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Leading And Selling Decisions in Enterprises

What does it take to make a good decision? We discuss an interesting take on this as we integrate the topic of how to sell into situations, and selling is the ultimate drive in a decision.

Our conversation mixes the challenges of making decisions as a leader with the challenges of selling into organizations where people have to make a decision to choose your product. It also includes tips on how to frame decisions, how to position decisions, and more.

If you engage in projects and selling them to your boss, supervisor, company, peers, reports, etc – you need to be able to understand why it is important to move forward and make a decision or change. If you’re not able to sell, you’re not well equipped for being a leader.

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Generative Coding & DevOps Challenges

What can we expect generative AI to generate and is it going to produce good code? Today we talk about Gluecon and generative DevOps and the different concepts and capabilities around it. What impact is it going to have on developers? How do we control that?

Today’s discussion was in preparation for our session on June 13, where we’re going to group program GPT to see what type of DevOps coding skills we can prompt. We talked about the necessity of prompting in this session and covered some tips to help you think about how to be a better prompt engineer, a skill set that everybody’s going to need to have in the next months if not years.

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Domains And Access For Metadata

What actually is used to describe the provenance and information that comes with our data? Today we discuss metadata and the governance, security, hint, domains, date that accompany data in ways that in some senses are more important than data.

How can we move, change and transform data? We had a really robust conversation about how access to data is so critical in actually understanding how data is used.

This is a topic we struggle with: figuring out the naming, how things work, and the context. More than anything else, the context makes things challenging. As you listen to this, think through how challenging it is to define data, data governance, and using data effectively.

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The Kubernetes Alternate Universe

What would our systems look like if we didn’t have Kubernetes?

We started this discussion with platform engineering and its associated challenges. In talking about platforms, we covered ways in which people can consume infrastructure more effectively. That segwayed directly into ways in which Kubernetes could be changed under the covers, used for virtualization use for non traditional containerized automation.

This episode is a pretty thorough review of alternatives to Kubernetes, and the ways in which Kubernetes misses the mark.

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Strengthening Security’s Weakest Link

How do you deal with the weakest link in security?

Today we talk through how we can secure systems, all the way from what technical processes put in place to the people involved to legal enforcement, and who pays the price when data is compromised? There’s a lot to digest here that comes back to thoughtful ways in which we can deal with the weakest link in the systems.

How do we create robust security models?

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Data Cartels Book Discussion

The book Data Cartels by Sarah Lambda serves as a starting point for our discussion today. www.amazon.com/Data-Cartels-Comp…ion/dp/1503633713

A dense and thoughtful book, it is straight up the alley of the type of conversations of the2030.cloud has. Our analysis of the book and the challenges it provides – the data compliance governance, the legality, the threat, and broader implications of what Dr. Lambda lays out – are all really important.

Today’s podcast is understandable and interesting without having had to go through and read the book, but I still recommend that you do.

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What is Zero Trust?

How can you execute on a zero trust strategy and what do you need to keep in mind while building it? Today covers the 101 and 201 levels on zero trust.

We had a really good conversation about how it works, what doesn’t work, what you need to be prepared for. Even if you think you understand zero trust, you will get something out of this conversation. And if it’s a new topic for you, you can also benefit from this pragmatic discussion of zero trust, security and application architects.

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Making SBOM A Reality

Software bills of materials are one of the most critical, modern software development practices that people should be doing but don’t. They have significant impacts in improving security, provenance, reproducibility, and license compliance.

The benefits of having a good software bill of materials in our technology industry are incredibly high, both as a producer and a consumer. And yet, this is one of those places where I feel like we have really fallen behind.

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Life Without Kubernetes

We continue our discussion of what would the environment look like without Kubernetes? We started with the idea of what if Kubernetes went away, what if there was a copyright or a trademark or an API issue that made us have to abandon Kubernetes altogether?

In this episode we played what if scenarios, exploring what made Kubernetes unique, and if parts of Kubernetes or parts of the architectural model could exist outside of Kubernetes? What would be necessary?

We identified enough parts of Kubernetes individually where we saw how it itself is an interesting convergence of some core technologies. Nothing new except in the combination of those architectural paradigms, designs and open source models. Through this, we dig into why Kubernetes is so powerful in the market.

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Generative DevOps

NOTE: This is Rob’s Gluecon topic on 5/24. Save $300 if you register with speaker300 at www.gluecon.com

We dive into the question of whether or not generative AI can be used to productively change DevOps automation and the control of infrastructure.

We’ve discussed the closed loop side of using AI to manage infrastructure in the past, but this episode we really dive into the idea of creating automation and using generative AI.

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