Sunday, September 18, 2022

Did we get Digital Transformation wrong?

Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what works and maybe doesn’t work.

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SHOW NOTES:

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPS

  • Devs don’t want to do Ops
  • Blameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be common
  • Hybrid Cloud didn’t really materialize into real applications 

BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?

  • Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?
  • Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track? 
  • Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead? 

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Kubernetes Cost Optimization

Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Granulate. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Cost Optimization. What’s a good framework to think about this problem? Is it a focus on over-provisioning, or optimizing applications, or a different approach?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common areas where Kubernetes needs to better manage costs? Is it more at the infrastructure layer, or at the application layer?

Topic 4 - Tell us about the recently launched gMaestro. How does it work, and what are the common ways that companies would begin to use it to optimize their environments?

Topic 5 - Are some optimizations more immediately impactful? Are some optimizations more focused on long-term cost savings?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to engage around gMaestro? 

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Sunday, September 11, 2022

When the Smart Guys get it Wrong

In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing cracks? 

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SHOW NOTES:

WE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIES

When things are good - low interest rates, stock price is up, VC money is flowing in, disruption gets valued at high multiples - lots of stories get written about the disruptors. But when things change - the stories are written about their failures. 

BUT THE DISRUPTION RARELY LAST FOREVER. 

  • It’s important to match the disruption era with the economic era. 
  • A lot of stories will be written about how badly the economics of the “disruptor companies” were during the halcyon days (Uber, WeWork, Netflix, etc.)
  • Frauds will be called out. 
  • Culture will remain important, but impossible to replicate cultures will get dissected, and profitability will take precedence over culture.
  • The ecosystems of the largest companies will start to wonder if it’s still a good idea, as the largest expand their offerings. 
  • Good new technologies will have lower visibility and have to build staying power.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Istio Ambient Mesh

Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new data plane for Istio service mesh.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh. 

Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves. 

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it’s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.

Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we’re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we’re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?

Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode? 

Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?

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Sunday, September 4, 2022

The Labor Day Show

Each year we celebrate labor with a day of no labor. Throughout our careers, labor means different things to different people. What does this Labor Day mean to you? 

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SHOW NOTES:

SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LABOR OR THE OUTPUT OF LABOR?

Do you live to work, or work to live? Are you changing the world, or fine with incremental change?

HOW DOES YOUR VIEW OF LABOR CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR CAREER?

  • In tech, there is never an end of work. Either at the day level, or at the volume level. 
  • For a majority introverted industry, we seem to be OK working from home, but we also desire to do things in person (just not driving to the office)
  • It’s OK to have a broken relationship with labor after the pandemic. It’s been three years. Nothing is the same. Lots of habits developed. Lots of things broke. 
  • Remember that you don’t always have the same relationship with labor throughout your career, and neither do your co-workers. It’s good to figure out where they are. 
  • Breaks are good. Uninterrupted breaks are very important. 

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Real-Time Data Cloud

Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since you smashed servers on stage at a keynote. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you decided to leave AWS and found Vendia.

Topic 2 - The public cloud did a really good job of accelerating application growth, and data sprawl, but it didn’t really organize it very well. So we have apps across multiple clouds and data across multiple clouds. How do companies start to cope with this distributed “mess”?

Topic 3 - When does a customer’s application or data challenges become such that Vendia becomes a way to solve their problem?

Topic 4 - You’re known as Mr. Serverless. What role does Serverless play in the Vendia platform, and what other technologies are under the covers?

Topic 5 - What types of applications make the most sense on the Vendia platform?

Topic 6 - Blockchain is part of the Vendia platform. Why choose this for the backend data vs. some other database or storage technology?

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Cost Justification of Software

Can you justify what you spend on software? On DevOps activities? Like actually put a number on it, not just explain that it’s needed to solve the digital challenges of the business?  

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO CREATE AND RUN SOFTWARE?

How much does a better customer experience cost? How valuable is it to add new partners? Some questions are easy to measure, while others are not. So how do you measure them?

DOES YOUR PROJECT CLEAR THE HURDLE RATE?

  • Who decides if a project is important? Is viable?
  • How do you measure cost-savings projects vs. business expansion projects?
  • Does the CFO decide, or the CMO, or the CRO? Who resolves conflicts?
  • Are you prepared to have projects rejected due to missing the hurdle rate?

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