Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services

Addison Huddy (@addisonhuddy, Sr Dir of PM @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of cloud-based Kafka platforms, and how this might reshape how all OSS software moves into the cloud.

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

Topic 2 - Let’s start with Confluent Cloud. What happens when you take an open source project and make it a cloud service?

Topic 3 - After many years of learning, Confluent decided to build Kora. Walk us through that design process and the goals of this new 10x Kafka-compatible service. 

Topic 4 - As I’m looking through the capabilities of Kora (see below), can you give us a sense of how these compare to the previous Confluent Cloud?

Topic 5 - Kora remains compatible with existing Kafka. How did you go about essentially maintaining the API/protocol while essentially re-writing the entire backend of the system?

Topic 6 - Obviously you can’t speak for other open source projects, but given what Confluent has learned with Kora, do expect to see other companies potentially trying to build cloud-specific versions? (e.g. Kubernetes)

Topic 7 - What sort of feedback do you get from users of the Kora system vs. the previous Confluent Cloud?

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Sunday, July 16, 2023

Higher Quality Outputs are Expected

Higher interest rates, fragmented platforms, WFH uncertainty, VC funding declines, generational blending and technology shifts are going to force a new level of quality to be demanded by businesses. 

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“THAT’S A ZERO INTEREST RATE PROBLEM, BRO!”

  • The power dynamics have changed and continue to change (money, location, communications, etc.)
  • Dumb money is getting harder to find, hence ideas need to be better and execution needs to be better

EXPECTATIONS OF HIGHER QUALITY ARE GOING TO RISE SIGNIFICANTLY

  • The unicorn boom of 2020-2022 will face a reckoning by the end of 2023 or mid-2024
  • VC funding is getting harder to obtain 
  • Higher interest rates are going to create higher (internal) hurdle rates within companies
  • Social media channels are fragmenting
  • Working collaboratively is getting more difficult because of both WFH fragmentation and generational fragmentation
  • Collaboration will be needed to teach what is expected and acceptable
  • AI is going to create a new level of “commodity” of tasks and product capabilities
  • Customers are going to have new pricing power as they watch vendor sales slow down


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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Database Monitoring & Observability

Jonathan Morin (Product Lead @datadoghq) & Jason Manson-Hing (Product Manager) talk about emerging trends in Database monitoring and observability. 

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

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about database monitoring. There are so many types of databases these days (SQL, Graph, Time-Series, Document, etc.), are the concepts for database monitoring the same across any database, or does the system need specific domain expertise? 

Topic 3 - Given the importance of database performance for the overall application experience, do you find that DBAs (or application developers) are thinking about their monitoring strategy earlier in the DB design process? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the most common database challenges to monitor and troubleshoot (e.g. root problems, performance)? What are some of the most difficult to troubleshoot (e.g. AlwaysOn Availability groups)? 

Topic 5 - How much time and effort is typically spent monitoring/troubleshooting DB problems in real-time vs. looking at historical trends and trying to either troubleshoot issues or predict how things might behave in the future? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the things that can be done to find the right balance between resources being dedicated to application-database processing vs. database-monitoring processing? 


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Sunday, July 9, 2023

An Analogy for App Modernization

Just as ChatGPT gave AI a simple user interface, Meta’s new Thread application is going to make it easy to explain app modernization to your management team. 

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IT’S GETTING OBVIOUS THAT TWITTER IS STRUGGLING AND YOU’D LIKE SOMETHING BETTER

  • It’s an important tool, but it’s not keeping up with the needs of the modern world
  • The alternatives all seems to have more questions than answers
  • But the pain is enough to consider modernization options

BUT WHAT ALL IS INVOLVED IN MOVING TO A MODERNIZED VERSION OF THE APP?

  • Let’s evaluate what’s there today. Do we see the good or what’s missing?
  • What can it replace today? What can’t it replace? 
  • What’s the roadmap? Will the roadmap ever replace all that’s missing? 
  • What’s important to us? Can we quantify it instead of just making it emotional?
  • How long do we need to live with the alternative, potentially in parallel?
  • What’s the learning curve? Can you re-training the user-base?
  • How do you migrate data? How much data will you lose? 
  • How do you know if this will be successful when you start the modernization?

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

2023 MidYear Update

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about the major trends in the 1st half of 2023, plus some predictions for the rest of 2023.

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Topic 1 - What are your Top 3 biggest stories/trends so far in 2023?

Topic 2 - What is your take on each of the Big 3 cloud providers in 2023?

Topic 3 - How long do you think this Platform Engineering era will last? Is it the new DevOps, or something else?

Topic 4 - Will this Cloud Cost Management trend just become a normal part of deploying to the public cloud, or become too burdensome and companies will keep apps in their Private Cloud?

Topic 5 - How do you see the current AI hype playing out in the Enterprise? Is it more impactful for developers, or operations, or back-office groups? Anything that you are really interested in yet?

Topic 6 - What has been your biggest surprise of the year, so far in 2023

Topic 7 - Any early predictions about the 2nd half of 2023? 

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Sunday, July 2, 2023

Kudos to Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) announced his retirement from Google this week. What comes next is unknown, but let’s take a few moments to appreciate the lessons he passed along to everyone.

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THE WORLD IS FULL OF SMART PEOPLE - BUT NOT ALL SMART IDEAS GET COMMUNICATED

  • Lots of people in the DevRel world want(ed) to be like Kelsey Hightower
  • He was a little bit like Keiser Sozer; he left a small footprint behind.

HOW DID KELSEY HIGHTOWER MAKE AN IMPACT ON YOUR TECH CAREER?

  • He spoke from a position of authority, that he created and demonstrated
  • He believed that community was bigger (and more important) than company
  • He seemed to believe in the rule of “2 vs 1” - listen more than talk
  • He didn’t take himself too seriously
  • He connected with crowds of people, and individual people
  • He highlighted the good more often than he criticized the bad
  • He was always demonstrating the art of the possible


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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud

Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan, Director of Product @SnowflakeDB) talks about bringing apps to data, how orgs manage AI/ML, and the “enterprise” needs of Generative AI. 

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

Topic 2 - For those not familiar, give us a high-level overview of the breadth of services that the Snowflake Data Cloud provides?

Topic 3 - Challenges and patterns for orgs making data science / ML “real” in their company

Topic 4 - Evolution of data cloud platforms and emerging pattern of “bringing apps to the data” - the why and the how

Topic 5 - Generative AI / LLMs for enterprise - peeling back the hype, enterprise considerations, tech opportunities.

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