Time to Panic at Incidental Surveillance?
What incidental, or accidental, surveillance state is being created by all of the video and listening devices that are now embedded in our world? Today we talk through the ramifications of those networks being in private hands in which companies can actually review, analyze and monetize data from these systems. For example – autonomous vehicle…
Predicting Innovation: Three Horizons Model
What is innovation? Today we continue this discussion, specifically drilling into the three horizons model for creating growth and value. We spend a lot of time talking about how companies innovate using that model, what it means and what are examples of it? How does that spark take place? We bridge you further down the…
Compliance is Fun! (and why you care)
We dive deep into the technical subject of governance and policy enforcement, including the tools, techniques and processes that you need to be aware of to do a good job with policy and governance enforcement. We cover how to get started, what to think about, what to be aware of, and chip away at your…
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Building Open Ecosystems [Tofu vs Terraform]
We dive into the dynamics of open source projects and monetization today, specifically starting around the TerraForm and open tofu split. That topic is one that we love to chew over and potentially over analyze, but today’s discussion is different. We go into how ecosystems are built both in open and proprietary and cloud systems,…
Innovators vs Techno Optimists
We discuss innovation, a favorite topic of ours, today. Instead of diving in for a structured conversation, we dove at the bait that was offered by Marc Andreessen in his techno optimist manifesto. If you haven’t read it, I would suggest taking a moment to read it before you listen to the rest of the…
Compliance Comes to Kubernetes
What does it take to implement governance and compliance, because they are process controls much more than individual technologies. Today we discuss that a lot of the talks seem to be about governance and compliance, and we have a fascinating discussion about governance compliance and Kubernetes. The idea that Kubernetes is maturing, losing the drama…
Is Limiting LLMs possible?
How do we limit and regulate LLMs and AI? We approach this at multiple angles and look through what it’s like to regulate this type of technology. If you’re interested in the limits of any technology, and specifically how AI gets regulated, and where we’re likely to impose legislative barriers or restrictions on this, then…
Data Center & Hardware Impacts on AI
What goes on behind the scenes with AI, and specifically data center infrastructure and hardware? We discuss broad ranging concerns, opportunities and market blockers around AI. We also address how deeply it can impact innovation companies’ privacy legislation from the frame of hardware and automation. Today’s discussion leads us to a larger question of what…
State of the IT vs OT Edge
If you follow cloud2030 discussions or any of my podcasting over the last decade, Edge is a very interesting topic to me. Today’s episode is a short update on the state of the edge from a very specific position. In this discussion, I walk through with Josh why edge has been hard for us to…
Tofu vs a Death of Expertise
The TerraForm fork, now known as the OpenTofu project, is our first topic in today’s episode. We discuss what’s going on with that, the challenges, as well as the potential pressures from HashiCorp that created this whole situation. How do we get experts to recover their authority and how do we look at organizations like…
Bias in LLMs
What are the potentials for biasing LLM models? We dive into biases both in good ways and in bad ways. Is the expertise that we’re feeding into these models is not sufficient to actually drive the outcomes that we’re looking for? We’re going to be eliminating humans out of the loop in a relatively short…
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Death of Expertise [Book Discussion]
We continue our book group series today about the Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, which is very dense with a lot of provocative and thought provoking comments, topics and ideas. It was so interesting that we decided we needed two sessions to fully unpack this. This is part one, which is about how expertise…
CoDev With LLMs?
Can large language models effectively supplant developers and DevOps engineers? Today we go deeper into how the models can be trained, if they can be trusted, and what is the upside or positive use case in which we really turn LLMs into the type of weighing person experts that they have the potential to be…
Updates from Google Next
We recap the Google Next event and do a deep dive into the interesting topics Google was announcing at their flagship cloud event. We looked at what they were doing for AI, but also some new services offerings around what’s going on with Cloud. Then we pulled back and went into generative DevOps, something we’re…
VMware Explore, Hashicorp & Industry Update
What’s going on from VMWare to Broadcom to HashiCorp and their license changes. We discuss current topics, even to the sad news about Kris Nova passing during a mountaineering expedition. If you’d like to catch up on the tech news, then this topic hopefully has aged well and you will enjoy it! Transcript: otter.ai/u/J18ecRKKwc8As_TLyC…?utm_source=copy_urlPhoto by Oziel…
Edge (and Beyond) Industry Update
How do Edge and Compute and SaaS and cloud influence everything that we do? We covered topics from VMware explorer and talked a lot about Edge. That led to AI ml, which led to another topic, which led to another topic. If you enjoy hearing about how interconnected our technology and choices are, everything from…
Can we regulate LLMs? Should we?
How do you regulate large language models? We look at the challenges of regulating these AI approaches and how governments and companies can approach it. We untangle how these models work, and dive into the mechanics of what information is controllable. We walk through concrete information that is a benefit to you here as our…
LLMs adding to Technical Debt? Maintenance?
What is technical debt, and how does it apply to large language models? We dive into a really interesting conversation that goes from technical debt into system and code maintenance, which is probably a much better way to think about the challenges we have in maintaining the infrastructure systems, code, data and data lakes that…
Data Darkages – do LLMs drive paywalls?
A coming Data Darkage is on its way, where we’re watching Reddit, Twitter and other companies take what used to be publicly available information and put it behind a paywall or gate. Because of the way large language models are using this data and the value of the data, we are expecting to see that…
Hashicorp BSL vs OSS License Discussion
Hashicorp made a license change into a BSL, a business license which is not open source that allows or makes code available, but instead restricts the use of Hashicorp products to people who are effectively paying customers or enterprise customers. If you’re embedding or repackaging the software or competing with Hashicorp, you are prohibited from…
Data + Operations = DataOps
We talk about DataOps, but if you’re expecting this to be DevOps for data – you are mistaken. Today we talk about engineering data through the idea of data stewardship or how you manage and control the data. Beyond permissions and access into the costs and how things are stewarded, how logs are handled, who…
Book Discussion: Investments Unlimited
This is the second installment of our book group, which is a discussion about Investments Unlimited. We have one of our authors, and a great all around DevOps enthusiast, John Willis, on the call with us. As you might expect, while we talk about the book and John gives a lot of background and details…
Kubernetes Portability
Is Kubernetes actually creating the amount of cloud portability of infrastructure agnosticism that we hope it will? If we’re using the same platform across multiple clouds, multiple infrastructures, multiple management teams, does that actually create portability? It’s a key question for us in building cloud architectures, making decisions about the architect and about how we…
Future of Centos and Enterprise Linux
The Red Hat changes in how they publish the source code for CentOS sent a stream specifically, but unlike all the other conversations that I’ve heard, we dive into how enterprises can inoculate themselves from this type of disruptive change. We also address what it means for the ecosystem of vendors and how we can…
Can ChatGPT do DevOps?
We use ChatGPT to live create DevOps, automation, Ansible, TerraForm, Python, and interact with different clouds to get advice on how to set up clouds. This discussion includes a screen share session, so if you’re listening to this audio there will be times when we are talking about something you can’t see but I do…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
AI And Technical Debt
We dig into a topic written about by Eric Norlin or SK ventures about technical debt and AI. In this episode, we discuss the consequences of generative AI could be radically transforming the way in which we generate code and deal with code that has been generated in technical debt. We explore some fascinating concepts…
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…
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,…
AI Time To Decision
We talk about improving the time it takes to make decisions – called time to decision, a topic that we like to address quite a bit. We started with the news of the day around AI, ml Chaffee GP, and learning models. We asked ourselves if AI/ML and generative AI could change the way expertise…
Collaborative Platform Engineering
Today we look at what it takes to have much more collaborative building of automation, templates and shared components that are necessary to really drive platform engineering, and not just between teams at the same company. We make components for infrastructure automation that bridges the industry because they can be shared much more broadly, similar…
Open Source Future
How do we sustain open source? Today we discussed how the commercial models and sustaining models around open source are changing and evolving. We also included some conversations about whether or not generative AI might actually change the economics around that part of open source. We hit on top projects, open source hardware, open source,…
AI And Platform Migration
A conversation about platform migration turned into an interesting topic about the end of expertise and the changing of the way we think about expertise in a variety of contexts. How can platform improvement be radically transformed by the use of AI? We discuss entering a world where the lock that we’ve had in a…
Ops After Kubernetes
How has Kubernetes changed our industry? Today’s discussion is part of a multi podcast conversation in which we’re going to think about ways in which Kubernetes could go away, or could influence other technologies in such a way to be transformative. We went down the path of what we have learned from Kubernetes and how…
Metadata Architecture
Every time we look at data analytics and data systems, the idea of having a way to manage control and explain the data is actually as important as the data itself. This episode is all about metadata, specifically, metadata related to data analytics analysis, Big Data computation, sort of the data lake metadata problem. Today…
The Evolving SDLC
Emily Friedman’s DevOpsDays Ukraine presentation about rethinking the software development lifecycle or SDLC sparks our conversation today. She describes looking at it as a multi-dimensional cross functional discipline, that actually accounts for six different vectors of capabilities that need to be factored in – a resilient and robust look at the SDLC. Watch her YouTube:…
Decentralized Platform Engineering
What are the human and management factors that go into building great platform engineering? And what are the efforts of control having too much control or too much flexibility, not enough collaboration, not creating space for innovation, and changing inside what’s inside these platform engineering efforts? Today, we discuss centralized versus decentralized platform engineering, or…
Data Gravity vs AI and Metadata
We check in on data gravity to see how generative AI and conversations about metadata and thinking on data lakes impacts data gravity thinking in general. Data gravity is a concept that has been propagated by David McCrory, a friend of mine, who defined this idea that data itself, the aggregation of data, the use…
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Deflating Cloud Mythology [+ book club]
Is hardware going to be innovative and change? Brian Cantrell brings up oxide computing and some of their design motivation. Today we discuss our skepticism about some of his points, as well as the impacts for cloud distributed Compute hardware design mainframes, cloud, repatriation, and a whole bunch of topics about next generation thinking in…
Generative AI Social Media
How does AI chat and generative AI have the potential to disrupt everything we know about social media? Today we talk Twitter versus mastodon. We spend most of our time talking about the power, influence and simple use cases for generative AI. Is this going to break Mastodon, Twitter and other forms of social media?…
Generative AI in IT
What is generative AI and what are people now just generically calling ChatGPT? We put these things in a technical frame, meaning can we use generative AI to improve our programming, testing or automation? What does it take to use these concepts in ways that iteratively improve IT infrastructures. We review the state of chat,…
Can Platform Engineering Hide Complexity?
Is platform engineering effective at hiding complexity from developers? Today we tear apart what platform engineering is doing, how it came about and what it’s trying to be. We discuss what companies are trying to accomplish with platform engineering – how can successful efforts improve outcomes for development teams and operations teams by improving collaboration…
Digital Twins + AI = WOW
How can the intersection of generative AI machine learning and artificial intelligence be applied to environments using digital twins? Today we discuss digital twins and artificial intelligence. How can we improve the simulations, the systems, the interactions that we build? How can we correctly model complex components of everything from cars to pumps in ways…
Business Value of Platform Engineering
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/business-value-of-platform-engineering Platform engineering is quite buzzy and has a lot of hype at the moment. Today we dug behind the hype to acknowledge how the term is being used and misused. We cover why this is a topic of interest, how it’s driving customer thinking around operations and development teams, how it’s working to establish…
Chick-Fil-A Edge Kubernetes Deep Dive
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/chick-fil-a-edge-kubernetes-deep-dive We break down the edge compute cluster by the Chick-fil-A team, and we talk about how they use Kubernetes, specifically K3s in 2500 of their restaurants to build an IoT and restaurant management system. This system uses Intel Knucks, a commodity commercial residential grade hardware. It’s an update on a four year old Kubernetes…
Improving Time To Decision
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/improving-time-to-decision How do we improve the time to decision for CIOs? Today we talk about general business practice and how we can help. Technical innovators and architects create value for the teams that they support. This can either be from an automation perspective, which is what RackN does, or from a data perspective, which Tyler…
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Thoughts About Cloud2030 [retro]
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/thoughts-about-cloud2030-retro This episode is a one person retrospective on Cloud 2030. As well as what we want to be talking about and doing over the next year. I hope you’ll take a second and listen to my reflection on what we’ve been talking about and where things are going. Think about what you want the…
Hachyderm.io Leaves Basement
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/hachydermio-leaves-basement Hazel walks us through the Hackyderm.io leaving the basement migration. We also talk much more generally about Mastodon fediverse and scaling distributed systems. This podcast is like a super class in what it takes to scale infrastructure and systems, especially live and under duress. Every minute of this conversation is worth listening to twice.…
Meta Data, Dark Data and Intent
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/meta-data-dark-data-and-intent Data comes from many different places, sources, and ways. Some data we call dark data, which is data not accessible to you, and all of it relevant. Today we talk about metadata as part of the governance control management exposure of data. An important layer beyond the data itself is the governance intent, how…
Retail Edge Kubernetes ala Chick-Fil-A
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/pt2-chickfila-devops-ll-230124 We get an update for the first time in four years about Chick-fil-A edge Kubernetes clusters that gets to the heart of how building distributed infrastructure works and what the challenges are. Article: medium.com/chick-fil-atech/ent…ompute-f5e2fd63d20f We had a fantastic conversation about laying the foundations for this. We came away with two really important thoughts about what…
Platform Engineering on API Abstractions
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/pt1-devops-ll-230124 Our mini episode today is a short discussion of API delineation and abstractions for platform engineering. This was a short intro discussion, and it is especially interesting because platform is a major topic we will be exploring in the coming year. We highlight the challenges of finding the right abstraction points as well as…
Stochastic Parrots And Processes
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/stochastic-parrots-and-processes Today is a one on one discussion between me and Rocky Grover about infrastructure, infrastructure patterns, AI, and how all of these systems connect. We think deeply about what it takes to design great systems and cover a ton of ground to connect it all back together into systems design. Rocky has a lot…
Metadata For A Data Control Plane
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/metadata-for-a-data-control-plane Metadata is information that travels with the raw data that provides context, provenance, security, authorship, controls, and indexing. The number of ways that you can expand the use of data is controlled by adding metadata. It creates a change in how we look at and manage data. Instead of creating control systems that contain…
ROI from Putting Data In Context
https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/roi-from-putting-data-in-context If you love data and data context formats for exchanging data, you will love this conversation. Today’s episode is a deep conversation about the potential ability to define ways in which we produce, store and share data, providing context using markup languages, and then being able to extend that. It’s a fascinating conversation about…
Exploring Backstage.io Integration
Today we talk about backstage.io, and we have that conversation centered around a demo done by one of the RackN and interns, Zander Franks. Check out the demo video here: youtu.be/cAQQOmKz4OI Zander has been exploring with the backstage to Digital Rebar integration, and the conversation that results explains backstage in some fundamental ways and also what…
Chat GPT In IT
We discussed the implications of chat GPT for it and the industry. In today’s episode, we spend a lot of time figuring out how data provenance governance, bias, and ownership will impact chat GPT in IT and technology and cloud contexts. This discussion really looks into how chat GPT can be used in disruptive ways,…
Balancing Architecture and Ease of Use
What is the architectural balance between learning curve, architecture, building things that can scale while acknowledging overhead, and the attitude of just get it done? Don’t make my tools complex and let me be very productive quickly. If it doesn’t scale, then we see this as an ongoing challenge. Two engineers from RackN led today’s…
2030 Forecast for 2023
We do a 2022 retrospective slash 2023 prediction episode – a sort of end of the year classic for us, except our predictions and look ahead are different from most people’s. We’re looking at some broader trends around software, build materials, impact of GPT (which will be a future episode), edge Technology, cloud adoption, security,…
Platform Engineering Makes You Angry?
Platform engineering is a topic that seems to be generating a lot of interest going into 2023. It’s sure to be one of those things that enterprises spend a lot of time arguing about and telling each other that they’re doing it wrong. In this podcast, we dissect why platform engineering seems to be so…
Topics of the Day [Rogers, Twitter, GDPR, JWST]
Today, we sat down and talked about current events and how things are going. We don’t need to have an agenda to have a really interesting conversation, and that is exactly what happens! We start with some current events, the Rogers outage, Elon Musk, Twitter, GDPR, andthe Jim’s West space telescope. Then we put those…
Picking up Web3 after FTX
There’s a lot to the evolving world of web three, crypto, and distributed infrastructure blockchain, jump and distributed ledger. That environment has changed dramatically in the last several weeks with the crypto winter followed by the ft x implosion. It has really changed people’s perception of the market, which is much broader than just crypto…
Explaining Kubernetes Controller Architecture
How does the Kubernetes admission controller work, what are the failure modes and what do we need to guard against? Today, we discuss almost everything that you need to know to understand the admission controller process better and to think about it in a secure, robust and resilient way. I can’t think of a better…
Making Social Media Safe (for Brands?)
How do we make social networks safe? Who we make them safe for is really important, and today we talked about making them safe for brands, advertisers and communities. These groups want to organize in technical and professional ways, not just to prevent harm for the users or the safety of the users from persecution.…
What’s After Twitter?
We dig into the news of the day instead of a scheduled topic on today’s podcast. This news was about Twitter, and what is going on in the social media landscape. We have a fantastic 2030 style conversation, not specifically about Twitter, or even its new owner, but social media and its needs, how people…
Kubecon Retrospective
Klaus and I go through what happened at the Kubecon North America event in Detroit. Specifically, lessons learned in watching how the community reacts to new technologies like CRDs, declarative programming, and cluster APIs. We also discuss the health of the community and the operators and vendors who were involved. We give our impressions and…
Deep Dive into Distributed ID
Distributed ID is a web three concept of being able to use zero trust and identify users without having a central authority. In this conversation, we talk about critical concepts like Open ID trust government actions, and how this could be influential and important in a web three and IoT context. We really drill into…
Cloud Service Providers vs “The Supercloud”
How does the moniker Supercloud apply to how cloud providers are changing over time? Specifically when facing market pressures, trying to lock in, get bigger and become essential. Today we discuss the changing nature of service providers, specifically cloud providers. This topic has been coming up on Twitter, and I know you will find this…
What We’re Watching At Kubecon
How do Helm charts and operators interact with Kubernetes? Today we have a fascinating discussion about the interesting components of Kubernetes including Helm charts, admission controllers and things that are changing and being revised and updated. We discuss potential topics in anticipation for Kubecon, and if you’re at all interested in Kubernetes, whether you’re attending…
Will CSPs Be The New OPEC
What happens in the age of cloud scarcity, and are the major public clouds going to become our next OPEC, where they regulate and control prices to such a degree that they can float things up and down? In doing that, does that mean that cloud computing has become a commodity that can be traded…
Project Mgmt Vs Development Process
Our discussion about development methodologies quickly turns into one about product management methodology. Those things are interlinked, and we spend a lot of time talking about how product management and the influence on user and operational experience has been transformed by the forces of the market. We also discuss how difficult it is to then…
Reading The Analyst Tea Leaves
We talk about understanding analyst reports and engaging with analysts. How do analysts shape the industry and the industry shapes the analysts? Today we discuss how every part of this ecosystem has to work together in order for us to build serviceable technology, because fundamentally, we count on the analysts to help understand what’s ready,…
Learning about eBPF Applications
Special guest Bill Mulligan (twitter.com/breakawaybilly/) talks to us about the use cases for BPF and how it works. We discuss eBPF, the kernel extensions that allow you to write small programs that work inside of kernel space in a safe sandbox way. These have a lot of applications, and they’ve been creating a lot of…
Getting the Right Talent And Staffing
How do you build, manage and fund your systems? Today’s episode is about talent, staffing and hiring the right people to do the job for you. How you make hiring decisions is inexorably linked to how you think about solving, funding, and structuring solutions around those problems. You cannot hire people without also having straightforward…
Mentoring Jr DevOps
How do we help junior people build the right skills to do advanced automation system administration, and actually build systems that are resilient and robust? Then, after understanding that that is a learned skill that’s predominantly learned by doing the work, troubleshooting. We started the conversation talking through how to teach troubleshooting and find opportunities…
VMware Explore Retrospective
VMware Explore is a show at the end of August where VMware brings together its community, its vendors and tells what’s going on. VMware is dominating in their market, they are making the right moves, and doing a good job for their customers and their partners. This is a surprising summary of the conversation, because…
Are Platform Teams Good?
How do you build effective, productive platform teams? What should their mission be, and what type of tools and dangers do they have? We start by questioning if there are such things as platform teams and their roles, as well as how they can go awry in modern organizations. At the end, we recognize that…
IT In An Age of Scarcity
How do supply chain, ecologic, capital, and political issues limit our ability to continue to build big data centers? Today we expand on this continued conversation. We’re already seeing this in the news, and we need to rethink how we are building a lot of the core infrastructure we depend on. That includes power, data…
CHIPs Act And Global Supply
How do we build advanced innovative products and companies? We discuss the Chips act and global supply chain of silicon and manufacturing in today’s episode. We took that apart into its component parts: supply chains, raw materials, power, whether talent, real estate, and put it back together in ways that look forward towards how we…
Orchestration Balancing Events And Flows
When working with orchestration in automated systems, how do you find the right balance between things that are event driven and things that are workflow driven, or more linear? We go through some of the history of where we went from linear orchestration (Ansible) to timed orchestration (Chef or Puppet). We also discussed SaltStack, which…
Consumerization Of Power Storage
How can we structure incentives to build strong, resilient infrastructure? Today we talk about power infrastructure. There are a lot of commercial incentives for internet providers and for consumers to have good internet, but there aren’t the same incentives for consumers to have reliable power systems. We’re seeing a rash of failures and faults in…
Career Advice Part 2
We continue our hiring advice series in this episode. It’s a really powerful thing to have people who have established careers, think about what would have made a difference, think about what is important when we work with and mentor inexperienced and junior people who are building a career. This episode is full of thoughtful…
The Dangers of Interconnected Systems
What are the challenges of interconnectedness and transparency, specifically concerning Kubernetes and cloud native applications? We have a fascinating discussion sparked by the question of how exposed we are. What happens when something we don’t know is connected is open and exposed as hackable? What happens when it closes, and we didn’t know? We talked…
Content Moderation in the Metaverse with Open Source
How do you moderate content, and why? What is important to enforce and what are we thinking about? We talk content moderation all the way to the point of open source licenses for different rules of engagement depending on the space you are in. How we got there is fascinating and important. Transcript: otter.ai/u/UK3qGMyAc4EqSjHzeUwOW3MbgI0Image: www.pexels.com/photo/police-fun-…ny-uniform-33598/
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Events And Monitoring [bonus Complexity chat]
How do you build GitOps, infrastructure and systems relying on events and monitoring, when you need to revert to a polling loop, or augment a polling loop with an event system? Today, we drill into concrete technical details about events and monitoring. We also suggest practical functional advice on how Git Ops works, how systems…
Web3 and Decentralized ID
How do we handle distributing identity? DID stands for distributed identifiers, and today we talk about Web3 as well as distributing identity. Distributing identity is not just about people and personal identity, but also about things and how we identify and track different things in a distributed way without a centralized infrastructure. That’s fundamental to…
Humans vs Code: Governance As Code
Human factors make governance as code a challenge – today we discuss why looking at things like audit and how we determine what has happened and respond to it in an automated way, may be a great first step to adding controls into a system. We talk about a lot of human factors of what…
Real Life Chaos Monkeys And Other Infrastructure Challenges
How do we use chaos monkeys in real life, and practically? This happens all the time when we have failures. The Rogers failure that took out the internet and cell phone use in Canada last week was the start of our discussion. Predicting how things are going to go out is a common theme for…
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Topics Of The Day [Rogers, Twitter, GDPR, JWST]
Today, we sat down and talked about current events and how things are going. We don’t need to have an agenda to have a really interesting conversation, and that is exactly what happens! We start with some current events, the Rogers outage, Elon Musk, Twitter, GDPR, andthe Jim’s West space telescope. Then we put those…
Training Teams to Fight Complexity
How do we manage complexity? Today we discuss sources of complexity and explore design rules. We also talk about how you think about the systems that you’re building in ways that allow them to handle complexity gracefully. The simple answer is to have people who are good at thinking about complex systems. Part of that…
Path to Tech Success: Sexy or Boring?
What makes people interested in new tech versus the stable, boring, things that keep the lights on work? It feels to me as if we’re in the phase of development where we start saying, I need to make sure this all works. I’ve followed all the cool stuff, now I need to make sure everything’s…
Infrastructure Governance As Code
We continue our Governance as Code discussions in today’s episode. We started by very broadly looking at Governance as Code generally, but quickly drilled down into Infrastructure as Code meets Governance as Code focused discussion. Understanding that intersection is critical to building something that is both automated and governable. The topic explored how we audit…
Microtransactions With DLT
Can we use DLT and cryptocurrencies for microtransactions? Today we break this down into component parts like what is a microtransaction? How does crypto help us? Does crypto help us? In Cloud2030 discussions, we break things down. We explore how it helps, what it helps, what problems it does or doesn’t solve, and what problems…
Successful Vendoring in Open Source
How can we make Open Source go faster, and how can we improve its interaction with vendors, especially hardware vendors? We explore different ways that open source helps foster innovation, as well as where it creates ethical, financial, and legal conflicts in that process. Thinking through how we want to bring vendor information into Open…
Our Service Mesh discussion leaned heavily into the needs around edge infrastructure because there are so many missing parts for the edge deployment systems,
When we started talking about service meshes, we really realize is that the actual control plane, communications grid and security for edge are not defined enough for us to layer on what has become sort of a standard in cloud deployments of service mesh into that discussion.
How we got there, how we discussed it, and the components of why that’s important, is much more interesting than the conclusion itself.
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Eric Fouarge on Open Source Tools in Cloud, Business Needs and Microservices, and Reality of Serverless
2019-01-28
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, DevOps, Kubernetes, Microservices, Open Source
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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,…
Lee Atchison on Edge impact on DevOps, Edge vs Cloud Scale, and other Challenges
2019-01-22
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, DevOps, Edge Computing
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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…
Mark Collier talks in-depth on the OpenStack Community and the Major Open Source Issues of the Day
2019-01-14
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Open Source, OpenStack
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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…
Sabjeet Johal on Hybrid Clouds, AWS Outpost and More
2019-01-05
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, Data Center, Hybrid, Open Source
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Joining us this week is Sarbjeet Johal, Principal Advisor, The Batchery. About The BatcheryFounded 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…
2018 Podcast Wrap-Up
2018-12-22
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, DevOps, Edge Computing, Kubernetes
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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
2018-12-15
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, Data Center, Edge Computing
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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…
Daniel Bartholomew on developer applications running at the edge today
2018-12-08
Stephen Spector
Edge Computing, Kubernetes
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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…
Chris Steffen talks Cloud and Edge Security (and his beard)
2018-12-02
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Security
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Joining us this week is Chris Steffen, Cloud and Edge Security Guru. Follow him at @CloudSecChris and on his blog, The Security Beard. Highlights: Latest Update on Cloud Security Core Challenges to Edge Security Shared Data at the Edge Issues
Michael DeHaan on the new Vespene project and Open Source Licensing
2018-11-26
Stephen Spector
Docker, Microservices, Open Source
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Joining us this week is Michael DeHaan from Vespene.io, a modern, streamlined build and self-service automation platform. Highlights: Vespene Introduction ~ only 3 month old project Open Source Licensing ~ is there a crisis? How best to run an Open Source Project
Janakiram MSV on Device Edge and Management with Kubernetes
2018-11-19
Stephen Spector
Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Kubernetes
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Joining us this week is Janakiram MSV, founder and principal analyst at Janakiram & Associates. Highlights: • Three Flavors of Edge with Focus on Device Edge • Who Builds Edge? Cloud Providers, Telcos, … • Is Kubernetes the Management Foundation for Edge