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The Cloudcast is the industry's #1 independent Cloud Computing podcast. Since 2011, co-hosts Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely interview technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Serverless | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . Also available, the "Cloudcast Basics" podcast (@cloudcastbasics), for anyone new to Cloud Computing.</p>

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Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days at Outshift by Cisco.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the security challenges that come with modern applications and cloud environments. 

Topic 3 - The classic challenges of security have always been too many tools, not enough people, lots of misconfigurations, tons of red on the dashboard. Are there new approaches that are trying to address these challenges?

Topic 4 - Talk to us about this concept of “Attack Path Analysis”. What is it? What is it trying to accomplish that we didn’t/couldn’t do before?

Topic 5 - How does Panoptica address many of these challenges? How does it integrate with the many areas of the entire picture, from IaC to CI/CD to Observability?

Topic 6 - What are some differences that DevOps teams might experience by using Attack Path Analysis?

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Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules. 

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BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTING

  • Commutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less important
  • VC funding is slowing down, people are more focused on results vs. “new”
  • AI is a regular part of the conversation, but how much is too much?

WHAT WILL CLOUDCAST 2.0 LOOK LIKE? 

  • Moving to three shows a week: Sunday Perspective, Tuesday Umbrellas & Sunnies, Thursday On The Horizon
  • Cloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the Month
  • Bring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionality
  • Bring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)
  • More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & Brian
  • Better balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do Today
  • Do you want us to do Video?
  • Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?

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Shannon Williams (President & Co-Founder, Acorn Labs) & Darren Shepherd (Chief Architect & Co-Founder, Acorn Labs) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS.

SHOW: 765

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  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)
  • Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.

Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWS

Topic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?

Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?

Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’t

Topic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?

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As Docker talks about their successes and failures after 10 years, what lessons can be learned by open source companies, projects and foundations over the past decade.

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  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
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IT’S HARD TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

  • Docker was the transition between OpenStack (bad foundation) and Kubernetes (CNCF)
  • Was Docker a Community or a Cult? How did Leadership work?
  • Docker was stuck between VMware and Developers

WHAT HAS THE INDUSTRY LEARNED FROM THE DOCKER DAYS?

  • Customers and communities are very hesitant to adopt another single-vendor offering
  • Could Docker have succeeded as a “free” implementation?
  • As much as DevOps and PlatformEngineering are happening, it’s tough to have an “in between” technology (used by both Infra and AppDev)
  • It’s OK to adapt your monetization model, but it’s not OK to not have one
  • Open source can’t be the driving force of a business. It’s not a charity. 
  • If somebody offers you $3B, maybe consider taking it….


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Joe Curley (VP and GM Software Products and Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (VP and GM for Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosystems at Intel.

SHOW: 763

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  • Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)
  • Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it
  • Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
  • Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE
  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • 20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Joe and Arun, give everyone a brief background please.

Topic 2 - For many of our listeners, they may not equate Intel with Software and Open Source. Can you give everyone some background on how the intersection of Intel and Open Ecosystems came to be and your involvement today? What’s in it for developers

Topic 3 - How does Open Source Software fit into Intel’s broader software strategy

Topic 4 - What are the trends you are seeing in OSS and how does that impact Intel? How does that impact organizations today?

Topic 5 - What kind of investments does Intel make into Open Source and Open Tools? There is Intel’s oneAPI for instance…

Topic 6 - Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere, how does AI fit into Intel’s hardware and software vision and strategy?

Topic 7 - Any final closing thoughts on the future and what to expect from Intel in the future?

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Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the next few years? 

SHOW: 762

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SHOW SPONSORS:

  • Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app
  • Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring
  • Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.
  • CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend

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ARE THERE ANY VALID SOFTWARE BUSINESS MODELS LEFT?

  • Software business models keep running into road blocks
  • VC funding is slowing down, and interest rates are rising
  • Can OSS as marketing survive? 

WILL THE NEXT GENERATION PAY FOR SOFTWARE, IN ANY WAY? 

  • SaaS seems to work, if you can survive the burn rate to capture customers.
  • Is SaaS too expensive? Will variations emerge?
  • Any changing models (free to fee, open core, etc.) disenfranchise the users
  • OSS is getting less funding
  • Gaming is tied to engines and app stores
  • Will AI open up new business models? New licensing models?

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Anish Bishen (Chief Data Architect @Sliide), Jay Rawal (Head of DevOps @Sliide), Ieva Jonaityte (TAM @DoIT) talk about scaling infrastructure and data services at a rapidly growing startup, with FinOps enabled.  

