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Adam Toll Solving Lag in Desktop Gaming at the Edge

Joining us this week is Adam Toll, Founder of Haste.

About Haste

Haste is a network optimizer for video games, reducing lag, packet loss, and jitter to improve your gaming experience.

Highlights:

Adam History in pre-CDN technologies, streaming music, and gaming lag issues
How Solve Lag Issues over Network
Quality of Service and Multi-Path
Challenges w/ Cached Content and Real-Time Content
Edge Management with Network Unpredictability

Time Tracking

0 min 50 sec: Introduction of Guest
- Background on Satellite Communication in Early Days Leading to CDN
- Early Streaming Music Technology Startup
- Angel Investing Period
8 min 8 sec: How to Fix Lag Issues?
- Early Web and Rich Media Challenges ~ Content Distribution Networks
- Haste Focused on Real-Time w/ User Generated Content that is Dynamic
- Overlay Network Architecture ~ Spend Bandwidth to Achieve Performance
13 min 14 sec: Quality of Service and Multi-Path
- Anticipatory Gaming – Action Timestamps
- Duplicating Traffic on 4 Separate Paths
- 3 Layers: Infrastructure, Suite of Software Defined Networking Tools, & Software on Gaming Machine Locally Installed
  - Caching Not Involved
- 21 min 24 sec: Challenges of Out-Of-Date CDNs
  - Critical Issues
    - Game Software Updates (Required) – Traditional CDN
    - Active Game Play Stream – Haste Manages w/ EDGE GRAVITY by Ericsson
  - Local Haste Service – Monitor Streams to Ensure Fastest Access to Various Game Servers
    - Ensure Awareness of Various Game Servers Availability
  - 28 min 52 sec: How Shape Edge Infrastructure Based on Network Unpredictability
    - Path Diversity is Significant
    - Improve ISP Delivery of Gaming Services by Adding Haste in ISP Networks
    - Dynamic Allocation of Gaming Services based on Player Location and Network Features
  - 39 min 23 sec: Wrap-Up

Podcast Guest: Adam Toll, Founder of Haste

Adam Toll is a Founder of Haste and focuses on alliances, future applications of Haste technology, and the strategic direction of the company. Adam was co-founder and COO of media startup BigChampagne which was acquired by Live Nation in 2011, and previously was a consultant in the satellite communications industry.

Software is Not Eating the World, it’s Dying

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector talk about the Software industry and how SaaS and other trends are killing the traditional software solution based on installation and management in your own data centers.

This is our 100th Podcast for L8istSh9y!

Rocky Grober on Role Discrimination and Learning Patterns in Open Source

Joining us this week is Rocky Grober, TBD

Highlights:

Open Source Project Health in QA and Quality
Escaping the Open Source Discrimination Cycle
Money in Open Source for Sustainability
Learning Patterns in Open Source
Crises in Open Source for Sustaining Projects
Open Source Foundations Need to Own Sustaining Engineering

Time Tracking

1 min 12 sec: Introduction of Guest
2 min 48 sec: QA and Quality in Open Source
- Hidden Influencers in OpenStack
- Ecosystem of Connections
- Discrimination against QA in Open Source
- Measurement of Participation by Commits Only
- OpenStack Operators & Product Managers Voices Not Heard
9 min 56 sec: How to Escape Current Cycle?
- Having Operators and Customers as Part of Leadership in Community
- Bring “Real-World” to Community Silos
- Turning Code into Projects
13 min 18 sec: Open Source Licensing
- Open Source Developers Love New Toys and then Get Bored ~ When Software is Mature and Usable
- Test for Integration not Just Expected Behavior ~ QA does this but Developers need to Engage in Exploratory Testing
18 min 30 sec: Learning Patterns
- Mike Kail on Defining Edge Podcast; Better to Iterate and Learn but can become repetitive
- Iteration of Developers Recursively Improve Knowledge however some don’t gain System Understanding
- Deep not Broad is a Mistake; Need to do Both
- g. OpenStack focusing releases on specific parts of Product
- Open Source Throws out All Lessons from Corporate Development which is a Mistake; plenty of good ideas should be used in Open Source
24 min 22 sec: Developers Must Adjust to What Customers Need Not What Developers Want
- If no one uses software is it significant?
- Ecosystem around Open Source Projects Provide Support Customers Need
27 min 45 sec: Is there a Crisis in Open Source for Sustaining Projects?
- Lots of Types of People Doing Different Jobs in Open Source but Not Enough QA or Operators Taking Part in Projects
- Need to Move Beyond Developers in Open Source
- How Get Open Source Users to Participate via Funding or Staff for Software Maintenance?
- What will Drive this to Happen? ROI
31 min 50 sec: How Solve this Problem?
- Foundations Need to Support Sustaining Engineering
- Profit Motive Missing from Open Source is a Challenge
- Gamification on Open Source Projects
- Bug Priority based on Customer Need not Developer Interest
38 min 10 sec: Wrap-Up

Recap of the Gaming Developers Conference 2019

Recap of the 2019 GDC event in San Francisco, CA last week. Our guests are Alan Evans, Sr Director Strategy, EDGE GRAVITY and Chetan Venkatesh, CEO, Marcometa.

Discussion includes thoughts on the Google Stadia announcement, Cloud Native development for gaming, and our thoughts on Genvid who we all agreed had standout technology.

Eric Wright on Challenges of Enterprise Software Sales

Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist, Turbonomic .

About Turbonomic
Turbonomic workload automation for hybrid cloud environments delivers enterprise organizations with automation that enables on-premises and public cloud to self-manage in real-time, thereby assuring application performance while lowering cost and maintaining compliance with business policies. The platform matches workload demand to infrastructure supply, helping customers maintain a continuous state of application health.

Launched in 2009, Turbonomic is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the virtualization and cloud management space, trusted by thousands of enterprise organizations to maximize the value of their IT investments.

DiscoPosse Podcast

The DiscoPosse Podcast is designed to share personal and technology stories with great folks from all across the industry. More than just tech, you’ll find founder’s stories, technology stories, personal productivity, fitness, and much more. Recently rebranded from the original GC On-Demand which spawned from community interactions I have enjoyed through my role at Turbonomic.

Follow Eric’s podcast at https://discoposse.com/.

Highlights:

Discoposse Podcast
Discussion on Luke Kaines Article
Open Source Impact on IT Ops and Purchasing
Money Drives Operational Alignment
Sales as Organizational Improvements

Time Stamp

0 min 6 sec: Introduction of Guest
1 min 19 sec: Discoposse Podcast
- History of Podcast
- Canada – Brewers Retail
6 min 07 sec: Luke Kaines Article, My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
- Like Watching a Netflix Story Heading to an Unexpected Ending
- Starts with Hard Lessons Learned – how not to do things
  - Who are you building the product for? User or Purchaser
  - Still early in our industry on how to build a product that doesn’t require enterprise sales
- When is sales enterprise? How to define that?
- You succeed on your ability to manage relationships of warring departments at the prospect’s company; it’s not the product that you are selling
13 min 16 sec: Examples of Politics impacting sales
- RackN and Internal Champions
- Open Source allows customers to bypass their sales departments: dangers of this happening
- Tour de France of IT Operations
- Justify the cost of the product vs. value or the product
21 min 05 sec: People take things seriously when money is being spent
- Free consulting never gets used
- Open source has less perceived value since its free but it’s not really free
- Personal investment vs team investment in solution
  - Disagreements add value to organizations
  - Silos vs Cross-Silo Communications
- 31 min 08 sec: How sell product communicating value to multiple groups via internal champions
  - Having to use software purchased already to get value
  - Have to pay for software, even free software
    - Even open source software has commercial support that cost money
  - Always about building a team and communication
- 40 min 25 sec: Wrap-Up

Podcast Guest: Eric Wright

Eric Wright is a Principal Solutions Engineer and Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, VMware vExpert, and Cisco Champion with a background in virtualization, containers, VMware, OpenStack, Business Continuity, PowerShell scripting and systems automation in many industries including financial services, health services and engineering firms. As the author behind DiscoPosse.com, a technology and virtualization blog, Eric is also a regular contributor to community driven technology groups such as the VMUG organization in Toronto, Canada.

When Eric is not working in technology, you may find him with a guitar in his hand or riding a local bike race or climbing over the obstacles on a Tough Mudder course. Eric also commits time regularly to charity bike rides and running events to help raise awareness and funding for cancer research through a number of organizations.

Tricia Howard on Security as a Culture not a Tool Set

Joining us this week is Tricia Howard, Client Manager, Optiv for a special RANTCAST on Security.

About Optiv

Optiv Security is a security solutions integrator that enables clients to reduce risk by taking a strategic approach to cybersecurity. Align your security program to achieve specific business outcomes with our full suite of service capabilities, from strategy to technology—and everything in between.

Highlights:

Security Rant
Data Privacy and Rights / Data Security
Companies and Storage/Security of Personal Data
Data is a Currency
Securing Systems and Data Leakage
Password Re-Use and Lack of Re-Use Impact on Vendors / SIM Hacking
Monopoly Power of Big Tech Companies & Gov’t Regulation
Dark Web – What is it?
Identity on Internet
Perimeter Security

Time Stamp

0 min 32 sec: Introduction of Guest
1 min 20 sec: Rant on Security
- Lack of Security Awareness outside of IT
- End-User Shame vs End User Enable
4 min 42 sec: What should Companies do who Collect Data?
- Users should have rights to know what they are opting in for ~ Data Mining
- Facebook and Congress not understanding each other
8 min 05 sec: Intermixing Data Privacy and Data Security?
- Not mutually exclusive
- Build a culture around security
9 min 03 sec: Data Leaks from Companies with our Data
- How is data being forwarded to other companies that I am unaware is happening
- Nothing is Free ~ Data is a Currency
15 min 30 sec: Securing Systems and then Spreading Data all over the Internet
- Zero Trust
- Bouncers and Bartenders
- Password re-use creates issues for vendors
- SIM Card Hacking (#130 The SnapChat Thief)
19 min 22 sec: Journalist Video on Not using Large Corporations for Security Reasons
- Duck Duck Go (still runs on AWS)
- Gov’t Regulations?
- Dark Web – What is it? Nefarious
23 min 30 sec: Identity on the Internet
- Is our identity provable on the Internet?
- IoT identity and Edge
- Blog – Identity of Things from Tricia
26 min 43 sec: Perimeter Security
- There is no perimeter
- Security as Culture not a Toolset
28 min 02 sec: Wrap-Up
- Includes Westminster 2019 Discussion

Podcast Guest: Tricia Howard, Client Manager, Optiv

A Native Texan now living in the magnificent New York City, Tricia Howard is an artist gone rogue who ended up in the wonderful world of technology. With a B.A. in Theatre Arts and interests ranging from Star Wars to Opera, she brings a unique and artistic perspective to her clients and the tech world. When she’s not solving business problems, you can find her singing, painting, and doing copious amounts of jigsaw puzzles.

@TriciaKicksSaaS

Sastry Malladi on Edgification and Real-World IoT Deployments

Joining us this week is Sastry Malladi, CTO, FogHorn.

About FogHorn

FogHorn is a leading developer of edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications. FogHorn and Lightning are trademarks of FogHorn Systems. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Highlights:

FogHorn Data Aggregation Technology for Devices
Edge is Constrained
Containers are Standard
IoT Standard Environment
Autonomy at the Edge
Edge Architecture Tradeoffs
Machine Learning

Time Stamp

0 min 45 sec: Introduction of Guest
2 min 47 sec: Purpose of FogHorn Software
- Data aggregation from many devices
- PLC – Industrial Controller
- How is FogHorn added into a device? Containers
  - Can become a full gateway
- 7 min 58 sec: Edge is a Constrained Environment
  - How make sure environment has latest code? Container Processes
  - FogHorn assumes Edge devices can run Containers
    - Only issue with handheld devices (e.g. Android)
  - 12 min 52 sec: What will be standard in an IoT environment?
    - Sensor Protocols
    - Real-Time Processing of the Data (AI, Deep Learning, etc)
      - “Edgification”
    - Publication Layer
    - GOAL – Autonomy at the Edge
  - 18 min 39 sec: Are Decisions Close to Edge? Architecture Decisions?
    - Process where the data is
    - Move to predictive analysis
    - Aggregation of Information from Multiple Devices
  - 26 min 07 sec: Is Machine Learning a Component?
    - Process of Edgification
  - 30 min 41 sec: Wrap-Up

Podcast Guest: Sastry Malladi, CTO, FogHorn

As CTO of FogHorn, Sastry is responsible for and oversees all technology and product development. Sastry is a results-driven technology executive with deep technology and management experience of over two and half decades. His areas of expertise include developing, leading and architecting various highly scalable and distributed systems, in the areas of Big Data, SOA, Micro Services Architecture, Application Servers, Java/J2EE/Web Services middleware, and cloud Computing to name a few.

Prior to joining FogHorn as CTO, Sastry was Chief Architect of StubHub, an eBay company, where he led the technology architecture transformation and also spearheaded the Big Data initiatives and data driven decisions. Sastry was also a key technology executive at eBay leading the technology re-platforming effort from its monolithic architecture to the distributed, and scalable service-oriented architecture enabling business growth. Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, founding member and architect at SpikeSource, and an architect at Oracle.

Sastry frequently speaks at many technology conferences, contributes to many standards and has several patents under his belt. He holds a master’s degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India.

Cloud Don on Service Mesh and Edge Federation

Joining us this week is Sriram Subramanian, Founder and Principal Analyst, CloudDon.

