Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Digging into GitOps

Christian Hernandez (Sr.Principal Tech Mktg Mgr @RedHat) talks about how GitOps works, it's relationship with DevOps, how it's implemented, and applying it to Infra and Apps.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got focused on GitOps?

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of GitOps. What is it, and what problems is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through a day in the life of how GitOps is actually used? Is it infrastructure specific, or can it also be used for applications, security, etc.?

Topic 4 - What are some of the common ways that companies get started using GitOps? Do they typically have to create a GitOps team, or is it an extension of existing groups/skills?

Topic 5 - Is GitOps specific to a certain technology (e.g. Kubernetes) or a specific type of application (e.g. 12-factor), or can it be applied to a wider set of technologies?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best resources you’ve found for getting started or being successful with GitOps?

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Sunday, July 25, 2021

The Boss Says We're an Innovation Company Now

Your leadership states that you’re no longer in an <xyz> company, but instead you’re now an innovation company. How will that transition play out over the next few years?

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SO THE BOSS DECIDES THAT YOU’RE AN INNOVATION COMPANY 

For large companies, how do you manage a major transformation, which extends across both technology and culture?  

WHAT WORKS, WHAT BREAKS, WHO STAYS and WHO LEAVES?

  • Airlines are fearful of video conferencing
  • Streaming companies are fearful of gaming companies
  • Automotive companies are about technology more than horsepower
  • When farm equipment companies become farmer data companies?

Gracely’s Theorem #2 - Digital Transformation is drawing a straight line between your company and your customers, via the Internet. 

  • Who and What gets left out? 
  • What gets prioritized? 
  • Who is your competition?

 

  1. What timelines have been communicated to the market, partners, stakeholders, customers?
  2. What are the initial focus areas? 
  3. How do you plan to measure success? 
  4. What will be the wins in the first 3 months, 6 months and 12 months? 
    1. Do you understand the importance of communicating these wins?
  5. How willing are you to ask for help, accept help, and pay for help?

 

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Identity Management for Developers

John Pritchard (@indiapeloale, VP of Product  & DevEcosystem @Okta) talks developer concerns with authentication and identity, and how to manage 3rd-party integrations and cloud services. 

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

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways that Okta can now secure things for companies, applications, and developers. How do the pieces from Okta and (previously Auth0) fit together? 

Topic 3 - As an application developer, where and when do I need to think about identity and authentication, and when is it a function of the infrastructure? 

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through some common access and application patterns, so we have a better understanding of how many places that authentication, identity, access-mgmt come into play?  

Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about ownership and operations of these functional areas - do they own it, do they offload it to the cloud - what considerations do they need to make?

Topic 6 - How do developers typically engage with your teams and products/services? Do they need to be security experts first, or do you guide them through what to own and how Okta can offload core elements?


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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Comparing Public and Private Cloud Costs

Comparing cloud costs between different environments can be complicated. Let’s look at the different factors that should be considered when comparing costs between clouds.   

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO COMPARE COSTS ACROSS CLOUDS?

A listener was asking for some guidance on how to build some tools to help them compare costs across clouds.  

COMPARING COSTS IS VERY COMPLICATED, BECAUSE THE USE-CASES VARY SO MUCH.

  1. Not going to provide a definitive price/amount
  2. Not going to focus on cloud migration costs

Things to Consider:

  • How long will a project use the resources? (short-term vs. long-term)
  • How much will the project scale/grow, up or down? How frequently will it change? 
  • How complex is your project/application? How many components are involved? 
  • Are these centralized, shared resources or will they be used on a per-project basis?
  • How do you currently account for costs? What’s included? What’s not (typically) accounted for? (e.g. centralized services)
  • Do you have the ability to do various types of accounting for costs? (time, capacity, longer contracts, all-you-can-eat, etc.)?
  • How is networking accounted for? (traffic, traffic flows, speed, ports, volume, etc.)
  • How is the data center accounted for? 
  • Is a free-tier part of the expectation? Is a POC or Trial part of the expectation?
  • Can your project be connected to the public internet? Can you provide usage metrics to external groups? 

 

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

State of Containers in the Public Cloud

Michael Gerstenhaber (@mikezvi, Sr.Director Prod Mgmt @Datadog) talks about the public cloud container usage, the evolution of Kubernetes adoption, application usage patterns and what's next.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your transition from engineer to product manager.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk out container usage in the public cloud. Beyond the rapid pace of growth/usage, what trends are you following the most closely?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique things that you have to do to monitor container usage, or provide unique data insights to containerized applications?

Topic 4 - We were surprised that only 50% of container usage is associated with Kubernetes. It’s been the de facto standard for the past several years. What else is orchestrating containers, or is it lots of one-off containers? 

Topic 5 - Large clusters are dominated by large nodes. That seems somewhat counter-intuitive. What do you think drives this pattern? 

Topic 6 - Lots of users are running older versions of Kubernetes. The CNCF has moved back to 3 releases a year. Do you expect that we’ll see longer life cycles supported in the future?

Topic 7 - Since the report was released, are you beginning to see any new trends that people should be keeping an eye on? 


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Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Transformation of Microsoft

Since Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, the transformation of Microsoft has been incredible. Let’s explore how he evolved the company from many previously missed opportunities.  

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  1. Microsoft Acquisitions
  2. History of Microsoft Xbox
  3. History of Microsoft Azure
  4. 10 Charts that will change your perspective on Microsoft


AREAS OF STRUGGLE FOR MICROSOFT pre-2014

  • Social Networking
  • Search
  • Mobile
  • Streaming Video
  • Mac vs. Windows

AREAS OF TRANSFORMATION UNDER SATYA NADELLA (since 2014)

  • Windows to OS Agnostic
  • Software company to Cloud computing company
  • Embrace Open Source Software
  • Gaming
  • Refocus on modern developers (VSCode, GitHub, OSS, etc.)
  • Microsoft Xbox and Surface (hardware)
  • Cybersecurity for the Internet
  • Not competing with customers and ecosystem
  • Collaboration systems

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Teach the Geeks to Speak

Neil Thompson (@teachthegeek, Teach the Geek) talks about educating geeks and engineers in all fields of STEM about how to become a better communicator, storyteller and influencer.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Today we’re going to teach our audience some valuable skills. Tell us a little bit about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the intersection of geeks and how they communicate. In what ways do they feel comfortable communicating vs. uncomfortable communicating?

Topic 3 - We find that oftentimes geeks will focus more on their technical skills early in their career, and only later in their career do they recognize the importance of a broad set of communication skills. Do you find this to be a common pattern?

Topic 4 - What are some tips, tricks and ways to get better at communication? Which modes of communication (written, oral, story-telling, influence) are the most important?

Topic 5 - What are some ways that geeks can get the practice or experience needed to improve their communications? 


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Sunday, July 4, 2021

GitHub CoPilot, AWS Infinidash and the New Hotness

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Let’s explore if our audience can tell the difference. 

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SOMETIMES SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW COMES ALONG...

It might be 5yrs, 10yrs or 100yrs, but eventually (sometimes) things change and they might be awesome! 

CAN WE EVER FIGURE OUT IF THE NEW STUFF IS REALLY NEW AND AWESOME?

GitHub CoPilot suggests lines of code or entire functions, within the context of your GitHub Codespace. It’s built on OpenAI Codex.

  • Real issues: Does it align licenses? Are the code suggestions secure? Do the suggestions write tests or docs? 
  • Maybe issues: Do we need good coders anymore? 
  • Maybe opportunities: Can you bootstrap an entire company on top of this? Enabling more people to code more easily is a good thing, right? 

AWS Infinidash is designed to address the one major issue that AWS hasn’t addressed yet - using their network is really expensive and it never gets cheaper. [NOTE: Pure Speculation, might not be 100% (or 1%) correct]

  •  Hybrid Cloud is a real thing, and IT networking is free, because you never see a bill for it.
  • AWS now loves Hybrid Cloud, and they also love the environment (it’s in the new Amazon Leadership Principles), so AWS Snowmobile isn’t a realistic options because it’s not 100% electric and self-driving, and because Amazon can now package your USB drives in the same packages they use with Amazon Prime, so they’ll be back daily to pick up data - Infinidash Prime.
  • Within AWS, all networking across AZs and Regions is now free, because people can’t follow the AWS best practices, and AWS doesn’t like people complaining when there is an outage that would be avoided by using Multi-AZ or Multi-Region. 
  • But how will AWS make money? Well, they invented Lambda with microsecond billing, so they really don’t even want you to use EC2 anymore. This has all been a long-game to get more people using Amazon Prime. 

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