In this episode, Jay is accompanied by Charles Humble, the Editor-in-Chief at Container Solutions, a cloud native consultancy. Having the benefit of being a writer in such a technical field, Charles brings a fascinating perspective to cloud discussion. Together, Jay and Charles discuss working remotely in the cloud space, why some companies fail at cloud adoption, and draw parallels between programming and writing. Finally, they wrapped up their discussion by exploring what part AI shall play in...
May 17, 2023•45 min•Ep. 19
This time on Cloud Unplugged, hosts Jon and Jay are joined by Kaspar von Grünberg, the Founder and CEO of Humanitec. Working as a platform orchestrator, Humanitec is a product that enables companies to build internal developer platforms. In the episode, Jon, Jay and Kaspar discuss what it means to be a platform engineer, if the industry has a measure of what ‘good’ looks like, and whether having strong opinions of a platform is a positive or negative thing. Kaspar Linkedin: https://www.linkedin....
May 03, 2023•43 min•Ep. 18
In this episode, Jon and Jay discuss the ideal sizes for platform engineering teams. During the course of their conversation, the pair talk through ways to optimise team size to ensure business efficiency, what an ideal platform team size ratio would be, why some platform teams have become bloated, and hypothesise about the concept of a ‘zero-person’ company. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged ...
Apr 19, 2023•47 min•Ep. 17
In this episode, Jon and Jay explain how platform engineers can enable developer self-service with existing technologies. They touch on the evolution of self-service, and how cloud technology has made it easier to do well. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT J...
Apr 05, 2023•38 min•Ep. 16
Jon and Jay analyse the findings of Puppet’s recent report on the state of DevOps and platform engineering. The pair discuss what they thought was lacking from the report, the difference between platform teams and platform engineering teams, and Jon finds an excuse to have a rant about the term 'cognitive load'. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged L...
Mar 22, 2023•32 min•Ep. 15
Jon and Jay discuss the best ways to manage and lead platform engineering teams. Sharing what they've learnt from running their own business, Jon and Jay talk through setting objectives and key results (OKRs) that are anchored to business goals, the importance of diversity and collaboration, and secrets to unlocking talent and potential amongst your team. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tikt...
Mar 15, 2023•46 min•Ep. 14
Jon and Jay tackle the complexities of cloud platform engineering, including cognitive load, the total cost of ownership, public and private cloud, and more. Learn how to save time, money, and effort by taking advantage of cloud services while managing cost and security properly CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3...
Mar 08, 2023•37 min•Ep. 13
This time, Jon and Jay take a deep dive into the security decisions surrounding single and multi-tenancy on Kubernetes cluster architectures. Covering everything from role-based access control to, encrypting secrets stored in the cloud, and process isolation to root read-only file systems. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https...
Mar 01, 2023•45 min•Ep. 12
Jon and Jay get stuck into the concept of single versus multi-tenancy in Kubernetes cluster architectures. They talk through the decision criteria on when to go single tenancy and when to go multi-tenancy, addressing the compromises you may be making when you share infrastructure... and whether Jon can say "Goodbye" in French. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@c...
Feb 22, 2023•43 min•Ep. 11
In this episode, Jon and Jay dive into what exactly a cloud strategy is, how it differs from a business plan and how to measure its success. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT Jon & Jay's company: https://www.appvia.io/ Jon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin....
Feb 15, 2023•49 min•Ep. 10
Jon and Jay dive into what a good developer experience really is, from writing code to troubleshooting. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT Jon & Jay's company: https://www.appvia.io/ Jon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanshanks/ Jay Linkedin: ...
Feb 08, 2023•43 min•Ep. 9
Jon and Jay discuss what Day 0, 1 and 2 mean in cloud deployment and touch on the role of platform teams and developers during these stages. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT Jon & Jay's company: https://www.appvia.io/ Jon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin....
Feb 01, 2023•53 min•Ep. 8
Bryan Ross joins Jon on the podcast, discussing the process of building a developer platform in enterprise organisations while ensuring true value is understood and measured. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT Jon & Jay's company: https://www.appvia.io/ J...
Jan 25, 2023•40 min•Ep. 7
Richard Smith from Codification.io joins the podcast. He has helped build several enterprise cloud-native platforms, often modernising legacy applications with the Cloud. The key player involved in the DevOps team, and especially during a transformation, there are some everyday struggles. Richard shares the common DevOps struggles that he witnessed with us. Richard Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richwsmith/ CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @clou...
Dec 14, 2022•59 min•Ep. 6
You wouldn’t build your own car, so why would you build your own platform? Jon and Jay consider the pros and cons of building your own. Spoiler alert: they advise against it. Cloud provides innovation behind the scenes, whereas building your own means you have to hire a team and sink enormous costs before providing any business value. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tikto...
Oct 26, 2022•46 min•Ep. 5
Jon and Jay discuss models to implement at a non-enterprise level. Looking into squads, chapters, agile delivery teams, platforms, and cloud delivery. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT Jon & Jay's company: https://www.appvia.io/ Jon Linkedin: https://www...
Oct 19, 2022•43 min•Ep. 4
Is there a place for DevOps in a Cloud Native world? What does Cloud Native really mean? CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT Jon & Jay's company: https://www.appvia.io/ Jon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanshanks/ Jay Linkedin: https://www.lin...
Oct 12, 2022•37 min•Ep. 3
People are the most expensive resource in any organisation. Jon and Jay discuss how much can you outsource/insource while remaining lean and ensuring secure application delivery in the cloud. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudunplugged Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3y2djXa Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3mosSFT Jon & Jay's company: https:/...
Oct 05, 2022•44 min•Ep. 2
On this Episode of Cloud Unplugged, Jon and Jay cover authentication and authorisation best practices, avoiding complications with multiple teams and projects. Topics include the importance of establishing SSO, using a single identity from the get-go and authorising and managing access for various groups across the 3 main cloud vendors. CU Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@cloudunplugged Follow us on social media @cloudunplugged Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloud_unplugged Tiktok: https://www.tik...
Sep 28, 2022•38 min•Ep. 1