About Cloud Don
Sriram Subramanian is an independent analyst catalyzing modern enterprise IT Transformations. His primary area of coverage is how cloud computing/ container technology based services are impacting modern enterprise IT. His representative clients include vendors such as Red Hat, Microsoft, HPE, and end users in retail, fin tech and healthcare.

Service Mesh Event (18 min 45 sec)

Service Mesh Day : March 28 – 29, 2019
Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco

Highlights:

Thoughts on late 2018 AWS ReInvent and KubeCon (Software vs SaaS)
Vendor Lock-In Hype
Service Mesh
Edge Computing

Highlights

0 min 16 sec: Introduction of Guest
1 min 33 sec: Impressions from AWS ReInvent and KubeCon 2018
- Software vs SaaS
9 min 00 sec: Services Spun up Inside Kubernetes vs Vendor Lock-in
- Over Hype of Vendor Lock-In?
12 min 38 sec: Service Mesh
- Why do I need Service Mesh on Kubernetes?
- Enable Cloud-Native Paradigms
- Kubernetes is not the Answer to Everything
20 min 35 sec: Data Center Environment and Edge Computing
- Is Kubernetes assumed for Edge?
- LF Edge Announcement Podcast
- Federation
30 min 21 sec: Wrap-Up

Daniel Lizio-Katzen on Serverless in the Enterprise

Joining us this week is Daniel Lizio-Katzen, CEO Galactic Fog.

About

Galactic Fog was founded in 2014 by veteran engineers with the goal of streamlining application development. As engineers, we have spent years designing, building and deploying applications for both startups and large enterprises. At Galactic Fog, one of our goals is to provide a platform for us to contribute back to the developer community by open-sourcing many of our foundational components.

Galactic Fog’s core mission is to provide the systems that enable the design, development and cross-cloud operation of cloud-native apps through the use of enterprise grade function-as-a-service (FaaS) and container-as-a-service (CaaS) technologies. These apps should be resilient and declaratively integrated into any complex environment or configuration.

Highlights:

Function as a Service and Events
Operational Experience
Next Generation API Gateways
DevOps and Enterprises
Kubernetes as an Enterprise Platform
Edge is part of Galactic Fog

Time-Line

0 min 36 sec: Introduction of Guest
0 min 51 sec: Background on Daniel and Galactic Fog
3 min 22 sec: How heterogeneous is the event driven space?
- Event data mapping is not standard
6 min 0 sec: What are the correct patterns for event systems?
- FaaS Engine must be Tunable
8 min 15 sec: Operational Experience in FaaS
- Integration into someone’s environment
- Focused on enterprise developers – platforms must be tunable for variety of solutions using serverless
14 min 52 sec: Next Generation of API Gateways
- Future is Istio
- Enterprise does not want DevOps but rather Managed Kubernetes
17 min 15 sec: DevOps, Developers, and CI/CD Pipelines
- How do you help sustain an app with thousands of moving parts?
- Microservices architecture is difficult
27 min 51 sec: Is Kubernetes Ready for Enterprise as a Platform?
- Still in early stages
- Opens software company options for platforms
32 min 24 sec: Edge Computing and Galactic Fog?
34 min 23 sec: Wrap-Up

Jim Clark on the Software Delivery Machine

Joining us this week is Jim Clark, Chief Architect and Founder of Atomist.

About Atomist

Our goal is to remove every last bit of unnecessary work that gets between you and shipping great software.

We created Atomist in 2015 with the goal of transforming how software is developed and delivered. We believe that developers should have tools to take care of the individual stages of that flow, and very importantly, a way to integrate, streamline, and automate the overall flow from code to ship. We started Atomist to build that platform for developers.

Highlights:

What and How of Atomist Technology
Delivery as a Workflow Issues
Automated Code Updates ~ e.g. Code Analysis
Software Delivery Machine

Highlights

0 min 21 sec: Introduction of Guest
2 min 14 sec: What does Atomist do? How does Atomist do it?
- Empower developers to deliver for Cloud-Native
- Software delivery is now an integration problem of too many tools
5 min 23 sec: Delivery is a Workflow
- Atomist does not believe this is correct
- Raise ALL developers up and not just select teams: Spread-out Expertise
12 min 16 sec: Atomist Tweak Submitted Code for Standards
- ChatOps are used extensively
- Code Analysis example
16 min 59 sec: Code as Data not Linear Flow
- Push Event example
- Bots running in background
- Docker base image analysis
24 min 36 sec: Software Delivery Machine
- Graph Oriented Model using GraphQL
- How it Works
- Visibility without Expertise at every stage in a pipeline
34 min 51 sec: Wrap-Up