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…
The Career Advice (we wish we’d gotten)
We started with a question in our warm up that was so motivating and exciting for the group that we continue talking about it the entire time! In today’s episode, we discuss career advice, as the group looks back on things that would have helped them at the beginning of their career. We have a…
Power Distribution And Green Infrastructure
We conceptualize data centers as core infrastructure components in today’s discussion about green infrastructure. In our discussion about data centers as an industrial load that have peaks and valleys in demand, we dive into the grid as a connected system. We discuss how storage can disrupt the way power is generated and distributed, not only…
How Open Source is Like SpaceX
What makes Open Source projects work? Today we discuss open source business models, motivations, what and how these projects work. We moved from that into testing quality maintenance and ultimately SpaceX and Tesla. This conversation dives into how Elon Musk is transforming the industries that he’s in by looking at the delivery process. Transcript: otter.ai/u/MuWt-gSkzOnUjFz8ioI3dNtAsa8Image: www.pexels.com/photo/falcon-9-ha…s-machines-60130/
Defending Against Complexity With Exercise
How do you manage complexity? Something we talk about a lot in Cloud2030 is how challenging it is to understand complexity, measure it and cope with it. Richard Cooke wrote a paper called “How Complex Systems Fail,” (how.complexsystems.fail) and in it he talks about complex systems having strong defense mechanisms against failure. That’s what we…
Distributed Ledger Drives Distributed Infrastructure
How is data center infrastructure adapted to edge distributed ledger technology workloads? We think through if those demands (blockchain, proof-of-stake coins, etc) are changing the way we look at data center infrastructure, and the short answer is yes. We also explore the impacts of the type of workloads that we’re running and how we distribute…
Why Jenkins in DevOps?
What kind of orchestration systems does the industry use for infrastructure, automation and controlling day to day operations? In today’s episode, we talk about infrastructure pipelines at the tooling level, and specifically the use of Jenkins and other CI pipelining tools for ops and orchestration. We dig into why and how you would do this,…
PCIv4, NFT, Metaverse, and CRypto! Oh My!
What is the intersection between augmented and virtual reality? In today’s episode, we discuss changes in payment systems, Metaverse, NFTs and micro payments. All of which have to do with PCI and how we handle process payments. We had a fascinating conversation about how all of these technologies intersect, and how one can drive another.…
Content Moderation – Safe Social Media?
What type of speech can we control, allow and amplify? Today’s episode was about content moderation in social media. The issues here are nuanced, but absolutely critical for our functioning society to get right. We discuss various interlocking issues, including what type of feedback loops we are creating and what the historical precedents for building…
Governance As Code (pt 1 – identity)
Our discussion about governance as code today is one of a series that we’re going to be starting. In today’s episode, we started out discussing what is Governance as Code. Then we dug into identity and how important it is to know who is doing what in a governance process. Special Guest: Kapil Thangavelu twitter.com/kapilvt Along…
Green Data Centers
What’s going on with green data centers, why does it matter, and how do we think about it in a wider context? In this short conversation, we discuss green data centers and creating carbon neutral infrastructure. This isn’t just about servers using electrons – the actual conversation about making our infrastructure carbon neutral includes thinking…
WTF My MFA is MIA
How do authorization systems need to be built and made resilient for distributed infrastructure? We discuss how having a single centralized authorization system is incredibly fragile compared to distributed edge infrastructure. Everything we build has some element of distributed component tree and resiliency in it, and we need to make sure that the authorization systems…
OSS, Promotions, and Lava Lamps
How can promotion boards be hostile or hurtful to open source technology? We talk about the dynamics of corporate support in open source technology, and if being rewarded for internal work at companies translates into challenges for open source technology. This discussion starts to peel apart what makes open source technology sustainable, and what it…
APIs With Composable State
What makes API’s complex? In this episode, we talk about how we compose APIs into higher level systems, and how we think about the design elements that go into building durable, reusable API’s. This is a classic topic for us, and in this discussion we looked beyond the API itself and started talking about the…
Musk, Twitter and Web3 Social Media
Will Elon Musk take over Twitter? What are the tech and societal motivations for creating distributed social media? In today’s episode, we discuss the future of social media and if we can create distributed social media and distributed user interactions. We also question how these systems could be monetized and controlled, and who would benefit…
Can Kubernetes Prevent Vendor Lock In?
How does Kubernetes create lock in versus how could Kubernetes be used to prevent lock in? Lock in is not always a bad thing. When you avoid committing to a single vendor, you may have to work to the lowest common denominator or deal with heterogeneity in your infrastructure. Heterogeneity is pretty normal, and you…
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Orchestration Automation Workflow [with Terraform]
Building reliable automation at scale for infrastructure presents challenges. In this episode, we discuss orchestration, workflow automation, and the reconciler pattern in the context of Terraform. We refer to the pattern of Terraform, automation, and orchestration systems as “TACOS” and today we dig into how you test it and check it against drift. These are…
Does Your Metaverse Take MasterCard or Visa
How are Metaverse environments built? Today we talk about how we use intellectual property to build these Metaverse environments, and who has access to what and who’s going to create it. That turns into a discussion on how you’re going to pay for it. Typically, Metaverse is framed as a platform, but we got interested…
Uses for Distributed Ledger Technology
Today’s discussion was about distributed ledger technology (DLT), also known as blockchain and the technology behind Bitcoin. We had a balanced discussion: some people who were excited about the technology and others who were skeptical. That interplay really created one of the best conversations I’ve heard about DLT and its applications Throughout the conversation, we…
Everything As Code !
