your serverless environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)SHOW NOTES:The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox (a16z)Networking in the Cloud: Data Transfer Fundamentals (Last Week in AWS)ARTICLE QUOTES: Repatriation results in one-third to one-half the cost of running equivalent workloads in the cloudYou’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.infrastructure spend should be a first-class metricTHE CASE FOR REPATRIATIONCloud costs are a large % of Cost of Sales (often times 50-80%)Cloud providers operate on large margins (e.g. AWS at 30%)Repatriation could reduce costs 30-50% of existing cloud spendTHE REALITIES OF REPATRIATIONThe case in the article is primarily based on 25-40x valuation multiples for software companies. While every companies believes they are a software company today, not every company is getting 25-40x revenue multiple from the market.  All repatriation calculations begin with, “if you run a highly efficient data center”All repatriation calculations next involve, “assuming you have the talent to run a cloud”Repatriation is technical debt. How does your company typically handle that?Less than 100% repatriation creates multiple operational models (ops, billing, security, etc.)Most companies use a subset of the features in any given cloud.Can you create a financial situation in your data center that’s similar to the cloud? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Gary Hoberman (@GaryHoberman, Founder / CEO of @Unqork) talks about No Code vs. Low Code, Bringing No Code into the Enterprise, and evolving industry experience. SHOW: 519SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsGet started monitoring your serverless environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Unqork - No Code Software PlatformNo Code vs. Low Code definedTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s topic, let’s talk about your background and what motivated you to found Unqork. Topic 2 - There are a ton of ways that some technologies get positioned as silver bullets or catch-all. First of all, how do you think about this space from the perspective of a business user? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the distinction between “low-code” and “no-code” and how the tradeoffs or differences actually impact users of the system.Topic 4 - With systems like these, there is an expectation that the system has quite a bit of knowledge, which creates these “highly opinionated” workflows. You’ve worked at large companies, which also have opinions based on existing culture or experience. How do you work groups through adopting these newer concepts?Topic 5 - This segment of the market is extremely “hyped” at this stage, with lots of companies. Help us understand how to put a frame around understanding the various options that are available in the market. FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn, Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless applications in the public cloud, adoption rates, as well as how serverless is deployed along with containersSHOW: 518SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsGet started monitoring your serverless environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Datadog State of Serverless Report (2021)Eps.436 - Trends in Serverless (2020)Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Before we dive into the latest serverless trends, let’s talk a little bit about your background and focus at Datadog.Topic 1a - This is the 2nd year of the State of Serverless report. Tell us about the scope and the methodology used.Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the growth (by breadth) of the overall Serverless market. Who is using serverless, and where are they consuming it from? Topic 3 - Your data shows that AWS Lambda is evolving in a couple different ways - both shorter lived usage (average) and involved in a broader set of use-cases (via Step Functions). It sounds like Serverless is becoming more mainstream as it branches out.Topic 4 - Language popularity is always an area of interest - what are the most popular languages for building serverless apps? Topic 5 - Given how granular Lambda billing has become, and how frameworks like Serverless and Step Functions are being used, were you surprised at the low rate of automation around serverless functions? Topic 6 - This year it seems like Edge use-cases for Serverless have really grown. I’d expect this to continue as we’re seeing both CloudFlare and AWS recently expanding their Serverless edge capabilities within their CDN offerings.FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

The tradeoff between building more features on existing platforms vs. building more new individual services is always a complex decision. Let’s look at the pros and cons of each.SHOW: 517SHOW SPONSORS:Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)Cut your Cloud bills in half with Linode Linux VMs$100 in Free Credits at LinodeCloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:How many ways to run a container in AWS?AWS messaging solutions - which one to use?Don Draper ('Mad Men') explains the CarouselPLATFORMS vs. SERVICES vs. INCREMENTAL CHANGEPlatforms deliver a broad set of horizontal or vertical servicesServices tend to be focused on individual capabilitiesFeatures can be added to either, but where to add the feature?Services could be built on top of each other, but then is it a feature or a service?DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO MAINTAIN A SERVICE FOREVER?Should you ever deprecate a service (e.g. turn it off, not be backwards compatible)?Can you leave the service “on” if nobody is using it?When do you decide to build a new service instead of just extending or improving another one? Do you have to create tools to migrate from one service to another?Do you have to create interoperability from one service to another?At what point have you added too many features to a platform (or service) to where the market (or internal customers) think that it’s too heavy - even when features don’t have to be used?