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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

Public cloud is expected to grow 23% (overall) in 2021. Is that a fast enough pace of growth, or are there still significant barriers to adoption and faster growth?SHOW: 511SHOW 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)CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Gartner forecasts 2021 Public Cloud GrowthGartner forecasts 2021 IT Spending (Overall)Global Smartphone Market Share (2021)Apple reports quarterly earningsAmazon/AWS reports quarterly earningsMicrosoft reports quarterly earningsGoogle/Alphabet reports quarterly earningsIS THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING QUICKLY? Q1 2021 vs. Q4 2020: AWS (+30%), Azure (+23%), GCP (+46%)Growing faster than On-Premise, Existing IT (8.4%)WHY ISN"T THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING FASTER?Data Gravity - Moving data into the cloud is expensive and slowData Centers are long-term depreciation activities (10-20 years)“App Modernization” budgets are small - as a % of IT budgetsSaaS is growing at 20% YoYCloud Costs are expensive and complicated to understandTech VC is still investing in Tech StartupsSecurity is always a Top 3 priority, and Cloud Security is differentA large portion of Enterprise and Gov’t isn’t connected to the Internet - and Mainframes aren’t in the cloud. Retraining Cloud Skills takes time (Gladwell 10,000 hour rule)FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Heikki Nousiaine (@hnousiainen, Founder/CTO at @aiven_io) talks about how Aiven delivers a broad set of open source data and messaging services via the public cloud, as a managed service. SHOW: 510SHOW 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.CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teamsSign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner accountOkta - 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:Aiven HomepageAiven closes $100M C-round to expand open source innovationTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing to expand open source innovation, let’s talk about your background. Topic 2 - Let’s talk about Aiven and the services it provides - all the most popular open source “data-centric” projects (Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana), on top of AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - plus a bunch of popular integrations (logging, monitoring, authentication, etc.)SRE / Support ModelsPricing ModelsIntegrating with the underlying cloudTopic 3 - How do you typically engage with customers / developers? How much work is typically needed to get those teams initially successful with a given service?Topic 4 - How does Aiven think about the cloud “shared responsibility model”, in terms of where Aiven’s service stops and the customer's engagement starts? Who is responsible for the data?Topic 5 - What open source projects are on your radar for adding new services?Topic 6 - As more technology companies are migrating applications to the cloud, or creating SaaS offerings, are there opportunities for companies to partner with Aiven on the breadth of services you offer? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

As Kubernetes evolves beyond 5yrs of adoption, many say that it is becoming “boring”.  So where does the popular open source project and community go next? SHOW: 509SHOW SPONSORS:Join Turbonomic, Kelsey Hightower, and Corey Quinn for the Apps ON Cloud Summit May 11-13. Swag & giveaways!Zesty Homepage - Real Time Cloud SavingsFree cloud cost-savings evaluation from ZestySee how O’Reilly online learning can help your tech teams. Request a free demo now.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Kubernetes 1.21 release announcementKubeConEU 2021Cloud, the Edge and Kubernetes (podcast)If Kubernetes is boring, what’s next for Kubernetes?Kubernetes has now shipped 21 releases, which is nearly as many as OpenStack (24 releases), and more than VMware vSphere (12-15 releases).Kubernetes is shifting from 4 releases a year to 3 releases a year. On average, 170-180 companies are contributing monthly. It’s widely available both in private cloud and public cloudsLarge percentage of larger companies have projects running on KubernetesSo what might be next? To some extent, the projects surrounding and adjacent to Kubernetes are gaining attention and momentum - Serverless, Service Mesh, Multi-Cluster Management Tools, Security Tools, Operators, Helm ChartsKubernetes is being used across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, a variety of Edge use-cases, and is gaining adoption by Telcos for 5G/Edge use-cases.Beginning to see some thinking and frameworks around how to use Kubernetes as a Hybrid/Multi-Cloud control plane, not just for Cluster deployment. Edge use-cases are interesting, since Edge has so many varied deployment models   - Does Kubernetes need to be miniaturized? Does Kubernetes ship too often?AI/ML/Analytics use-cases are exploding as most frameworks are making Kubernetes the default orchestration framework.Gitops is starting to gain some momentum as an automated, single-source-of-truth management model for Kubernetes clusters and application deployment.The new way of companies using the public cloud are now trying to figure out how to manage Cloud costs, especially as Kubernetes drives more self-service engagement with platforms.FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Garry Binder (@garrybinder, Chief Security Architect @Intel) talks about the challenges of public cloud scale, performance and security.SHOW: 508SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforceTry Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes)Zesty Homepage - Real Time Cloud SavingsFree cloud cost-savings evaluation from ZestySee how O’Reilly online learning can help your tech teams. Request a free demo now.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Intel CEO announced IDM 2.0 Strategy3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) and Intel SGXTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into today’s discussion, give us a little bit on your background and some of the areas you focus on.  Topic 2 - We’ve done quite a few shows with Intel over the years. This is where we were first introduced to how much work Intel does directly for the largest public cloud providers. Can you give us a sense of how much Intel has evolved to help the cloud providers deliver the scale and performance they do today? Topic 3 - A few months ago we spoke about Confidential Computing. We all know that security is a challenge best solved with defense-in-depth. Can we talk a little bit about the intersection of embedded security in silicon, and being able to keep up with new performance challenges with the new Ice Lake architecture? Topic 4 - How do we raise awareness that these native capabilities are available across all the cloud providers - AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, etc., when software features tend to dominate the headlines? Topic 5 - What do you see as some of the next-generation security challenges that the cloud is well-positioned to (maybe) better handle that we could in data centers?Topic 6 - Sometimes people see Intel as being one-step removed from the technology companies they directly engage with. What are some of the ways that people can more directly engage in all the programs (developer tools, reference architectures, etc.) that Intel creates?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet