Talking the Future of Tech
Joining us this week is Mark Imbriaco, Global CTO DevOps, Pivotal. Mark’s view of ops and open source from a platform perspective as it relates to SRE offers listeners a high-level approach to these concepts that is not often heard.
Highlights
• Site Reliability Engineering – Introduction and Advanced Discussion
• Edge Computing from Platform View
• Open Source Projects vs Products and Sustainability
• Monetization of Open Source Matters
Joining us this week is John Willis, VP DevOps and Digital Practices, SJ Technologies known for many things including being at the initial DevOps meeting in Europe, co-founder of the DevOpsDays events, and the DevOps Café podcast.
Highlights
• Introduction to the Phoenix Project and the new audio Beyond the Phoenix Project
• Docker discussion and the issues around its success based on the ecosystem success
• Docker vs operation split for two different audiences
• Issue of sustaining open source technology and lack of financing to support this
• Revenue arc vs viral adoption for open source model
• Three reasons to choose open source model for software
Joining us this week is Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside AWS Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of severless applications.
Highlights
• Intro of AWS Lambda and IOpipe
• Discussion of Observability and Opaqueness of Serverless
• Edge Computing Definition and Vision
• End of Operating Systems and Abstraction Boundaries
In this week’s podcast, we speak with Justin Garrison, co-author of Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNI).
• Behind scenes for O’Reilly book and choice of cover animal
• Infrastructure and CNI approach
• State and Immutability / Immutable VM
• Terraform and Kubernetes
• Observability
• The Why of Immutability
• Infrastructure as Software (Netflix)
• Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps
Joining us this week is Rich Miller, CEO and Managing Director of Telematica, Inc.
Highlights
• GitHub and Microsoft Discussion ~ Why is GitHub so Valuable?
• Evolution of Open Source and its Commercial Aspects
• Monetization of Open Source Depends on Services for Success
• Container Management and Marketplace for Innovation
• ISV Ecosystem ~ All About Big Money and the New Tech Investment Thesis
• Multi-Platforms / Multi-CSP Change the Nature of Innovation from the Independents
• Edge Computing will Disrupt the Locus of Opportunities
• The Edge Marketplace and Cloud Platform Marketplace Must Appear Unified to Developers
• Edge Infrastructure Multi-Tenancy and Development Challenges
• Distributed Ledger at Edge is the Killer Edge App
• How will Cloud, Blockchain and Edge be Driven toward Integration in the Future? Email Example
Joining us this week is Dave Nielsen, Head of Ecosystem Programs at Redis Labs. Dave provides background on the Redis project and discusses ideas for using Redis in edge devices.
Highlights
• Background of Redis project and Redis Labs
• Redis and Edge Computing
• Where is the Edge?
• Raspberry Pi for edge devices? It’s about management
• Wasteland of IT management at the edge
Joining us this week is Oliver Gould, CTO Buoyant who provides a service mesh abstraction view to micro-services and Kubernetes. Oliver and Rob also take a look at how applications are managed at the edge and highlights the future roadmap for Conduit.
Highlights
• Defining microservices and Kubernetes from Buoyant viewpoint
• Service mesh abstractions at a request level (load balance, get, put, …)
• Conduit overview – client-side load balancing
• Service mesh tool comparisons
• Edge Computing discussion from service mesh view
Joining us this week is Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder and CEO, Rafay Systems.
Highlights
• Building an application deployment platform as close to the Edge as possible
• Supporting containers, microservices (move latency sensitive parts of app to Edge) and availability of infrastructure
• Definition of Edge to Rafay Systems
• Issues of massive amount of data at the Edge to be handled – Use Cases
• Will Edge suffer from device specific infrastructure needs?
• Application bottlenecks and impact of cloud locations and end user
• Placement control of services is still an open issue based on user requirements
• IT infrastructure and ownership and performance issues (IT vs Operation Teams)
• Cloud and Edge are not competitive; they work together to offer applications best fit
In this recap, Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector look back over the past year and 50 L8istSh9y podcasts. The discussion highlights the main themes of Edge Computing, DevOps and SRE, Open Source, and our new start into Blockchain. Follow our new Podcast blog at https://medium.com/@l8istsh9y.
Joining us this week is James Ferguson, Director of Cloud Consulting, JBC Labs.
Highlights
• Overview of JBC Labs’ Jump Box Central Kubernetes Solution
• State of Kubernetes Today
• Concept of Kubernetes as an Application Platform
• Functions as a Service
• Service Mesh and Kubernetes