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Arpit Joshipura on Linux Foundation Launch of LF Edge

Joining us this week is Arpit Joshipura, general manager, The Linux Foundation.

About LF Edge

LF Edge is a new umbrella organization that aims to establish open, interoperable frameworks for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. Launched in January 2019, LF Edge is comprised of existing Linux Foundation projects Akraino Edge Stack, EdgeX Foundry, and Open Glossary of Edge Computing, as well as the new Project EVE from ZEDEA and Home Edge Project from Samsung Electronics.

Highlights:

  • LF Edge Introduction
  • Collaboration b/w LF Edge and other Open Source Communities
  • Specific Projects in LF Edge at Launch
  • Difference b/w LF Foundation and OpenStack Foundation
  • Engaging with the LF Foundation
  • Telco Involvement

Time-Line

  • 0 min 12 sec: Introduction of Guest
  • 1 min 10 sec: Why did Linux Foundation decide it was time for Edge?
    • Umbrella Project – collection of similar areas
  • 2 min 34 sec: Open Glossary of Edge Computing Project
    • Wikipedia Style Definitions for Edge Terminology
    • Podcast: State of the Edge Report
  • 4 min 35 sec: What is the scope of LF Edge?
    • 4 Different Silos (IoT, Cloud, Enterprise, Telco)
    • Latency is Critical for App Definition for Edge
  • 7 min 20 sec: Interplay b/w Umbrellas, Projects, and Consortiums
    • Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
    • LF Edge Blueprints
  • 11 min 16 sec: Specific Technologies in LF Edge
    • 5 Projects at Start
  • 17 min 28 sec: Is there a Core Project for LF Edge?
  • 19 min 42 sec: OpenStack Foundation vs LF Edge and How Managed
  • 22 min 15 sec: How do other proprietary Platforms interact with LF Edge?
  • 24 min 40 sec: Telco Involvement
  • 32 min 09 sec: Wrap-Up

Podcast Guest:  Arpit Joshipura, general manager, The Linux Foundation

Arpit Joshipura brings over 25 years of networking expertise and vision to The Linux Foundation, with technical depth and business breadth. He has instrumented and led major industry disruptions across enterprises, carriers, and cloud architectures, including IP, broadband, optical, mobile, routing, switching, L4-7, cloud, disaggregation, SDN/NFV, and open networking, and has been an early evangelist for open source. Arpit has served as CMO/VP in startups and larger enterprises, including Prevoty, Dell/Force10, Ericsson/Redback, ONI/CIENA, and BNR/Nortel, leading strategy, product management, marketing, engineering, and technology standards functions.

Jeff Kim on Stateful Application Data and Kubernetes Integration at Edge

About Kmesh

Kmesh.io sells software that transforms your centralized data into distributed data, which operates over multiple clouds, countries and edges as a single global namespace. Customers configure their business rules / data orchestration policies through the Kmesh portal and easily deploy their data over any cloud (production data on prem, backup data on AWS, AI/ML data on Google, IoT data on the Edge etc.)

Highlights:

· Kubernetes Challenges for Stateful Data

· Managing Stateful Data across Multiple Edge Devices

· How Kmesh works with Luster ~ New Global Data Models

· Kubernetes Limitations with Storage

Timeline

· 0 min 24 sec: Introduction of Guest

· 2 min 36 sec: Data and Distributed Storage in Kubernetes Story

o Kmesh operates at Data Layer not App Layer as Kubernetes does

o Kubernetes is not the be all end all

o Kmesh arriving in parallel with Kubernetes (2.5 years old) — started as Luster as a Service for HPC

· 7 min 13 sec: How does Data Storage and Container Mgmt Come Together?

o Kubernetes has no state ; Data for Apps often times requires state

o Storing data with Kubernetes is a challenge — location, security, etc.

o Example: Car on road sending real-time data to Edge which has it connecting to various edge devices which need to have data properly ordered, managed, etc

· 10 min 34 sec: How manage multiple edge devices and data state across them

o Luster is low-latency, high-ops technology

o Ported Luster into cloud and edge environments

o Do you put the data in the right spot to take advantage of data store?

o Data duplication issues? Metadata is the key

· 19 min 24 sec: What does Kubernetes need to do to take advantage of this technology?

o Kmesh offers customer plug-in for Kubernetes

o Storage advancements in Kubernetes is limited

o How make Kubernetes workload better understand data?

· 27 min 02 sec: How does SaaS play into distributed data?

o Control plane vs Data plane

· 29 min 31 sec: Wrap-Up

Eric Fouarge on Open Source Tools in Cloud, Business Needs and Microservices, and Reality of Serverless

Joining us this week is Eric Fouarge, CTO at Root Level Technology.

