The Cloudcast

SHOW: 428DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Robert Reeves (@robertreeves, Co-Founder / CTO of @Datical) about how to bring agility to databases to match the speed of cloud-native applications.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog 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-shirtMongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applicationsMongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP[DONUT RUN DONATIONS] [FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Salesforce opens up its platform, bets on serverless and CIMAtlassian launches new serverless cloud development platformGoogle Signs Healthcare Data DealSHOW NOTES:Datical HomepageLiquibase Homepage - leading open-source tool for database schema change management.Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background. Topic 2 - We talk about DevOps a lot on this show. And we talk a lot about various types of databases. But for some reason, we very rarely talk about them together. Why is that? It’s not as if the world of cloud-native applications are all stateless. Topic 3 - What do you see as the most common challenges that companies have with bringing databases into this world of more frequent software changes (DevOps, Agile, etc.)? Topic 4 - You’re involved in an open-source project called “LIquibase”, which is focused on database schema change management. How does that help database move into a more automated world? Topic 5 - Do you find that a lack of automation around databases is a bigger challenge from a continuous deployment perspective, or a security/patching perspective? (or both)Topic 6 - People are very fearful of databases going down, which restricts them from making changes. How do you suggest companies getting more comfortable in making frequent changes to databases?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

SHOW: 427DESCRIPTION: Brian reviews the big themes from AWS re:Invent 2019, as well as “most” of the new announcements.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applicationsMongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCPDatadog 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[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:The big Cloudcast show notes document (with links to all the announcements)FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

SHOW: 426DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Weitzel (@weitzlm, VP & General Manager, New Relic One at @NewRelic) about building effective developer platforms including lessons learned, best practices and trade offs to considerSHOW SPONSOR LINKS:The Cyberwire - Your security news connection.The Cyberwire daily podcastDatadog 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[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:KubeCon impressions from BrianAWS announced a bunch of new services prior to Re:InventGoogle Cloud acquires Cloud SimpleIBM continues to add functionality onto Red Hat OpenShift:IBM Spectrum BackupsIBM Cloud Pak for Hybrid Cloud SecurityIBM "Keep Your Own Key" (KYOK) for KubernetesSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:New Relic OneMark's New Relic BlogNew Relic Developer ProgramSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background. Topic 2 - Before we dig into the New Relic Developer Program, we wanted to get your perspective on what “developer” means these days - Is it AppDev, DevOps, Data Scientist, Business Analyst? How do you try and put personas around different “developer” needs?Topic 3 - One of the things I find in working with businesses that are going through transformational change (via technology) is how many don’t understand that their new world (“enabling developers”) will begin to look like a technology vendor’s approach to the market (“enabling developers”). Do you find your customers begin to adopt their internal programs to look like the program that you’ve rolled out with New Relic One? Topic 4 - What are some of the most important/critical aspects of the program, and how do you measure its progress, its success, or its areas to improve?Topic 5 - How did you think about balancing the need for content for newer developers (or new to the platform) vs. more expert-level developers? Topic 6 - How important is community to making the program a success, and helping it scale?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

SHOW: 425DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian take a look at the Docker acquisition and review the Microsoft Ignite show and announcementsSHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog 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-shirtThe Cyberwire - Your security news connection.The Cyberwire daily podcast[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Mirantis acquires DockerSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Microsoft IgniteSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Insight and feel from the show floor and the eventTopic 2 -  Azure ArcTopic 3 - Project CortexTopic 4 - Baby steps in GitHub integrationFEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Discover how the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework helps organizations tailor their cloud journey! The hosts discuss the unique challenges each company faces in cloud adoption, emphasizing the importance of defining strategies and planning business outcomes. Key insights from industry experts highlight the significance of governance and operational management in successful transitions. Plus, learn about user-friendly resources like the Azure Quick Start Center that simplify the adoption process.

SHOW: 423DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (Smiletronix and LazarusAI) about how technology is helping to give people more control over their health and use AI to improve doctor's ability to detect cancer and other deadly diseases.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog 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-shirtThe Cyberwire - Your security news connection.The Cyberwire daily podcast[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Smiletronix LazarusAIMetLife Digital Accelerator - The Difference and Zogo Finance (Nov 2019)SHOW NOTES:Smiletronix (@Smiletronix) - Yashar Faranjani (@yashar_f), Co-Founder & CEO -  Personalized dental health screenings, handheld deviceDoes this augment dentists, or eventually replace the dental check-up?Doctors tend to hate Web.md (everyone being an online doctor). How have dentists reacted to this service?Being based in Europe, are there unique characteristics of European markets or healthcare that make this more applicable to adoption?Lazarus (Cambridge, MA) - Ariel Elizarov (@aelizarov12), Co-Founder & CEO - AI for cancer screeningsIsn’t skin cancer (and moles) a fairly well-understood science at this point? What does AI bring to the equation?How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?Your skin is a lifelong part of your health. How would this service work over a lifetime?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

