Talking the Future of Tech
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Do nuclear power and a potential renaissance in nuclear power, driven by the voracious power demands for data centers, have the potential of becoming accepted, local and an economic boom for communities? If you’re scratching your head thinking, no way, maybe this conversation will change your mind. Enjoy!
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Power, electrical power, and how the upcoming trend of AI data centers is intersecting as a load with generation, storage, transportation, Bitcoin mining and mining all use power. These are all highly interconnected in how we use and manage the grid, but are using power in different ways.
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Martez Reed and I have an in depth conversation about the challenges of propagating technology inside of enterprises, this core challenge of selling silos and individual technologies. What Martez describes as beneficial tool sprawl versus building up systems and integrating things and end to end technology. This is what I’ve been calling infrastructure pipelining. We break down what’s going on in the street related to Open Source technology, Kubernetes, other aspects of what’s happening and how things fit together in an interesting and dynamic way.
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After a brief hiatus, thecloud2030 group is back and deep in tech, talking about things that we think are going to come on the tech front, sans AI.
In this episode, we take some time to go through Kubernetes, hardware, software, bill of materials, and some governance. This includes a smattering of predictions to get your year started off with a bang.
From there, we are going to be moving into our tech-ops series. Find more details about that in today’s outro!
Resources:
www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruc…erens_post_open
developersalliance.org/open-source-l…ty-is-coming/
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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 unlocks innovation in general that we will address in future podcasts.
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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 about the book, we treat it with the classic cloud2030 style, and bring in AI, large language and advanced DevOps.
We take the topics of the book to the next level, and frame it in the moment of the year, looking beyond and into how the concepts of compliance, validation, team coordination and risk assessment are incorporated into the coming AI and how it changes in our landscape.
Sources
Book www.amazon.com/Investments-Unlim…tal/dp/1950508536
techstrong.ai/aiops/the-rise-of-shadow-ai/
guidehouse.com/insights/financia…-lines-of-defense
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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 Compute infrastructure management and applications.
We are officially starting our cloud2030 book group and I hope you will join us – we are going to be reading Data Cartels by Sara Landon, followed by Investments Unlimited by John Willis and crew.
Book Clubs Links:
May 4 > Data Cartels www.amazon.com/Data-Cartels-Comp…ion/dp/1503633713
Early July >
www.amazon.com/Investments-Unlim…tal/dp/1950508536
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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 in contracts? Why and how is that important, and what do those efforts entail?
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Rob’s Hot Take:
In the Cloud 2030 podcast episode on platform engineering, Rob Hirschfeld, CEO of RackN, explores the profound impact of platform engineering on operational efficiency and developer complexity. He emphasizes the discipline’s role in making operations accessible, efficient, and repeatable, leading to significant benefits for companies and DevOps teams. While discussing how platform engineering can hide complexity, Hirschfeld highlights the ongoing essential work involved, debunking the notion of shortcuts and emphasizing the value it adds to organizations. He invites listeners to join discussions at the 2030.cloud, where important technology topics are analyzed in depth.
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 discussion in which we really talked about the balance that we try to achieve at RackN as we design our product, with the understanding that, ultimately, scale really does matter.
If users have trouble understanding how the product works, at first, that learning curve can push people away, so that they never actually get into the product. That’s where finding the right balance is absolutely essential to success.
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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 controversial, and what we can do to help make it more understandable.
We break it down into DevOps components, team components, Dev components, operations components, and ultimately talk about long term trajectories of how all this stuff is going.
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Rob’s Hot Take:
In the December 13th DevOps Lunch and Learn on the Cloud 2030 podcast, Rob Hirschfeld explores the concept of platform engineering emerging from enterprises grappling with the challenges of enabling developers while rationalizing operations. The discussion introduces the idea of operational entropy or infrastructure entropy, emphasizing how platform engineering teams can effectively manage the constant changes, security vulnerabilities, and evolving environments, relieving developers of this burden. By shifting entropy management to a shared and collaborative task, platform engineering teams have the potential to enhance how they function, offering opportunities for improvement across the industry. For those intrigued by these discussions, the full episode is available at the2030.cloud, inviting participation in ongoing conversations.