The Cloudcast

SHOW: Season 0, Show 1 - IntroductionOVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce the new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.  This podcast is designed to help anyone new to Cloud Computing get up to speed quickly. Each season will cover a specific topic, from the basics to more intermediate levels of depth. Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.). NOTE: Cloudcast Basics will be in a NEW podcast channel, separate from The Cloudcast channel that you currently subscribe to. SHOW SUMMARY: This shows introduces the new podcast, Cloudcast Basics, and it also introduces Season 0 - "Introduction to Cloud Computing". Each month a new season will be released, focusing on a different technical or business aspect of cloud computing. It season is designed to allow the listener to progress from the most basic concepts to more intermediate levels of knowledge. CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwLEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. A Cloud Guru - Training and CertificationsCloud Academy - Training and CertificationsKatakoda - Self-Paced, Interactive LearningGitHub - Code Samples and CollaborationFEEDBACK?Web: Cloudcast Basics Email: show at cloudcastbasics dot netTwitter: @cloudcastbasics

Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends from 2020, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2021SHOW: 481SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.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.CloudAcademy - Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:PODCAST BUSINESS:Over 1.5M listens in 2020Thank you to all our 2020 sponsors: Datadog, MongoDB, UpCloud, DivvyCloud, strongDM, Logz.io, Taos, Studio3T, CloudAcademy, BMC, Fauna, Okta2020 Cloudcast Alum Acquisitions: 8 - Thousand Eyes (Cisco), Cumulus (NVIDIA), SwiftStack (NVIDIA), SaltStack (VMware), DivvyCloud (Rapid7), Big Switch (Arista), Rancher (SUSE), Kasten (Veeam)The (live) Krispy Kreme Challenge is postponed in 2021 due to COVID-19. Need to figure out a fundraising initiative.FORMAT CHANGES in 2021“Look Ahead in 2021” shows in JanuaryStill doing the normal, weekly technical shows, starting in FebruaryWill be doing a shorter (15mins) technical show on Sundays, preview the Wed showWill be launching the Cloudcast Basics podcast series in 2021 (@cloudcastbasics). TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2020:COVID sent everybody home. 2020 was the year of VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service.Conferences went all virtual. Did anybody miss them? Did anybody do them well? More companies adopted the public cloud, since they couldn’t get into their data centers.But we also found out the public cloud isn’t infinite resources (e.g. Azure had to prioritize existing customers, healthcare customers). Long-term investments matter. Did you have a favorite video conference service in 2020?AWS: $46B, Azure: $30B-ish , GCP: $12-13B, Alibaba: $6-8B - Azure still doesn’t break out their revenues.OSS-companies are growing their Cloud/Managed business (MongoDB, Confluent, RedisLabs, Red Hat, etc. - as well as others like VMware, Nutanix)More companies are going cloud-only in their offerings (Snowflake, Tecton, Observ, etc.). Atlassian is moving away from the on-prem offerings (over next couple years)ARM chips made their name in mobile phones, and now they are poised to take over desktops and public cloud (cheaper, faster) - NVIDIA bought ARMAWS had an outage just before Thanksgiving - nobody is actually sure how AWS works behind the scenes. Hybrid Cloud is now officially a thing - AWS, Azure and GCP all have offerings, as well as every traditional vendor. 2021 PREDICTIONS: Our 2020 Predictions from last yearAaron’s PredictionsGitLab gets gobbled upEvent Driven Architecture (FaaS/Serverless) hits early majority status(agreeing with Brian) 2021 will be the

Carmen Crincoli (@carmencrincoli, Sr. ProgMgr @Microsoft) + Todd Christ (@toadster, Ent. Solutions Architect, @IntelBusiness) talk about the evolution of AzureStack, how HCI is being extended as a cloud service, and how COVID is creating new use-cases for on-premises and public cloud. SHOW: 480SHOW 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.CloudAcademy - Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTOkta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:AzureStack HomepageAzureStack HCI HomepageData Center Modernization Through Azure Stack HCIIntel Select Solutions for Azure Stack HCI Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Todd has been a guest before, but Carmen is new. Tell us a little bit about both of your backgrounds.Topic 2 - Let start by talking about AzureStack, in a broader context. The “brand” has been in the market for quite a while, but it really went through an evolution about a year ago - different services add, different buying options, etc. Help understand the broader AzureStack story.Topic 3 - When most people think of HCI, they think about Compute, Storage, and VMs - simplifying the complexity of those systems. Now the world is moving more to the cloud, but on-premises still remains. Let’s talk about the concept of HCI becoming an extended cloud service and how that’s evolving.Topic 4 - VMs, Containers, Backup/Recovery, Auto-Updates are now all built-in to AzureStackHCI. Which group (or groups) is managing AzureStackHCI in a typical company? Topic 5 - How important is it to support disconnected (from the cloud) AzureStack HCI instances? Can there be scenarios that are partially-disconnected? Topic 6 - Are you seeing any new or unexpected use-cases because of COVID-19, or now that HCI can be viewed as an extension of the public cloud?  FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Brian provides some commentary on the state of AWS in 2020, and then reviews the highlights and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2020.SHOW: 479SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:CloudAcademy - Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTOkta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.