SHOW: 422DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (The Difference, and Zogo Finance) about how people are trusting some of their most important and personal relationships and learning to new services offered via the Internet instead of face-to-face. We explore this generational change in how we've evolved to trust the Internet.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:The Cyberwire - Your security news connection.The Cyberwire daily podcastDatadog 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[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:The DifferenceZogo Finance SHOW NOTES:The Difference (@thedifferenceAI) - Bea Arthur (@BeaArthurLMHC), Co-Founder/CEO - on demand therapy via phone (or Alexa)How has the personality profile of people changed/evolved such that they are OK with sharing personal information with “unknown” doctors?How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?Is there a technology aspect that is reviewing calls and tagging discussions or making recommendations (e.g. helping the doctor or patient)?Zogo Finance (@zogofinance) - Bolun Li, Co-Founder & CEO - Teaching kids personal finance through incentivesWho is typically creating the initial interaction for the child? (the child or the parent?)What type of curriculum is involved? What’s the scope? Are there collaborative aspects between kids?How do you walk the line between financial literacy learning and lack of trust for the banks since 2008?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

SHOW: 421DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Julia Evans (@b0rk, software engineer, data scientist, ‘zine artist) about the fundamentals of HTTP/HTTPS, and the interaction of web traffic with CDNs, Load-Balancers and Edge Proxies. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:PricingWire:  Monetization & Pricing Strategy for Software & Technology InnovatorsPricingWire - Pricing Metric Decision GuideDatadog 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[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:DOD awards JEDI contract to Microsoft AWS revenues grow, but growth continue to slowGoogle’s profitability drops, but “other” business (which includes GCP) did exceed expectationsSpotify podcast growth +39%SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Julia Evans BlogWizard ZinesSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background. Topic 1a - We’ve followed your “zines” via Twitter for a while. They cover quite a large number of topics. Give us some background on how you started taking this self-learning process and turning it into a visual medium?Topic 2 - You’ve recently been doing a bunch of work around HTTP. Most people know HTTP as the thing they type into a web-browser (sometimes). Let’s dig into why it might be important for people to know more about how the lifecycle of HTTP can impact their application performance.Topic 3 - Lots of the content we access on the Internet is stored/cached in CDNs around the world. Walk us through the basics of how CDNs work, and some of the interactions between HTTP and CDNs that can either improve performance or generally make an application’s life miserable. Topic 4 - Beyond CDNs, another big element that impacts HTTP traffic is load-balancers. Many people understand how basic IP-load balancing works, but how can it be different between L4 and L7 load-balancers? Topic 5 - Now how does encryption factor into all of this, as things like HTTP or TLS become part of the traffic? What are some of the guidelines that either developers or infrastructure teams should be thinking about with regard to those encrypted streams? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

SHOW: 420DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Nicolas Vandenberghe (@NicolasVDB, Co-Founder at @ChiliPiper) about the buying and selling of SaaS services, how to streamline interactions, and how to better engage with potential SaaS users. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog 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-shirtPricingWire:  Monetization & Pricing Strategy for Software & Technology InnovatorsPricingWire - Pricing Metric Decision Guide[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Splunk has agreed to acquire @streamlio, an open-source distributed messaging leader. SAP CEO leaves to go to ServiceNowServiceNow CEO leaves to go to Nike MPLS is back - Pensando SystemsRed Hat OpenShift 4.2 shipped / GASHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Chili Piper HomepageSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a broad background in the SaaS space. Can you tell us a little bit about your background prior to founding Chili Piper?Topic 2 - The buying of IT services has become so distributed, not only the buyers, but the influencers, and the actual sellers. Can you help us better understand the bigger picture about the processes involved in information gathering, decision-making, and then the on-going relationship with the services being bought? Topic 3 - Chili Piper brings together, or orchestrates, the ability to gather and use information from lots of tools that help sales, marketing, and analytics teams (Hubspot, Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce, Twillio, etc.). How does the work you do translate into the teams that need either a bigger picture, or sometimes a smaller more granular picture of the market?Topic 4 - Can you talk about some examples of how your customers leverage the Chili Piper technologies to improve their performance or market perspective?Topic 5 - Are the tools and techniques that Chili Piper brings to market specific to the SaaS business model, or could they equally be applied to other more CAPEX-centric or Contract-centric business models?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

SHOW: 419DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Sarah Catanzaro (@sarahcat21, Principal at @AmplifyPartners) about approaches to evaluate complex markets and business models.  SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:PricingWire:  Monetization & Pricing Strategy for Software & Technology InnovatorsPricingWire - Pricing Metric Decision GuideDatadog 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[FREE] Try an IT Pro ChallengeGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Australia, US negotiate CLOUD Act data swap pactSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Sarah’s Homepage at Amplify PartnersSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell about your background prior to joining Amplify Partners. Topic 2 - There’s an interesting thread that weaves its way through aspects of your career - being able to build intelligent models to understand and predict somewhat unstable environments. Can you walk us through the process of how those models and the analysis comes together? Topic 3 - There’s a level of responsibility through the supply-chain of our industry. I feel like VCs have a responsibility to not only spot trends, but also spot frauds. How does your background and experience help you determine good investments, or strong potential trends?  Topic 4 - One of your focus areas is machine intelligence. What is the state of machine intelligence today, and where are some of the areas that encourage you that it can become more widely used?  FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast