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The Cloudcast

The Cloudcast is the industry's leading, independent Cloud Computing podcast. Since 2011, co-hosts Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely have interviewed technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of computing. Topics will include Cloud Computing | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Serverless | DevOps | Big Data | ML | AI | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS | CaaS | IoT. Also available, the "Cloudcast Basics" podcast (@cloudcastbasics), for anyone new to Cloud Computing.

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Sometimes Boring is OK

Headlines are boring. New technologies are boring. Companies aren?t changing the world right now. And all this boring is OK. Sometimes being pragmatic is a good thing. 

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RIGHT NOW, THINGS SEEM PRETTY BORING

Crypto crashed and burned. Unicorns have to generate profits. The hyperscalers want to cut costs. From a headlines perspective, things seem pretty boring right now. And that?s OK. 

BORING IS WHEN THINGS GET MORE AUTOMATED, MORE SECURE, AND REDESIGNED

Companies are focused on profitability.Companies are focused on accountability.Companies are slowing hiring, and rethinking resources.Security is a focus area.Automation is a focus area. This is when things get redesigned for sustainability. 

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2022-09-25
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Building Machine Learning Apps

Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.   

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Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

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Baseten (homepage)Intro to Baseten (video)Baseten get $20M in funding from Greylock

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you started Baseten.

Topic 2 - Let?s start by talking about Data Scientists. Not an easy job. They build models and analyze data. But what typically happens after that? How do the models typically get seen and what needed to happen to make that possible?

Topic 3 - What parts of those pain points does Baseten focus on? How does Baseten bring together low-code (or serverless) concepts with the complexity that Data Scientists need to deal with day-to-day?

Topic 4 - What are some of the technologies running behind the scenes to make Baseten easy to use, or that are exposed to the Data Scientists? 

Topic 5 - How does a Data Scientist typically get from ?I have a useful model? to ?I?m making this part of a useful application?? How does Baseten create building blocks to help them not have to be front-end or back-end engineers?

Topic 6 - What are some of the types of use-cases or applications that your customers have been building?

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2022-09-21
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Did we get Digital Transformation wrong?

Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it?s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let?s explore what works and maybe doesn?t work.

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Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats.IRS Reaches Milestone on Paper Return Backlog FedNow? Service instant payments in July 2023Amazon?s API MandateGartner Bi-Modal ITCloud Adoption will fail with the skills gap (Gartner)There is no talent shortage (Andrew Clay Shafer)

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPS

Devs don?t want to do OpsBlameless Post-Mortems don?t seem to be commonHybrid Cloud didn?t really materialize into real applications 

BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?

Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track? Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead? 

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2022-09-18
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Kubernetes Cost Optimization

Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.

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Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

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Granulate (homepage)gMaestro - Kubernetes Cost Optimization 

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Granulate. 

Topic 2 - Let?s start by talking about Cost Optimization. What?s a good framework to think about this problem? Is it a focus on over-provisioning, or optimizing applications, or a different approach?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common areas where Kubernetes needs to better manage costs? Is it more at the infrastructure layer, or at the application layer?

Topic 4 - Tell us about the recently launched gMaestro. How does it work, and what are the common ways that companies would begin to use it to optimize their environments?

Topic 5 - Are some optimizations more immediately impactful? Are some optimizations more focused on long-term cost savings?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to engage around gMaestro? 

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2022-09-14
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When the Smart Guys get it Wrong

In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing cracks? 

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The Book of Reed Hastings, RevisitedThe New Cloud War

WE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIES

When things are good - low interest rates, stock price is up, VC money is flowing in, disruption gets valued at high multiples - lots of stories get written about the disruptors. But when things change - the stories are written about their failures. 

BUT THE DISRUPTION RARELY LAST FOREVER. 

It?s important to match the disruption era with the economic era. A lot of stories will be written about how badly the economics of the ?disruptor companies? were during the halcyon days (Uber, WeWork, Netflix, etc.)Frauds will be called out. Culture will remain important, but impossible to replicate cultures will get dissected, and profitability will take precedence over culture.The ecosystems of the largest companies will start to wonder if it?s still a good idea, as the largest expand their offerings. Good new technologies will have lower visibility and have to build staying power.

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2022-09-11
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Istio Ambient Mesh

Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new data plane for Istio service mesh.

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Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CDN77 - Content Delivery Network Optimized for Video85% of users stop watching a video because of stalling and rebuffering. Rely on CDN77 to deliver a seamless online experience to your audience. Ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits.

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Istio (homepage)Introducing Istio Ambient MeshIstio added to the CNCFIstioCon 2022 (videos)ServiceMeshConEU 2022 (videos)Istio in Action (book) by Christian Posta

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh. 

Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves. 

Topic 3 - Let?s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it?s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.

Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we?re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we?re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?

Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode? 

Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?

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2022-09-07
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The Labor Day Show

Each year we celebrate labor with a day of no labor. Throughout our careers, labor means different things to different people. What does this Labor Day mean to you? 

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Labor Day

SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LABOR OR THE OUTPUT OF LABOR?

Do you live to work, or work to live? Are you changing the world, or fine with incremental change?

HOW DOES YOUR VIEW OF LABOR CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR CAREER?

In tech, there is never an end of work. Either at the day level, or at the volume level. For a majority introverted industry, we seem to be OK working from home, but we also desire to do things in person (just not driving to the office)It?s OK to have a broken relationship with labor after the pandemic. It?s been three years. Nothing is the same. Lots of habits developed. Lots of things broke. Remember that you don?t always have the same relationship with labor throughout your career, and neither do your co-workers. It?s good to figure out where they are. Breaks are good. Uninterrupted breaks are very important. 

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2022-09-04
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Real-Time Data Cloud

Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.

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Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

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Vendia (homepage)Vendia raises $30M Round BVendia overview (60s video)Vendia technical overviewWhy blockchains, databases, and APIs don?t cut it on their own

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It?s been a while since you smashed servers on stage at a keynote. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you decided to leave AWS and found Vendia.

Topic 2 - The public cloud did a really good job of accelerating application growth, and data sprawl, but it didn?t really organize it very well. So we have apps across multiple clouds and data across multiple clouds. How do companies start to cope with this distributed ?mess??

Topic 3 - When does a customer?s application or data challenges become such that Vendia becomes a way to solve their problem?

Topic 4 - You?re known as Mr. Serverless. What role does Serverless play in the Vendia platform, and what other technologies are under the covers?

Topic 5 - What types of applications make the most sense on the Vendia platform?

Topic 6 - Blockchain is part of the Vendia platform. Why choose this for the backend data vs. some other database or storage technology?

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2022-08-31
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Cost Justification of Software

Can you justify what you spend on software? On DevOps activities? Like actually put a number on it, not just explain that it?s needed to solve the digital challenges of the business?  

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Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.


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Hurdle Rate 

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO CREATE AND RUN SOFTWARE?

How much does a better customer experience cost? How valuable is it to add new partners? Some questions are easy to measure, while others are not. So how do you measure them?

DOES YOUR PROJECT CLEAR THE HURDLE RATE?

Who decides if a project is important? Is viable?How do you measure cost-savings projects vs. business expansion projects?Does the CFO decide, or the CMO, or the CRO? Who resolves conflicts?Are you prepared to have projects rejected due to missing the hurdle rate?

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2022-08-28
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The State of Serverless 2022

AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends. 

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Datadog State of Serverless 2022Best practices by Datadog for monitoring AWS LambdaMonitoring AWS serverless applications with DatadogMonitoring Azure serverless applications with Datadog

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You?ve been around the serverless market for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on today?

Topic 2 - We?re seeing adoption of serverless in all the major clouds. Have the offerings in each cloud gotten to about the same level, or do you think this is mostly a factor of companies using multiple clouds?

Topic 3 - Node.js and Python lead the way in terms of language used with Serverless, but most companies are using 3+ languages. Are you surprised at the breadth of language usage by companies? 

Topic 4 - Nearly 50% of all serverless is tied to API-Gateway usage. This surprised us - expected more to be tied to event-driven services. Any insights into how they are using serverless in this context?

Topic 5 - There?s quite a bit of variety between usage patterns between the cloud offerings - from container images, to integration with ECS/Kubernetes, to Cloud Run to Azure Container Instances. It seems to show that the market and usage-patterns are still evolving. 

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2022-08-24
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Queryable Data Encryption

Kenneth White (@kennwhite, Security Principal @MongoDB) talks about the causes of internal breaches, querying encrypted data vs encryption-at-rest, and database evolutions.

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Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

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MongoDB Queryable EncryptionWired article with more backgroundMongoDB World presentation from June 2022Product page with FAQ & DocumentationPodcast interview with The New Stack from MDBW in June


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a distinguished career in security and cryptography-adjacent. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB?

Topic 2 - Unfortunately, we?re hearing about more and more attacks that have an internal origination. From a security and cryptography perspective, what typically breaks down to allow this to happen? 

Topic 3 - MongoDB has recently launched a database that enables querying encrypted data. Give us some background on how this new concept came into being. 

Topic 4 - What are the technology components involved in making this happen - on the database side, on the application side, on the key management side? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the application use-cases where this new database technology makes sense?

Topic 6 - How can people start exploring this technology? Is it available in both the software and SaaS offerings?


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2022-08-21
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Zero Config VPNs

Maya Kaczorowski (@MayaKaczorowski, Product @Tailscale) talks about the new world of remote systems access, zero-config VPNs, and why everyone loves using Tailscale. 

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Granulate, an Intel company - Autonomous, continuous, workload optimizationgMaestro from Granulate - Kubernetes cost optimization, made easyDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.

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Tailscale (homepage)WireGuardHow NAT traversal works blog postHow Tailscale works blog postBSidesSF talk: WireGuard from the ground up

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let?s start with some praise and some confusion. We see tons of people saying ?we love Tailscale?, and yet most people hate VPNs or are trying to get rid of VPNs. Help us get smart about what Tailscale does. 

Topic 3 - Step back a little bit. Help us understand what a modern CISO has to think about regarding remote access vs. zero trust vs. encrypting communications? What are the critical things they worry about?

Topic 4 - What are some of the unique things that Tailscale does with VPNs? Why does everyone seem to love using it? 

Topic 5 - Tailscale seems to work on all the modern OSs (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, etc.). How does Tailscale work with existing networking devices? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the common customer outcomes that happen when they enable Tailscale? What lessons can be learned from this approach?

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2022-08-17
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Is Software Still Eating the World?

Over the last decade, software ate the world.  So what are the byproducts of all that eating, and is there anything left on the table? 

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Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsStreamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.

 

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Software is no longer eating the world (article)

 

HOW DID SOFTWARE EAT THE WORLD?

A decade of projects that spun out of the big cloud companies and became open source projects (Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.)All the things your mom used to do for you is now a mobile app (rides, grocery delivery, making your meals, We?ve had a decade+ of growth economy (low interest rates, lots of VC funding)

ARE THE INCUMBENTS FINALLY EATING THEIR OWN SOFTWARE?

Incumbents are starting to adopt new business models (Streaming TV/Movies, Electric Cars, Analytics built into Farming/Sports/etc.) and leveraging their previous investments.Many of the business models of the last 5+ years is falling apartThe monopolies are disrupting the monopolies (Apple/ads), Web3 is going through a trough of disillusionmentMeta lost $10B, which aligns to what was their metaverse investment planSoftware ate business models, but there is a hardware resurgence comingPeople want a ?what?s next?? technology trend, but there?s still a lot of Web2 to play out. 

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2022-08-14
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Follow the Cloud Money

Jordan Novet (@jordannovet, Technology Reporter @CNBC) talks about how to analyze earnings from the big clouds, Microsoft?s position as the #2 cloud, and what might disrupt the Big 3 in the future.

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Jordan Novet (on CNBC)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - We?re now into a different phase of the economy from the pandemic years of 2020-early2022. What are the trends we?re now seeing for the major cloud companies? 

Topic 3 - Beyond looking at quarter to quarter earnings, how do you think about the trends for the bigger cloud companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the challenger clouds (Cloudflare, etc.)?

Topic 4 - Are you seeing anything that tells you that we?ll see a change in the standings (AWS, Azure, GCP) anytime soon (e.g. forward CAPEX spending, etc.)? Do you see the challenges/disruptors making any dents in their growth? 

Topic 5 - We saw some slowing down in the growth rates of all the cloud providers this past quarter. Do you think that?s just the impact of post-COVID slowdown plus some supply-chain issues around getting new servers, or does this potentially signal that movement to the cloud might be slowing down? 

Topic 6 - What types of things does the financial community wish they knew about the cloud providers that either aren't broken out (e.g. different reporting across the cloud providers), or what areas are lacking transparency?

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2022-08-10
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Mentoring and Being a Mentor

As much as we talk about tech, our industry is people-centric. Knowing how to find a mentor, or eventually becoming a mentor is an important skill to have. So how does it work? 

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WHY DO WE HAVE MENTORS WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS?

When I was early in my career, I thought you could just ask executives questions. And you can, but you might not always get the answers you expect. So a lot of people read books. But sometimes it?s good to find the in-between. 

HOW DOES THE MENTOR / MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

Is Mentor/Mentee a formal process?When should you look for a Mentor?What should the relationship look like? What are the dynamics?What should both sides expect in the relationship?Should you pay for a mentor?When should you look outside your normal circle for some new insight?

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2022-08-07
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Multi-Cloud Control Plane for Apps

Niall Dalton (@0x01dea, Co-Founder @seaplane_io) talks about simplifying the deployment of complex application and improving Day 2 operations.

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CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.

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Seaplane.io (homepage)Seaplane gets $15M in funding from SequoiaIntroducing Seaplane (blog)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what led you to create Seaplane IO. 

Topic 2 - I feel like a lot of people talk about Lo-Code to make it easier for non-developers, and serverless for non-ops, but nobody really talks about more robust apps that want deployment and ops taken care of for them. Give us an overview of Seaplane IO.

Topic 3 - If i?m a developer, where does my code and application stop and where does Seaplane IO take over? Is there a ?best? application that can take advantage of Seaplane IO?

Topic 4 - What does Day 2 look like for an application deployed to Seaplane IO? 

Topic 5 - Help us understand some of the intelligent (?automatic?) things that Seaplane IO does to align my application to user-traffic, or failed cloud infrastructure?

Topic 6 - What are some areas where you see the Seaplane IO ?control plane? expanding in the future?

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2022-08-03
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The DevRel Dilemma

Ever since Developers became the New Kingmakers, DevRel has become a subsection of our industry. But what does it do, and is it helping Devs? 

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What is DevRel?DevRel success tipsMarketing to Developers is Not Hard2022 Look Ahead - Developer Careers (Cloudcast Eps.582)

WHY DID DEVREL HAPPEN?

Software is eating the world - Marc Andreessen (2011)Every company is a software company - (2013)Developers are the New Kingmakers - Stephen O?Grady (2013)Kubernetes the Hard Way - Kelsey Hightower (2015)

WHERE IS DEVREL TODAY?

Is it DevRel or DevEvangelist or DevAdvocate?Is DevRel marketing?Have you DevRel?d yourself into imposter syndrome?Who do DevRel?s work for? Can companies afford DevRel? Can they afford not to have DevRel? 

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2022-07-31
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Managing Microservices

Maxim Fateev (@mfateev, Co-Founder/CEO of @temporalio) talks about building modern applications, rethinking microservices, and orchestrating business logic. 

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Temporal.io (homepage)Temporal (open source)Temporal?s ?Reply? Conference - Aug 25-26 (Seattle)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let?s talk about your background and what led you to start Temporal.io. 

Topic 2 - There are lots of approaches to building (or running) modern applications - from Low-Code to Serverless to PaaS. Some are more focused on building apps and others on running apps. Where do you see various approaches today having struggles?

Topic 3 - What is the Temporal philosophy on making it easier to build/run modern applications? 

Topic 4 - Let?s talk about the concept of Temporal workflows. Who interacts with a workflow (developer, DevOps teams, etc.), and how much influence does it have on both application design and deployment?

Topic 5 - What are some of the things that happen to an application using Temporal that don?t happen with some of the other tools/frameworks focused on microservices?

Topic 6 - Does Temporal help ?modernize? existing applications, or is it primarily focused on new applications?

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2022-07-27
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Kubernetes Cost Management

Webb Brown (@webb_brown, Co-Founder/CEO @kubecost) talks about the evolution of Kubecost, and better management of Kubernetes costs. 

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Kubecost (homepage)Kubecost raises $25M Round AKubecost on GitHub (open source)OpenCost project (CNCF sandbox)


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let?s talk about your background, as well as the team at Kubecost. 

Topic 2 - Let?s start by talking about why Kubernetes has a cost problem. Is this mostly driven by the underlying technology, or how companies use Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the Kubecost open source project. How does it work, and how does it fit into the broader Kubernetes ecosystem?

Topic 4 - What are the typical stages that a company goes through (using Kubernetes) where they realize that costs are a problem? Is it an ?oh sh*t? moment with a EKS/GKE bill, or are they starting to build it into their normal Kubernetes cluster bills?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common mistakes that companies make when using Kubernetes that drive up costs? Is Kubecost mostly focused on identifying them, or trying to improve them?

Topic 6 - With the economy starting to slow down post-COVID-pandemic, are you starting to see a new level of cost-consciousness starting to kick in for Kubernetes users?


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2022-07-24
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Testing Kubernetes Applications

Ken Ahrens (@kahrens_atl, Co-Founder @Speedscaleai) talks about the challenges of testing applications in Kubernetes environments.  

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Speedscale (homepage)Kubernetes Load Test (tutorial)Speedscale Traffic Replay 

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let?s talk about your background and what led to start Speedscale. 

Topic 2 - Kubernetes has definitely gone mainstream at this point, but mainstream doesn?t mean that it?s easy to use or operate. How do you see the market today in terms of companies being comfortable with operating Kubernetes - what works well, and where are their struggles?

Topic 3 - In the past we had things that would test Kubernetes conformance (from CNCF, or Sonobuoy from Heptio). Where does Speedscale come into play in terms of Kubernetes testing?

Topic 4 - Where do you see opportunities to bring value to testing of Kubernetes environments? Does this testing tend to help DevOps teams or AppDev teams more?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common areas where you see companies getting benefits from Kubernetes testing? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started in testing for Kubernetes?


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2022-07-20
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IoT, IIoT and Managing Edge Data

Brian Gilmore (@BrianMGilmore, Director IoT/Emerging Technology @InfluxDB) talks about Edge and Industrial Edge Computing, as well as application and data challenges at the edge.

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InfluxData (homepage) - InfluxDB - Time Series PlatformUnderstanding Time Series Database Platforms (Cloudcast Eps:394)


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into the fascinating world of Edge and IoT, tell us a little bit about your background, and then where you focus these days with InfluxData.

Topic 2 - It?s been a little while since we covered IoT and IIoT. In the past it was somewhat of a fragmented market segment (lots of definitions, lots of different use-cases). How do you summarize the IoT and IIoT markets in 2022? 

Topic 3 - We?ve always said that the sensor part of IoT isn?t very interesting, but what a company does with the data is very interesting (and complicated). How do companies think about edge data these days ? what aspects of the data are valuable? 

Topic 4 - Time Series databases seem like the perfect fit for IoT and IIoT use-cases because they are designed to be both real-time and give historical context (from a time perspective). Is this the case, and why do companies ever consider other types of databases at the edge?

Topic 5 - What are the current best practices about managing data at the edge, in terms of long-term retention and what they eventually do with the data (analysis, analytics, etc.) to better optimize those edge applications? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the emerging trends you?re starting to see happen at the edge, that maybe weren?t on the industry radar a few years ago? 


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2022-07-17
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Building Apps with WebAssembly

Matt Butcher (@technosophos, Co-Founder/CEO @fermyontech) talks about building the next-generation PaaS platform around WebAssembly. 

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Fermyon (homepage)Fermyon launches WebAssembly PaaS platform (June 2022)Fermyon Open SourceFinicky Whiskers (WebAssembly game)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let?s talk about your background, as well as the team as Ferymon, as you all have some experience building application platforms.

Topic 2 - Before we get into Fermyon, let?s talk about WebAssembly. What is it, and how does it connect to your previous world of being heavily involved in containers and Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Let?s talk about what it means to be a WebAssembly PaaS. We?ve seen PaaS platforms in the past (Deis, Heroku, dotCloud, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, etc.). What do developers need to do, and what does the platform take care of? 

Topic 4 - Walk us through the Spin project and what it delivers? Can it be compared/contrasted to a container experience, or something else developers are familiar with?

Topic 5 - What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases where WebAssembly is a good fit and delivers unique value today?

Topic 6 - How are people able to engage with Fermyon today?

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2022-07-13
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Perspective on Competition in Tech

Competition in technology has many levels - from individuals to groups to companies to technologies. We dig into how competition impacts in multiple different ways, throughout our careers.

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TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION IS NOT LIKE SPORTS COMPETITION

There is not "end of season" in technologyTechnology carries the past forward (technical debt)Technology doesn't have trades or relegationThe lifecycle of tech is different that sports fandom

COMPETITION IN TECHNOLOGY TAKES ON SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS

People stay at companies far less than beforePeople compete in technology at personal levels, at team/group levels, at company levels and at technology levels. 

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2022-07-10
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Secure Cloud Migrations

Bryan Woodworth (Solutions Strategist @Aviatrix) talks about the evolution of Cloud migrations, security best practices, and how to organize for migration success. 

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Aviatrix (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let?s talk about your background, because you've been in the big clouds and now you?re helping people navigate the journey to the cloud. 

Topic 2 - It?s 2022, walk me through a typical cloud migration for a company? What are their considerations, concerns, common mistakes, etc.?

Topic 3 - Who within the company is typically driving the cloud migration? What are their goals or success metrics? And how often do they misunderstand what the cloud provider does and what the company has to do ? especially around security? 

Topic 4 - All the clouds are a little bit different, but companies would really like them to look and act the same. How do companies deal with those challenges, from a networking and security standpoint?

Topic 5 - Where and how does Aviatrix come into the picture when companies are doing Cloud migrations? 

Topic 6 - For a company that might be new to Cloud migrations, what are some lessons-learned from the past that they can use to avoid common mistakes? 

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2022-07-06
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A 2022 Mid-Year Cloud Update

Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the big stories, trends and transactions in the cloud in the first half of 2022. 

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Software Defined Talk - go subscribe to Brandon?s podcast!


Topic 1 - VMware WTF!?

Would VMware be a different company if it was never acquired by EMC/Dell?Nearly every successful Enterprise Software company becomes legacy at some point, was this always VMware?s destiny?If VMware was an independent company, would the rise of Containers (Docker) have been any different?Should some other company buy VMware and if so, who?

Topic 2 - I really liked the recent analysis on Clouded Judgement Substack about subscription vs. consumption in an economic downturn. (link) If SaaS is the future, does the consumption model really matter as long as value is there?

Topic 3 - Is there any aspect of the crypto industry that hasn?t been proven to be a sham this year? Decentralized (no). DAOs for governance (no). Controlled by the community (no). Secure (no). Not linked to fiat currencies (no). Good technology (no). A16z propaganda (no).

Topic 4 - Are passwords finally dying? Companies like strongDM/Teleport are pushing certificate based authentication and FIDO is gaining adoption in Windows and macOS. Will there be a time when we don?t need passwords?

Topic 5 - We always talk about skills and keeping up with the industry waves on the show. SaaS is less about building skills and more about operating. How does you get/keep up to speed about SaaS and what?s the future? Is the Cloud Architect going the way of the Infrastructure Admin?

Topic 6 - Did the big 3 cloud providers all fire their marketing teams? I feel like there hasn?t been one big announcement from any of them this year. 

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2022-06-29
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What VMware might look like under Broadcom

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, CEO/Co-Host of @theCube) talks about the VMware acquisition by Broadcom and the potential future of the combined organization. 

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SiliconAngle - The Voice of Enterprise Tech (homepage)theCube - Event CoverageBroadcom will tame the VMware beast (Dave Vellante)Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61BBroadcom to transit VMware to subscription model (The Register)Brian Madden?s perspective on VMware (former VMware employee)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Lets jump right into it - did you expect VMware to get sold this quickly after finally being ?free? of a parent company?

Topic 2 - ?Accretive acquisition bringing $8.5B of EBITDA by Year 3? - this seems to be the statement (headline) that really has people talking. What does it mean, and what does it say about the future plans that Broadcom might have for VMware?

Topic 3 - Let?s walk through their slide ?Multiple Levers to Increase VMware?s Profitability

Topic 4 - We all know that vSphere/ESX is the cash cow and isn?t going anywhere. Beyond that, how do you potentially see other parts of the portfolio moving forward - VMware on AWS, NSX (networking), VSAN (storage), Tanzu (AppDev)?

Topic 5 - Could you see companies like Cisco or HP or NetApp or Dell buying any of those businesses (especially NSX or VSAN) so that they have permanent attachment to vSphere?  

Topic 6 - Do you have any experience hearing from customers of CA or Symmantec to give current VMware customers a sense of what their new world might look like?


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2022-06-26
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2022 State of Cloud

Kent Bennett (Venture Capitalist @bessemervp) talks about the 2022 State of Cloud report, the evolution of the SaaS business model, new monetization models, and the Great Resignation.

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2022 State of the Cloud (Bessemer Venture Partners)Kent Bennett (Bio - BVP)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let?s talk a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days at Bessemer.

Topic 2 - The media headlines for Cloud aren?t great these days. What are the headlines from your State of Cloud 2022? 

Topic 3 - Help us understand how much money has come into the VC systems over the last couple years and where it?s being targeted. 

Topic 4 - Let?s talk about the $1 to $18 model in SaaS. How does that happen, and what separates the good companies ($18) from the good/mediocre companies ($7).

Topic 5 - You talk about ?First Act? and indirect models, focused on all their companies that deliver pieces of a monetization model. How long do we expect that approach to last, because we see a wave of consolidation? 

Topic 6 - A lot has been discussed about the ?Great Resignation?. This has impacted both tech workers and non-tech. How do you see technology companies having an impact or influence on the global workforce?

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2022-06-22
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How Things will Change in a Tech Downturn

It?s been 13 years since the last economic downturn impacted the tech industry. Many people don?t remember those days, or we?re part of it. Here?s what to expect. 

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FOR THE YOUNGER PEOPLE, THAT WEREN?T AROUND FOR 2008

We?re had 10+ years of public cloud adoptionWe?ve had 5+ years of microservices adoption (containers, Kubernetes, etc.)We?ve seen Digital Transformation dominate the headlines

HOW WILL THE CONVERSATION AROUND TECH CHANGE?

We're seeing stories about moving back to Private CloudWe're seeing stories that microservices are badWe're seeing stories that Automation and Security spending will increaseWe'll hear less and less about Digital TransformationWe'll hear about hiring slow downs, and some rationalization of salaries

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2022-06-19
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Observability for Machine Learning

Alessya Visnjic (CEO, WhyLabs) talks about MLOps, the concept of ML Observability and why AI models can fail. Alyessa talks about the differences between data health and model health and why post production analysis of ML is so important.

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WhyLabs (homepage)TechCrunch Articlehttps://mlops.community

Topic 1 - Welcome Alessya! You are what is known in the AI/ML spaces as a veteran. For those who aren?t familiar with your previous work, how about a quick introduction and background.

Topic 2 - Give everyone a background in MLOps as it is still an emerging market.  We are seeing an emerging trend of trust in data to train models. How did we get to this problem? Is this a transparency and observability problem once in production?

Topic 3 -  How is model health different from data health? Post deployment of models can actually be a factor, things like data drift over time?

Topic 4 - What does a typical tool chain look like? Under the covers is this a logging platform to provide visibility into the model behavior to ensure accuracy over time? I would think every model is different, how do you ?standardize/rationalize? the data to detect anomalies and incorrect results?

Topic 5 - Every new category of tools has leading use cases. Where are you seeing the most traction today and how can you best help practitioners? 

Topic 6 - How can folks get started if they are interested?

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2022-06-15
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Visualizing the Cloud

Priyanka Vergadia (@pvergadia, Staff Developer Advocate @GoogleCloud) talks about how to use creative visualization to convey complex cloud topics.

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The Cloud Girl (homepage)Visualizing Google Cloud (book) - #1 Best SellerPriyanka Vergadia (LinkedIn)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You?re one of our favorite follows on Twitter. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Google?

Topic 2 - As someone who likes to whiteboard things, I?m drawn (no pun intended) to your style of communicating complex ideas. Where did this skill and style come from?

Topic 3 - How was your style looked at by Google, and what types of feedback do you get from the broader community? 

Topic 4 - In the book, you cover A LOT of topics. How deep do you need to get into a topic before you start drawing it? How do you go about learning all the different technologies?  

Topic 5 - What tools do you use to create all the drawings, and more so, you turn a lot of these into videos. Are these tools that other people could easily use?

Topic 6 - Any tips you?ve learned about how to communicate complex ideas, either to technical or business people? 

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2022-06-12
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Shared Responsibilities for Cloud Providers

Miles Ward (@milesward, CTO @SADA) talks about managing the transition to public cloud, customer vs. provider responsibilities, and how to best leverage cloud provider innovations. 

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SADA (homepage)Miles Ward (SADA CTO, bio)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Dude, you?ve done some things. Tell us a little bit about your background at a few of these clouds that people have heard of. 

Topic 2 - Let?s talk about SADA. We?re really curious about the perspective of Google Cloud vs. AWS. 

Topic 3 - Based on the revenue numbers, companies are using public cloud services a lot these days. The clouds seem great, because they take a lot of people?s plates. Do you think they realize who is actually responsible for their cloud deployments? 

Topic 4 - Having build a number of best practices | well-architected designs, how do the cloud providers think about responsibility (let?s take security as an example) and how do they expect customers to take responsibility?   

Topic 5 - What are the most common mistakes companies make in this shared responsibility model? What are the biggest gray areas? 

Topic 6 - Let?s come back to Google Cloud. What are some of the cool things you?re able to uniquely do in Google Cloud that really add business value for your clients?

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2022-06-08
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Finding or Becoming a Mentor

During uncertain times, many people seek the help of a mentor. On today?s show, we look at how to find a mentor, and how to consider being a mentor. 

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HOW DOES THE MENTOR-MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

How to determine if you?re trying to find a job, or trying to find a mentor. And what does a good mentor-mentee relationship look like? 

HOW TO FIND A MENTOR, HOW TO BE A MENTOR

Know if you?re job hunting or trying to find a mentorBe visible in the community. Define a scope of what you?re asking of the mentorCome with ideas and potential solutionsUnderstand the time commitment needed for success


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2022-06-05
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CyberSecurity, Economics and Policy in 2022

Andy Grotto (@grottoandrew, Researcher @StanfordCyber) and Steve Weber (Professor Cal Berkeley I-School) talk about the big picture intersection of Cybersecurity, Global Economy and Government policy. 


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RSA Conference 2022Andrew Grotto - https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/andrew-j-grottoSteven Weber - https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/steven-weber

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about both of your backgrounds. 

Topic 2 - You both focus on the intersections between Technology, Gov?t Policy and Economics. We tend to focus on technology, but obviously they are all interconnected.  Where would you start in a 101 Technology-centric class to branch out from Security threats to how it impacts those other areas? 

Topic 3 - Sometimes individuals feel like they can?t impact macro-level issues. So how do you frame your areas of focus when speaking with Government or Business leaders to get them to understand the scope, the breadth, and what actions could be taken? 

Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about new security technologies, and we talk about companies having trouble keeping up to be able to manage their security. Do you think there are other factors involved that are preventing companies from remaining secure?

Topic 5 - What are some of the security (technology) areas where you see opportunities to improve business and government security? Are these areas that need more implementations, or more funding, or more research? 

Topic 6 - We?re coming (mostly) out of COVID-19, there?s various levels of economic uncertainty around the world (supply chain, inflation). What are the headlines you?re writing today and what are some of the scenarios you see playing out over the next 12-18 months?

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2022-06-01
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Enabling the Enterprise Financial Data Cloud

Cory Albert (Global Head of Cloud Strategy, Bloomberg Enterprise Data) talks about delivering cloud services to the financial services industry, new cloud delivery models, and innovations on the horizon. 

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Bloomberg Content and DataBloomberg launches Real-Time Data in the Cloud for Global Clients


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Bloomberg is one of the most recognized companies in the world. Let?s talk a little bit about your background and where your focus is today.

Topic 2 - Help us understand the scope of Bloomberg?s role in the overall financial markets, in terms of delivering data to clients and partners. 

Topic 3 - The demands of financial markets (latency, data volume, security, etc.) have previously mandated that resources be local (on-prem, specialized co-lo facilities, etc.), but we?re hearing more and more about how financial services are leveraging the public cloud. Can you talk about how this hybrid cloud model might be impacting data management? 

Topic 4 - As we look out a few years, how do you see shifts in cloud delivery models potentially reshaping how financial services data is used, delivered, protected, etc? What are some of the future trends that you?re keeping your eyes on? 

Topic 5 - There is a ton of innovation happening around the financial services markets, from how services are delivered to who is using the services. How do these changes shape the way that Bloomberg has to partner with other companies to remain innovative and competitive? 

Topic 6 - You?re a veteran of the financial services industry. What are some of the interesting areas that you?re seeing for new people coming into the industry where they might have an opportunity to potentially shape the future of financial markets? 


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2022-05-29
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Scalable, Serverless Database Platforms

Sam Lambert (@isamlambert, CEO @PlanetScaledata) talks about building a cloud-native SQL database from first principles, and how to eliminate the things people hate about database operations. This is cool stuff! 

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PlanetScale - The Databases for DevelopersVitess - open source databasePlanetScale Rewind - Zero Downtime Reverts

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. In less than 10 years, you?ve had quite a career rise from ?MySQL DBA? to some very high-profile roles. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus now as CEO of PlanetScale. 

Topic 2 - There have been an explosion of ?Internet-scale? databases over the last 5 years. Where is the market today for these technologies?  

Topic 3 - Scaling databases is difficult. Scaling them while still allowing compatibility with known skills is even harder. PlanetScale builds upon a project called Vitess.  Walk us through the journey of how Vitress got started to where it is today. 

Topic 4 - What do developers want to know about databases? What do they wish they could ignore or not worry about?  

Topic 5 -  In today?s world, what?s the right balance between what developers want and what?s needed under the covers (e.g. Ops, scaling, security, etc.) to make sure the data is always available? What are some of the quantum leaps that PlanetScale has taken to eliminate previous problems? 

Topic 6 - What are some (customer) examples of things that PlanetScale does now that you wish you had in your previous DBA roles? 

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2022-05-25
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Managing Thru Economic Donwturns

As we wade into global economic uncertainty, let's look at what we can learn from previous (2001, 2008) economic downturns and how they impacted the tech industry.

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WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PAST ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS AND HOW THEY IMPACT THE TECH INDUSTRY

LESSONS FROM PREVIOUS ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS

Get your finances in orderMake sure you're aligned to near-term business needsInvest in yourself (health, family, learning, etc.)Align with communities and mentors


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2022-05-22
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Running a Large-Scale SaaS Platform

Danny Fields (CTO/EVP @Avalara) talks about operating large SaaS environments, customizations for customer demands, and transitioning from traditional software. 

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Avalara - Tax Compliance Software for your industryDanny Fields - EVP and CTO Engineering

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You?ve got a very broad background in engineering and leadership roles. Can you share with us a little bit of your evolution, and where you focus your time at Avalara?

Topic 2 - Give us a little bit of background on Avalara (SaaS for Tax Compliance), and a little bit of details on what it means to run a SaaS platform for such a complex product offering? 

Topic 3 - You?ve been involved in a number of different SaaS platforms over the years. What are some of the biggest changes and challenges you face in running modern SaaS platforms today?

Topic 4 - Taxes are a very complex ecosystem, especially with all the variants around the world. How does a product team think about balancing the desire to deliver a consistent experience (SaaS operations) and customer demands for uniqueness?

Topic 5 - How do you think about balancing optimizations around Operations and taking advantage of all the new innovations happening in open-source, or from the cloud-providers, or just internal capabilities from your team? 

Topic 6 - Any tips for anyone looking to get into SaaS operations, or transitions from traditional data center software delivery? 

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2022-05-18
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Logging Governance and Sensitive Data

Pranay Kamat (Prod Mgmt @datadoghq) talks about the challenges is protecting sensitive data, internal vs. external attacks, evolution of DLP, the role of Governance in DevSecOps. 

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Datadog Sensitive Data ScannerBest practices for reducing sensitive data blindspots and riskBuilding a Modern Compliance Strategy [video]

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let?s talk about your background and the areas where you focus at Datadog. 

Topic 2 - We continuing to see headlines about critical data being stolen, which is a trend that doesn?t seem to be slowing down. Give us a picture of where we are with the problems that are still causing this, and what new things companies can do to prevent it.

Topic 3 - Where are some of the differences between traditional Data Loss Prevent (DLP) strategies and strategies that proactively look at logs to identify data access and breaches? 

Topic 4 - We often think about attacks coming from the outside, but oftentimes attacks happen from inside the house (directly or indirectly). How important is it to be able to control access to logs and what is visible within logs to prevent internal attacks and vulnerabilities?  

Topic 5 - What are some of the more dynamic, modern ways to identify sensitive traffic and tag it properly so systems can act on it? 

Topic 6 - It?s often said that security is everyone?s issue. In modern teams (DevOps, DevSecOps, etc.), where are you seeing as the owner of this Governance and Sensitive data?



2022-05-15
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Simplifying Cloud for Developers

Raman Sharma (@rasharm_, VP Product & Programs Marketing @DigitalOcean) talks about the evolution of Digital Ocean, the right tools for developers, and managing simplicity and scale.


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apply(conf) - May 18th & 19th, free virtual event!Digital Ocean - The Developer Cloud

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Your career has followed a parallel path to the evolution of the cloud. Let?s talk a little bit about your background, and especially your involvement with developers. 

Topic 2 - It?s been a while since we last had DigitalOcean on the show. Before we dive into the technology stack, let?s talk about how DigitalOcean thinks about developer needs. 

Topic 3 - Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Kubernetes, PaaS, Marketplace. Walk us through where DigitalOcean helps developers make it simple to use these primitives. 

Topic 4 - What do developers ask you for next? Is it more capabilities, or different pricing, or something else to make their lives easier? 

Topic 5 - What do your customer?s teams look like? Do they align to the primitives (e.g. cloud infrastructure teams), or is it more ?you build it you run it?, or something else?

Topic 6 - Where are some of the areas where DigitalOcean is focused or sees new opportunities in 2022 and beyond?

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2022-05-11
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Explaining Technical Topics - Service Mesh

In this new series, we?ll look at ways to explain complex technical topics. This week we?re looking at Service Mesh. 

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Istio Service Mesh[Diagram] Compare a Service Mesh to a Growing Family 

HOW DOES A SERVICE MESH WORK? WHEN SHOULD YOU CONSIDER ONE?

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy.   

LET?S EXPLAIN HOW SERVICE MESH WORKS.

We explain service mesh using a family household analogy, and how it changes over time. We relate this back to how an application evolves from a monolith to microservices. 

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2022-05-08
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Cloud Marketplaces

John Jahnke (CEO of @Tackleio) talks about the rise of Cloud Marketplaces, the evolution of B2B purchasing for cloud products, and the relationship between software vendors and cloud providers. 

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Tackle - Accelerate Revenue through Cloud Marketplaces2021 State of Cloud Marketplaces ReportTackle secures $100M Round C funding

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. And please give us a quick overview of Tackle.

Topic 2 - Everybody knows about the 100s of services that get announced by the major hyperscalers each year, but not as many people are aware that there?s more to the cloud than native services. Where do cloud marketplaces fit into the cloud ecosystem, and how have they evolved over the years?  

Topic 3 - If we wanted to explain the value of a cloud marketplace to someone, what value does it provide to the various parties involved - the cloud, the marketplace owner, the software company using a marketplace, the customers using a marketplace?

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through the process of how a software company engages with a marketplace? Are they working to get their software into 3rd-party marketplaces, or building their own marketplaces, or something else?

Topic 5 - How do the Tackle marketplaces different from the AWS, Azure or GCP marketplaces? 

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to create a plan to leverage cloud marketplaces to better reach customers and specific markets? 

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2022-05-04
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SLOs for Everyone

No Brian (Gracely) for a Sunday Perspective this week. We have Brian Singer (@brian_singer, CPO @nobl9inc) talking about Service Level Objectives (SLO), what they are, why they matter, and how to use SLOs to focus on innovation vs. technical debt.

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Nobl9 - websiteThe Cloudcast #502 - Reliability as a Service

Topic 1 - Brian, welcome to the show! We had Alex on the podcast last year and look forward to continuing the SLO conversation. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - If someone isn?t familiar with SLO?s (Service Level Objectives), how do you define them? Why do they matter? What problem do they solve? How are they different from SLA?s?

Topic 3 - Is this a transition from max reliability to instead look at errors as a ?budget?? How can you manage a certain window of unreliability and keep customers happy? 

Topic 4 - How do you create SLOs? Who creates them? Is this an SRE connecting up to existing systems or new tooling and plumbing? Does it fit into an existing GitOps workflow for instance - SLOs-as-Code? Is there automation triggers that happen when conditions are met?

Topic 5 - How does an SRE know which metrics matter? I would imagine not all downtime is equal? How does this correlate with business KPIs? Do you fine tune over time?

Topic 6 - The big question is always the focus on technical debt vs. innovation. Does this help and if so how?

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2022-05-01
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CI/CD Monitoring and Flaky Testing

Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos, Director of Product @datadoghq) talks about monitoring and measuring CI/CD environments, ?shift left? for security and test coverage, and understanding test coverage patterns.

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Datadog acquires Undefined Labs (2020)Borja on The Cloudcast (Eps.231) to discuss Tutum CloudDatadog CI Visibility supports shift-left testingIdentify and resolve front-end issues on your web applications before your customers notice. Start a free trial today.Master is the new Prod, Devs are the new Ops

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You?ve got quite an impressive track-record as an entrepreneur and founder. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you?re now focused on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - You wrote that ?Master is the new Prod, and Devs are the new Ops?. Can you help us unpack the concepts that you were trying to convey?

Topic 3 -.How widespread is the understanding that it?s important to monitor CI/CD environments, vs. the more traditional focus of monitoring production environments?

Topic 4 - What are some of the areas where CI visibility or synthetic CI/CD testing helps improve application quality and overall availability in production?  

Topic 5 -  All of these efforts to test earlier, integrate earlier and have visibility earlier sound like the ?shift left? movement. Are those things difficult to do, since many companies have siloed teams?  

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that your team has been able to take the technology from Undefined Labs and bring it into the broader scope of capabilities that are available through Datadog? 

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2022-04-27
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Explaining Twitter to a 5yr old

Could you explain Twitter to a 5yr old? Some things are just difficult to explain, and this week we look at the challenges of trying to explain complex technical concepts to everyday people. 

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Back to the Future of Twitter (Ben Thompson, Stratechery)

 

I GET HOW IT WORKS, BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY DO?

Many of us use Twitter on a daily basis, but if you had to explain it to someone, could you explain what it is and what value it provides? Many of us are tasked with a similar challenge in trying to explain our day-to-day work.  

