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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)
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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 youâre 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 weâre 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 youâre working in a single cloud (e.g. AWS), thereâs 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.
SHOW: 871
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Dithering - Trump Tech PolicyStratechery - Big Tech, Little Tech, Chips and HardwarePivot - How Trump will Impact Tech, EconomyCube Podcast - https://www.thecube.net/cube-podcastSHOW SPONSOR:
Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud. Oracle Cloud InfrastructureCAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?
Itâs very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known nameItâs more difficult to prove âwhat ifâ (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 arenât 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)?FEEDBACK?
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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: 870
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #870 Transcript
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Link to October 2024 news and articles
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Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation ContinuesFEEDBACK?
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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.
SHOW: 869
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IBM Watsonx Code Assistant (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z (homepage)
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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). Itâs 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 doesnât âguaranteeâ 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 âreal developersâ (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for âcitizen developersâ on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadnât identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)FEEDBACK?
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When youâre asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So letâs just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 years. Seems simple enough.
SHOW: 868
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âMachines of Loving Graceâ (Dario Amodei - Anthropic)Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism (Decoder from The Verge)âThe Intelligence Ageâ (Sam Altman - OpenAI)THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)
Biology and HealthNeuroscience and MindEconomic Development and PovertyPeace and GovernanceWork and meaningFEEDBACK?
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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.
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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.
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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 - Iâm 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.
SHOW: 866
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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.FEEDBACK?
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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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SHOW: 865
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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.comTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.
Topic 2 - Itâs 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 - Weâve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applicationsFEEDBACK?
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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 âNEXTâ 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) Whatâs Similar? Whatâs 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)
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SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.
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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 itâs so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.
Topic 5 - Letâs 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.
SHOW: 862
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Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)
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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 âmiddlewareâ that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?
5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ONFEEDBACK?
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Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.
Link to September 2024 news and articles
SHOW: 861
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SHOW NOTES: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, Californiaâs 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?FEEDBACK?
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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?
SHOW: 860
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Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equityLinkedIn Profile RoasterBrianâs âroastedâ LinkedIn profileTHE 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 ârockstarsâ (see: Workday ârockstarsâ commercials)BUT DO THE REST OF US ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING OF ANY VALUE?
Do the rest of us live the Ricky Bobby life, âif youâre not first, youâre last!âShould we feel bad when we advocate for ourselves, since thatâs how the merit/raise system works? Should we be embarrassedFEEDBACK?
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Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.
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SHOW: 859
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Persona webpageTech Crunch Article on Persona
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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 Iâm 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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Amazon announces new Manager/Employee Ratio and RTO policy for 2025ITâS 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 resourcesITâS 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 âlayoffsâRTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workersFEEDBACK?
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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.
Eve Homepage
SHOW: 857
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SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, letâs talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.
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Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I donât 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 - Letâs close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyoneâs 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 itâs important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how global regions adopt technology.
SHOW: 856
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #856 Transcript
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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, expectationsFEEDBACK?
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Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.
Link to August 2024 news and articlesSubscribe to Cote's newsletter.
SHOW: 855
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #855 Transcript
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SHOW NOTES:SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:
Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intelâs struggles?Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if itâs offered to you.FEEDBACK?
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The future of search advertising, the future of chips, the future of open source, AI monetization and government regulation of tech are all uncertain. What does that mean for the future?
SHOW: 854
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #854 Transcript
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ARE CORE PILLARS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE?
Google and antitrustIntel and chipsOpen source and licensingAI and monetizationGovernments and regulationFEEDBACK?
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Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform engineering and IaC.
SHOW: 853
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On The CUBE discussing VMware in April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wIClYI6bDQSoftware Development Times discussion Platform Engineering: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/analyst-view-whats-new-whats-now-and-whats-next-in-platform-engineering/Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into a broad set of topics today, give us a little bit about your background and what you focus on today.
Topic 2 - The hyperscalers have grown quite large over the last decade, but as we came out of COVID, many of their customers were concerned about the cost of cloud. Are we seeing a new rationalization coming around cloud costs and accountability of costs?
Topic 3 - Weâve all read the headlines regarding changes to VMware by Broadcom. Alternatives to VMware would be big decisions for many companies. As a neutral independent, how are you framing your thinking about the VMware ecosystem and the decisions being made about the future of virtualization?
Topic 4 - Over the last decade, weâve seen so many new technologies. To get value from them, they require more cross-functional collaboration. These days we tend to call that Platform Engineering. How well do you see the evolution of people and processes being adopted, and how much more needs to happen?
Topic 5 - Behind the scenes of every transition over the past decade (Cloud, AI, Cloud-native) is the adoption of automation. This seems like a no-brainer, but actual adoption is lumpy across companies. What are some of the hard parts of automation that arenât discussed enough?
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