The Cloudcast

Brian talks with Gina Minks (@gminks, PMM for @SpanningBackup) about the growth of SaaS applications, who pays for SaaS, who manages SaaS and the most frequent mistakes companies make in using SaaS applications. Show Links: Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos Gina's Blog Spanning Backup for SaaS Applications Show Notes: Want to register for VelocityConf right now? Use code PCCLOUD20 for 20% savings - Gold, Silver, Bronze only Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it’s been since Eps.68. What are you up to these days? Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the SaaS market in general. It’s about a $75-80B market in 2016, growing at 20% CAGR. What big trends are you seeing in SaaS? Topic 3 - We’ve both been around “traditional IT” for a while. What do you see that’s different about SaaS - who buys it, what’s the process, how do they think about on-going maintenance, etc.? Topic 4 - Let’s get into your world - backing up SaaS applications. Give us the basics. What are the big mistakes most people make? Where does the backed up data go? Topic 5 - The challenge with SaaS is that some applications go away, or they radically change their pricing model. Are there now utilities that will convert data to use other SaaS services? Feedback? Email: show at thecloudcast dot net Twitter: @thecloudcastnet YouTube: Cloudcast Channel

Aaron talks with Sinclair Schuller (@sschuller; CEO/Founder of @Apprenda) about news at Apprenda, the Kubernetes community, legacy apps vs. cloud native apps and why architecture is critical in a PaaS platform. Show Links: Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos Apprenda Homepage Apprenda tracks Kubernetes growth The Cloudcast Eps.29 The Cloudcast Eps.76 The Cloudcast on Google Play Show Notes: Want to register right now? Use code PCCLOUD for 30% OSCON registration Want to attend OSCON for Free? Use code PCEXPO to get expo access for free. Topic 1 - How are things going at Apprenda? It’s been way too long...l Topic 2 - What is the state of “Platforms” these days? Are they structured vs. unstructured, Docker-capable vs. Non-Docker, or some other dominant architectural characteristics? Topic 3 - Do platforms actually help companies build applications “faster”, or are they mostly there to automate the infrastructure and services under a platform? Topic 4 - We read a whitepaper talking about how Apprenda helped a customer migrate 70+ applications to the platform in a really short period of time. What do these migrations look like? Topic 5 - Apprenda recently added Kubernetes. What are the details around that and what value does it bring to customers? Feedback? Email:show at thecloudcast dot net Twitter:@thecloudcastnet YouTube:Cloudcast Channel

We're giving away two OSCON passes! Aaron talks with Matt Brender (@mjbrender, Developer Advocate for Intel Software Defined Infrastructure) about what it is like to be a Developer Advocate and snap by Intel for cloud telemetry. Show Links: Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos Nick Weaver's post on snap by Intel snap on github The Geek Whisperers Podcast Show Notes: We're giving away 2x OSCON passes! Send us your community story and why you want to go to OSCON via email or twitter (links below) Bronze Level Passes - $1745 value Can be given away together or seperate 3 month subscription to Safari Pro Want to register right now? Use code PCCLOUD for 30% OSCON registration Topic 1 - Let’s start at the start, you have had an interesting journey to date in your move into your current role. Give everyone a brief intro to your journey and how you ended up at Intel Topic 2 - We’ve had both Jonathan and Nick on a few times now so we won’t rehash the Intel SDI group, but I did want to talk about Nick’s blog post introducing snap by Intel. Specifically this concept of automating around stages of IRO (Intelligent Resource Orchestration) and the phases - Watching, Deciding, Acting, Learning. Is Intel creating SkyNet? Topic 3 - Let’s dig into the snap framework announced in December. This brings to life the stages we previously mentioned through framework plugins for Collecting, Processing, and Publishing Topic 4 - What will be the early use cases? When and where does Intel envision folks using this framework and for what purpose? Topic 5 - How has the community embraced this so far? What challenges do you have as a Developer Advocate? What’s next for both snap and SDI in general? Feedback? Email: show at thecloudcast dot net Twitter: @thecloudcastnet YouTube: Cloudcast Channel

Aaron and Brian talk with Tim Gerla (@tybstar, VP Product) and Dan Nurmi (@dannurmi, CTO) at @Anchore about their background as entrepreneurs, the challenges of container security, the challenges of CI/CD and security and how to avoid slowly down developers. Show Links: Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Anchore Homepage Topic 1 - Get an understanding of the team and their background Topic 2 - What customer challenge is Anchore attempting to solve? What are some of the scary security/container stories out there? Topic 2a - Let’s talk about awareness of this security challenge, especially amongst Dev teams vs. Ops teams. Topic 3 - Anchore was founded by people from Eucalyptus and Ansible, which were very popular open-source projects. Does Anchore have an open-source model as well? Topic 4 - How does Anchore fit into existing "container" systems and PaaS like Docker (or Docker Data Center), Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, etc.? Don't some of those systems already have security elements built in? Topic 5 - How does Anchore fit into some of the CI/CD systems, where developers could be adding random things into containers? Topic 6 - Topic 6 - How does the reporting and management framework fit into other existing security systems for the CISO?

Aaron and Brian talk to Kendrick “Kenny” Coleman (@kendrickcoleman; Developer Advocate @EMCcode) about the basics of interacting with APIs. They also discuss how the millennial generation is changing the media industry and if/how The Cloudcast should change. Show Links: This show is sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Kenny’s Blog Kenny’s “Bourbon Pursuit” Podcast (@bourbonpursuit) EMC {code} Homepage Beginner’s Guide to REST and HTTP Learn how to use different REST APIs Swagger API Framework Topic 1 - What are you up to these days? Topic 2 - We need help. Everything is an API these days and we don’t speak API. What are the basics we need to understand and the tools we need? Topic 3 - Any good API tips and tricks for beginners? Topic 4 - You were recently at a conference that discussed how the millennial generation is changing the media industry. What is changing, what do we need to know and how do we need to change the podcast?

Aaron and Brian talk to Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, Founder of @HashiCorp) about the lack of VC funding for an open source Death Star, customer interest in Microsoft Azure, the need for bigger/faster schedulers, developer patterns and Zero-Trust Datacenter. Show Links: This show is sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Hashicorp Homepage Hashicorp Adds Microsoft Azure Support Nomad 1,000,000 Container Challenge Topic 1 - It’s been a little over a year since you were last on the show. Things are changing really fast in the market. What are you seeing in the market? Topic 2 - Hashicorp recently made all of their tools Microsoft Azure compatible. Where are you seeing interest from your customers in Azure? Topic 3 - A few months ago, Docker showed that Swarm could support 30,000 containers. Cloud Foundry supposedly supports 25,000 containers. And then Nomad came out with 1M containers. Why does anyone need that many containers? Topic 4 - There is a lot of dogma in the market about “platforms”. Are we getting close to a big market shakeout or consolidation, or will the confusion continue for a while? Topic 5 - You always give us some perspective on a broader way to view application management. We don’t talk much about security on the show because we’re clueless, so give us some insight.

Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja, Co-Host of The Geek-Whisperers) about the chaotic state of the IT industry, how much location impacts day-to-day work, and how people are making positive transitions in their work. Show Links: This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books The Geek Whisperers (podcast) PopUpTechTalks Topic 1 - Is the IT industry in a more chaotic state than it’s ever been? Public Cloud vs. IT vendors
 Open Source Software vs. IT vendors
 People openly looking for new jobs 
 IT customers being very confused about what to buy/use/trust
 Are we at the end of a 20yr cycle (Vendor-VAR-Customer-TechSwimLanes)? Topic 2 - What’s the pulse of your community? What are the most frequently asked questions (on-the-record and off-the-record)? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about location. 10 years ago, teleworking was all the rage. Now, it feels like we’re back to a Silicon-Valley-centric world. Topic 4 - What do you feel like a lot of people are focused on, which is actually a bad thing or a false hope? What are the good things that people are focused on? Topic 5 - What do you feel like a lot of people are focused on, which is actually a bad thing or a false hope? What are the good things that people are focused on?

