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Show: 382Description: Brian talks with Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Machine Learning & AI analyst, advisor & host of “This Week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast) about trends in the industry, the evolution of AI at the edge, new research areas in 2019, and a discussion about adding AI and ML to business applications. Show Sponsor Links:Liquid Technology - IT Value RecoveryTry CloudLast Service, get a free t-shirt and chance at Amazon Gift CardDatadog 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-shirtShow Interview Links:This Week in Machine Learning & AI Homepage - http://twimlai.comKubernetes for Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI (eBook)  - https://twimlai.com/kubernetes/Sam Charrington on Eps.321 of The Cloudcast - http://www.thecloudcast.net/2017/11/the-cloudcast-321-understanding-ai-and.htmlShow Notes:Topic 1 - Happy New Year and welcome back to the show, it’s been just over a year. For those that didn’t hear that show or might be new to TWIML & AI, tell us about your background and some of your AI/ML focus now.Topic 2 - Let’s start with the things that are considered “mainstream” with AI & ML today. Fraud detection, recommendation engines, facial recognition, speech recognition, auto-completions. What’s missing from that list, and how “commodity” have those technologies, tools, datasets, cloud services become?Topic 3 -On the flipside, what are some of the areas where research or just the massive cloud providers are focused today?Topic 4 - A couple years ago it seemed like TWIML & AI was a mix of technology discussions and business/social impacts. This past year seemed to be a deeper focus on the underlying technologies. What’s the current state of the balance between AI & ML for computing improvement vs. concerns about personal privacy, etc.?Topic 5 - What’s the “getting started” curve look like for companies that want/need to add or integrate AI & ML into their applications? What are some numbers you hear about cost of engineers, sizes of datasets, number of experiments and models needed to run, etc.?Topic 6 - What are some of the things you’re really looking forward to in 2019, whether it’s technology or trends or something else?Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 381 Description: Brian talks with Ethan Banks (@ecbanks, co-founder of @PacketPushers) about the state of ITOps and Infrastructure heading into 2019.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-shirtShow Interview Links:Ethan’s Blog - https://ethancbanks.com/Packet Pushers Homepage - https://packetpushers.net/Datanauts Podcast - https://packetpushers.net/series/datanauts-podcast/Show Notes:Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Welcome to the show. For anyone that isn’t already a listener to one of the many Packet Pushers podcasts, give us a little bit on your background.Topic 2 - From an ITOps perspective, it seems like the last few years have been focused on “Software-defined” or “Hyper-Converged”, “Hybrid Cloud” and various forms of Automation. How much of those are real concerns of ITOps, and how much of that is vendor hype?Topic 3 - As the usage of the public cloud grows, how much do you see ITOps professionals feeling like they can influence architecture and design, or feel like they are having to shift their focus to other tasks?Topic 4 - You’ve been around the industry for a while, both as a practitioner (hands-on engineer) and now with a broader industry perspective. What are the biggest changes you’ve seen over the last couple years, and what are the areas that just never seem to change/evolve?Topic 5 - We know that application teams are becoming more ingrained in business decisions (lines-of-business, etc.), but is that same thing happening with the ITOps teams as well?Topic 6 - What are some of the ITOps and Infrastructure trends that you expect to be following/exploring more in 2019?Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 380 Description: Brian talks with Jeff Meyerson (@the_prion, Host of @software_daily) about the state of Cloud-native application development heading into 2019.