Sunday, September 12, 2021

Cloud Jobs - Stay, Leave or Quit

There’s been quite a bit of debate recently on whether or not to stay in a role, look around for something new, or just quit tech all together. What’s the right choice? Let’s explore some options and strategies. 

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THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED A LOT OF PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE

Remote work; lots of job prospects, and some new perspective on life has many people considering alternatives to their current situation. 

SO SHOULD YOU STAY, LOOK FOR SOMETHING NEW, OR QUIT ALTOGETHER?

When to Stay

  • You enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
  • You’re learning and you see a path for growth or upward mobility
  • You or your family need the work (healthcare, location, stability, etc.)

When to Look Around

  • You’re underpaid or don’t have an upward mobility path
  • You want to make a change, and can’t do it within your company
  • You no longer enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
  • A great (outside) opportunity is presented to you

When to consider quitting (usually as a last resort)

  • You’re in a dangerous or harmful situation
  • You just can’t find any passion in it
  • You have an alternative way to support yourself (and your family)

 

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Backing Up into the Cloud

David Hill (@davidhill_co, Product Strategy, Office CTO) and Sam Nicholls (Public Cloud Principle) @Veeam talk about the evolution of managing data in the cloud, and backup and security strategies. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds. 

Topic 2 - We live in a world of software, and clouds, and ransomware attacks and security threats and frequent changes to applications. Let’s start by talking about the big picture of what backup looks like these days. 

Topic 3 - In a world that’s becoming increasingly more DevOps-centric, who now owns all of the elements around backups (testing plans, compliance, retention and cost-mgmt, etc.)

Topic 3a - What are some of the unique things Veeam does to make things simpler for those teams? 

Topic 4 - We used to live in a world of redundant, cold hardware in a remote facility, and truck rolls to Iron Mountain, and manual steps. What has public cloud and automation done to the backup landscape?

Topic 5 - How does the economics change now that public cloud is such a critical piece of backup strategies? (saving data, faster recovery times, agility, etc.)

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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Clouds, Chaos and Change

The next 12-18 months are going to be all about changes, chaos and a three-ring circus between the major cloud providers. The status quo is likely going to change, as plenty of new names and faces, and big money, try to steer these giant ships.

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ARE THE BIG CLOUDS TOO BIG TO DISRUPT?

It’s very difficult to sustain success in business, especially in highly competitive markets. And the market dynamics of today are ripe for change. 

HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN FOR THE MARKET LEADERS

  • Leadership changes at the top.
  • Growth expectations exceed the company’s ability to scale growth.
  • The people that lead the original growth leave the company.
  • The people that backfill don’t have the same skills or mindset to succeed at the same level. 
  • Competitors start to find new pressure points. 
  • Companies move from products to solutions as the market evolves from early-adopters to mainstream and laggards.
  • Big money makes people make big decisions (outside your company) - going to “change the world”

 

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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

We’ve All Become The Cloudcast

Aaron and Brian discuss how the on-going pandemic is creating a permanent habit of working remotely, and the challenges of trying to learn technology with less free time. 

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Topic 1 - Origin story of The Cloudcast (brief)

Topic 2 - It’s now been 529 days since the world shut down (in the US). How many Zoom calls have you attended in that time?  

Topic 3 - “It can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic.” What new, work-related habits have you formed?

Topic 4 - How do you expect people to keep up with new technologies? 

Topic 5 - We’re at a weird stage, where lots of people say that they want to work-from-home (full or part-time), for various reasons (e.g. avoid commutes, cube-mates chews too loud, etc.), but also claim to be more burned out. Do you think people will take the time to learn new stuff?

Topic 6 - Has the pandemic changed anything about how you’re effective? Do you think it’ll be permanent, or do you still have the “we’ll get back to normal” mindset?

Topic 7 - Any tips or tricks to be an effective remote worker and tech leader?

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Sunday, August 29, 2021

What does Security even mean anymore

Security has been in the news quite a bit lately, both for failures and funding. But does security even matter anymore?  Nobody knows. 

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DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT SECURITY?

“This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine.”     

WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR BEING BAD AT SECURITY?

The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report highlights several alarming facts, including:

  • 36% of companies suffered a serious cloud data leak or breach in the past 12 months
  • 8 out of 10 are worried that they’re vulnerable to a major misconfiguration breach 
  • 64% say the problem will get worse or stay the same 

Every company makes security a massive part of every purchasing decision. And yet the market doesn’t seem to do anything when a massive breach happens. How is this still the state of security? 

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Hiring a VP of Engineering

Jason Warner (@jasoncwarner, MD @redpointvc), a veteran of GitHub, Heroku and Canonical, talks about the process and challenges of hiring a VP of Engineering. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background prior to Redpoint VC and what you’re now focused on in the VC world. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start with “Why do you need to hire a VP of Engineering?” When does it matter as an early-stage startup, and why does it matter when a company is larger? {high leverage}

Topic 3 - What are you looking for in that hire? What is your process for creating a potential list of candidates? What criteria are most important for you to evaluate? {curve bender}

Topic 4 - We hear a lot about “engineering interviews” (technical). How much of that is involved in your hiring process, and how are you measuring the other disciplines that are needed for this role? 

Topic 5 - If you’re hiring from the outside, how much do you involve the engineering and product teams, and how do you think about the value of internal-knowledge vs. external-knowledge? 

Topic 6 - Once you identify the candidate, what steps do you take to encourage early success? How do you measure on-going activities?

Topic 7 - What advice do you have for people that are interviewing for these roles?


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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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