Open Telemetry

Gordon Radlein (@maascamp, Engineering Director at @Datadoghq) talks about the evolution of Open Telemetry (OTel), Logging, Metrics and Observability.  

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SHOW NOTES:

• OpenTelemetry (OSS project)
• OpenTracing + OpenCensus = Open Telemetry (OTel)
• What is Open Telemetry?
• Open Telemetry Slack Channel 
• Components of Open Telemetry
• OpenTelemetry in Datadog
• Trace Collection through Open Telemetry

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Gordon. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you’re focused on these days at Datadog?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - help us connect the dots between Telemetry and Logs and Metrics and Observability. And how does the Open Telemetry (OTel) project fit into the bigger picture?

Topic 3 - Telemetry has always been a tradeoff between how much data to collect and how much data can be processed. How do you see companies using Telemetry today? Does it usually depend on the company size, or the complexity of the application? 

Topic 4 - How does Datadog offer Open Telemetry to customers today? Has that evolved over time, as the standard has evolved? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the new trends happening around Open Telemetry 

Topic 6 - You’ve been around quite a bit of very large-scale infrastructure in your career. What are some of the tips that you’d give anybody trying to build out or scale their observability environments? 

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Stop Investing in IT Skills

The managers vs. workers leverage pendulum is swinging back again. Will management continue investing in IT Skills, or hollow out the IT future? 

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SHOW NOTES:

• Gartner’s Maverick Research group - Stop investing in IT Skills
• StackOverflow’s survey of Emerging Technologies
• Amazon’s head of HR rejects employee petition to work from home
• “Does IT Matter?” (book, 2004, Nicholas Carr)
• Hollowing Out (definition)

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE GREAT RESIGNATION AND QUIET QUITTING?

• Economic changes put the leverage back into management’s hands
• Everything gets re-evaluated when budgets get tightened
• Managers look to offload accountability to external sources

HOW TO COMMUNICATE VALUE vs PRODUCTIVITY vs COST SAVINGS

• Many companies look at AI as a 1:1 replacement for tasks and people vs. looking at it to augment people. 
• Companies outsourced IT in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hollowing out IT. Will that become a new trend in the 2020s again? 
• Today’s engineers see things like low-code as not being viable, but see AI as being a way to augment their work (not replace it). 
• Do companies know how to determine what isn’t differentiated vs. requiring creativity or can create differentiation? 
• Workers have had quite a bit of freedom of movement for the last 10+ years. Will that continue into the next decade? How much does the remote-work trend impact this?
• Gartner expects 75% of needed IT roles will go unfulfilled by 2030 (up from 25% in 2023)
• Big companies (e.g. Amazon)  are pushing back on remote-work demands from workers.

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Cost-Efficient Scale-Out Cloud Storage

Gleb Budman (@GlebBudman, CEO/Co-Founder of @Backblaze) talks about the evolution of cloud storage, the shift from on-prem to cloud, best practices and the rise of ransomware.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Backblaze (homepage)
• B2 Cloud Storage (1/5th the price of AWS S3)
• Backblaze Blog 
• Questions for Gleb? 

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You started Backblaze in 2007, just a year after AWS S3 launched. What made you decide to start a storage company when EMC, HP and NetApp dominated with big enterprise boxes, and S3 seemed like a weird new thing for Amazon sellers? 

Topic 2 - Over the last couple of years, it feels like there has been a shift in how companies think about “the cloud”. We’re seeing more specialty clouds. How do you see this trend playing out in the market?

Topic 3 - You’ve been through multiple stages of how the cloud has evolved. Where do you see us now in terms of cloud evolution, and what are some of the things you see coming on the horizon?  

Topic 4 - Backblaze is well known for disrupting both the cost of cloud storage, but also how storage systems are built. Given today’s economic climate, are you seeing more companies demand more flexibility &/or efficiency on how they store data?  

Topic 5 - We continue to see ransomware attacks across all industries. Is this leading companies to rethink their backup and disaster-recovery strategies?

Topic 6 - From a storage perspective, do you see bottlenecks emerging about how this appetite for more and more data will eventually run into problems?

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3 Trends Shaping the Madness of March

March comes in like a lion, but goes out like a lamb. Let’s explore 3 storylines that might have long-ranging implications for cloud. 

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SHOW NOTES:

• Microsoft brings AI-powered Co-pilot to its productivity suite
• US Gov’t looks to secure the cloud (by default)
• AWS’ hidden anti-competitive move is hidden in plain sight

THERE’S A LOT TO KEEP UP WITH RIGHT NOW

• All the good TV shows are coming out with new episodes (many the last season)
• The banking industry may or may not be very brittle right now
• The weather is getting better - springtime is near
• MarchMadness - NCAA Basketball is happening

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

• Microsoft bringing AI to productivity tools is going to shift the focus to more strategic thinking, but also being able to know what’s right vs. just “work”
• Are you spending time thinking about the various ways that you can make this new easy-to-use, non-data-scientists-driven AI work in your environment? 
• The US Gov’t is trying to build a cloud strategy that is security-first. Is that possible? Will this bring up the debate about the cloud as a national utility? Security speed vs. agility speed? 
• Corey Quinn highlights an important aspect of the cloud that isn’t always obvious to people - they leverage their control of the network (inter-region and external) to shape the competitive landscape. 

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Backstage & Internal Developer Portals

Martina Iglesias Fernández (@martina_if, CTO)  & David Tuite (@dtuite, CEO of @Roadiehq) talk about the rise of Internal Developer Portals, the problems they solve, the creation of Backstage and IDP’s as a SaaS service.

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Topic 1 - David & Martina, Welcome to the show. Please give everyone a brief introduction and how you got started with Backstage and internal development portals.

Topic 2 - Backstage was spun out of Spotify and is now a CNCF project. What problems were developers seeing and what is the origin story of Backstage?

Topic 3 - What were the immediate and long term advantages of consolidating the development experience on the Backstage platform?  

Topic 4 -  There is always a healthy tension with development platforms. How do you balance between setting standards to consolidate and providing freedom of choice?

Topic 5 - One of the common takeaways we have seen recently is that the IDP is the output product of Platform Engineering. Do you agree with this statement and what has your experience shown? Is this more about a set of common standards and automation or about a “product” such as an IDP.

Topic 6 - Why does an IDP succeed or fail?

Topic 7- Backstage doesn’t have a reputation of being the easiest to configure or operate. Is this where Backstage as a service comes in? What are the advantages and disadvantages to Backstage as a Service?

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Understanding How a Bank can Fail

This past week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by banking regulators. Let’s understand the basics of how this happened and why it matters to the tech industry. 

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SHOW NOTES:

• FDIC Creates a Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara to Protect Insured Depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California (March 10)
• FDIC Update on SVB Bank and Access to Deposits (March 12)
• Joint Statement by Department of Treasury, Federal Reserve and FDIC (March 12)

HOW CAN A BANK WITH SO MUCH MONEY SHUT DOWN?

• Banks never hold all the money that they have on the books as deposits
• Banks manage a portfolio of investments
• Banks try and manage the portfolio within certain ratios
• Banks have regulations

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

• Basics Part I - Systems built on Trust, Regulations to Enforce Actions
• Basics Part II - What is SVB?, Deposits vs. Investments, Leverage, Interest Rates
• Higher interest rates increases the risk of existing investments
• Valuations vs. Valuations on Paper
• Insurance, Diversified Portfolio
• Cloud Analogies - Single vs. Multi-Cloud, Shared Resources Risks, Profitability of a Service, Best Practices vs. Practicality, Rising Costs (or Shortages) 

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2023 Look Ahead for Developers

James Governor (@monkchips, Co-Founder @Redmonk) talks about Developer experience in 2023. Topics include trends, platforms, languages and culture.

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• Redmonk - The developer focused analyst firm (homepage)
• Redmonk Programming Language Rankings
• Monktoberfest - Developer Conference (Portland, ME)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You are a rockstar in the developer world, and maybe unknown in the infrastructure world. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - [Developers as a Whole]  In 2023, do you think about developers any differently than you did in 2018 or 2021? Do you think about developers in terms of things they get done, or the types of work they do (front-end, back-end, mobile, data-science, etc.), or something else?

Topic 3 - [Trends] What are the big developer-centric trends that you are tracking or really have your interest? AI? Hosting services? Database services? WASM?  

Topic 4 - [Platforms]  Will we ever find that PaaS pot-of-golf at the end of the rainbow, or is the dream of platforms just a unicorn? Or do we have to realize that successful platforms are all micro-platforms? 

Topic 5 - [Languages] Redmonk famously tracks development languages every six months. It feels like there are only two trends - what stays the same, and the language that is the new hotness. Do languages really matter?  

Topic 6 - [Culture] Lots of people talk about changing a company’s culture to better serve the needs of developers. Do you have any examples of where that has worked, or best practices? 

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