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-shirtShow Interview Links:Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.comShow Notes:Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what motivates you to continue to dig into every aspect of Cloud-native application development?Topic 2 - Developers have lots of opinions and approaches to building software. Have you seen much in terms of commonality or consistency about how developers are building cloud-native applications?Topic 3 - What are some of the areas that developers really love today, and some areas where developers are really frustrated?Topic 4 - A decade ago, it was all about the LAMP stack. We hear about the MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) stack, but also lots of discussions about things like Kafka and more real-time applications. Are you seeing trends around application stacks, or is it really about lots of options now as applications move to microservices (and serverless)?Topic 5 - SED covered quite a few aspects of Machine Learning in 2018. What are some of the things you’ve learned about ML usage and how it’s impacting application developers?Topic 6 - What are some of the topics that you’re really interested to explore in 2019?Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 379 Description: Brian talks with Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell, Sr. Technology Advocate @Splunk and co-host of @SpeakingInTech) about the state of DevOps and NewOps heading into 2019.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-shirtShow Interview Links:Josh’s Blog - https://josh-atwell.comNewOps Days - http://www.newopsdays.org/DevOps Days - https://www.devopsdays.orgDevSecOps - https://www.devsecops.org/Site Reliability Engineering - https://landing.google.com/sre/Show Notes:Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Tell us a little bit about your background, why you’re drawn to the DevOps space, and maybe some of your goals for 2019.Topic 2 - What is the state of DevOps heading into 2019? We’ve seen it evolve from The Phoenix Project and “10 Deploys a Day” CI/CD to Infrastructure as a Code and HugOps. Topic 3 - It feels like DevOps is sort of at a crossroads, with a bunch of newer things emerging, from SRE to DevSecOps to NewOps. It that the market being uncomfortable with DevOps, or sort of a 2nd-generation set of knowledge emerging?Topic 4 - From a technology perspective, DevOps always seems to attract the CI/CD tools and then the Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Salt tools, and now there is somewhat of a shift to immutability with things like Containers/Kubernetes or even serverless. Is there a technology focus for DevOps in 2019? How does NewOps fit into this space?Topic 5 - From a culture perspective, there’s been HugOps and Blameless Post-Mortems and Empathy, all focused on cohesity between business and technical in owning challenges/goals/results. Are there culture-side frameworks that are emerging and gaining traction?Topic 6 -  As you listen to the community, what we some of the most common tips and suggestions that you find help people and groups to be more successful in the DevOps domain?Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 378Description: Aaron and Brian review the biggest news, trends and topics of 2018.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-shirtCloudcast Housekeeping:Thank you to our sponsors, both A Cloud Guru and DataDog64% of Krispy Kreme Funding - http://bit.ly/Cloudcast-Donuts201951 Shows, Avg Listens (show): 18-20k (+19%), Avg Rank iTunes Technology: 63Over $50B in M&A and VC Funding for guests (all-time)Acquired: Red Hat, Rightscale, CoreOS, GitHub, Evident.io, Loggly, CloudHealth, VictorOps, BonsaiIPO: PivotalFunding: SWIM.AI, Stryth Leviathan, Atomist, Kasten, Lightstep, Rubrik, Hashicorp, A Cloud GuruShow Notes:Previous Year Cloudcast Predictions: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014,Top Tech Trends (expected) in 2019 (via CBInsights)Commercial Open Source Software Companies ($100B)Cloudability - State of the Cloud (2018)Big Trends:Gartner IaaS MQ is down to 6 companies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, IBM, Oracle)AWS growing +40% ($25B revenues) and Azure revenues ~ $28-30B (but not explicitly broken out) - AWS claimed at re:Invent to have 51% market-share.Big acquisitions around Open Source (Red Hat, GitHub, Hortonworks)A new push by Open Source companies (Redis, Confluent) to change their licensing model to help protect them from public cloud providers taking their software and not giving back - http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/Big funding and investments around HCI and Backup HCIKubernetes continues to dominate containers and cloud-native (see: @PodCTL podcast)New CEO at Google Cloud (Thomas Kurian)Blockchain seems to need a new PR agencyInterest rates are rising (2 more raises are projected in 2019), which changes all the VC modelsTech Stocks (2018):S and P 500: (-12.2%), DJIA: (-12%), NASDAQ: (-8%)AAPL: (-12%), AMZN: (+14%), CSCO: (+5%), FB: (-29%), GOOG: (-7.5%), IBM: (-30%)MSFT: (+11%), NFLX: (+25%), NTAP: (-1%), NTNX: (+1%), ORCL: (-11%), RHT: +43% (acquired by IBM)PVTL (0%), SAP: (-8.5%), SFDC: (+18%), VMW: (+13%)How are SaaS priced after 2018 correction? - https://tomtunguz.com/just-where-are-saas-companies-priced-after-the-2018-correction/