Aaron and Brian talk with Donnie Flood (@floodfx) and Larry Ogrodnek (@ogrodnek) about their podcast @EngineersCoffee, their experience at Bizo, and their fascination with serverless computing (or events-based computing) with “Will it Lambda?” Show Sponsors: This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Show Links: Engineers and Coffee Podcast Bizo sold to LinkedIn AWS Lambda Topic 1 - Officially you are both formerly with a company called Bizo. Can you give us some of your background and the types of things you’ve built? Topic 2 - We found your show because of a tweet about AWS Lambda, which we’re both really fascinated about lately. Did you start your show to talk about Lambda, or was that just coincidentally the first topic? Topic 3 - What about Lambda is interesting to you guys? Topic 4 - Help us understand the basics of Lambda. There’s lots of tutorials and books online, but it would be great to talk through some example that you have dealt with. Maybe you’re “Will it Lambda?” Concept. Topic 5 - We’re seeing all the large cloud providers offer an events-based (serverless) offering now - Google Functions, Azure Functions, IBM OpenWhisk. Some are making them open-source. What do you see as the big areas that need additional work? Do you see this taking off of being a niche? Topic 6 - We’re seeing all the large cloud providers offer an events-based (serverless) offering now - Google Functions, Azure Functions, IBM has a service in BlueMix. Some are making them open-source. What do you see as the big areas that need additional work? Do you see this taking off of being a niche? Topic 7 - On your show, Donnie has mentioned many times his affinity to using more and more AWS services - sort of this “eliminate all the unnecessary lifting, focus on going fast” mentality. How did that come about, and do you think it’s applicable to non-startup companies? Topic 8 - We've talked a lot about Lambda, but what other areas are you guys really interested in these days?

Aaron and Brian talk with Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA; Director of Program Management @Microsoft) and Ryan O’Hara (Director Private Cloud Solutions @Microsoft) about how Microsoft is attempting to bring the Azure Cloud down into customer’s data centers. Show Links: This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Microsoft Azure Stack Homepage Microsoft Azure (Cloud) Homepage Corey’s Microsoft Blog Tuesday's with Corey - Video Series Topic 1 - You’ve both been at Microsoft for a good amount of time. Give us a little bit of your background and maybe some insight into how all these changes in Redmond are happening? Topic 2 - Give us the basics of Azure Stack and how it differs from previous Windows Server or Cloud Platform System “cloud” offerings. Topic 2a- Azure Stack has been in “preview” for a couple months now. What has been the customer feedback? What didn’t you expect? Topic 3 - We’ve done this show for 5+ years and one theme is constant - operating a cloud is very difficult. Does Azure Stack just deliver the software, or is there an operational element from the Azure Cloud included? Topic 4 - Linux is a thing at Microsoft now. How will Azure Stack handle both Windows and Linux workloads? Topic 5 - Azure Cloud has a very large set of services now. How should customers think about how much of that will make it into Azure Stack?

Aaron and Brian talk with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison; Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ BuildFax) about building a digital business, the challenges of platforms, and why he’s moving more applications to serverless computing. Show Links: This show sponsored byIntel Cloud For All Get a free bookfrom O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Joe’s Company - BuildFax Joe’s writings - The New Stack Why AWS isn’t Winning and it Poses Problems Joe’s Blog - InformationWeek Building Serverless Applications - Interop 2016 Serverless References: AWS Lambda
 IBM OpenWhisk
 Google Functions
 Serverless Code - Ryan Brown Serverless Framework (open source)
 WebTask
 StackHut Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your background. We like to have builders on the show, but you actually help real builders. Topic 2 - You’re giving a 4hr talk at Interop in May about “Building Serverless Applications”. Let’s start with the basics of Serverless - why does it exist, what problem does it fix? what is it, what does it do? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about some of the existing serverless “services” out there and how they work. What works, work needs to evolve, how do they work with other services? Topic 4 - Does software exist today to have these serverless capabilities on-premises, or is this just a public cloud capability today? Topic 5 - You mentioned in a Twitter thread earlier this week that there are multiple services that are “better than AWS Lambda today”. Can you elaborate on that a little bit?