

The Cloudcast
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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI. Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS .
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May 24, 2015 • 20min
The Cloudcast #191 - Cloud Foundry + Netflix OSS
Brian talks to The Pivotal Gang - James Watters (@wattersjames, VP of Cloud Platform), Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) and Michael Cote (@cote) about the latest from Pivotal, Enterprise adoption of PCF, and NetFlix OSS.
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Check out an excerpt from the upcoming Docker Cookbook
Links from the show:
Cloud Foundry Summit Sessions on YouTube
Cloud Foundry Summit Session Slides
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

May 19, 2015 • 19min
The Cloudcast #190 - Live from Cloud Foundry Summit
Aaron and Brian talk to Richard Seroter (@rseroter, VP of Product CenturyLink) and Ed Saipetch (@edsai, CenturyLink Office of the CTO & Speaking in Tech Podcast) about the latest in both public and Private PaaS including Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AppFogV2, Iron Foundry, the evolution of Enterprises, and the differences between containers and PaaS
Interested in the O'Reilly Velocity Conference?
Want to register for Velocity now? Use promo code 20CLOUD for 20% off
Check out the Velocity Schedule
Free eBook from O'Reilly Media for Cloudcast Listeners!
Check out an excerpt from the upcoming Docker Cookbook
Links from the show:
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
CenturyLink AppFogV2

May 1, 2015 • 38min
The Cloudcast #189 - Containers + Data Persistence
Aaron and Brian talk to Clint Kitson (@clintonskitson; Developer Advocate - EMC {code}) about how containers and microservices deal with data persistence, as well as some of the work that he’s doing lately and what other projects are looking at for containers + data.
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Show Notes:
Clint’s Projects:
GitHub Page - https://github.com/clintonskitson
RexRay - https://github.com/emccode/rexray
Dogged - https://github.com/emccode/dogged
Arrowhead - https://github.com/emccode/arrowhead
VagrantSpice - https://github.com/emccode/vagrantspice
Topic 1 - Give us a little bit of your background and what some of your focus areas are these days?
Topic 2 - You live in the Bay Area, but also attend events and talk to companies outside the Bay Area. Give us some perspective on how different those world are.
Topic 3 - People have heard of 12-Factor Apps and Microservices. Give us the basics of how they are different from “traditional apps”, especially in the context of using/storage/managing data.
Topic 4 - A while back, I asked you to start digging into the area of “data + containers”, because I wanted to better understand how these new application architectures would deal with persistent data.
Topic 5 - Tell us about some of the project you’re currently working on
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Apr 25, 2015 • 41min
The Cloudcast #188 - The ContainerPocalyse Ahead
Aaron and Brian announce a new partnership of O'Reilly Media! To kick things off The Cloudcast and O'Reilly have one free pass to O'Reilly Velocity to give away! Other great offers coming soon. Contest details:
Velocity website: http://velocityconf.com/devops-web-performance-2015/
Velocity Dates: 5/27-5/29 in Santa Clara, CA
Contest runs 4/25-5/1
What cool project are you working on? Send an email with details to show@thecloudcast.net or @thecloudcastnet
Winner announced on 5/3
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Velocity Schedule: https://en.oreilly.com/devopswebperformance2015/public/register?cmp=mpwebopsconfregregvlca15_cloudcast_201504ct
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Topic 1 - What have you been up to lately?
Topic 2 - Most interesting feedback you’ve gotten since we pivoted the focus of the show?
Topic 3 - What’s been the most interesting announcements, acquisitions, VC funding for you so far in 2015?
AWS Earnings Announcement
Nebula goes out of business
Commercialized Kubernetes and Mesos (Mesosphere, Kismatic, CoreOS)
Docker’s Round D funding
VMware’s Container Announcement
Infrastructure funding levels vs. Software funding levels
Interesting Moves by Microsoft (Containers, Linux on Azure, etc.)
Topic 4 - What’s been the most confusing or surprising announcement or move?
Topic 5 - We usually do end-of-year predictions, but stuff is moving so fast, maybe we should throw out 1 or 2 for the next 3-6 months?
Music Credit:Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Apr 17, 2015 • 25min
The Cloudcast #187 - API Performance Monitoring
Aaron talks to John Sheehan (@johnsheehan; CEO of Runscope - @runscope) about the differences between API and application development, testing, performance, and monitoring. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)
https://www.runscope.com/
https://www.runscope.com/community
https://github.com/Runscope

Apr 12, 2015 • 44min
The Cloudcast #186 - Understanding the Cloud Foundry Foundation
Aaron and Brian talk to Sam Ramji (@sramji; President of Cloud Foundry Foundation) about his first 30 days on the job, engaging developer communities, open vs. commercial, branding and awareness of open source projects.
- Cloud Foundry Foundation: http://cloudfoundry.org/index.html
- Cloud Foundry Summit May 11-12: http://www.cfsummit.com/
- Use promo code CFSCAST for 25% off Cloud Foundry Summit!
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Apr 5, 2015 • 31min
The Cloudcast #185 - Masters, Minions and Pods - Kubernetes 101
Brian talks to Patrick Reilly (@preillyme; CEO @kismatic) about the basics of Kubernetes, deploying and scheduling containers at scale, and how to learn more about distributed applications.
Kismatic Website - http://kismatic.io/
Kismatic on GitHub - https://github.com/kismatic

Mar 29, 2015 • 25min
The Cloudcast #184 - Streaming Analytics for Distributed Applications
Aaron talks to Karthik Rau (@krrau; Founder/CEO of @SignalFx) about the launch of their advanced monitoring platform, doing streaming analytics for distributed applications, the new role of developers and the mindset of technology-centric business groups.
Links:
- SignalFx Website - https://signalfx.com/
- SignalFx REST API - https://support.signalfx.com/hc/en-us/articles/201270489
- TheNewStack covers SignalFx launch - http://thenewstack.io/signalfx-a-saas-to-monitor-apps-at-any-scale/
- Ben’s Blog - http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_past_and_future_of_systems_management
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Mar 21, 2015 • 38min
The Cloudcast #183 - Container-Centric Application Deployments
Brian talks to Alexis Richardson (Founder @WeaveWorks) and Khash Sajadi (CEO @Cloud66) about their global DevOps as a Service platform and how they have interconnected it across 76 Data Centers. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Mar 15, 2015 • 31min
The Cloudcast #182 - Moving DevOps Forward with CI:CD
Brian talks to TJ Randall (@TJRandall; VP System Engineering @XebiaLabs) about how customers work through changes to people/skills, process, financial modeling, internal communications and tools, as they migrate to more agile application development and utilize CI/CD methodology. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)