Wednesday, April 27, 2022

CI/CD Monitoring and Flaky Testing

Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos, Director of Product @datadoghq) talks about monitoring and measuring CI/CD environments, “shift left” for security and test coverage, and understanding test coverage patterns.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got quite an impressive track-record as an entrepreneur and founder. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you’re now focused on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - You wrote that “Master is the new Prod, and Devs are the new Ops”. Can you help us unpack the concepts that you were trying to convey?

Topic 3 -.How widespread is the understanding that it’s important to monitor CI/CD environments, vs. the more traditional focus of monitoring production environments?

Topic 4 - What are some of the areas where CI visibility or synthetic CI/CD testing helps improve application quality and overall availability in production?  

Topic 5 -  All of these efforts to test earlier, integrate earlier and have visibility earlier sound like the “shift left” movement. Are those things difficult to do, since many companies have siloed teams?  

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that your team has been able to take the technology from Undefined Labs and bring it into the broader scope of capabilities that are available through Datadog? 

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Sunday, April 24, 2022

Explaining Twitter to a 5yr old

Could you explain Twitter to a 5yr old? Some things are just difficult to explain, and this week we look at the challenges of trying to explain complex technical concepts to everyday people. 

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I GET HOW IT WORKS, BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY DO?

Many of us use Twitter on a daily basis, but if you had to explain it to someone, could you explain what it is and what value it provides? Many of us are tasked with a similar challenge in trying to explain our day-to-day work.  

EXPLAINING COMPLEX THINGS IS HARD. MAYBE THAT’S A SIGN THAT IT’S TOO TECHNICAL OR SHOULD BE BROKEN APART

  • What problem does something solve? 
  • Who has that problem? 
  • Does the problem need to be solved by a product or a platform?
  • Does the product align to one or many people’s jobs?
  • Does the platform align to one of many people’s jobs?
  • If it’s a platform, do the people with the problem want all of it?
  • Does the platform approach limit your ability to monetize it (e.g. too restrictive)?
  • Could you platform be valuable if it was broken up? 


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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

DataCenter-as-a-Service

Ian McClarty (President @PhoenixNAP) talks about the evolution of the CoLocation and DataCenter-as-a-Service market, cloud repatriation, how software has changed the economics and working closely with hyperscalers.

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  • PhoenixNAP - Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Cloud and CoLocation Services

 

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve run PhoenixNAP for more than a decade. Give us some sense of the evolution of the CoLocation | Managed Services market over that time.

Topic 2 - Lots of people focus on the cloud hyperscalers, but there are a ton of business needs that they can’t satisfy - whether it’s location, or dedicated resources, or offloading skills, etc. What are the biggest challenges that your customers are facing these days?

Topic 3 - The breadth of capabilities that you offer has really evolved - from locations, to capabilities, to flexibility you can offer customers. How much has the industry shift to software-defined-services enabled that to accelerate? 

Topic 4 - What is a typical relationship that your customers have between you and the hyperscalers? It seems like there are a lot of potential synergies that benefit everybody.  

Topic 5 - What differentiates the CoLocation | Managed Cloud providers these days? And where do you see that evolving? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common ways that your customers take advantage of the value you provide them - whether it’s technology, or people skills, or capacity planning or locations? 


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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Transitioning from Engineering to Product

Transitioning from a technical role to a “less” technical role can be scary. Let’s look at how you might evaluate a change, and some tips to succeed in the transition.  

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I DON’T WANT TO LOSE MY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR REPUTATION

It’s completely normal to be concerned about losing your technical skills, the thing that has established your current value to your employer, if you transition to a more product or business-focused role. 

HOW TO SUCCEED (OR AVOID FAILING) IN A TRANSITION

  • Your technical knowledge will still be extremely valuable.
  • Not all technical decisions are based on technology. Understanding economics, and business context, and flexibility options, and personalities involved are equally as important. 
  • Understand what you’ll be building vs. managing. Is it stand-alone or part of something larger? What are the things you can influence and change? 
  • Your people skills will be challenged, and rewarded. 
  • Understand that you’re part of a large ecosystem of people that will determine your perceived success. 
  • The choices of jobs expands when you’re closer to the people that use your technology.


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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Database Caching as a Service

Ben Hagan (@ben_hagan, Founder/CEO @polyScaleAI) talks about the challenges of database performance, distributed data and applications, and how caching-as-a-service can improve performance.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re very much a data-centric person. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to found Polyscale?

Topic 2 - Before we dive into what Polyscale does, let’s talk about the problem that it solves for companies. 

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about how Polyscale makes data-access faster, without having to rewrite a bunch of applications or databases. Help us understand things like placement, scaling, resiliency, etc.

Topic 4 - How much different will the experience be for an application-developer or DBA? How much visibility will be available to troubleshoot or make adjustments?  

Topic 5 - How is Polyscale different from a CDN platform?   

Topic 6 - What are some of the initial use-cases or problem areas where companies can take advantage of Polyscale capabilities? 

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

The Unexpected Pace of Technology Adoption

Every week we talk about new technologies and new trends. But studies show us that new technology adoption tends to be very slow, especially at high levels. What’s behind the inability of new tech to displace legacy tech?  

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IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT

For existing companies, most of the budget (typically 70-80%) is spent maintaining existing systems. New technologies are rarely used to replace existing technologies, but are usually additive. New teams and new processes are created, and those teams are often expensive (rare skills).

OUTSIDE OF CLOUD, THE COSTS OF CHANGE ARE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE

  • The learning curve can be long, so companies often hire new talent. 
  • For new technologies, talent is difficult to find, so often very expensive. 
  • And new technology takes a while to mature, so the number of available use-cases is initially limited. 
  • It’s not unusual for wide-spread adoption to take 3-5 years (if it succeeds).  
  • Oftentimes, existing technologies will see a market disruption coming and add similar capabilities. 
  • Many technology spaces have too many alternative options, so it can take a while before a “winner” emerges in the market. 


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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Multi-Cloud Networking

William Collins (@@WCollins502, Principal Cloud Architect @AlkiraNet) talks about how to seamlessly build multi-cloud networks for any applications.

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

Topic 2 - Every survey that comes out says customers are going to be using multiple clouds for quite a while. Interconnecting all these services, either simply or in complex ways is now a reality. Walk us through how this challenge is typically approached?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the different options, from VPNs to SD-WAN to Cloud Interconnects. What are the pros/cons and trade-offs for companies?

Topic 4 - Has the COVID pandemic and all the remote work changed how companies network with the clouds? Are these expected to be temporary changes, or likely to remain long-term

Topic 5 - How does Alkira fit into the cloud networking picture? Does their approach to simplifying things help when companies are adopting things like DevSecOps, where networking might not be the primary focus?

Topic 6 - What are some ways that companies on their multi-cloud journey can benefit from simplified ways to enable security and inter-connections to the cloud?

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