Sunday, December 17, 2023

2023 End of Year Mailbag

Aaron and Brian answer mailbag questions from the community about the future of open source, future of VMware, the Big 3 Clouds and how AI will impact the next era of cloud.

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Q1: What are the bigger picture dynamics happening around open source?

Q2: Lots of companies talk about wanting to modernize applications, but it seems really complicated? Is there anything on the horizon to make it easier?

Q3: What have you seen as the most important things to make modernization work well? 

Q4: Do you have any thoughts about Broadcom taking over VMware? 

Q5: Has anything really changed in the dynamics between the three big cloud providers, or do you expect AWS to just stay in the lead for the foreseeable future?

Q6: During the Phases of Cloud shows, you talked about it beginning to start a new phase of the cloud. What expectations do you have for the next phase?

Q7: There have been a bunch of AI shows lately. If I’m not a Data Scientist, should I bother listening to those shows? 

Q8: A bunch of us at work are experimenting with various AI technologies, but we’re being told by our employer that it might violate some legal issues and expose some work data. Any thoughts?

Q9: Do you have any plans to do any Cloudcast Basics series about some of the AI technologies?


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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

SaaS Analytics and Dashboards

Karel Callens (@KarelCallens, CEO/Founder @luzmo_official) talks about the importance of SaaS Analytics and how to build dashboards into SaaS services while maintaining security and compliance

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Karel, tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Luzmo (formally Cumul.io)

Topic 2 - Our topic today is SaaS Analytics. Let’s start with SaaS as an industry. We’ve covered the rise of SaaS here on the show over the years, but we haven’t really dug into the operations and analytics side in the past. Why is there a need for SaaS analytics? What problem are we trying to solve?

Topic 3 - How does the concept of data visualization come into play when building out SaaS? What are the benefits, and what are we saving? Is this time to value? Service cost

Topic 4 - How does data locality and regulations in the industry impact this? Take GDPR or CCPA, for example. Are they working as intended?

Topic 5 - What are the most common use cases you see with your customers today

Topic 6 - Are there limits or best practices to data exposure in a service? Just because you can expose something doesn’t mean you should. How do you recommend organizations tackle the proper balance?

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Sunday, December 10, 2023

How AWS has evolved on Day 2

What were the major announcements at 2023 AWS re:Invent? What did we learn about their AI strategy? What did we learn about how they continue to evolve the business?

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AWS MANAGES THE TRANSITION FROM ONE CLOUD ERA TO THE NEXT 

  • Reviewing AWS’ AI strategy
  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud in AWS
  • Further alignment with Anthropic
  • AWS Q
  • Cost Optimization Hub
  • Memory-optimized Graviton 4 ARM compute nodes
  • zero-ETL integration for a number of database and data-ingestion platforms
  • Aurora Limitless Database
  • IBM DB2 comes to AWS
  • Project Kuiper - Satellite Internet

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

LLMOps & Conversational Intelligence for AI

GUEST: Alex Kvamme (@KwameKvamme, CEO @GetPathlight) talks about using AI to unlock market insights from discussions with customers and partners.

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

Topic 2 - What is the concept of conversational intelligence and how does it apply to most organizations today? What problem is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - I would think there is a trade off between time and resources to get to a customer issue vs. the value of that insight. How does an organization weigh the opportunity cost? How do you keep the insights generated from being overwhelming

Topic 4 - Let’s move from the concept to practical. Where is the data in most organizations today that will yield results and solve problems? How would you suggest folks get started and what use case are they likely to implement first? Is this data that humans either can’t or won’t get too because it is an enormous amount or maybe too tedious to pay for?

Topic 5 - How does all of this work under the hood? Is this one model or multiple models working in parallel? Is there a framework for the operations and lifecycle managed by an organization?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about what it takes to get an LLM into production. The the rise of LLM’s and foundational models such as Llama2, there is an interest for organizations to use LLM’s, but going from concept to production still has a high barrier to entry. It’s easy to download a model, it’s much harder to either fine-tune it or set up RAG with a vector database for your specific use case. Would you agree and what are your thoughts?

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Sunday, December 3, 2023

From Cloud to Cloud-native to COVID

How did the modern cloud evolve from the earliest days of AWS to today’s AI boom? What roles did open source, mobile apps, microservices and the sharing economy play?

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps

Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show and back to the show. Gary, tell us about your background and what areas you focus on at Google Cloud these days. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about language, specifically the gaps in language (and understanding) between engineering teams and finance teams. What works today and where are the biggest gaps and challenges?

Topic 3 - One of the challenges of Cloud billing, and hence FinOps, is the 100s or 1000s or line-items. What are they for? How are they changing? What are some of the things/tools out there to make sense of all of this spend? (e.g. visualization, tagging, etc.)

Topic 4 - We’re all familiar with budgeting (pre-activity) and complaints about project/cost overruns (post-activity), but what are some of the things happening mid-project, or on-going to avoid the surprises or overruns?

Topic 5 - How much of these on-going changes/tracking is done by the engineering teams and how much is being done by finance teams? 

Topic 6 - Can you share with us examples of how companies have evolved with good FinOps principles and hygiene in place? 

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Sunday, November 26, 2023

Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud

How did the 2001 dotCom bubble burst lead to the 2008 housing crisis and how did it impact the technology markets?  And the OpenAI Coup-oops!

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A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE OPEN AI COUP ATTEMPT

  • Sam Altman (CEO) got fired, then returned

HOW DID DOTCOM BUBBLE LEAD TO HOUSING CRASH AND CLOUD?

  • Google made Internet advertising available to every business
  • SaaS companies emerge, to replace core business functions
  • The “sharing economy” took off (music, pictures, blogs, etc.)
  • Shadow IT caused problems for Corporate IT

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