Day Two DevOps
Packet Pushers
Join hosts Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton as they dive deep into the challenges of DevOps from the perspective of seasoned practitioners. You'll hear from expert guests—technical leaders, trainers, and consultants with years of hands-on experience—discussing the nuances of DevOps. From AWS to Azure, networking to security, automation to modern cloud environments, each weekly episode equips you with the insights to confidently address tech and business challenges such as resilience, cost management, and performance. Whether you want to hone your skills today or prepare for what’s coming next, Day Two DevOps cuts through the vendor fog to guide you through a shifting IT landscape.
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May 31, 2023 • 54min
Day Two Cloud 197: Understanding Decentralized Identity With Dr. Joanne Friedman
Expert in Decentralized Identity (DID), Dr. Joanne Friedman, discusses the significance of DID, challenges faced by developers in the OT group, empowering individuals with decentralized identity, establishing trust in the system without a central authority, implementing DID in manufacturing, and various platforms for engaging with the guest.
May 24, 2023 • 47min
Day Two Cloud 196: Peering Behind The Curtain Of Podsqueeze’s AI Podcasting Service
Today's show gets behind the curtain of a cloud service called Podsqueeze. Podsqueeze is an application that ingests audio and video files and then produces text-based output including a show description, an episode transcript, suggested headlines, segment timestamps, suggested social media posts, and more. The Packet Pushers are experimenting with Podsqueeze as part of our own production. Being curious nerds, we thought this was a good opportunity to see how the service really works. Our guest is Tiago Ferreira, one of the entrepreneurs and developers of Podsqueeze.
May 17, 2023 • 40min
Day Two Cloud 195: Planning For Post-Quantum Cryptography
Today's Day Two Cloud explores post-quantum cryptography and how to make your cryptographic secrets safe from quantum computers. We're looking at a time horizon of at least five or ten years, so this isn't an immediate threat, but it doesn't hurt to start thinking about it now. We dive into how quantum computing and quantum encryption work, their impact on cryptographic secrets, what it means for technologies such as IPSec VPNs, and more. Melchior Aelmans is our guest.
May 10, 2023 • 49min
Day Two Cloud 194: Unpacking Flexera’s State Of The Cloud Report With Keith Townsend
When you're deep in the trenches of operating your cloud, sometimes it's helpful to step back and get a broader view of what's happening in the industry. On today's Day Two Cloud we explore the results of an annual State of the Cloud survey to get a snapshot of trends impacting the cloud industry, including multicloud adoption, services used, cloud usage and spending, and the challenges of finding and training talent. Our guest to help us unpack the report is Keith Townsend.
May 4, 2023 • 57min
Day Two Cloud 193: Should You Get A Cloud Networking Cert?
On today's Day Two Cloud we explore cloud networking certifications. Who do these certs make sense for? Which clouds should you focus on? What do certifications typically cover? Where do third-party devices such as firewalls and load balancers fit into the certification picture? If you're an old-school CLI jockey coming into cloud networking, how should you approach concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 2min
Day Two Cloud 192: OpenTelemetry – Getting From Visibility To Observability With Ben Hall
OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that brings together tools, SDKs, and APIs for collecting telemetry--that is, logs, metrics, and traces---in a standardized way. The goal of the project is to help developers and operators instrument highly distributed applications and services to understand dependencies, monitor performance, and quickly troubleshoot problems. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we explore OpenTelemetry and how it works. We also discuss the difference between visibility and observability, and why this matters. Our guest is Ben Hall.
Apr 19, 2023 • 42min
Day Two Cloud 191: Modernizing Cloud Security And Optimizing Costs With Jo Peterson
Today's Day Two Cloud delves into cloud security and cloud cost optimization for SaaS and public clouds. Our guest is Jo Peterson. On the security front, we compare and contrast traditional on-prem and cloud security challenges, explore the shared responsibility model of cloud security, and more. For cost optimization we discuss the growing concern about cloud costs, why optimization tools still need humans, tips for tracking multicloud spending, and more.
Apr 12, 2023 • 45min
Day Two Cloud 190: Serious Public Clouds Invest In Infrastructure With Charles Fitzgerald
CapEx obsessive Charles Fitzgerald shares insights on evaluating public cloud investments, discussing capex significance in assessing cloud companies and investment trends of major providers. The future of Google Cloud Platform is analyzed, along with opportunities and challenges of edge computing. The impact of cloud vendors on cloud architects and engineers is explored, emphasizing the need to understand vendor investments and capex numbers in assessing reliability and competitiveness.
Apr 5, 2023 • 50min
Day Two Cloud 189: The Cloud Network Engineer Career Path With Kam Agahian
Kam Agahian, a cloud network engineer, shares insights on transitioning from traditional networking to a career in the cloud. He discusses the evolution and roles of a cloud network engineer, the expansion of cloud networking into on-premises environments, the debate on unified control plane, learning curve and network architecture for cloud network engineers, and the importance of hands-on experience and investing in a cloud engineering career.
Mar 29, 2023 • 49min
Day Two Cloud 188: Out-Of-Band Management And Infrastructure Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored)
This podcast discusses out-of-band management and infrastructure automation with ZPE Systems. They explore the importance of automation infrastructure, the advantages of using ZPE gear, and the different types of devices provided. The speakers also discuss the deployment process for a new edge compute site and the benefits of using out-of-band management and ZPE Systems in infrastructure automation.