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-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Lots and Lots of Announcements from AWS (and some summaries)FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton, Docker & Kubernetes training) talks about the current and future state of Kubernetes, who is using it and why, implementation and operational challenges, and how get started and what tools he recommendsSHOW: 478SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.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.CloudAcademy - Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Nigel Poulton HomepageNigel’s YouTube Channel Kubernetes Deep Drive (ACloudGuru)Nigel’s training courses on PluralSightEps. 320 (Nov 2017) - "Docker adds Kubernetes, now what?"Eps.269 (Sept 2016) - "Putting Docker in your brain"Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell us about some of your most recent projects, and all the places where people can find your training? Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the State of Kubernetes, level of maturity of users/usage. Where do you think we are at the end of 2020? Topic 3 - Who do you find are trying to learn and use Kubernetes, more Infra/Ops, or AppDev, or somewhere in between (DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, etc.)?Topic 3a - Where do you see people succeeding, and where are they still struggling to adjust to the requirements of Kubernetes? Topic 4 - The ecosystem of projects around Kubernetes (immutable Linux, Operators, Service Mesh, Prometheus, OPA, Serverless/Knative, etc.) has gotten very broad. How do you find people are dealing with all these moving pieces? Topic 5 - There are a lot of ways to engage with Kubernetes these days - DIY (OSS), vendor distributions, Kubernetes on your laptop, web IDEs, Hosted Services (simple & complex). What do you recommend to people, or do you see trends about how people best engage with Kubernetes? Topic 6 - Do you think it’s OK that Kubernetes doesn’t have a “developer model”, but rather many different options? Do you think this evolves in 2021?  FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Mike Del Balso (@mikedelbalso, CEO at @TectonAI) talks about lessons learned from Uber’s Michelangelo ML platform, enabling DevOps for ML data, and how Tecton enables features for data models.  SHOW: 477SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Learn more about Fauna: https://www.fauna.com/serverlessTry FaunaDB for Free: https://dashboard.fauna.com/accounts/registerCloudAcademy -Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTDatadog 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-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Tecton homepageTecton emerges from stealth with veterans from UberMichelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning PlatformTecton: The Data Platform for Machine Learning (blog)“Why We Need DevOps for Machine Learning Data” (blog)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s always exciting to talk to new companies. You were doing some pretty interesting things at Uber prior to starting Tecton, so tell us a little bit about that experience and then what motivated you to start Tecton? Topic 2 - There are lots of Data/AI/ML tools and platforms out there. Tecton talks about “great models need great features”. Give us a high-level overview of the Tecton platform and the perspective you bring to solving complex business problems.Topic 3 - After reading the papers on the Uber Michelangelo platform, it’s clear that today’s interactions aren’t a bunch of individual “decisions”, but layers of decisions made on ever-changing data (the UberEATS example). Why does business need a new approach to how they interact with data? Topic 4 - When I think about earlier approaches for companies to “harness data for analytics”, there was always the problem of data silos. Do you find that companies need to organize themselves different, not just organize their data, to be able to overcome those silo challenges? Does it take a much more product-centric approach vs. the traditional “analyst” approach?Topic 5 - Every new company and platform needs to find product-market fit. What do you see as early “fits” for the Tecton platform? Topic 6 - How much data-science expertise does a company need today to be able to leverage Tecton, and how much does the platform lower the barrier to entry? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Dan Wendlandt (@danwendlandt, CEO/Co-Founder @Isovalent talks about the evolution of cloud networking, eBPF and Cilium for programmable infrastructure, and blurring the lines between networking, security and service-mesh. SHOW: 476SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:CloudAcademy -Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTDatadog 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.Learn more about Fauna: https://www.fauna.com/serverlessTry FaunaDB for Free: https://dashboard.fauna.com/accounts/registerCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Isovalent (homepage)Cilium (homepage)What is eBPF? Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve been following your work for a while (Nicira, OpenShift networking, etc), but tell our audience a little bit about your background.Topic 2 - A few years ago I wrote an article that said, “if you’re in networking, the #1 skill you should learn is Linux”. Why has there been so much shift from “traditional networking” to so many new capabilities being implemented in software, and specifically Linux?Topic 3 - Help us understand these two new concepts - eBPF and Cilium. It’s new packet filtering, it’s container networking, it’s multi-cluster networking, it can help with observability - lots going on here. Topic 4 - What are some of the gaps in today’s networking/filtering/observability stacks that can improve with eBPF/Cilium?   Topic 5 - We’ve seen quite a few companies evolve from expertise in an open-source project to commercial offerings. What lessons have you learned from other companies that shape how Isovalent will both go-to-market and also engage with ecosystem partners? Topic 6 - What are some of the common use-cases or applications you see that highlight the value of the Isovalent stack? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Eamonn O'Neill (@eamser, Founder/EVP @LemongrassCloud) talks about the five paths of SAP cloud migrations, how SAP is evolving beyond ERP, and the responsibility models for SAP in the cloud. SHOW: 475SHOW 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.Learn more about Fauna: https://www.fauna.com/serverlessTry FaunaDB for Free: https://dashboard.fauna.com/accounts/registerCloudAcademy -Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Lemongrass Homepage5 Waves of InnovationTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. The world of SAP has evolved quite a bit over the last decade. Tell us about your background and what led you to focus on bringing SAP to the cloud.Topic 2 - A decade ago, SAP was very focused on this new HANA database and most people still thought of them as an ERP company. Since then, they have bought a lot of companies, especially in the SaaS space (SuccessFactors, Concur, Hipmonk, Qualtrics, etc.). Can you give us a high-level overview of what relationship SAP has with their customers these days?Topic 3 - Lemongrass is focused on helping customers move SAP to the AWS Cloud. What types of applications are being moved, and why are customers moving them?Topic 4 -  Lemongrass talks about 5 Waves of Innovations to get SAP into AWS (Migrate, FinOps/SysOps/DevOps, 4/HANA, Big Data, AI). Where are most customers on that journey today? Does it tend to be consistent across industries? Topic 5 - AWS often talks about a “shared responsibility model” for application-availability or security. How does that model apply to SAP applications, and what role does Lemongrass play for customers on an on-going basis?Topic 6 - Have you seen the pandemic change how companies are looking at their SAP environments and whether or not it makes them do more in the cloud? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Evan Weaver (Co-Founder/CTO @Fauna) talks about FaunaDB,  and enabling serverless, NoOps databases as new applications architectures emerge around APIs, Jamstack and other distributed systems. SHOW: 474SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Learn more about Fauna: https://www.fauna.com/serverlessTry FaunaDB for Free: https://dashboard.fauna.com/accounts/registerCloudAcademy -Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTDatadog 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-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Fauna HomepageThe 4th generation application model (client-serverless)Supported Languages/ Frameworks: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/drivers/Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been at the forefront of really interesting tech in the past. Can you tell us a little bit about your background?Topic 2 - Over the last few months, we’ve been digging into newer distributed architecture elements (Jamstack, GraphQL, Serverless, etc.). But we haven’t dug into the role of data in these architectures. Help us understand this 4th generation architecture, or client-serverless, and the role of data.Topic 3 - Data is still stored somewhere, but its usage is now made up of a bunch of data coming together in various contexts. How does Fauna fit into this new world when clients and APIs play as much of a role as “the database”?Topic 4 - As you talk to people that come from a SQL / Relational-DB background, how does the discussion go in terms of how things change and some of the common bottlenecks/problems that Fauna can solve for them?  Topic 5 - Databases have traditionally been difficult to scale, protect, maintain, etc. How does you enable the data layer or API access to now follow a NoOps model? Topic 6 - Where are the best places for people to engage to learn more about how to not only use the Jamstack architecture, but apply the principles around Fauna for Data/API management? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Hugo Kaczmarek (Product Manager) and Markus Hirt (Director Engineering) @Datadoghq talk about continuous application profiling in production, having better visibility in application environments, and managing performance budgets. SHOW: 473SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:BMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseCloudAcademy -Build hands-on technical skills. Get measurable results. Get 50% of the monthly price of CloudAcademy by using code CLOUDCASTDatadog 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-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Datadog Continuous ProfilingHow to write a Python profiler Deep Distributed TracingTopic 1 - Welcome to the show and welcome back to the show. Before we dig into today’s topic, can you give us a little bit of your background and how you became focused in this area? Topic 2 - Production used to be a pretty sacred and untouched environment. Now we’re seeing the need to create chaos in production, test in production, and know more about how things actually work in production. Let’s talk about this concept of “profiling”.  Topic 3 - People often talk about having to “instrument their code” to be able to get feedback. How does that differ from profiling, and what unique things does an application need to be profiled in production? Topic 4 - On the surface, this seems like it would add quite a bit of overhead to the applications. How do you manage to find the right balance of performance and visibility? Topic 5 - Help us understand how profiling fits into the bigger picture of all the tools needs - Logging, APM, Observability, etc? Topic 6 - Is there a profile of who needs profiling? Is this every application team, or just for specific applications (e.g. event-streaming, etc.)? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet