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  • In the Cloud Era, Netflix was held up as the lighthouse for what was possible with cloud. So who is the Netflix of the AI era, and are we learning enough about AI yet?

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    New research shows widespread adoption of GenAINetflixOSS (homepage)

    WHAT DID NETFLIX DO FOR THE CLOUD ERA?

    Provided a face for a new style of doing workProvided validation that a new model could workEncouraged people to explore older, “bad practices”Began to define metrics of what the new world could look like

    WHY DO WE NEED A NETFLIX OF THE AI ERA?

    Because AI can apparently do everything, but what are some specific things?What are the new ways of thinking about old problems?Has it been proven to improve teams, or mostly individuals? Do we need a Couch to 5k set of use-cases? Starting use-casesOr is AI going to be a big-bang approach?


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  • Sunil Mallya (@sunilmallya, Co-Founder & CTO @_FlipAI) talks about building AI models to help IT Operations teams simplify troubleshooting, incident response and pattern detection.

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    Flip AI (homepage)Enterprise AI Agents: Bringing LLMs to Enterprise Data


    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

    Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about your broader view of where IT Operations is today for large companies. What are their biggest challenges, and where are their opportunities for big improvements?

    Topic 3 - One of the biggest challenges for IT Operations is so many systems, so many tools, so many data sources and the difficulty of coordinating (troubleshooting, incident response, pattern detection, etc.) across them. Is there a modern approach that’s emerging about how to make this better?

    Topic 4 - Where does the potential of AI models come into play here? It is more focused on being able to ask the system for diagnosis, or can it start getting closer to taking independent actions?

    Topic 5 - How do you train an AI model with so many different pieces of customer data?

    Topic 6 - Let’s talk about AI Agents and what they can begin to accomplish within an Enterprise.

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  • It’s not a reach to say that we’re currently in a time of uncertainty, across technology, economic and political spectrums. But historically, times of uncertainty have often led to unexpected creativity.

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    STUFF THAT FEELS UNCERTAIN OR FRAGMENTED RIGHT NOW

    Transition of US political parties (regulation, leadership, reaction to the unknown, friend or foe of Silicon Valley)Stock market is somewhat bullish, but credit markets aren’t alignedSocial media seems more fragmented (good & bad), so what does this do to information flows, learning, discussions, etc.Speculation is that AI LLM models are starting to plateauCloud providers aren’t really talking about anything but AIVCs seem to be excited about the potential of acquisitions again, but who?Netflix can’t seem to figure out streaming live TV, at least at scale - but Amazon can?

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  • Rosalind Whitley (Dir. Product @Kentikinc) and Ethan Smith (Staff SRE @ An Enterprise Security Company) talk about network observability, the evolution of SRE for networking, flow analysis, and the complexity and tradeoffs or network design and operations at scale.

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    Kentik - The Network Observability Platform (homepage)


    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and the areas you focus on today.

    Topic 2 - I want to begin with the complexity of networking, and not just in the sense of routing, etc. Can you walk us through some of the things you have to consider, and potentially tradeoff, as you’re thinking about network design and operations (e.g. performance, security, costs, logging, troubleshooting, etc.)

    Topic 3 - Usually there are many teams involved in making a large organization work. How do you collaborate across teams, and what types of technical hurdles get in the way of delivering the service? (maybe discuss logging challenges)

    Topic 3a - How has the role of SRE and Network Engineer evolved as we’re now dealing with this new complexity? You have all the normal performance, high availability, observability stuff, but also things like egress costs, etc.

    Topic 4 - We talked earlier about the challenge of cost management when running a large SaaS service. What are some of the ways that you explore or model costing behaviors and look to improve them?

    Topic 5 - As you’re working in a single cloud (e.g. AWS), there’s often a belief that working only in that ecosystem is the best approach, as everything is integrated or billing is simpler. How did you go about exploring alternatives that worked in your cloud, but gave you more flexibility for your services?

    Topic 6 - How do you tend to think about lines of demarcation between your team, the SaaS tooling provider and the cloud provider?

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  • While there will be plenty of evaluation of how the 2024 US elections played out, we take a look at 13 tips that we can learn from the campaigns that can be used for tech communications.

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    SHOW NOTES:

    Dithering - Trump Tech PolicyStratechery - Big Tech, Little Tech, Chips and HardwarePivot - How Trump will Impact Tech, EconomyCube Podcast - https://www.thecube.net/cube-podcast

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    CAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?

    It’s very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known nameIt’s more difficult to prove “what if” (future) vs. something that already happenedFigure out messaging velocity and variability (change the story vs. stick to the story)Plans tend to defeat a lack of plans (or vagueness)Fear is as powerful a motivator as hope/joy/possibilitiesComplex topics (eg. democracy, DevOps) are difficult for people to understand, if they aren’t well defined.People tend to make decision with their wallet, based on their current situationAre you speaking to a niche audience, or a large audience? If your competition defines you, you need to reframe it quicklyIf your competition finds a liability, you need to address it quicklySometimes small things can be the center of the discussionKnow where your audience is getting their information from (traditional vs. modern channels)Are you trying to get people to align on an issue, or a set of virtues (align to a group)?

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  • Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.


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    SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #870 Transcript

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    SHOW NOTES:

    Link to October 2024 news and articles

    SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

    Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues

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  • Keri Olson (@ksolson20, VP AI for Code at @IBM) talks about coding assistants across the software development lifecycle, the future of agents, and domain-specific assistants.

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    SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #869 Transcript

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    IBM Watsonx Code Assistant (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z (homepage)


    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on where you focus your time at IBM these days?

    Topic 2 - Developer code assistants have become one of the most popular areas of GenAI usage. At a high level, how mature are the technologies that augment developers today?

    Topic 3 - Software development has an entire lifecycle (Generate, Complete, Explain, Test, Transform, Document). It’s easy for developers to just plug in a service, but is that often the most effective way to start using GenAI in the software development lifecycle?

    Topic 4 - Software developers are notoriously picky about what tools they use and how they use them. GenAI doesn’t “guarantee” outputs. Are there concerns that if different developers or groups use different coding assistants, that it could create more challenges than it helps?

    Topic 5 - What is a holistic way to think about code assistants? How much should be actively engaged with developers, how much should be behind the scenes, how much will be automated or agentic in the future?

    Topic 6 - In the past, we essentially had “real developers” (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for “citizen developers” on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadn’t identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)

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  • When you’re asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So let’s just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 years. Seems simple enough.

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    “Machines of Loving Grace” (Dario Amodei - Anthropic)Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism (Decoder from The Verge)“The Intelligence Age” (Sam Altman - OpenAI)

    THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)

    Biology and HealthNeuroscience and MindEconomic Development and PovertyPeace and GovernanceWork and meaning

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  • Edward Hieatt (@edwardhieatt, Chief Customer Officer @mech_orchard) talks about the challenges of app modernization, leveraging AI, and the process to succeed from legacy to modern.

    SHOW: 867

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    Mechanical Orchard (homepage)Startup led by ex-Pivotal CEO lands $50M to modernize apps (TechCrunch)

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on Mechanical Orchard.

    Topic 2 - Many of the MO team come from Pivotal (especially Pivotal Labs), as well as being involved with the Agile Manifesto, Extreme Programming, etc. How did the mission of the company get focus on modernizing existing applications?

    Topic 3 - Modernization projects have traditionally been really costly, with a low success rate. Why is now the right time to focus on this area?

    Topic 4 - I’m really interested in how MO technology works. It seems like a variation of a digital twin, mixed with some AI capabilities. Give us the big picture of how this is a different approach to modernization.

    Topic 5 - How much culture/process change is needed with MO to be successful?

    Topic 6 - What do the stages of success look like with your approach to application modernization?

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  • After several months of travel and giving keynote at multiple events, Brian gives some new tips for building keynotes, capturing audience attention, managing regional differences and avoiding mistakes.

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    SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #866 Transcript

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    Building a Keynote Presentation (Cloudcast Eps. 798)

    THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

    Different types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, MixedDifferent types of keynote context - New, Updates, Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/PanelsOther considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions.

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  • Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.

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    Dremio (homepage)Hands-on with Apache Iceberg TutorialApache Iceberg Crash CourseData Lakehouses and Apache Hudi (Cloudcast Eps. 694)Apache Iceberg, the Definitive Guide (eBook)Apache Iceberg (homepage)Iceberg + Nessie Catalog (homepage)Iceberg + Polaris Catalog (homepage)AlexMerced.comDataLakehouseHub.com

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

    Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we talked about Data Lakehouses, can you give us a little bit of background on this space, and what the most recent dynamics are around these technologies.

    Topic 3 - What are the typical integrations with a Data Lakehouse? How are users/developers typically interacting with Data Lakehouse technologies? [The marketplace for Iceberg catalogs like Nessie and Polaris]

    Topic 4 - How does an open data format like Apache Iceberg fit into the bigger picture of data lakehouses, or large scale stores of data?

    Topic 5 - How does Dremio enable Iceberg? How does Dremio sit in the intersection of Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh and Data Virtualization trends all of which come from the same fundamental problem, the growing scale of data use cases.

    Topic 6 - We’ve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applications

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  • Are we sure that the next big thing in AI is going to come from OpenAI, or even one of the big cloud providers with $Billions to spend? History tells us that it might come from someone smaller.