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Julian Wood (@julian_wood, Sr. Developer Advocate @AWSCloud) talks about the evolution of serverless from niche to mainstream applications, and how the technology stack has evolved to a broad set of use-cases.SHOW: 516SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Serverless LandServerless LiveAWS Serverless HomepageLambda ExtensionsLambda container image supportTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing with Serverless, let’s talk about your background. Topic 2 - Let’s begin with “What is Serverless at AWS in 2021?” Sometimes it’s Lambda, sometimes it's a database, sometimes it's a CDN edge service. When is it App-Centric and when is it NoOps-centric?Topic 3 - AWS Lambda has expanded in functionality quite a bit over the years. Walk us through how it’s evolved across languages, event-sources, functions vs. containers, etc. Topic 4 - How do you think about Serverless use-cases? What are common usage patterns? Topic 5 - For a while, Lambda was mostly focused within the AWS ecosystem. Is it expanding to include 3rd-party services, or custom-built tools from customers/companies? Topic 6 - We’ve done a couple recent shows about event-driven applications. I tend to think about Serverless (or FaaS) as mostly event-driven apps. How is that space evolving?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Technology never stops evolving. But people needs breaks to recharge, re-evaluate and re-establish goals. So how can we balance the two? SHOW: 515SHOW SPONSORS:Cut your Cloud bills in half with Linode Linux VMs$100 in Free Credits at LinodeCloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsOkta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)SHOW NOTES:[From @aneel] Tech can’t fill enough roles[From @splitzoneduo] What do coaches do on vacation?Eps.507 - 10 Lessons for Surviving in the Tech IndustryWHY DOESN’T THE TECH-INDUSTRY HAVE AN OFF-SEASON?It’s a business, and businesses tend to stay openIt’s an industry that expects growth, and growth requires new things (usually)HOW TO MANAGE THE LACK OF AN OFF-SEASONNobody can go 24x7x365 year after year. Take care of your health.Allow yourself to ignore some aspects of the tech industry. You don’t need to know everything. Creating a framework for determining if something new is worth your time exploring. Always have a side project where you are learning something. This could be adjacent to your work, or something completely different.Begin to measure something that you’ve ignored, or never measured before. Find a way to improve it.Find a way to take back some time in your life. You can automate something, drop something, change something, etc.Find time to reconnect with people - mentors, groups,  FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Michael Drogalis (@MichaelDrogalis, Product Manager @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of Kafka, the challenges of data management with event-driven systems, and the ksqlDB Database.SHOW: 514SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Confluent HomepageksqlDB HomepageHow Real-Time Stream Processing Works with ksqlDBHow Real-Time Materialized Views Work with ksqlDBHow Real-Time Stream Processing Safely Scales with ksqlDBTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into this new database, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Topic 2 - Let’s first talk about Kafka. What is it,. what does it do, and what are common use-cases that use Kafka?Topic 3 - Kafka handles all these streams of data / events, but there are a bunch of other pieces needed to connect the data to the applications. What are those pieces, and where are their often challenges?Topic 4 - Let’s talk about this new project - ksqlDB. It’s real-time, it’s Kafka and it’s SQL. Walk us through how it was created and the types of challenges it solves for. Topic 5 - How is ksqlDB different from using other SQL databases? Topic 6 - What are some of the initial ways that you’re seeing ksqlDB being used? Is it beginning to allow new use-cases to emerge?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

In honor of International Mother's Day, we focus today's show on the lessons learned from moms, and how they can impact and influence your life in tech (and beyond). Don't forget to call you mom. SHOW: 513SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCut your Cloud bills in half with Linode Linux VMs$100 in Free Credits at LinodeOkta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Mother’s DayLESSONS LEARNED FROM MOMSMoms want to get you started on the right pathMoms want you to look presentableBe able to explain things to your momSometimes moms just want to helpDon’t forget to call your momFEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Anil Kumar (@anilkumar1129, Director of Product Mgmt @Couchbase) talks about how Kubernetes has evolved to support stateful applications, enabling Couchbase to run on Kubernetes, the advantages of Operators, and NoSQL adoption models. SHOW: 512SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Couchbase HomepageCouchbase Cloud-native DatabaseCouchbase CommunityTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing with Kubernetes, let’s talk about your background. Topic 2 - Kubernetes started with a focus on “cloud-native apps”, then it became a blurring of infrastructure. How does Couchbase see the market evolving around Kubernetes, especially as a stateful service? Topic 3 - There is frequently a debate about whether or not to run data services on Kubernetes, or run them off-cluster. How does Couchbase view this, and what are some things that Kubernetes does to improve how Couchbase runs?Topic 4 - Let’s talk about some of the common use-cases you’re seeing for Couchbase, whether it’s on Kubernetes, or in the cloud, or out at the Edge. Topic 5 - Do you see any multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud use-cases where Couchbase is a good fit, or is it too difficult to span databases across clouds? Topic 6 - What areas around Kubernetes do you see evolving to help use-cases for Couchbase (i.e. other CNCF projects, etc.)? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet