Sunday, August 22, 2021

The End of the Cloud Honeymoon

Cloud Computing has been around for more than a decade. It has generated tremendous growth and reshaped the tech industry. But is the “Cloud Honeymoon“ about to be over? 

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WHAT HAPPENS IF THE HONEYMOON IS ACTUALLY OVER?

A recent article claimed that (public) Cloud Computing is moving into the next phase of maturity, and it will cause challenges for “the big three” cloud computing companies (AWS, Azure, GCP).    

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, AS CLOUD COMPUTING MOVES INTO THE NEXT PHASE?

MARKET DYNAMICS

  • The market is much more competitive than 10years ago, but they don’t have to convince customers that public cloud is viable anymore. 
  •  Legacy Applications move to SaaS; Cloud-native Apps move to Public Cloud
  • Migrations? Lift & Shift? Something simpler?
  • Competitive consolidation has already happened (AWS, Azure, GCP). 
  • Cloud vendors have eaten parts of their ecosystem (see: Open Source)
  • Price wars haven’t really happened yet. 
  • Cloud providers are trying to train the next generation of customers. 
  • We haven’t seen the cloud businesses leverage the other parts of the business (much) yet. 
  • Hybrid Cloud | Multi-Cloud 2.0 is coming, on purpose or accidentally

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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Making Front-End Development Simpler

Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg, CEO at @vercel) talks about simplifying life for front-end developers, the Next.js JavaScript framework, and the balance between great developers, great teams and great collaboration. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as a developer and entrepreneur. How did you eventually get to be leading Vercel?

Topic 2 - Vercel is a platform that’s designed to make life better for front-end developers. As a developer, how do you get in the head of what other developers want and need? 

Topic 3 - With so many choices of languages, frameworks, clouds, etc., what do you find are the most important things about your platform to focus on? 

Topic 4 - Is the goal to create great developers, or great collaborative environments, or do you primarily focus on the end result (e.g. great websites) and work backwards? 

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Next.js and why it’s grown in popularity with developers. 

Topic 6 - What are some of the areas that are evolving or exciting for front-end developers over the next couple years? 


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Sunday, August 15, 2021

Looking for a new Cloud job

This time of year, many people in the tech industry look to change jobs. What are some tips and tricks if you’re looking for roles in Cloud Computing?

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 LEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:

Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. 

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WHY DO PEOPLE CHANGE JOBS THIS TIME OF YEAR?

Many companies are in Q3/Q4. Oftentimes they are re-adjusting for the year, or planning for the next year. The fall trade shows (VMworld, re:Invent, etc.) are happening.  

TECHNICAL SKILLS, PEOPLE SKILLS, and PICKING PRIORITIES

  • People are staying in their jobs shorter
  • More companies are being flexible about where you work - but stay tuned! 
  • Certifications are always valuable, and easier to get than ever
  • Explore different roles, based on the skills you have and the skills you’d like to evolve
  • Understand the tradeoffs between Salary, Location, Travel, Hours, Flexibility, etc.
  • It’s useful to have a broad set of skills, but eventually it’s useful to narrow the list of expertises.
  • Evaluate the individual team as much as the company. 

 
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Managing Data at the Edge

Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby, CTO @Swim) talks about how to understand the new business models and application uses of data capture and analytics at the edge. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Former founder of XenSource and Bromium, now the CTO at Swim. You’ve always been at the forefront of solving complex challenges, so where is your focus these days?

Topic 2 - We’ve been covering “real-time” with a number of guests this year, but we don’t always connect the technology to the business outcomes. Where are we today, as an industry, of connecting this more fast-moving data with our ability to understand it in the context of business? 

Topic 3 - As you’re seeing real-time data and persistent data mixed together, how are those teams organized for success (or failure)? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the common misperceptions that you see about how to best handle either data at the edge, or streaming data?

Topic 5 - Swim is helping companies create real-time representations of their environments. What are some of the unique capabilities that you’ve seen this enable for companies? 

Topic 6 - How are some of the most important things that companies can do to enable the opportunity with real-time data? 

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Sunday, August 8, 2021

The Cost of App Modernization

There’s lots of talk about application migration and modernization, often in the context of digital transformation. But what all is involved in an application transformation, and how do you measure success? 

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WHY DO COMPANIES MODERNIZE OR MIGRATE APPLICATIONS

When we look at Application Modernization or Migrations, it’s too easy to look at the technologies involved. But what is the business motivation for the change?  


HARD COSTS AND SOFT COST CONSIDERATIONS OF MODERNIZATION

  • Why make the change? Technology EoL. Industry standards are changing. Systems not able to keep up (performance). Unable to maintain the current system (people/skills). Crippling technical debt (economic).
  • Own the change or outsource the change? 
  • Own the change - Have the code? Have the free resources? Have the ability to run parallel systems?
  • Outsource the change - More expensive. Must be well scoped and managed. Must have the right financial incentives.
  • Own the future or outsource the future? 
  • Own the future - staffed for DevOps, DevSecOps, embracing new technologies, etc.
  • Outsource the future - SaaS options. Sell off the application to a 3rd-party and buy it back. On-going outsourcing contracts. 


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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Application Modernization and Migrations

James Labocki (@jameslabocki, Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt @RedHat) talks about Application Modernization and Migrations, the Konveyor OSS community, and moving apps towards cloud-native. 

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

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of Application Modernization and Migration. How do companies think about it, rationalize it, and ultimately act on it? 

Topic 3 - There are many ways to modernize applications. Let’s talk about the Konveyor community and the associated projects. 

Topic 4 - Walk us through some of the experiences you’ve seen or heard from companies going through these migrations. 

Topic 5 - What are some of the lessons learned over the past year of focusing on this?

Topic 6 - How can people get engaged with the Konveyor community? 



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Sunday, August 1, 2021

The Surge in Tech VC Funding

VC investment has been skyrocketing lately, but why? Let’s discuss some of the trends that are driving bigger investments in today’s startups.  

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WHEN AN A-ROUND IS THE NEW C-ROUND

Why is so much money being invested by VCs over the last 12 months, and what trends are pushing them to make bigger bets?  

LET’S FOLLOW THE MONEY AND THE NUMBERS

  • Global interest rates are very low, since 2017, accelerated by the COVID pandemic
  • Tons of government money was pumped into the global economy
  • Tech is consolidating around 3-5 major cloud providers, with massive tech amounts of capital and engineering.
  • There is really no longer a middle ground in the tech industry. There are startups and there are the big clouds. 
  • Cloud providers make some acquisitions, but they need big numbers to move the needle. 
  • Today’s technology challenges are large in scale - AI/ML, Self-Driving Vehicles, Genetic Testing (Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals) 5G, Energy Discovery and Optimization, Everything Delivery, etc.
  • The stock markets are continuing to reward tech profits, and markets are overly weighted in tech.
  • Cloud and SaaS has changed the sales and marketing model, as well as the CAPEX/OPEX model, so new companies can be modeled more consistently


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