EXPLAINING COMPLEX THINGS IS HARD. MAYBE THAT?S A SIGN THAT IT?S TOO TECHNICAL OR SHOULD BE BROKEN APART

What problem does something solve? Who has that problem? Does the problem need to be solved by a product or a platform?Does the product align to one or many people?s jobs?Does the platform align to one of many people?s jobs?If it?s a platform, do the people with the problem want all of it?Does the platform approach limit your ability to monetize it (e.g. too restrictive)?Could you platform be valuable if it was broken up? 


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2022-04-24
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DataCenter-as-a-Service

Ian McClarty (President @PhoenixNAP) talks about the evolution of the CoLocation and DataCenter-as-a-Service market, cloud repatriation, how software has changed the economics and working closely with hyperscalers.

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PhoenixNAP - Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Cloud and CoLocation Services

 

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You?ve run PhoenixNAP for more than a decade. Give us some sense of the evolution of the CoLocation | Managed Services market over that time.

Topic 2 - Lots of people focus on the cloud hyperscalers, but there are a ton of business needs that they can?t satisfy - whether it?s location, or dedicated resources, or offloading skills, etc. What are the biggest challenges that your customers are facing these days?

Topic 3 - The breadth of capabilities that you offer has really evolved - from locations, to capabilities, to flexibility you can offer customers. How much has the industry shift to software-defined-services enabled that to accelerate? 

Topic 4 - What is a typical relationship that your customers have between you and the hyperscalers? It seems like there are a lot of potential synergies that benefit everybody.  

Topic 5 - What differentiates the CoLocation | Managed Cloud providers these days? And where do you see that evolving? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common ways that your customers take advantage of the value you provide them - whether it?s technology, or people skills, or capacity planning or locations? 


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2022-04-20
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Transitioning from Engineering to Product

Transitioning from a technical role to a ?less? technical role can be scary. Let?s look at how you might evaluate a change, and some tips to succeed in the transition.  

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I DON?T WANT TO LOSE MY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR REPUTATION

It?s completely normal to be concerned about losing your technical skills, the thing that has established your current value to your employer, if you transition to a more product or business-focused role. 

HOW TO SUCCEED (OR AVOID FAILING) IN A TRANSITION

Your technical knowledge will still be extremely valuable.Not all technical decisions are based on technology. Understanding economics, and business context, and flexibility options, and personalities involved are equally as important. Understand what you?ll be building vs. managing. Is it stand-alone or part of something larger? What are the things you can influence and change? Your people skills will be challenged, and rewarded. Understand that you?re part of a large ecosystem of people that will determine your perceived success. The choices of jobs expands when you?re closer to the people that use your technology.


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2022-04-17
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Database Caching as a Service

Ben Hagan (@ben_hagan, Founder/CEO @polyScaleAI) talks about the challenges of database performance, distributed data and applications, and how caching-as-a-service can improve performance.

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Polyscale.ai - The Edge First Data PlatformPolyscale announces GA and Round-A of Funding


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You?re very much a data-centric person. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to found Polyscale?

Topic 2 - Before we dive into what Polyscale does, let?s talk about the problem that it solves for companies. 

Topic 3 - Let?s talk about how Polyscale makes data-access faster, without having to rewrite a bunch of applications or databases. Help us understand things like placement, scaling, resiliency, etc.

Topic 4 - How much different will the experience be for an application-developer or DBA? How much visibility will be available to troubleshoot or make adjustments?  

Topic 5 - How is Polyscale different from a CDN platform?   

Topic 6 - What are some of the initial use-cases or problem areas where companies can take advantage of Polyscale capabilities? 

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2022-04-13
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The Unexpected Pace of Technology Adoption

Every week we talk about new technologies and new trends. But studies show us that new technology adoption tends to be very slow, especially at high levels. What?s behind the inability of new tech to displace legacy tech?  

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Why Enterprise software moves so slow, despite tech innovations (Matt Asay, TechRepublic)

 

IF IT AIN?T BROKE, DON?T FIX IT

For existing companies, most of the budget (typically 70-80%) is spent maintaining existing systems. New technologies are rarely used to replace existing technologies, but are usually additive. New teams and new processes are created, and those teams are often expensive (rare skills).

OUTSIDE OF CLOUD, THE COSTS OF CHANGE ARE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE

The learning curve can be long, so companies often hire new talent. For new technologies, talent is difficult to find, so often very expensive. And new technology takes a while to mature, so the number of available use-cases is initially limited. It?s not unusual for wide-spread adoption to take 3-5 years (if it succeeds).  Oftentimes, existing technologies will see a market disruption coming and add similar capabilities. Many technology spaces have too many alternative options, so it can take a while before a ?winner? emerges in the market. 


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2022-04-10
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Multi-Cloud Networking

William Collins (@@WCollins502, Principal Cloud Architect @AlkiraNet) talks about how to seamlessly build multi-cloud networks for any applications.

SHOW: 606

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Alkira - Cloud Networking as a ServiceAlkira - ExplainedAlkira Overview - 1 Click Cloud Networking


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Every survey that comes out says customers are going to be using multiple clouds for quite a while. Interconnecting all these services, either simply or in complex ways is now a reality. Walk us through how this challenge is typically approached?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the different options, from VPNs to SD-WAN to Cloud Interconnects. What are the pros/cons and trade-offs for companies?

Topic 4 - Has the COVID pandemic and all the remote work changed how companies network with the clouds? Are these expected to be temporary changes, or likely to remain long-term

Topic 5 - How does Alkira fit into the cloud networking picture? Does their approach to simplifying things help when companies are adopting things like DevSecOps, where networking might not be the primary focus?

Topic 6 - What are some ways that companies on their multi-cloud journey can benefit from simplified ways to enable security and inter-connections to the cloud?

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2022-04-06
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How DevOps is like Microsoft Excel

DevOps mashes together two things, Dev and Ops. But in reality, it includes much more than that. But who owns DevOps? Does anyone use all of DevOps? And is DevOps a people, process or technology?

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WHEN DOES A TOOL STOP, AND A PROCESS BEGINS?

How would you define DevOps? Who owns DevOps? 

MOST PEOPLE ONLY USE 30% OF THE FEATURES OF ANY TOOL

What happens if a company doesn?t go full DevOps?What happens if a team, within a company, doesn?t go full DevOps?Can there be more than one definition of DevOps within a company?Is velocity the best measurement for DevOps?


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2022-04-03
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