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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        • 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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          Wednesday, December 27, 2017

          The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions

          Aaron and Brian have many, many, many thoughts on the tech that shaped 2017, and make some predictions about 2018 and beyond.

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            Mergers and Acquisitions
          • Biggest Tech M&A of 2017 and VC Funding is down
          • Big Mergers: Amazon+Whole Foods; CVS+Aetna; Intel+Mobileye; AT&T+Time Warner; Disney+21st Century Fox

            2017 Trends
          • Storage companies are becoming HCI companies (thoughts on owning a server supply chain vs. software defined vs. commodity hardware)
          • Containers are becoming more mainstream - but so many misleading “surveys”
          • Nobody has a clear advantage in “hybrid cloud” architectures
          • Public cloud is a portfolio game and data acquisition game, not a cost reduction game
          • Building new applications is still a small % of corporate applications
          • There’s such a big gap between cloud releases and non-cloud releases (timeframes, updates, informing the market, etc.)

            2018 Cloudcast Areas of Interest
          • What happened to DevOps? Is it now in Phase 2 as “SRE”, or is it unobtainable?
          • What’s happening in China? How will it impact the rest of the Global markets?
          • Will AI & ML become tangible to non-Data Scientists? What’s the Fantasy Football of AI & ML, for business?
          • Where and how will voice technologies (Alexa, Google Home, etc.) fit in long term?
          • How will we track the Public Cloud tipping point?
          • What is Serverless most disruptive to, or is it additive to app-dev market size?
          • Should we track “Serverless” by the ServerlessConf or AWS events?
          • Should we be following “edge computing”? What are the core focus areas?

            2018 Predictions
          • Continued decline of the middleman in all industries
          • Awareness of Cloud Computing “costs” becomes more mainstream
          • Does Security even matter anymore? What bigger events can happen?
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            Saturday, December 23, 2017

            The Cloudcast #326 - The 10 Biggest Stories of the Year

            Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest news stories and trends that happened in 2017.

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            Container Stuff
            1. Docker - New CEO; Docker > Moby;
            2. Kubernetes winning the Container Orchestration Wars - but do we now only talk about it being boring and irrelevant?

            Cloud Stuff - When do we hit the Cloud Tipping Point
            3. Azure getting bigger, but big enough? ($20B run-rate; includes O365)
            4. AWS re:Invent - can it be stopped? ($18B run-rate)
            5. Google Cloud - still ??? (says almost 2,500 employees)

            Infrastructure Stuff
            6. New Blue Print Emerging? Hyper-Converged Infrastructure & “Secondary Storage” all with public cloud integration. Also virtualization vs. containers orchestration
            7. VMware’s cloud direction? - Big 3 Public Clouds have placed their bets (AWS/VMware, GCP/Nutanix/Cisco/VMware, Azure/Azure Stack)
            8. Where does Serverless Fit? Does it? Is it a Public Cloud only play?

            Stuff we don’t understand - We have been Emerging Tech, Where is the next emerging tech?
            9. BitCoin / Blockchain - did you bet your mortgage on it? Aaron’s interesting conversation around this recently
            10. AI & ML - AWS is trying to make it easier (DeepLens); everyone including AI in their products
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                Friday, December 15, 2017

                The Cloudcast #325 - The Next Step in Development Automation

                Aaron and Brian talk with Rod Johnson (@springrod, Co-Founder & CEO @atomist) about the evolution of development frameworks, developer productivity, the Spring community, and how Atomist is helping simplify the experience of developers interacting with containers and Kubernetes and microservices.

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                • Topic 1 - Thanks for joining us today Rod, for those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a bit about your background prior to Atomist and your background with development platforms (sold SpringSource to VMware for $420M in 2009).
                • Topic 2 - You have seen a pretty amazing transition in development platforms over the last 5-7 years. What trends made you decide to start a new company?
                • Topic 3 - This leads us to your most recent announcement, a Series A round and launch of Atomist. Tell everyone about Atomist. As I understand it this is a development automation platform. What problems are you trying to solve?
                • Topic 4 - How is Development Automation different from traditional CI/CD?
                • Topic 5 - What use cases are applications are your customers doing today with Atomist? Is this primarily cloud native apps and development on public cloud platforms? How are folks both consuming and creating?
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