SHOW: 761

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and your focus areas today. 

Topic 2 - Sliide delivers a platform that allows Carriers and OEMs to deliver unique digital experiences to customers. Tell us about the architecture behind the platform and some of the bigger challenges you have in delivering those services at scale.

Topic 3 - When delivering services for mobile, there are tons of variables involved (user-experience, bandwidth management, backend data collection, analytics, etc.). What do you think about the tradeoffs in terms of costs vs. experience?

Topic 4 - DId you look at the cost optimizations as a one-time project, or is a FInOps focus now part of your on-going planning and operations? How does that function work with the rest of the platform team?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working with the DoIT team to help optimize the platform and overall costs. How did you decide to work with DoIT to augment your team, and what were some of the core areas you focused on? 

Topic 6 - What lessons learned would you pass along to other platform teams? 

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With many companies doing annual reviews this time of year, we go through some guidance, tips and tricks and strategies for navigating reviews with your manager, and reviews with your teams. 

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HOW TO MANAGE THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

  • The annual review is a year-long project, but most people only focus on the 3-4 weeks around it.
  • It’s about what you do, but it’s also about what you do that’s visible beyond your team.
  • Know how your company measures success and structures rewards/promotions/recognition.

THE GOOD, BAD AND THE UGLY OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW

  • HR controls the process, and your manager generally doesn’t want to deal with it.
  • Most companies allocate a strict budget, which is top-down. 
  • Most companies grade on a broad bell curve; most people end up in the middle. 
  • It’s good to understand concepts like grade levels and mid-points of compensation.
  • “Pay transparency” is probably not what you think.
  • Some (not all) bosses aren’t thinking about your career, so you need to own it
  • Promotions usually take a few cycles to happen. Ask around to understand that process. 
  • For example, don’t expect the startup CEO to give you the best advice for your career, their interests may diverge from yours, asking more experience people how they do X may result in outdated advice.


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Mike Long (CEO @_kosli) talks about the challenges of enabling Governance and Compliance into DevOps teams and processes

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

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about building software for businesses. Lots of people have read the Phoenix Project, and yet most companies still struggle to deploy software fast enough. Where are the bottlenecks today?

Topic 3 - What about Governance or Compliance or Auditing as functions? Can you help the audience understand their purpose and what those groups/functions do?

Topic 4 - Software development seems to boil down to lots of impedance mismatches due to managing risk (testing, security, compliance, etc.). How does Kosli play a role in trying to improve those mismatches?

Topic 5 - DevOps Automated Governance. What is it, how is it implemented, what benefits do companies get from it?

Topic 6 - Kosli technology is often described as “a flight recorder for your runtime environments”. Is the recorder primarily for the auditors, or does it become part of operations?

'Topic 7 - How do companies typically get started using Kosli? Does it have to be all at once, are is there a typical Crawl-Walk-Run model?

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Today we explore what to do when you’re stuck at a career crossroads between being technically valuable and managerial or leadership valuable. How to consider the tradeoffs.

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I BROKE INTO THE INDUSTRY THROUGH A TECHNOLOGY TRACK, BUT I BROUGHT MORE TO THE TABLE

  • Lots of people reach a crossroads when they decide to move from technically-focused to manager-focused. 
  • They often struggle because their identity of technical skills feels like it’s slipping away, and they aren’t sure of their identity. 
  • Being a manager can often be unsatisfying and some people want to go back to the technology path.

NOW I’M FINDING THAT I’M GOOD AT MANAGING, BUT I DON’T KNOW IF IT BRINGS ME JOY

  • Gain an understanding of the career ladders for both a technical path and a managerial path (or other paths in between).
  • Try and determine what it’ll take to get to several levels higher than you are today (extra schooling, extra certifications, developer technical skills, travel, etc.)
  • Make a list of the things that are most important to you, and what you’re OK with not prioritizing as a negative. (Location, Salary, Opportunity, Title, Job Risk, etc.)
  • Figure out what parts of the current path don’t motivate you. Can a mentor help? Can you offset that with enjoyment from other parts of the role? 
  • Sometimes you need to leave a specific job/company, but do that with the “next job” in mind (not the “move job”)
  • Early in your career you’ll move jobs for opportunity/money/title, but unknown managers. Later in your career you’ll move to work with specific people. Find those people. 


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