Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Serverless Trends within AWS

Julian Wood (@julian_wood, Sr. Developer Advocate @AWSCloud) talks about the evolution of serverless from niche to mainstream applications, and how the technology stack has evolved to a broad set of use-cases.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing with Serverless, let’s talk about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin with “What is Serverless at AWS in 2021?” Sometimes it’s Lambda, sometimes it's a database, sometimes it's a CDN edge service. When is it App-Centric and when is it NoOps-centric?

Topic 3 - AWS Lambda has expanded in functionality quite a bit over the years. Walk us through how it’s evolved across languages, event-sources, functions vs. containers, etc. 

Topic 4 - How do you think about Serverless use-cases? What are common usage patterns? 

Topic 5 - For a while, Lambda was mostly focused within the AWS ecosystem. Is it expanding to include 3rd-party services, or custom-built tools from customers/companies? 

Topic 6 - We’ve done a couple recent shows about event-driven applications. I tend to think about Serverless (or FaaS) as mostly event-driven apps. How is that space evolving?

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Sunday, May 16, 2021

Technology never has an off-season

Technology never stops evolving. But people needs breaks to recharge, re-evaluate and re-establish goals. So how can we balance the two? 

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WHY DOESN’T THE TECH-INDUSTRY HAVE AN OFF-SEASON?

  1. It’s a business, and businesses tend to stay open
  2. It’s an industry that expects growth, and growth requires new things (usually)

HOW TO MANAGE THE LACK OF AN OFF-SEASON

  1. Nobody can go 24x7x365 year after year. Take care of your health.
  2. Allow yourself to ignore some aspects of the tech industry. You don’t need to know everything. 
  3. Creating a framework for determining if something new is worth your time exploring. 
  4. Always have a side project where you are learning something. This could be adjacent to your work, or something completely different.
  5. Begin to measure something that you’ve ignored, or never measured before. Find a way to improve it.
  6. Find a way to take back some time in your life. You can automate something, drop something, change something, etc.
  7. Find time to reconnect with people - mentors, groups, 

 

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

kslDB Database for Streaming Events

Michael Drogalis (@MichaelDrogalis, Product Manager @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of Kafka, the challenges of data management with event-driven systems, and the ksqlDB Database.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into this new database, let’s talk a little bit about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s first talk about Kafka. What is it,. what does it do, and what are common use-cases that use Kafka?

Topic 3 - Kafka handles all these streams of data / events, but there are a bunch of other pieces needed to connect the data to the applications. What are those pieces, and where are their often challenges?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about this new project - ksqlDB. It’s real-time, it’s Kafka and it’s SQL. Walk us through how it was created and the types of challenges it solves for. 

Topic 5 - How is ksqlDB different from using other SQL databases? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the initial ways that you’re seeing ksqlDB being used? Is it beginning to allow new use-cases to emerge?


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Sunday, May 9, 2021

Lessons learned...Mother's Day Edition

In honor of International Mother's Day, we focus today's show on the lessons learned from moms, and how they can impact and influence your life in tech (and beyond). Don't forget to call you mom.

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM MOMS

  1. Moms want to get you started on the right path
  2. Moms want you to look presentable
  3. Be able to explain things to your mom
  4. Sometimes moms just want to help
  5. Don’t forget to call your mom


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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Running Databases on Kubernetes

Anil Kumar (@anilkumar1129, Director of Product Mgmt @Couchbase) talks about how Kubernetes has evolved to support stateful applications, enabling Couchbase to run on Kubernetes, the advantages of Operators, and NoSQL adoption models. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing with Kubernetes, let’s talk about your background. 

Topic 2 - Kubernetes started with a focus on “cloud-native apps”, then it became a blurring of infrastructure. How does Couchbase see the market evolving around Kubernetes, especially as a stateful service? 

Topic 3 - There is frequently a debate about whether or not to run data services on Kubernetes, or run them off-cluster. How does Couchbase view this, and what are some things that Kubernetes does to improve how Couchbase runs?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about some of the common use-cases you’re seeing for Couchbase, whether it’s on Kubernetes, or in the cloud, or out at the Edge. 

Topic 5 - Do you see any multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud use-cases where Couchbase is a good fit, or is it too difficult to span databases across clouds? 

Topic 6 - What areas around Kubernetes do you see evolving to help use-cases for Couchbase (i.e. other CNCF projects, etc.)? 


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Sunday, May 2, 2021

Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?

Public cloud is expected to grow 23% (overall) in 2021. Is that a fast enough pace of growth, or are there still significant barriers to adoption and faster growth?

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IS THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING QUICKLY? 

  1. Q1 2021 vs. Q4 2020: AWS (+30%), Azure (+23%), GCP (+46%)
  2. Growing faster than On-Premise, Existing IT (8.4%)

WHY ISN"T THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING FASTER?

  1. Data Gravity - Moving data into the cloud is expensive and slow
  2. Data Centers are long-term depreciation activities (10-20 years)
  3. “App Modernization” budgets are small - as a % of IT budgets
  4. SaaS is growing at 20% YoY
  5. Cloud Costs are expensive and complicated to understand
  6. Tech VC is still investing in Tech Startups
  7. Security is always a Top 3 priority, and Cloud Security is different
  8. A large portion of Enterprise and Gov’t isn’t connected to the Internet - and Mainframes aren’t in the cloud. 
  9. Retraining Cloud Skills takes time (Gladwell 10,000 hour rule)


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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Expanding Open Source in the Cloud

Heikki Nousiaine (@hnousiainen, Founder/CTO at @aiven_io) talks about how Aiven delivers a broad set of open source data and messaging services via the public cloud, as a managed service. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing to expand open source innovation, let’s talk about your background. 

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about Aiven and the services it provides - all the most popular open source “data-centric” projects (Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana), on top of AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - plus a bunch of popular integrations (logging, monitoring, authentication, etc.)

  • SRE / Support Models
  • Pricing Models
  • Integrating with the underlying cloud

Topic 3 - How do you typically engage with customers / developers? How much work is typically needed to get those teams initially successful with a given service?

Topic 4 - How does Aiven think about the cloud “shared responsibility model”, in terms of where Aiven’s service stops and the customer's engagement starts? Who is responsible for the data?

Topic 5 - What open source projects are on your radar for adding new services?

Topic 6 - As more technology companies are migrating applications to the cloud, or creating SaaS offerings, are there opportunities for companies to partner with Aiven on the breadth of services you offer? 


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