Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Secure Software Supply-Chain

Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and led you to found Chainguard. 

Topic 2 - Over the last couple years, we’ve seen several high-profile hacks where malicious code was a big part of the problem. As an industry, where are we in terms of managing the security around software? 

Topic 3 - Now that we’re building software much faster, and software is coming from so many different (and often unknown/untrusted) places, what are some of the technology shifts that are happening to address these new environments?

Topic 4 - Chainguard is focused on both secure container images and now secure supply-chain solutions. Walk us through how your offers fit into today’s software challenges.

Topic 5 - There is a new term we’re hearing quite a bit, SBOM (Secure Bill of Materials). How does SBOM fit into this bigger picture? What are the technologies behind the scenes that make it possible?

Topic 6 - For anyone focusing on this area, what are some good ways to get involved with the new technologies and way of thinking about software security?

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Sunday, September 25, 2022

Sometimes Boring is OK

Headlines are boring. New technologies are boring. Companies aren’t changing the world right now. And all this boring is OK. Sometimes being pragmatic is a good thing. 

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RIGHT NOW, THINGS SEEM PRETTY BORING

Crypto crashed and burned. Unicorns have to generate profits. The hyperscalers want to cut costs. From a headlines perspective, things seem pretty boring right now. And that’s OK. 

BORING IS WHEN THINGS GET MORE AUTOMATED, MORE SECURE, AND REDESIGNED

  • Companies are focused on profitability.
  • Companies are focused on accountability.
  • Companies are slowing hiring, and rethinking resources.
  • Security is a focus area.
  • Automation is a focus area. 
  • This is when things get redesigned for sustainability. 

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Building Machine Learning Apps

Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.   

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you started Baseten.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Data Scientists. Not an easy job. They build models and analyze data. But what typically happens after that? How do the models typically get seen and what needed to happen to make that possible?

Topic 3 - What parts of those pain points does Baseten focus on? How does Baseten bring together low-code (or serverless) concepts with the complexity that Data Scientists need to deal with day-to-day?

Topic 4 - What are some of the technologies running behind the scenes to make Baseten easy to use, or that are exposed to the Data Scientists? 

Topic 5 - How does a Data Scientist typically get from “I have a useful model” to “I’m making this part of a useful application”? How does Baseten create building blocks to help them not have to be front-end or back-end engineers?

Topic 6 - What are some of the types of use-cases or applications that your customers have been building?

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Sunday, September 18, 2022

Did we get Digital Transformation wrong?

Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what works and maybe doesn’t work.

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPS

  • Devs don’t want to do Ops
  • Blameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be common
  • Hybrid Cloud didn’t really materialize into real applications 

BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?

  • Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?
  • Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track? 
  • Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead? 

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Kubernetes Cost Optimization

Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Granulate. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Cost Optimization. What’s a good framework to think about this problem? Is it a focus on over-provisioning, or optimizing applications, or a different approach?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common areas where Kubernetes needs to better manage costs? Is it more at the infrastructure layer, or at the application layer?

Topic 4 - Tell us about the recently launched gMaestro. How does it work, and what are the common ways that companies would begin to use it to optimize their environments?

Topic 5 - Are some optimizations more immediately impactful? Are some optimizations more focused on long-term cost savings?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to engage around gMaestro? 

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Sunday, September 11, 2022

When the Smart Guys get it Wrong

In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing cracks? 

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WE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIES

When things are good - low interest rates, stock price is up, VC money is flowing in, disruption gets valued at high multiples - lots of stories get written about the disruptors. But when things change - the stories are written about their failures. 

BUT THE DISRUPTION RARELY LAST FOREVER. 

  • It’s important to match the disruption era with the economic era. 
  • A lot of stories will be written about how badly the economics of the “disruptor companies” were during the halcyon days (Uber, WeWork, Netflix, etc.)
  • Frauds will be called out. 
  • Culture will remain important, but impossible to replicate cultures will get dissected, and profitability will take precedence over culture.
  • The ecosystems of the largest companies will start to wonder if it’s still a good idea, as the largest expand their offerings. 
  • Good new technologies will have lower visibility and have to build staying power.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Istio Ambient Mesh

Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new data plane for Istio service mesh.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh. 

Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves. 

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it’s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.

Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we’re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we’re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?

Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode? 

Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?

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