Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Intro to Vector Databases

Jeff Huber (@jeffreyhuber, Founder/CEO @trychroma) talks vector databases, data integration, RAG, Embedded models, and AI integration.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Chroma.

Topic 2 - Our audience, like many out there, is learning AI as fast as they can. So, let’s start with a few basic concepts. What is a vector database, and why is it important to AI?

Topic 3 - Does this only help foundational models? What goes into the integration into a model, and can this be used with any model?

Topic 4 - Is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) possible without a vector database?

Topic 5 - What are the trade-offs between fine-tuning a model (adding the data in) vs. RAG (keeping the data external)?

Topic 6 - What else is needed to create an “AI Stack”?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Chroma. First off, there is the OSS project which has been a huge success. Over 3 million downloads and 9.5k Github stars and inclusion into some 10k plus projects. Tell everyone a little bit about Chroma and what makes it different. You recently also announced a major milestone, over one million instances running

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Sunday, November 12, 2023

Is AI the next Oppenheimer event?

AI is reaching the point where there is wild speculation, potential regulations, and opinions on if it will destroy humanity. So how does anyone make sense of all of it?

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ARE WE UNDER OR OVER REACTING TO THE AI POSSIBILITIES?

  • Oppenheimer said the possibility of destruction was “near zero”
  • OpenAI research said it’s 10-20% chance of human destruction

WHAT ARE THE OPEN, REGULATIVE AND STRUCTURAL GUARDRAILS OF AI

  • What is good or bad with AI?
  • Should societal concerns be considered? By whom?
  • Should environmental concerns be considered? By whom?


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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

TestContainers to Reduce Developer Frustration

Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create AtomicJar

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. We hear more and more about shifting everything left. In this case we are talking about potentially shifting testing left. What problem are we trying to solve and everything comes at a cost, what are the tradeoffs?

Topic 3 - We hear all the time that adoption of changes to a development practice is part culture and part technology. What is the hook that gets folks interested in investing time and resources into better testing practices?

Topic 4 - Are the tests integrated into the code? How seamless is this into existing CI/CD pipelines or an organization's DevOps practice on average?

Topic 5 - From a business perspective, how are the advantages typically measured? More deployments, less defects, etc

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the OSS project Testcontainers a bit. What is it? How did it come about? How are folks using this concept of throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, and web browsers, for instance. Is this all in Docker containers?

Topic 7 - There’s also testing in the cloud with a SaaS service (Testcontiners Cloud). What is the origin story behind this and how are folks using it today? Is this a replacement for say Docker Desktop?

Topic 8 - For those out there that are interested? How would they get started?

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Sunday, November 5, 2023

The Challenges of Pre-Announcements

Your favorite product just announced something new and you’re upset. Why didn’t they tell you about it ahead of time? Why didn’t they ask for your feedback? How does a launch work?

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WHY DID THEY ANNOUNCE IT NOW? 

  • What is being announced? 
  • How impactful is the announcement? (private, public markets, partnerships)
  • How strategic is the announcement?
  • Why didn’t they give anybody a heads-up?

WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND THE SCENES? WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS & ALTERNATIVES?

  • Who (or what groups) are involved with an announcement? 
  • Who is trusted and not trusted? What rules or guidelines are in place?
  • How does the media involvement work? 
  • What if you leak it ahead of time to gauge feedback and reactions?
  • What if you screw it up? 
  • Can you walk it back or change it? 

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis

Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days at Outshift by Cisco.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the security challenges that come with modern applications and cloud environments. 

Topic 3 - The classic challenges of security have always been too many tools, not enough people, lots of misconfigurations, tons of red on the dashboard. Are there new approaches that are trying to address these challenges?

Topic 4 - Talk to us about this concept of “Attack Path Analysis”. What is it? What is it trying to accomplish that we didn’t/couldn’t do before?

Topic 5 - How does Panoptica address many of these challenges? How does it integrate with the many areas of the entire picture, from IaC to CI/CD to Observability?

Topic 6 - What are some differences that DevOps teams might experience by using Attack Path Analysis?

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Sunday, October 29, 2023

A New Perspective on The Cloudcast

Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules. 

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BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTING

  • Commutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less important
  • VC funding is slowing down, people are more focused on results vs. “new”
  • AI is a regular part of the conversation, but how much is too much?

WHAT WILL CLOUDCAST 2.0 LOOK LIKE? 

  • Moving to three shows a week: Sunday Perspective, Tuesday Umbrellas & Sunnies, Thursday On The Horizon
  • Cloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the Month
  • Bring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionality
  • Bring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)
  • More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & Brian
  • Better balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do Today
  • Do you want us to do Video?
  • Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success

Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.

Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWS

Topic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?

Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?

Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’t

Topic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?

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