Thursday, January 25, 2018

The Cloudcast #331 - Has SRE replaced DevOps?

Aaron and Brian talk with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle, CEO @rackngo; Kubernetes Cluster Ops Co-Chair) about the consistency, continuum and confusion between the concepts of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

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  • Topic 1 - What is the State of DevOps today? On one hand, there’s Gene Kim’s DevOps Reports (all is great), on another hand is DevOps Days which has become about Empathy, and somewhere in between are companies struggling with all of this silo-busting and automation and constant change. So where are we?
  • Topic 2 - The DevOps community seemed to want to reject all sort of labels and titles (DevOps engineer, DevOps certified, etc.) and how there is this “SRE” (Site Reliability Engineering) concept. Is this just a new name for DevOps?
  • Topic 3 - Like NetFlix had microservices, so everybody needed microservices - Google has SRE, so now everyone needs SRE? How does SRE fit into a non-Google company?
  • Topic 4 - Many Infra/Ops-centric people have been trying to learn automation and some basic programming (e.g. Python, Powershell/Scripting). SREs are often described as programmers that live in the Ops world. Can these current Infra/Ops people evolve to SRE?
  • Topic 5 - Do you find that DevOps or SRE apply more (or less) to using certain types of technologies vs. other technologies?
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    Thursday, January 18, 2018

    The Cloudcast #330 - Oracle’s Next-Generation Cloud IaaS

    Brian talks with Clay Magouyrk (@cmagoyrk, Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) about the architecture of the Oracle cloud, how it manages bare-metal VMs and containers, how Oracle integrates on-premises and cloud workloads, and how it integrates with PaaS and SaaS services.

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    • Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Can you tell us about your background prior to joining Oracle and how it helped you design the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
    • Topic 2 - There was a lot of buzz about Oracle redesigning their infrastructure cloud. Can you walk us through the architecture and how Oracle delivers bare-metal, VMs and containers? Are they separate environments, or all integrated?
    • Topic 3 - How does Oracle Cloud deliver networking - intra-cloud, from region-to-region, and integrated with on-premises applications?
    • Topic 4 - Oracle often talks about “same cloud architecture in both public and private”. Other public clouds are designed differently than most on-premises environments. Can you talk about what’s the same and what is typically different in the Oracle Cloud? What do customers have to adjust to in the Oracle Cloud?
    • Topic 5 - How do Oracle customers manage to integrate different Oracle Cloud services (e.g. containers, PaaS services, SaaS services, security, etc.)?
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      Thursday, January 11, 2018

      The Cloudcast #329 - Tech Trade Shows in 2018

      Aaron and Brian attend a lot of technology events throughout the year. They give their suggestions to trade show organizers and attendees for getting the most of out 2018 events.

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      • Topic 1 - What events do you enjoy attending? Not enjoy attending?
      • Topic 2 - What works for you at events?
      • Topic 3 - What could be improved or added?
      • Topic 4 - What should be eliminated, or re-imagined?
      • Topic 5 - Should we see more “independent” events combined (or parallel to) “vendor” events?
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        Thursday, January 4, 2018

        The Cloudcast #328 - Creating a Tech Podcast

        Aaron and Brian give some tips and suggestions for anyone wanting to start a tech podcast.

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        Show Notes
        • Topic 1 - Why are you podcasting? (motivation, goals, understanding the marketing)
        • Topic 2 - How much of a commitment is podcasting? (scheduling, recording, editing, publishing)
        • Topic 3 - How do you get started? (costs, tools, determine format, finding guests, awareness)
        • Topic 4 - What are the most difficult aspects of hosting a podcast? (scheduling, prep-work, consistency)
        • Topic 5 - What is involved in recording, editing, publishing? (sound quality, edits, tools, studio vs. on-the-road recording)
        • Topic 6 - How do you manage to do this along with a day job? (timing of guests, conflicts of interest, topics)
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