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Vantage is a system for optimizing cloud costs. It provides tools and interfaces for developers to analyze how they are spending on AWS resources, and has recently expanded into GCP as well. Vantage users gain an easy interface into their costs that would otherwise be hard to analyze via the raw AWS console. Ben Schaechter is the founder of Vantage. In a previous show he gave an overview of Vantage. In today’s episode he returns to discuss the engineering internals of Vantage and provide a macro perspective on where people are wasting money in the cloud. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Vantage Engineering with Ben Schaechter appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Managing Kubernetes nodes leads to operational complexity, security issues, and nodes that are perhaps more expensive to run than necessary. Deferring the node management to an underlying platform abstracts away these problems and can improve operations. Madhuri Yechuri runs Elotl, a nodeless Kubernetes platform. She joins the show to talk about the architecture and purpose of her company. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Nodeless Kubernetes with Madhuri Yechuri appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast-growing web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly.As an application scales, it becomes significantly more complicated while at the same time receiving more traffic. The intersection of these two problems leads to a variety of discussions around availability, risk management, and microservices. Sponsorship inquiriessponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Architecting for Scale with Lee Atchison appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Linkerd is a service mesh that runs efficiently with a low memory footprint. We have covered the details of Linkerd in previous episodes. Buoyant is the company that sells Linkerd as a service, and today’s show focuses on the engineering details of the company, and how Linkerd is architected in 2022. William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, and he joins the show to talk in detail about running a leading service mesh company. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Buoyant Cloud with William Morgan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Database product companies typically have a few phases. First, the company will develop a technology with some kind of innovation such as speed, scalability, or durability. The company will offer support contracts around that technology for a period of time, before eventually building a managed, hosted offering. PlanetScale is a database company built around the Kubernetes-based Vitess technology. Sugu Sougoumarane is the CTO of PlanetScale, and formerly worked at YouTube, where he built large-scale SQL databases. In today’s show, he talks about building out the core PlanetScale technology, tuning PlanetScale’s consensus model, and the development of the hosted cloud service offering of the company. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com   The post Scaling PlanetScale with Sugu Sougoumarane appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Rackspace is a multi cloud solutions provider that has evolved beyond its cloud computing origins into a diverse set of services and support offerings. Customers work with Rackspace to adopt cloud application deployments, modern data analytics, and all the other opportunities offered by cloud computing. Much of this occurs through partnerships where Rackspace provides teams of engineers to work with the customer. Jeff DeVerter  is the CTO of products and services at Rackspace. He’s also the host of the podcast Cloud Talk, a show about cloud trends and technologies. Jeff previously served as the CTO of Microsoft Technology at Rackspace, so our conversation began with a discussion of Microsoft-based migrations. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Rackspace with Jeff DeVerter appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Infrastructure as code is a concept that has delighted software engineers, dev ops, and engineering management across the board. It’s neither fun nor efficient to configure the infrastructure and environments software teams require. Operating software at scale on a cloud, on-prem, or hybrid model is a problem of modernity that many enterprises find surprisingly challenging. Rob Hirschfeld is CEO and co-founder of RackN whose software helps IT teams maintain distributed, multi-vendor operations with consistent operational control. We discuss the approaches being adopted by modern enterprise teams for infrastructure management.   Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Infrastructure as Code with Rob Hirschfeld appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

As cloud providers enable greater levels of specificity and control, they empower compliance-driven enterprise companies.  This level of parameterization is downright inhospitable to a new software engineer and can be a cognitive barrier to entry for a senior professional with a great idea but limited time.  Developers want to focus on their code, algorithms, front end, and user experience. These concerns have created a huge vacuum in the market that companies like Render are filling.  Render is a unified cloud experience to build and run all your apps and websites.  It can auto-deploy for git and offers some really novel developer ergonomics.  In this episode, I interview Anurag Goel, Founder, and CEO of Render.com about their approach to delivering a developer-centric all-in-one cloud solution. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Render with Anurag Goel appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Thanks to the amazing books, blogs, videos, quickstarts, frameworks, and other software-related resources, getting started as a software engineer is easier than ever.  Although you can get started in a day, it can take years to become a master of the craft and most practitioners describe it as a profession of lifelong learning. Titus Winters is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google and the author of the book Software Engineering at Google, often known as “the flamingo book”.  This book is not just tips for structuring, writing, and testing code.  It’s a resource that outlines all the facets of the software engineering practice that apply in professional settings through the lens of lessons learned at Google. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Software Engineering at Google with Titus Winters appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Modern businesses run on the cloud and increasingly so they run on multi-cloud infrastructure.  As any growing company can tell you, cloud costs can easily run far out of control.  Today’s enterprises are trying to deliver new products and services at a fast pace.  That needs to be done in a cost-effective, ideally cloud-agnostic way. In this interview, I speak with Jake Reichert, VP of Engineering at Yotascale, we discuss Yotascale’s solution and how they’ve helped companies like Zoom navigate the challenges of rapid growth.  Yotascale offers a comprehensive spectrum of cloud cost management solutions and we get into how modern enterprises are using these tools for optimization, governance, and more. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Yotascale with Jake Reichert appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.