What makes Everything as Code and Infrastructure as Code interesting? In today’s episode, we discuss what makes something code-like and the idea of Everything as Code, based on Patrick Dubois’ article “In depth research and trends analyzed from 50+ different concepts as code.” Reference: www.jedi.be/blog/2022/02/23/tre…0-as-code-concepts/ Some of our conclusions were practical, like if a concept is…
How Lock in Creates Risk
Organizations take a risk when they get locked into a vendor. In today’s episode, we talk a lot about the risks of lock in, both in general and in the context of Oracle. That discussion takes us into a question of insurance, and if insurance policies could ultimately drive people to reduce lock in exposure.…
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Goldilocks Platforms [w James Urquhart]
A Goldilocks’ balance challenges us to trade off prescriptive and flexible platforms. James Urquhart shares his experiences with Cloud Foundry, VMware, and Amazon about trying to find the right balance between building it yourself versus a prescriptive service approach. We’ve decided that there needs to be a middle zone with enough opportunity for customization, as…
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Complexity vs Value [& Okta hack]
The Okta hack highlights the value versus complexity trade off. In today’s episode, we ask if the complexity of using single sign on is the right move in this context. We also think about how to deal with these interconnected systems that have high degrees of complexity. We also discussed API design, and whether or…
Improving Automation Safety
Making automation safe is essential to making it usable at scale. How do we make automation safe? We found a lot of great insights drawing from space craft design, aircraft, aircraft design and other systems where safety is super important. Automation is a force multiplier. If we don’t factor in safety when we build it,then…
Data Center Users: Majors vs Miners
Majors versus minors are enterprise data centers versus blockchain, bitcoin and distributed ledger data centers. We dive into the differences in processing and environmental requirements for those two different use cases. While the idea of blockchain and distributed ledgers generate very different computational profiles, what we’re building keeps coming back to the design of a…
Expanding GitOps Beyond K8s
GitOps is a really important way of collaborating and communicating about infrastructure. But can GitOps escape from Kubernetes? While we did talk about Kubernetes too, we mainly talked about what it takes to implement GitOps outside of Kubernetes. We considered building a GitOps architecture and then having people understand and use it. We also cover…
Resourcing the Metaverse (+ Feedback aaS)
What resources does the Metaverse require? In this episode, we think of the metaverse as a distributed environment and ask if it could be owned by the people who are hosting the environments instead of centralized. One of the complicating factors is figuring out if the Metaverse is AR, VR, augmented or virtual systems. Consensus…
Is Complexity Real?
Today’s episode is about measuring complexity. Complexity is a topic that we cover a lot. And in this case, we really went past the idea that we could measure complexity, and into looking at the causes and costs of complexity. We had a remarkable conversation about what it means to say something’s too complex? What…
Is Web3 Legit?
Today’s episode is about Web3. By now hopefully you’ve heard of Web3, but… what is Web3 really!?! That’s exactly what this conversation is about! We really talked about how Web3 is more than tech bros marketing Bitcoin. There actually are real legitimate business interests around Web3. Uses like breaking transaction log jams when a small…
Scaling Continuous Delivery
We went beyond what the Continuous Delivery Foundation is doing to talk about how to scale Continuous Delivery. Especially around the continuous reconciler pattern. So what does CD take beyond committing something in git? To make scalable continuous delivery systems and cross team continuous delivery systems means building things beyond GitOps that really scale and…
The Real Augmentation Leading AR/VR
This discussion is about the infrastructure behind augmented reality. We really dive into how augmented reality will take place in our environment. And the spoiler is it AR is already here! We are actually building augmented reality systems everywhere and they’re showing up in our daily lives. The group believes very strongly that the automotive…
Migrating Long Term Applications
How should we think about migrating legacy workloads to new infrastructure and modernize them? The group addresses this question methodically incuding how databases get linked, how they get used, how they get migrated, how important it is to maintain languages and what it would take to migrate in language. In the end, we look back…
Can We Measure Complexity?
We seem to be very worried about complexity in technology, but how bad is it really? Do we have a way of measuring complexity? Figuring out how to actually quantify it could help eliminate and manage it. We started by discussing mathematical concepts to capture the systemic nature of complexity. That turns out to be…
Can Machines Update Themselves?
We know that humans have trouble keeping systems updated, but… how can we address the challenge of knowing which updates are required and, critically, if the updates with break other systems? Even knowing if they worked is a really thorny problem! In this episode, we focus on actions about what’s going on and why this…
What’s up with Containers for 2022
This discussion sifts into tactical concerns for containers in the near term. We’ve gotten far with containers and Kubernetes. But what about process controls that we need to wrap around containers? We talked through how we need to be thinking about containers now that we have good control surfaces around them to make things work.…
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