About Root Level

Root Level Technology is a cloud strategy partner. We are the seamless extension of your development and programming teams. We provide a concierge-style support experience for every client, no matter the size. We are an agile shop at the core, with a focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. We are the hold your hand, wake us up at midnight, 5-star, real deal support clients have always wanted.

Highlights:

  • Discussion on Tools for Cloud Native
  • Business Needs and Microservices
  • Issues with New, Rapidly Developing Tools
  • Impact of Cloud Native on Operations/Development
  • Severless Alternatives to Lamda, etc

Time-Line

  • 0 min 49 sec: Introduction of Guest
  • 2 min 32 sec: Suite of Tools Being Used
    • Open Source Tools vs Proprietary Tools
  • 6 min 34 sec: Tradeoffs in Complexity and Tools
    • Time to Production
  • 7 min 43 sec: Do Customers bring their own Devs to Project?
  • 8 min 49 sec: Business Needs Driving Architectural Decisions at Microservice Level
    • Warning Signs in this Process
  • 12 min 04 sec: Is Cloud Native/DevOps Tooling Different?
    • Change Rate on New Tooling – e.g. Istio
    • What are some Best Practices in this Space?
    • How do you sell the Capabilities?
  • 18 min 34 sec: Return of Process Development in the Enterprise via Cloud Native
  • 19 min 52 sec: Serverless Alternatives to Lambda, etc
    • Kubernetes Options vs Vendor Options
    • Serverless does not eliminate the basics
    • Value of Service Mesh
  • 27 min 26 sec: How to Learn Service Mesh
    • Not Trivial Technology to Learn and Use
    • Rise of Kubernetes being Foundational
  • 31 min 30 sec: Orchestration of Building Cloud Apps
    • Terraform Issues in Production
  • 33 min 21 sec: Wrap-Up

Lee Atchison on Edge impact on DevOps, Edge vs Cloud Scale, and other Challenges

Joining us this week is Lee Atchison, Sr. Director of Strategic Architecture, New Relic. Author of Architecting for Scale on O’Reilly (link is not a tracked URL) and recent speaker at AWS ReInvent ’19 – Cloud Computing in an Edge World.

About New Relic

New Relic gives you deep performance analytics for every part of your software environment. You can easily view and analyze massive amounts of data, and gain actionable insights in real-time. For your apps. For your users. For your business.

Highlights:

  • Impact of Edge on DevOps (People / Process / Tools)
  • No DevOps Shortcuts for Edge
  • Scaling Issues b/w Cloud and Edge
  • Application Updates at the Edge
  • Environment Awareness

Timed Content

  • 0 min 43 sec: Introduction of Guest
  • 3 min 30 sec: Keys to Edge Computing
    • People are afraid of Edge
    • Edge is not new; already in the marketplace
  • 5 min 49 sec: Who is afraid?
    • Application Management Layer
    • DevOps Operation Teams / Edge Changes DevOps
  • 8 min 43 sec: Automation is Key for Edge
    • Cheating of process won’t cut it for the Edge
    • Source of fear is knowing that scale for Edge is massive
  • 11 min 14 sec: New Technologies but Similar Processes
    • Idea of Scaling (Cloud is Vertical) (Edge is Horizontal)
    • Edge has restricted resources unless cloud which is elastic
    • Think of Edge examples like single page browser app
  • 20 min 51 sec: Application Updates at the Edge
    • Challenges for App Monitoring
  • 28 min 18 sec: Edge Apps can’t Abstract too Much
    • Data Collection is key and need Direct Access
    • Must be Aware of the Environment
  • 31 min 25 sec: Wrap-Up

Podcast Guest:

Lee Atchison, Sr. Director of Strategic Architecture, New Relic

Lee is Senior Director of Strategic Architecture at New Relic, where his job is to understand and drive the industry in the areas of cloud architecture, microservices, scalability, and availability. He is the author of the O’Reilly book Architecting for Scale and author of the blog Lee@Scale. Lee has 28 years of industry experience and over a decade of building high-scale Web applications, having worked for seven years at Amazon and four at New Relic.

Mark Collier talks in-depth on the OpenStack Community and the Major Open Source Issues of the Day

Joining us this week is Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer, OpenStack Foundation.  

About OpenStack Foundation

The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally, across a community of 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of practice, including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container infrastructure.