Show: 377Description: Aaron talks with Brad Rydzewski (@bradrydzewski, Co-Founder of Drone.io) about the current state of CI/CD in our industry.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-shirtShow Interview Links:Drone.io HomepageFeedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 376Description: Aaron talks with Dave Blakey, CEO and Founder of @SnaptADC, about the international startup scene, the evolution of application delivery and the emerging trends around the intersection of networking and DevOps.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-shirtShow Interview Links:Snapt Homepage - https://www.snapt.net/Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 375 Description: Brian talks with Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle) and Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa), Co-Founders of @TriggerMesh, about the evolution of serverless and functions-as-a-service in the Kubernetes ecosystem, the new Knative framework, and how companies are considering the use of functions for new 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-shirtShow Interview Links:TriggerMesh Homepage - https://triggermesh.com/The ServerlessCast #2 - Kubeless (Sebastien Goasguen) http://www.thecloudcast.net/2017/02/the-serverlesscast-2-kubeless.htmlThe Cloudcast #102 - Open Source 101 (Mark Hinkle) http://www.thecloudcast.net/2013/03/the-cloudcast-eps78-open-source.htmlTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Both of you are Cloudcast alumni. Tell us about this new company that you’ve started.Topic 2 - Sebastian, the last time we spoke with you, you had created the Kubeless project (at Skipboxx), just before selling it to Bitnami. That was when “Serverless on Kubernetes” was beginning to get very fragmented. Since then, Knative has come along to try and bring some unity around Serverless on Kubernetes. Give our listeners some basic understanding of how Knative works.Topic 3 - Let’s talk about TriggerMesh. Introduce us to the technology, and the role it plays in a Serverless or Knative or FaaS management environment?Topic 4 - Where do you expect to see the most innovation around Knative - Serving, Builds or Events? What are some of the areas where TriggerMesh is focused?Topic 5 - What are some of the serverless use-cases that you’re hearing about from early customers?Topic 6 - What are some of the things that customers are beginning to ask for that have surprised you?Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 374 Description: A review of all of the AWS 2018 re:Invent 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-shirtCategorizing The AWS RoadmapThe retail approach to all shapes and sizes (EC2, DBs, etc)The combined features (“solution”) approachThe “we don’t know” approach - becoming “serverless” (e.g. DB, LBs, AI)Customers - what do we hate about a big vendor we useAmazon is the 1st customer in a new businessAWS re:Invent 2018 Announcements (it's hard to get them all) Google Doc with URLsFrom Last Week in AWSFrom Trend Micro Cloud ResearchFeedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast

Show: 373Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Venkat Venkataramani (@iamveeve, Co-founder and CEO of @RocksetCloud) about building apps without pipelines, and serverless search and analytics with native SQL.Cloud News of the Week:All the News and Announcements from AWS re:InventShow Interview Links:Rockset HomepageRockset announces $21.5M in fundingSign up to access Rockset, available as a cloud serviceShow 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-shirtTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and what motivated you to start Rockset.Topic 2 - Sometimes we have founder guests that have a past of previous startups. And sometimes we have founder guests that are introducing something that sounds like it breaks most of the previous rules we’ve known. Let’s walk through what Rockset is attempting to deliver - “Apps without Pipelines”, “Serverless search”, “Schemaless ingest”, “natively uses SQL.”Topic 3 - Let’s talk about some of the use-cases that might not have been possible before Rockset, or were overly complex or expensive before Rockset?Topic 4 - You highlight that all of this is accessible via SQL, which is widely known and used by both technologists and typical data analysts. When you combine this with serverless concepts, is the focus of Rockset very much on making it easier for the masses to build and use data-centric applications?Topic 5 - What is some of the early feedback that you’re getting from users or the community about how the RockSet approach is different for them?Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast