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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

Vikas Bhatia (@vikascb, Head of Product, Azure Confidential Computing) and Ron Perez (@ronprz, Intel Fellow, Security Architecture) talk about the technologies and architecture behind Azure Confidential ComputingSHOW: 472SHOW 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.BMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Azure Confidential ComputingIntel and Microsoft Azure partnership pageIntel® SGX: Moving Beyond Encrypted Data to Encrypted ComputingConfidential Computing Consortium (website)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dig into today’s discussion, can you give us a little bit about your background?Topic 2 - Defense in Depth is a strategy that has long been in place in Enterprise computing. We’ve seen previous approaches that connected the OS or Application with the Hardware (e.g. Intel TXT). How has this space evolved over the last few years, and what are some of the reasons why we need another level of depth?Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the technology basics of Confidential Computing. What are the software elements (Application, OS, SDK) and what are the hardware elements? Topic 4 -  What is the normal migration path for a company to move workloads into Confidential Computing environments? Is this primarily for new workloads, or does it apply to existing applications too? Topic 5 - Azure has the ability to deliver either Confidential VMs, or recently added Confidential containers along with AKS. When does it make sense to be confidential in one part of the stack vs. other? Topic 6 - What are some areas where you’re seeing the broader ecosystem (e.g. technology partners or end-user customers) beginning to expand out the functionality of Confidential Computing?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Matt Biilmann (@biilmann, CEO/Co-Founder @Netlify) talks about the evolution of websites, the architecture of the Jamstack, the evolution of mobile + CDNs, and interacting with 3rd-party APIs. SHOW: 471SHOW 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.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 CLOUDCASTCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwPodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.comSHOW NOTES:Jamstack (homepage)Netlify (homepage)Netlify Edge Handlers (run code at the CDN edge)The debate between Wordpress and Jamstack about the future of websitesTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been trying to make websites easier for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background and what motivates you about Netlify.Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about how the web is consumed these days; what’s broken, and how are you trying to make it better?Topic 3 -  What is Jamstack? How much is language, how much is frameworks, how much is architecture, and how much is a different way to think about Websites/Content/CMS?Topic 4 - So we have this website content distributed out to the CDN, how to 3rd-party APIs interact with the system (e.g. Stripe, Agolia, Twilio, AWS Lambda, etc.)?Topic 5 - CDN’s just used to serve content, and now they are running code at the edge. How do those interactions work? Topic 6 - You recently wrote that we might be hitting an inflection point for Websites/CMS’. Is that just a natural evolution of the distributed internet, or has anything in 2020 accelerated that?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Susanne Tedrick (@SusanneTedrick, Author “Women of Color in Tech”, @IBM Technical Specialist) talks about the importance of STEM for young girls. the need for mentors and sponsors, and how to better create opportunities for women of color in tech. SHOW: 470SHOW 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:Susanne Tedrick (homepage)Women of Color in Tech - A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators (book)Guide to Good AllyshipTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into our discussion today, tell us about your background and some of the areas that you’re passionate about.Topic 2 - For a lot of people, we’re trying to do more listening and learning these days. Let’s talk about women of color in tech. Topic 3 - As you now have this platform, what are some of the most common and most surprising conversations you’re having these days?  Topic 4 - The book provides a number of examples of women in a variety of technical positions (leaders, engineers, pioneers, etc.). Tell us how important it is to see somebody that looks like you in positions you aspire to be in some day.  Topic 5 - You do an excellent job of talking about women’s journey from early life to careers in tech. Every journey has hills and valleys and roadblocks. What are some of the roadblocks that other people could help women overcome and be more successful? Topic 6 - What are your favorite resources for people at different stages of their journeys - events, communities, mentors/sponsors, etc.? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Chris Short (@chrisshort, Technical Marketing @RedHat, @CNCF Ambassador) talks about how to deliver compelling technical learning via streaming services, how to engage audiences and communities, and how to improve virtual events. SHOW: 469SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:DivvyCloud - Achieve continuous security & compliance. Request a free trial today!DivvyCloud - The best mistakes are the ones that don’t happen. Learn how IaC offers preventive cloud security.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:OpenShift.tv - Weekly Streaming ProgrammingDevOps’ish - Chris’ Weekly NewsletterChris Short on The Cloudcast (Eps.277)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s good to have you back on the show (Oct.2016). You’re very well-known in the CNCF community, but give folks some details on your background and what you’re working on these days.Topic 2 - We’re all adapting to a COVID-19 world. You’ve been creating a ton of learning content for OpenShift.tv. Let’s talk about the basics of what streaming content looks like (where to watch, demos vs. discussions, etc.)Topic 3 -  What have you learned about this new way people are learning and engaging? Topic 4 - What are some of the technical tips and tricks to keep viewers engaged? Is streaming mostly a 1-way medium, or is there 2-way / multi-way communications happening? Topic 5 - What do people need to get started, if they want to use streaming for a project, or teach their teams (or their customers)? Topic 6 - With so many events going virtual, what are some emerging things about streaming that could help make virtual events (or any events) better in 2021? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet