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The Cloudcast

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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . 

Episodes

All of the 2018 AWS reInvent Announcements

Show: 374 Description: A review of all of the AWS 2018 re:Invent announcements Show Sponsor Links: Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today . Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt Categorizing The AWS Roadmap The retail approach to all shapes and sizes (EC2, DBs, etc) The combined features (“solution”) approach The “we don’t know” approach - becoming “serverless” (e.g. DB, LBs, AI) Customers - what...

Dec 01, 201833 min

Revolutionizing Big Data Apps

Show: 373 Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Venkat Venkataramani (@iamveeve, Co-founder and CEO of @RocksetCloud) about building apps without pipelines, and serverless search and analytics with native SQL. Cloud News of the Week: All the News and Announcements from AWS re:Invent Show Interview Links: Rockset Homepage Rockset announces $21.5M in funding Sign up to access Rockset , available as a cloud service Show Sponsor Links: Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics Try Datadog you...

Nov 28, 201833 min

Reinventing Software Collaboration

Show: 372 Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Kurt Schrader (@kurt, Founder/CEO of @Clubhouse) and Mitch Wainer (@MitchWainer, CMO of @Clubhouse) about the evolution of project management for software development teams. Cloud News of the Week: Google hires Thomas Kurian to replace Diane Greene - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/google-cloud-ceo-greene-being-replaced-by-former-oracle-exec-kurian.html Show Interview Links: Clubhouse Homepage - https://clubhouse.io/ Clubhouse Enterprise Edition - ht...

Nov 21, 201834 min

Getting Started with UX Research

Show Number: 371 Overview: Aaron talks with Melissa Eggleston (@melissa_egg, Director of UX @teamworks | Co-founder of @ladiesthatuxDUR ) at All Things Open about her work on UX research, how to ask the right questions, and balancing past research vs. analytics and new research Cloud News of the Week: Amazon announces HQ2 (and HQ3) locations SAP acquires Qualtrics for $8B Vista acquires Apptio for $1.94B Show Interview Links: Melissa Eggleston - All Things Open Teamworks Homepage Melissa's ...

Nov 14, 201820 min

Tales From a DevOps Transformation

Show Number: 370 Overview: Aaron talks with Lee Eason (@leejeason; Director of DevOps at Ipreo and the co-founder of Tekata.io) at All Things Open about his DevOps transformation for all of the organization’s 30+ products and 65+ scrum teams leading to a dramatic reduction in manual work and an increase in quality and customer satisfaction across the board. Cloud News of the Week: TriggerMesh Launches (Serverless Management) Hashicorp Raises $100M Round of Funding VMware acquires Heptio IBM anno...

Nov 07, 201824 min

What We Know (now) About Serverless

Show Number: 369 Overview: Aaron talks with Pam Selle (@pamasaur; Software Engineering Lead at @IOPipes) at All Things Open about the current state of Serverless applications, Serverless monitoring, and the evolution of Serverless DevOps. Cloud News of the Week: Learnings from AWS and Azure Earnings Amazon / AWS Earnings Microsoft / Azure Earnings Show Interview Links: Pam Selle - All Things Open IOpipe Homepage [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google...

Nov 01, 201825 min

(Part III) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars

Show Number: 368 Overview: Brian talks with Mee-Jung Jang (@MeeJungJang, Managing Director @TechStars) about starting the program, engaging with MetLife as a corporate partner, the structure of the TechStars program, how the companies move forward beyond Demo Day, and what's next. Show Links: Mee-Jung Jang, TechStars MetLife Digital Accelerator, Powered by TechStars [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your fav...

Oct 25, 201822 min

(Part II) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars

Brian talks with the founders from FIX Health, Portabl and Safely, as part of a behind-the-scenes engagement with TechStars and the MetLife Digital Accelerator in Cary, NC. This show is Part 2 of a series of interviews with companies that are innovating and disrupting the insurance industry, in cooperation with corporate partner MetLife in Cary, NC. Show Links: MetLife Digital Accelerator, Powered by TechStars FIX Health Portabl Safely Show Notes: Company 1: FIX Health [Update] FIX has secured a...

Oct 17, 201851 min

(Part I) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars

Brian talks with the founders from Buddy, Enroll Hero and FitBliss, as part of a behind-the-scenes engagement with TechStars and the MetLife Digital Accelerator in Cary, NC. This show is Part 1 of a series of interviews with companies that are innovating and disrupting the insurance industry, in cooperation with corporate partner MetLife in Cary, NC. Show Links: MetLife Digital Accelerator, Powered by TechStars Buddy Enroll Hero FitBliss Show Notes: Company 1: Buddy [Update] Has a signed reinsur...

Oct 10, 201852 min

Taking Spinnaker for a Spin

Brian talks with Andy Glover (@aglover, Director of Delivery Engineering @Netflix) about Spinnaker, release automation, the challenges of multi-cloud platforms, and how the community around the Spinnaker project has evolved. Show Links: Spinnaker Homepage Spinnaker Summit [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players Show Sponsor Links: [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill [A CLOUD GURU]...

Oct 03, 201826 min

Interactive Learning for Cloud-Native

Brian talks with Ben Hall (@Ben_Hall, Founder of Ocelot Uproar, creator of @TeamKatacoda) about the evolution of helping developers learn new Cloud-native technology skills, and how Katacoda is making that an online, browser-only reality. Show Links: Katacoda Website Learn Red Hat OpenShift [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players Show Sponsors: [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill ...

Sep 26, 201825 min

The Cloudcast #363 - IoT and APIs

Aaron talks with Stuart Mitchell (@mokanix_api, CEO of Mokanix) about emerging trends in the IoT transport layer and the intersection of IoT and APIs. Show Links: Mokanix Website [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill [A CLOUD GURU] A Cloud Guru Membership - Start your free trial. Unlimited access to the best cloud training and new series to ke...

Sep 20, 201822 minEp. 363

The Cloudcast #362 - Security & Service Meshes

In a joint show between The Cloudcast and PodCTL, Brian and Tyler Britten talk with John Morello (@morellonet, CTO at @TwistlockTeam) about how Service Mesh technologies, such as Istio, can be used for more advanced security of containerized applications and Kubernetes environments. Show Links: Twistlock Website Securing Istio and Kubernetes Making Istio Security Layer Easier to Monitor Service Mesh Tutorials [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Pl...

Sep 12, 201825 min

The Cloudcast #361 - Single Pane of Glass at USA Today

Brian talks with Bridget Lane (@bridgetnomnom; Software Developer, Gannett & USA TODAY) about how USA Today | Gannett has transformed their internal teams over the past 3 years to be more agile and able to deliver software faster to support 100s of publications. We also discuss career evolution and advice to anyone wanting to quickly advance their skills. Show Links: Velocity Conf - "Single Pane of Glass at USA Today" VELOCITY CONF NYC Discount Code (25% Off) - " CLOUD " ...

Sep 05, 201830 min

The Cloudcast #360 - Multi-Cloud Cost Modeling

Brian talks with Joe Kinsella (@joekinsella, Founder and CTO of @CloudHealthTech) about public cloud evolution, and how customers are viewing multi-cloud (or hybrid-cloud) as their planned architecture, and how well they are able to manage costs across multiple cloud environments. Show Links: CloudHealth Website CloudHealth acquired by VMware (August 2018) CloudHealth Blog Joe’s Blog [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and...

Aug 29, 201824 min

The Cloudcast #359 - Exploring the Realities of Innovation at Scale

Brian talks with Dr. Bruce Davie (@_drbruced, VP & CTO, VMware Asia Pacific & Japan) about differences in APAC markets, what drove large-scale adoption of new technologies, how to rethink scaling new innovation, the variety across APAC and how to be constantly learning to grow your career. Show Links: FutureNet Podcast Bruce’s CTO Blog Bruce Davie’s (author) Books [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your fa...

Aug 22, 201832 min

The Cloudcast #358 - Exploring the Business Side of Open Source Software

Brian talks with Joseph Jacks (@asynchio, advisor to CNCF, creator of KubeCon, co-Founder Kismatic, Entrepreneur) about different ways to view OSS business models, and how he's been tracking commercial OSS companies through his COSSCI Index. Show Links: Open Consensus - Data Driven Perspectives on Open Source Software $100M+ Revenue - Commercial Open Source Software Company Index (COSSCI) Bessemer Venture Partners Cloud Index [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Fee...

Aug 15, 201834 min

The Cloudcast #357 - NFV, SDN, IoT from a Hackers Perspective

Aaron talks with Ray Watson (@RayRedacted, VP of Global Technology, Masergy) about a wide range of emerging technology topics, including NFV, SDN, IoT, Hybrid Networking and Managed Security. They also explore the evolution of Hacking. Show Links: Massergy Homepage Ray at Black Hat - ”BlackHat 2017: 5 Generations of Hacking” [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cl...

Aug 02, 201836 min

The Cloudcast #356 - Disaggregating Networking Software

Brian talks with Devesh Garg (Co-Founder/CEO of @arrcusinc) about the launch of Arrcus, the evolution of data networking and variations in market segments, and what makes ArcOS unique in a world of network operating systems. Show Links: Arrcus Webpage Arrcus raises $15M in VC Funding [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill [A CLOUD GURU] A Cloud...

Jul 26, 201829 min

The Cloudcast #355 - Exploring IoT Edge

Aaron talks with Farah Papaioannou & Kilton Hopkins (@kiltonhopkins), co-founders at @EdgeWorxIO, about the evolving architecture of edge computing and some of the common misconceptions, where and how to store, run, and transport data while being mindful to security. Show Links: Edgeworx Website Stacey Higginbotham's Article on IoT Edge Architecture [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast...

Jul 20, 201829 min

The Cloudcast #354 - Prepping for a Product Launch

Aaron and Brian talk about some of the behind the scenes details on product launches - both new products and on-going updates. Show Links: [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill [A CLOUD GURU] A Cloud Guru Membership - Start your free trial. Unlimited access to the best cloud training and new series to keep you up-to-date on all things AWS. [A ...

Jul 12, 201830 min

The Cloudcast #353 - The 2018 Mid-Year Show

Aaron and Brian talk about the first half of 2018: Acquisitions and IPOs, Rating and ranking the Public Cloud, a look at aspects of Private Cloud, Containers and Kubernetes, HCI and GDPR, as well as their perspectives on AI and IoT. Show Links: [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill [A CLOUD GURU] A Cloud Guru Membership - Start your free trial...

Jul 04, 201843 min

The Cloudcast #352 - Considering New Hosts for The Cloudcast

Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja) about the World Cup, women in tech events, and brainstorming about potential new hosts and formats for The Cloudcast. Show Links: Man Who Has It All (Twitter Account) The 2 Robbies Podcast [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill [A CLOUD GURU] A Cloud Guru Membership - Start your free trial. Unlimited acc...

Jun 27, 201830 min

The Cloudcast #351 - Reviewing DockerCon 2018

Brian talks with Kendrick “Kenny” Coleman (@kendrickcoleman) about DockerCon 2018 - the announcements, the overall vibe of the event, and how the community is evolving around the event. Show Links: Docker Announcement - Federated Application Management Docker Announcement - Kubernetes on Windows Server Kenny's Podcast - Bourbon Pursuit [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD ...

Jun 18, 201824 min

The Cloudcast #350 - Accenture Cloud Platform

Aaron and Brian talk with Michael Liebow (@mliebow, Global Managing Director, @AccentureCloud) about evolving the Accenture culture to deliver on-demand cloud services, working across multiple cloud platforms, managing complex cloud billing models, and leveraging serverless technology to improve operations. Show Links: Accenture Cloud Platform Accenture Cloud Blog Michael Liebow on theCUBE at AWS:reInvent [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play ,...

Jun 07, 201829 min

The Cloudcast #349 - VMware Cloud Networking

Aaron and Brian talk with Peder Ulander (@ulander, VP Marketing, Networking and Security @VMware) about still being interesting, the evolution of software-defined networking, how to interconnect cloud networks, and which roles and skills are needed to manage today's cloud networks. Show Links: VMware Virtual Cloud Network [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [A CLOUD GURU] Get The ...

May 31, 201828 min

The Cloudcast #348 - Bringing Serverless to Rock 'n Roll

Aaron and Brian talk with Michael Garski (Director of Software Engineering @FenderDigital) about building serverless applications for their Fender Play digital learning platform. He explains how the Lambdas are built, version controlled and tested, as well as provides into the broader architecture and how their Dev and Ops teams are integrated. Show Links: Fender Website Fender Digital Fender Play Combining DynamoDB and Amazon Elasticsearch with Lambda [Podcast] Serverless Performance, Monitorin...

May 24, 201824 min

The Cloudcast #347 - The Critical Skills for AI and ML

Aaron and Brian talk with Chao Han, (VP & Head of R&D at @Lucidworks) about critical Data Science skills for AI and ML, how Data Scientists engage with Business Leaders, the Lucidworks AI platform, and emerging research in the AI/ML space. Show Links: Lucidworks Homepage Apache Lucene Apache Solr Kaggle A Cloud Guru - Big Data Certification Python Programming for Beginners R Programming for Beginners [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Pla...

May 17, 201823 min

The Cloudcast #346 - What is Observability?

Brian talks with Christine Yen (@cyen, Co-Founder at @honeycombio) about the concept of Observability, why it's needed with new application and failure patterns, how to think about testing in production, and how to manage the collection of Observability data. Show Links: Honeycomb Homepage Honeycomb Blog [Velocity Conf] “End-to-End Observability for Fun and Profit” Use promo-code CLOUD for 20% off tickets to Velocity Conf [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , ...

May 09, 201830 min

The Cloudcast #345 - Understanding Google Cloud Databases

Brian talks with Dominic Preuss (@deesix, Director Product Management @GoogleCloud) about the breadth of GCP's database portfolio, the adoption of GCP within the Enterprise, Big Data usage, and how the concept of "serverless" applies to database infrastructure. Show Links: Google Cloud Databases and Storage Dominic’s Blog on GCP Blog Google Cloud Spanner (GCPPodcast) [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes | OpenShift - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and a...

May 02, 201830 min