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    WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?

    Internet infrastructure (router) came from CiscoWeb Browser / Web Server came from NetscapeMainstream Linux came from Red HatSocial Media came from Twitter, FacebookCloud came from AmazonSmart Phone came from AppleAI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) What’s Similar? What’s Different?Funding, Founders, Market Competitors


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  • Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical products and marketing and the evolution of marketing to reach an increasingly technical audience including the rise of influence marketing.

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    Freeman and Forrest (homepage)DevOps for Dummies (book)97 Things every Cloud Engineer should know (book)Forrest Brazeal (homepage)Developing Multi-Cloud Skills (Eps.602 Cloudcast)

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

    Topic 2 - Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and start

    Topic 3 - Is there a new blueprint being created for how to have conversations about new technologies, or helping people find useful information? [new media | influencers]

    Topic 4 - Give us a sense of how crowded the markets are today, and why it’s so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.

    Topic 5 - Let’s talk about how projects get paid for - priorities, awareness, etc.

    Topic 6 - What does good and bad look like these days?

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  • The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024.

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    Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)



    5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

    Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all modelsDoes OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot? What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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  • Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.

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    SHOW NOTES:

    Link to September 2024 news and articles

    SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

    Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California’s AI Act gets a veto)Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?

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  • Do we put too much emphasis on the leaders of the tech industry and not enough on the millions that support it?

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    SHOW NOTES:

    Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equityLinkedIn Profile RoasterBrian’s “roasted” LinkedIn profile

    THE BIG NAMES GET A LOT OF ATTENTION

    We talk a lot about how much CEOs makeWe talk a lot about the CEOs creating/executing strategy (good or bad)We talk a lot about “rockstars” (see: Workday “rockstars” commercials)

    BUT DO THE REST OF US ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING OF ANY VALUE?

    Do the rest of us live the Ricky Bobby life, “if you’re not first, you’re last!”Should we feel bad when we advocate for ourselves, since that’s how the merit/raise system works? Should we be embarrassed

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  • Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.

    SHOW: 859

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    Persona webpageTech Crunch Article on Persona


    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a little bit about your background with a quick introduction please.

    Topic 2 - You cut your teeth at Square prior to Persona, what lessons did you learn there, and how did your experience there impact what you are doing at Persona?

    Topic 3 - We are, of course, seeing an uptick in personal fraud in both our personal and professional lives through identity theft and personal information leaking into the world. If someone has all the proper information, how do you identify this as a false identity?

    Topic 4 - How has AI impacted all of this? I would think with the power of GenAI tools, this industry has accelerated dramatically?

    Topic 5 - Do we have another arms race on our hands to identify and protect both our personal and professional lives from fraud?

    Topic 6 - Is Persona a 3rd party API similar in architecture to Stripe? If I’m an architect in an organization today and I want to get started, how would I do that?

    Topic 7 - If there was one thing you wanted people to understand about this, what would it be?

    Topic 8 - You have access to a lot of personal data, how is this data handled and secured?

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  • This past week, Amazon announced a new RTO policy that required 5 days a week in the office. What types of impacts could this have on tech workers and the tech industry?

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    SHOW NOTES:

    Amazon announces new Manager/Employee Ratio and RTO policy for 2025

    IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

    People have adapted their life to working from homePeople have adapted their families to working from homeDaily commutes seem like a poor use of resources

    IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

    Being around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharingRTO is more difficult on certain employee (especially care-giving women)RTO is an effective way to reduce headcount without defined “layoffs”RTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workers

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  • Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO @ Eve) talks about bringing AI to the legal vertical and the intersection of AI/ML of increased efficiency for legal firms.

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    Eve Homepage

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.

    Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I don’t think of legal. What are the most common use cases?

    Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about the tech behind the scenes. Do you use foundational models and then fine-tune them? Do you have your own custom models? What are your thoughts on the current state and future of models for specific industries or verticals?

    Topic 4 - Legal is a highly regulated space; how do your customers (law firms) think about data security and compliance? Tell everyone a bit about how all of this works.

    Topic 5 - Do your clients use RAG for custom information that needs to be brought into the models? How does all of that work for customer data?

    Topic 6 - When I think about legal, I think about two big areas. We covered compliance and the financial side of this, but what about the billing and financial side? How is ROI on legal AI calculated? Where and how does a legal AI help? Is this measured in hours saved, which translates into dollars saved?

    Topic 7 - Let’s close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyone’s jobs away. What are your thoughts on how this supplements vs. replace staff?

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  • Back from some recent travel, we look at why it’s important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how global regions adopt technology.

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    LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE US

    Diffusion of informationCurrency exchangeGovernment laws, embargoes, tariffsLanguage and timezone differencesLocal culture, norms, expectations

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