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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

2024 Year-End Review and 2025 Predictions

It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.

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Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?

Aaron

  • 2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worse
  • There will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI
  • 2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)

Brian:

  • Gov’t vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)
  • Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?
  • Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)
  • AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?


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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Reacting to the AWS re:Invent Keynote

The 2024 AWS re:Invent happened, with a new CEO, and an appearance by a previous CEO. What were the big announcements, trends and stories coming out of the keynote?

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Overall Takeaways:

  • The new CEO
  • The overall themes
  • Andy Jassy’s appearance

Brian’s Top 5 Takeaways:

  • The focus is now all ARM and GPUs/AI Accelerators (goodbye Intel)
  • AWS is getting back to basics on Cloud - a focus on primitives
  • AWS is trying to get ahead of startup and enterprise usage of GenAI with a focus on Inferencing costs (trying to make it a game of compute costs vs. model capabilities)
  • What are the 1000 GenAI apps that Amazon has built? (Rufus, Robot package loading? NFL Blitz predictor?

Brandon’s Top 5 Takeaways:

  • Amazon is the “Everything Store,” AWS is the “Every Service Store”
  • Garmon is the legacy AWS CEO, Jassy is the AWS AI CEO
  • AWS wants everyone to build a chatbot and/or call center app using AWS Bedrock 
  • The NOVA foundation models are the AWS answer to OpenAI and Anthroptic. 
  • AWS is attempting to build both the models and the AI Chips to run them. Tenuous partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic. Neither was on stage. 
  • AWS will never stop telling us about “Working Backwards”
  • AWS marketing still wants talk about the how rather than the benefit. A long lecture on Nitro and Amazon Aurora DSQL with a lot of discussion about synchronizing clocks.

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Saturday, October 12, 2024

Will the real AI breakthrough come from Big AI?

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 Cisco
  • Web Browser / Web Server came from Netscape
  • Mainstream Linux came from Red Hat
  • Social Media came from Twitter, Facebook
  • Cloud came from Amazon
  • Smart Phone came from Apple
  • AI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) 
  • What’s Similar? What’s Different?
  • Funding, Founders, Market Competitors


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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Influence Marketing in Emerging Tech

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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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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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - September 2024

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

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The 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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Sunday, August 25, 2024

From Kingmakers to co-pilots, what's the future for developers?

Is the market shifting from evaluating software as an economic driver to re-evaluating the cost of software in the context of how AI can improve, augment or replace developers? 

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THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)

  • The value of the developer exploded over the last decade
  • Software has reshaped most industries over the last decade

WE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERS

  • Code assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenue
  • Do we have developer “productivity” or “creativity”?
  • Does AI have more impact on legacy code or new code?
  • How does the role of Junior vs. Senior developer change?
  • What happens to System Integrators? 

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

The Scale of Cloud Networking

Vinay Tripathi (Senior Member of IEEE,  Production Network Engineer @Google) talks about the evolution of backbone networks for the Cloud and Internet, future technologies and career opportunities. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into cloud networking, let’s talk a little bit about your background and some of the areas you focus on today.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with something big - the anatomy of cloud backbone networks. What is the makeup of a typical cloud backbone network?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique challenges and solutions that you need to think about in terms of scaling, reliability, securing, and maintaining these massive networks, along with the innovative solutions being implemented

Topic 4 - Looking forward, what are some of the emerging trends like intent driven networks, software defined global WAN, and the impact of AI/ML on cloud backbone infrastructure.

Topic 5 - Some people in the networking industry are concerned about the future of network engineers. Career Paths in Cloud Networking: skills and knowledge required for a successful career in this field, along with potential career paths.

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Sunday, August 11, 2024

5 Storylines that will shape Cloud and AI in 2H 2024

They may not be major stories, but these 5 headlines will play an important role in how AI and the Cloud evolve in the 2H of 2024. 

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THE ECONOMY WILL BE THE STORY OF 2H 2024 DUE TO THE US ELECTIONS

BUT WILL ANY OF THESE OTHER STORIES GET THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE?

  1. Are VCs going to be out on AI startups?
  2. Will tech antitrust discussions become prominent in the US elections? 
  3. When will we start seeing all the early-2024 AI demos turn into reality?
  4. How much are the hyperscale cloud earnings boosted by AI spend vs. usage?
  5. Will any alternatives to VMware start to show progress in displacing the virtualization leader?


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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag

2024 has been evolving very quickly for Cloud and AI. So as we get to the mid-year point, we stop and answer many of your mailbag questions. 

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MAILBAG QUESTIONS:

Topic 1 - At this stage of the GenAI era, obviously the “picks and shovels” are winning (e.g. NVIDIA). But beyond that, are there obvious winners and losers, or areas that look more promising?

Topic 2 - In the near-term or long-term, do you think there will be big differentiation in the LLM models, or do they eventually commoditized?

Topic 3 - There is some talk that Amazon (&/or) AWS are behind in GenAI, but obviously they are ahead with cloud. Do you think GenAI offerings will be enough to get companies to move clouds, or will it just be another cloud workload and companies already use multiple clouds?

Topic 4 - Do you have any thoughts about how GenAI (or any AI) will impact IT architectural thinking over the next couple of years?

Topic 5 - Do you think the recent rounds of layoffs, or slow downs in hiring, will have a big impact on IT organizations?

Topic 6 - What happens if GenAI doesn’t turn out to be as successful as so many people are forecasting? What happens to all the other potential technology innovations while that plays out?

Topic 7 - If you were advising someone on a tech career choice in 2024, what type of guidance would you give someone?

Topic 8 - DevOps had a long run as “the IT cultural change” for a while. Do you see any of the other tech/culture trends starting to get more popular (FinOps, Platform Engineering, MLOps, etc.)?

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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - June 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss stories in Cloud and AI from June 2024, and then get into spirited discussions about RTO and Tech Exec poaching. 

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - Will the AI boom take a summer vacation?
  • Trend 2 - Have AI expectations set up Enterprise CIOs for a rude awakening?
  • Trend 3 - We’re at the mid-year point. All the cloud providers are focusing on AI. Do you expect that we’ll see a long period of stalled cloud innovation, or do you expect any interesting moves in the 2nd half of the year? 
  • Trend 4 - The big tech companies are now all sitting on record-setting market capitalizations. Do you expect any of them to go on an acquisition spree? 

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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - May 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, from @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from May 2024

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Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - Is anyone going to talk about Cloud anymore? 
  • Trend 2 - Is AI a real conversation with Enterprise yet, or does AI need to go through a consumer period first? 
  • Trend 3 - Every large acquisition was deemed a “terrible mistake” within a few months, according to the press - (e.g. Hashicorp, VMware)
  • Trend 4 - Is April to June the new “trade show season”, or will it just be “always on” in the new AI world?

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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Lessons Learned from AWS Leadership Transition

After just three years, AWS is making another change at the top of the leadership org-chart. What lessons can we learn from leadership transitions and what might come next?

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AWS HAS NEW LEADERSHIP. WHY NOW? 

  • Adam Selipsky is out, Matt Garmin is in. What does it mean?
  • Why is AWS making the change now?


WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM SELIPSKY’S 3 YEARS AS AWS CEO

  • Probably don’t take the job immediately after someone is the Nick Saban of tech
  • Don’t be the complete opposite of the previous boss (wings guy vs. wine guy)

[Andy on X] Lead Amazon, married and father of two kids, big sports/music/film fan, experienced buffalo wings eater. Go Kraken!

[Adam on X] Husband & dad. Water skier/tennis player. Fan of Seahawks & Sounders. CEO at #AWS.

  • [Andy Jassy] I’ve always had a lot of respect for Adam, and we met several times to discuss the possibility of coming back to lead AWS. In those conversations, we agreed that if he accepted the role, he’d likely do it for a few years, and that one of the things he’d focus on during that time was helping prepare the next generation of leadership.
  • [Andy Jassy] Matt has an unusually strong set of skills and experiences for his new role. He’s very customer focused, a terrific product leader, inventive, a clever problem-solver, right a lot, has high standards and a meaningful bias for action. 
  • Realize when your job is to lead and inspire vs. producing the weekly report
  • The post-ZIRP CEO of AWS
  • 2021 - $62B, , 2022 - $80B, 2023 - $90B, 2024 - $100+B
  • Lost key people
  • Behind on GenAI vs. other clouds
  • “Wartime CEO” vs. “Peacetime CEO”


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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - April 2024

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024

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TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024

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Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcements
  • Trend 2 - We’re starting to see some (early) reality set in with AI
  • Trend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMware and AI discussions

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

The Maintenance Episode

For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated? 

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IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?

  • Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)
  • The costs of maintenance are real and opportunity
  • Maintenance often goes unappreciated and unseen
  • Naming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos Engineering

TECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCE

  • Should we encourage a lack of maintenance vs. innovation as a priority?
  • Should we encourage active maintenance with lower hard costs?
  • Is there a way to put respect on maintenance? (e.g. OSS maintainers)
  • Do we undervalue maintenance (e.g. Backup/Recovery, DisasterRecovery, etc.)?
  • What maintenance best practices do you use? What are the good and bad of them?

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Building Media and Streaming Platforms

Brad Winett (President/Co-founder @TrackItCloud) talks about platforms for entertainment and media. Topics include use cases, partnering with AWS, and creation and consulting services. We even dig into AR and VR a bit at the end.

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Topic 1 - Our topic for today is media and entertainment in the cloud. I don’t believe we have ever done a show specifically on this topic, and there are some considerations worth talking about. For today, we have Brad Winett, President and Co-founder at TrackIt. Brad, welcome to the show. Let’s jump right in. The media industry as a whole has undergone major change, just like many others. Most of us see it from the consumer end as a cord-cutter. What made you jump into this market and this industry specifically?

Topic 2 - Platforms and content distribution in the early days of cloud was a differentiator. I think back to Netflix, they initially had a market advantage because they were able to scale better and to more devices than anyone and even open sourced a number of internally developed items and were the AWS poster child. Over time, these user experiences have become the norm. How should people out there think about media platforms? Are we past the days of build your own?

Topic 3 - What about use cases? Media streaming is pretty broad. What does a normal customer look like? Is this big streaming services, smaller companies, etc?

Topic 4 - How much of the tech stack is AWS products and how much of the stack is custom typically? Walk us through what a media streaming stack looks like. How is this different from a SaaS provider providing a turnkey service?

Topic 5 - I know TrackIt is a big AWS partner. Give everyone an overview of the landscape of AWS Partnership these days. Do you provide mainly professional services and consulting?

Topic 6 - Where does open-source software fit into this?

Topic 7 - I feel the standard last question these days is how AI will potentially enhance or impact this is some way.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - March 2024

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024.

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Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024
  • Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partner
  • Trend 3 - NVIDIA held a pretty massive GTC event

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits

Big 3 cloud providers investing in AI with cloud credits. $7 trillion dollar big plans. VCs concerned about AI valuations. It feels like a new set of rules are being created. 

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ARE CLOUD CREDITS THE NEW VENTURE CAPITAL?

  • “Microsoft's Q2 2024 earnings report states that AI services contributed 6 percentage points of growth to Azure revenue. This is an increase from 3 percentage points in the previous quarter.” 

KEEP AN EYE ON AI USAGE “TRENDS” FROM THE BIG CLOUD PROVIDERS

  • Is this a problem for VCs? 
  • Is this “good” revenue for the cloud providers?
  • Are they just smart for utilizing an asset that they can monopolize?
  • How to track user-growth (e.g. OpenAI) and cloud-usage-growth (e.g. Big 3)
  • How much will people invest to build an alternative to NVIDIA?

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

AWS vs. Azure

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about comparing AWS vs Azure, evaluating alternatives and what changes over the next 3-5 years.

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Topic 1 - Depending on what metric we use (revenue, Gartner MQ, CAPEX spending, headlines), it’s starting to seem like AWS and Azure are pretty neck and neck. Do you see much difference between those two clouds?

Topic 2 - Gartner’s summary boils down to “AWS is better at infrastructure” and “Azure is better at developer services”. If you’re a customer, how do you choose between those ends of the spectrum, or are you mostly choosing both services?

Topic 3 - AWS claims to be the more secure cloud. Aside from some stability issues in various regions (or either AWS or Azure), are there really any indications that one cloud is “more secure” than the other? Don’t they mostly put the burden on the customer and their applications?

Topic 4 - Did you see any distinct usage trends for companies choosing AWS vs. Azure? We’ve seen somewhere between 10-15% of apps move to the cloud (lift & shift?) over the last 10+ years and growth rates are slowing. Can either significantly move that number without some big changes, or is it just a slow, gradual growth?

Topic 5 - We’ve talked a lot about AI recently. How much do you think the AI strategies of AWS vs Azure will impact bigger usage decisions?

Topic 6 - AWS is still #1 and Azure is #2. Is there anything over the next 3-4 years that could shakeup that order?

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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Is 2024 the Year of Accountability?

Return to Office, Layoffs, Acquisitions,and Shareholder Accountability are dominating the worker-level discussions in early 2024. Let’s dig into what’s really happening. 

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WHY IS ALL OF THIS HAPPENING NOW?

  • This is similar to the 2022-2023 transition (unexpected + fast)
  • Companies are quick to cut and slow to restart/accelerate
  • Companies often overestimate needs and under-estimate fixes
  • There are new competitive dynamics happening all over tech
  • There will be lots of bankruptcy and acquisitions in 2024

2024 WILL BE A YEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITY

  • The pendulum of workers vs management is swinging back to management
  • 15 minutes of “blame management” fame might be short lived
  • Business doesn’t necessarily work like Reddit trends
  • Focus on alignment to revenues, customer success
  • Focus on results, not excuses
  • Actively look for efficiencies and inefficiencies

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Sunday, January 7, 2024

Is Cloud just a feature now?

More than a decade into cloud, is cloud just a feature of the systems we build these days? What else might become features in the near future? 

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SHOW NOTES:

IS THE CLOUD JUST A FEATURE NOW?

  • On-demand pricing
  • On-demand resources
  • Someone else manages it for you
  • API access to systems
  • A wide breadth of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services

WHAT MIGHT BECOME A FEATURE OF MODERN SYSTEMS?

  • DevOps becomes integrated Co-Pilots via LLMs
  • FinOps gets built into the systems, like vMotion from VMware
  • Pre-Testing, Pre-Planning gets built in (like System Initiative)
  • Chaos engineering gets built-in
  • Collaboration gets built-in
  • The OS becomes like containers and gets deterministic
  • Upgrades are built-in
  • Training, Docs, Examples are built-in

LESSONS LEARNED

  • The cross the chasm adoption isn’t just for a specific technology, it’s for bigger systems too
  • Rarely does the new thing completely replace the old thing (mobile excluded)
  • Innovation will need to continue to be creative (e.g. open source, pricing, etc.)
  • “Failures” are usually just incremental steps

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