Highlights:

  • Status of OpenStack from OpenStack Summit Berlin  
  • State of Open Source from Licensing and Sustainability Perspective
  • History of Big Tent and Learnings for New Direction Moving Forward
  • Running OpenStack Foundation and Open Source Challenges
  • Multiple Open Source Projects working Together
  • Open Infrastructure Projects

The Open Infrastructure Summit that Mark mentioned will be held in Denver, Colorado from April 29-May 1. Registration is currently open.

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Sabjeet Johal on Hybrid Clouds, AWS Outpost and More

Joining us this week is Sarbjeet Johal, Principal Advisor, The Batchery.

About The Batchery
Founded in 2015, The Batchery is an Berkeley-based global incubator for seed stage entrepreneurs ready to take their startup to the next level. We are a community of veteran investors and advisers ready to provide you with ideas, insights, and networks. Our partnerships with law firms, technology providers, and other startup services means that you start building your company the minute you join us.

Highlights:
• Latest in Data Centers and Hybrid Clouds
• Amazon Announcement on Outpost and ReInvent Thoughts
• Design Approaches of Cloud and Future Technology

2018 Podcast Wrap-Up

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector, your L8istSh9y Podcast Team, wrap up 2018 with some overall thoughts of the past year of Podcasts and a quick preview of 2019 content and planning.

Calsoft on the value of NFV for Telecom and Edge Computing

About Calsoft

Founded in 1998, Calsoft provides end-to-end product development, quality assurance, product sustenance, and solution engineering services to assist customers in achieving their product development and business goals. Our deep domain knowledge across various verticals helps customers create exceptional products and get them to market on time and within budget.

Calsoft’s deep technical expertise has led to the creation of several proprietary accelerators which are a huge hit among customers. Our niche skillset and intuitive engagement models are geared to meet the ever-evolving business needs of our customers.

Highlights:

· NFV Overview and Importance in Telecom

· NFV Usage and Use Cases

· Edge Service Delivery

Highlights

· 0 min 36 sec: Introduction of Guests

· 2 min 18 sec: Particular area of Industry that is exploding right now?

o 5G, Edge Computing, NFV

· 3 min 03 sec: NFV — Define and why it’s so important?

o Operators need agile technology that is easy to manage

o Data rates are dropping — What does that mean?

§ Data Service Fees are Dropping

· 6 min 06 sec: How does NFV help reduce data?

o Move from hardware to software to provide services

o Are Virtual Machines required? Are Containers coming?

o New capabilities that NFV offers

· 10 min 19 sec: Use Case for NFV

· 13 min 16 sec: What are you seeing in moving computation closer to the Edge?

o Need to save Packet travel time for new solutions

o Section.io Podcast on CDN for Edge

o What do NFV Clouds need to do for Edge support?

· 18 min 21 sec: How do you build and deliver apps for Edge?

o Designing solutions to scale is critical

o Standards matter for Open NFV

· 23 min 13 sec: Dynamic Infrastructures for Quick Tear-Down

o Technologies to watch for in this space

o Who connects Service Provider to Service Provider?

· 28 min 51 sec: Bottleneck to Delivering Edge Services

o Datacenters closer to the customer and connecting them back to the NFV ecosystem

o How does Calsoft help the industry and its role?

· 31 min 34 sec: Wrap-Up

Podcast Guests:

Pavan Gupta, Software Architect, Calsoft

Pavan has worked extensively in building and promoting wireless telecom products. He is an NFV architect at Calsoft Inc. and prior led engineering efforts at Cisco Systems to build LTE EPC Gateways on Cisco ASR5500 platform. He has worked closely with leading operators such as AT&T, Verizon and RJio and has been responsible for laying down product and business strategy in the wireless mobility space. Pavan is also engaged with open source efforts particularly OPNFV and ONAP.

Kiran Divekar, Software Architect from Calsoft.

Kiran has 17 years of experience working on the networking domain, SDN, NFV, OpenVswitch, DPDK, VMware NSX, Cloud computing, Docker, Linux System Software, Networking and Embedded Systems. He has delivered several sessions on Kernel programming, Linux Architecture. Kiran is recognized for his understanding of Networking stack, Linux Kernel Stack and embedded systems.

Daniel Bartholomew on developer applications running at the edge today

Joining us this week is Daniel Bartholomew, CTO and Founder of Section.

About Section

Section offers a developer-centric, multi-purpose Edge PaaS solution that empowers web application engineers to run any workload, anywhere. Built to give developers the flexibility and control that they need, Section’s edge platform is infrastructure agnostic (cloud, on-premise, self-hosted), edge workload agnostic (caching, HTTP optimization, IoT, big data), and has changed the dynamics of traditional CDN and cloud.

Highlights:

  • Background of Section from CDN to Edge
  • How Section works
  • Developer Issues in Building for Edge Scale