Wednesday, January 12, 2022

2022 Look Ahead, Developer Careers

Shawn Wang (@swyx, Head of Developer Experience @Temporalio) talks about the breadth of developer skills needed, how developers learn new technologies, and insights into important future trends for a broad set of developers. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You seem to be at the center of (or around) so many developer-centric conversations. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you’ve been focused on. 

Topic 2 - You’re well known for The Coding Career Handbook. With so many options out there for developers, how do you frame conversations about where people should focus? 

Topic 3 - At some point, developers (like many engineers) get bored of working on the same things. Right now it seems like we’re in the middle of big changes. What should they think about the transition process? 

Topic 4 - As a developer, what are some of the best ways to get visibility of your projects? How do you find the right balance of public projects, side projects, and whatever you’re currently getting paid for (main company job)?

Topic 5 - Any tips or tricks that you’ve learned to accelerate your learning process? 

Topic 6 - How is WFH changing the developer work-life-balance?

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Sunday, January 9, 2022

The People Episode

As we kick off 2022, it’s important to remember that behind all the interesting technology is people. And those people have been living under extraordinary circumstances going into their 3rd year. 

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LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED, AND PEOPLE DON’T LOVE CHANGE 

No matter where you are in life (or job), the New Year tends to make you self-reflect and re-prioritize the things that are important to you. And when this dynamic happens within teams, those two priorities don’t always align.  

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU

  1. If you’re a team leader, remember to over communicate. Hallways don’t exist anymore, and Slack/Email threads often get ignored. 
  2. Take stock of where people are with regard to their priorities, their goals, and their frustrations. 
  3. Everything feels crazy these days in terms of recruiters and job offers and salary levels, but find a way to balance or evaluate “new, big!!” and what aligns to your goals.
  4. Find ways to socially interact with people in fun ways. 

 

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

2022 Look Ahead, VC Funding

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Venture Partner @crane_vc) talks about the modern state of Tech VC investing, the changing pace of investment horizons, portfolio thesis, and helping founders.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve changed roles. Tell us about what you’re working on these days.

Topic 2 - You’ve worked at startups, been an advisor to startups, and an angel investor in the past. In 2022, what does a Venture Capitalist do? How has that evolved over the last 5 years? 

Topic 3 - It not only seems like there is a lot more money flowing into startups, but a lot more early. Is there sort of a “homerun” mentality happening across the VC world, or is that just one of the headlines?

Topic 4 - How do you go about creating your investment thesis? Do you have a future horizon that you’re thinking about, or is it more about technology sectors, or founder personalities, etc.?

Topic 5 - How do you balance between investing in something completely new, and seeing something that is just a much better version of a current mousetrap? 

Topic 6 - How involved do you get with the companies? How involved do you want to be? How much do the founders guide you vs. you guiding them?

Topic 7 - At the macro-level, what areas are you most interested in (investing) vs. just areas where you’re doing a lot of research (personal interests)?

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Sunday, December 26, 2021

2021 Year-End Reading Lists

As we wrap up 2021 and have some down time, here’s a list of things we’re reading to try and make sense of the big changes happening in cloud computing and around the web. 

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  • Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance Monitoring
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  • JumpCloud (homepage)
  • At the intersection of devices, identities, and access, JumpCloud’s cloud directory platform unifies the IT resources in any company’s infrastructure – anywhere work happens. Fully evaluate JumpCloud for free today 

 

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READING LISTS - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gjIUAnEhuudVm4t1MJ4dka7AqOPSng0pnUR4fOY25AQ/edit?usp=sharing

Other interesting Twitter Threads

 

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

2021 in Review, 2022 Predictions

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.

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PODCAST BUSINESS:

  • Crossed out 11yr anniversary 
  • We crossed 500 shows (March ’21)
  • Most listens in history, up about 20% from last year
  • We launched Cloudcast Basics (4 seasons)
  • We launched the Sunday Perspectives shows
  • We got named #1 Cloud podcast
  • We got named top 20 security podcasts
  • Listeners in 130 countries | 4200 Cities
  • IPOs from our guests - $2.678B
  • VC Funding for our guest - $2.516B

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2021:

  • COVID pandemic continued, although some parts of many businesses opened up as vaccines became available. 
  • Working from Home seems to be a very real, long-term possibility for many in Tech. 25% of workers changed jobs (via LinkedIn)
  • AWS - $60B, Azure - $68B, GCP - $15B
  • AWS has new leadership. re:Invent felt very different.
  • ARM is making a big push in the cloud (and Mac M1)
  • This idea of “supercloud” or “overlay cloud services” is gaining traction - companies like Red Hat, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, CockroachDB, etc. are growing quickly as SaaS services, even when the cloud has a native service.
  • Cloudflare is making a move to chip away at AWS’ profits (egress networking)
  • Digital Ocean is making a bigger push around SMB cloud and developers
  • VMware become independent again (from Dell)
  • Cloud providers still haven’t acquired legacy software companies to get into the on-premises data centers. They keep adjusting their offerings (Outposts, Arc, Anthos)
  • Kubernetes keeps growing, but the hype has slowed down and moved to other areas adjacent to Kubernetes (Service Mesh, eBPF, etc.)
  • Software-Supply-Chains and DevSecOps “shift left security” are now heavily funded industry segments. 
  • The metaverse, Web3, Crypto, NFTs are all starting to get a lots of hype (and confusion)

2022 PREDICTIONS: 

AARON’s PREDICTIONS

  • Zero Trust Models (again…) - Also security has been/will be the hardest part of cloud and hot job market will continue
  • Microsoft will become top public cloud worldwide, AWS will fall to #2
  • Google will settle into 3rd, 4th, even 5th spot… 

BRIAN’s PREDICTIONS 

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Sunday, December 19, 2021

Dealing with Technology Failures

Computers break. Software has bugs. Cloud services fail. And yet we don’t deal with failures very well. Why don’t we have better Plan B’s, for both personal and business uses of cloud? 

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WHY DO WE EXPECT SO MUCH FROM COMPUTERS? 

While we have automated testing, test coverage, SLAs, redundancy best practices, etc - We still really don’t know when computers and software will break. So why do we get so frustrated when it happens, instead of having backup plans? 

SHOULD WE LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY FAILURES AS THE WORLD TRYING TO TELLING US SOMETHING?

  1. Cloud service failures happen, and tend to last less than a full work day. Most are only a couple hours.
  2. We tend to believe that we’re very dependent on technology and cloud services, until they go away. And then we figure out that we can all adapt. 
  3. We could all use some time reading a book, getting outside to do some exercise (go for a walk), or spending some time away from computers or being online.
  4. We could all use a break in our extended hours work days. 

 

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Tools for the Business Engineer

Gil Hoffer (@gilhoffer, Co-Founder / CTO @salto_io) talks about the challenges of managing and integrating SaaS applications, the blurring line between business and technical engineer, and software supply-chain for SaaS integrations.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a broad background in engineering and entrepreneurship. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to create Salto. 

Topic 2 - There is a big trend happening, where companies are using more and more technology outside of the “central IT” groups. This includes quite a bit of SaaS usage. But it also requires more than just vanilla SaaS. Let’s talk about this concept of a “business engineer”.

Topic 3 - How often do SaaS applications need customizations? How often does a business application require integrations across multiple SaaS services? 

Topic 4 - Walk us through a day in the life of a business engineer, and what’s involved in some of the integrations? How much is being able to code, and how much 

Topic 5 - Integrations can be complicated, not only to build, but also to maintain. How does Salto simplify the creation and life cycle of these integrations?

Topic 6 - Salto is available as OSS, software and SaaS. What seems to be the best usage model for certain use-cases or types of businesses?

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