We explored Operations Value mapping. This lead to an a very interesting discussions of complexity budgets and how to measure complexity budgets. This includes managing supply chain, and value pipelines, and system coupling.
Complexity budgets could be a very powerful measuring tool for understanding operations value In an organization. Overall, this helps you explain the cost of complexity to organizational leadership.
During this 20 minute check-in we dive security and SaaS infrastructure.
Can we protect the secrets that people are trusting to SaaS providers to store for us? The topic was inspired by the Twitch leak where a lot of sensitive information was exposed exposed to the public. That comes on the heels of all sorts of other leaks, compromises and down time on systems.
Overall, it seems like bad news is coming faster and faster for operators. The fundamental question is NOT can we trust a SaaS provider to secure information. We know the answer is NO. But what to do about it?
Today’s episode is about business value mapping. Instead of focusing on Ray Wang’s “Who wants to rule the world” book, we got really deep into the why.
We discuss what is business value mapping, how it works, why it works, when it doesn’t work, and what it takes to make it succeed.
So if you’ve read Ray’s book, I think you’ll get a lot of extra depth out of this, if you haven’t read it at all, it might be a good primer on why you want to learn more about business value mapping and how to apply it within your own organization.
This is part one, we’re actually having a whole other session about operations, value mapping, and talking that through in the next session.
Edge networking is hard! Because before we can talk about edge networking, we actually have to talk about edge management and edge control, and what it takes to build resilient infrastructure and train people to use it.
In the first half, we’re talking about the challenges of managing infrastructure, using the Facebook outage of the week we recorded as a starting point for how challenging it is to build resilient infrastructure.
In the second, we talk about edge networking with solid insights about how challenging edge networking really is not just creating networks in edge locations, but what does it take to sustain an edge network and the integration and technologies over the course of multiple technology generations?
Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and co-founder of RackN and host of the Cloud 2030 Podcast, reflects on the October 5th discussion about edge networking, highlighting the conversation’s focus on the long lifecycle expectancy of edge technologies and the challenges associated with their maintenance and evolution. He emphasizes the need to address these critical topics in edge networking discussions, inviting listeners to explore the in-depth conversation at the2030.cloud.
Cloud versus Edge? This panel dove into what makes edge different than cloud.
There are a lot of different technical and commercial drivers. And fundamentally, it matters who owns the sources of data and how data sources are different. This underscores how it is critical to understand data sources, infrastructure ownership, and how everything fits together.
This discussion will change to you rethink what makes Edge different than Cloud.
Today’s episode, we talked about the challenge of making Modular Automation. We broke down why that is so hard and really dug into ways in which we can increase the modularity and reuse of automation.
That led us to talking about infrastructure pipelines, infrastructure, reuse, and sharing state via digital twins in infrastructure.
All of this comes together in really fascinating ways!
Continuous Infrastructure Automation is a critical concept about driving much more resilient and repeatable systems.
As we build out applications on infrastructure, we should not treat them as a static deployment. Instead, we should think of infrastructure as constantly evolving, growing and changing.
There’s a lot of technology and challenges in building that! In discussion, we firmly believe that this is the right path, but the path to get there is challenging. There are a lot of components that have to be considered: everything from artificial intelligence or machine learning, to how to manage and control and standardize the automation that does all that work.
Building an edge control plane is challenging! It’s not clear even what is currently available. As always, data, data pipelines, data orchestration, and data choreography are all influential for edge infrastructure.
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Good APIs are hard to design! Making them long lasting and scalable is even harder.
We discussed two aspects of API design. First, making about Event Bus for system integration and then RackN CTO, Greg Althaus, discusses what his team considers a good API design from Digital Rebar.
Is open source driving innovation? And Is it a necessary component of Right to Repair and ownership? Are there commercial drivers where people want those open capabilities?
We transition into a deeper conversation about what’s going on with open source. Is it being innovative? Who is leading? How is it working?
