SHOW: 395 DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Dr. Steve Herrod (@herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst @gcvp) about the transition from CTO to VC, the role of AI and Security in today’s startups, the impact the public cloud has on his evaluations, and tips for selecting the right companies and leaders. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS: MongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB service Visit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admin tasks that you’d...
Apr 25, 2019•30 min
SHOW: 394 DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Evan Kaplan (@evankaplan, CEO of InfluxData) about why companies choose time-series databases, commons use-cases, how time-series patterns align to changing business goals, and how to translate business demands to developer capabilities. 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 MongoDB Atlas - Automa...
Apr 17, 2019•35 min
SHOW: 393 DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matt Oswalt (@mierdin, NRE @JuniperNetworks) and Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad, Product Marketing Manager @JuniperNetworks) about how networking has adapted to DevOps and SRE, internally marketing the evolution to teams, and how NRE Labs are helping network engineers get up to speed. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS: MongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB service Visit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admi...
Apr 10, 2019•42 min
SHOW: 392 DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Uma Chingunde (@the_umac, Engineering Manager at @Stripe) about engineering career paths as an IC or Manager, how managers can be effective mentors, job rotations, and how diversity is an opportunity for every team. 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 MongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB serv...
Apr 03, 2019•35 min
SHOW: 391 DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Gustavo Franco (@stratus, Customer Reliability Engineer at Google) about real-world experience as SRE/SRE Manager and CRE Manager, a discussion about how to measure SRE success, as well as how to onboard the SRE/CRE concepts and processes to new teams. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS: MongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB service Visit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admin tasks that you’d rather not s...
Mar 28, 2019•35 min
SHOW: 390 DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Go To Market Consultant and Advisor) about the difference between traditional Enterprise software and B2B SaaS offerings, how the sales and marketing models work, and how development and operations is significantly changed with SaaS. 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 CLO...
Mar 20, 2019•31 min
SHOW: 389 DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Adam Hunt (CTO and Chief Data Scientist at @RiskIQ) about the breadth of security breaches, how AI/ML can play a role if used properly, and immediate steps to improve protection for breaches. 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 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK AWS Announced Open Distro for ElasticSearch h...
Mar 15, 2019•28 min
Show: 388 Description: Brian talks with Eric Rudder (@ericrudder; Co-Founder and Executive Chairman @PulumiCorp) about the evolving tools and supply-chain for both developers and operations in a cloud-native world. 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 Cloud News of the Week Lyft announces IPO plans and explains AWS spending (including ...
Mar 06, 2019•25 min
Show: 387 Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Armon Dadgar (@armon, Founder/CTO @HashiCorp) about the problems service mesh can solve, the underlying technologies, control plane vs. data plane considerations, and who is making decisions about service meshes within an IT organization. Show Sponsor Links: Liquid Technology - IT Value Recovery Try CloudLast Service, get a free t-shirt and chance at Amazon Gift Card Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics Try DataDog yourself by starti...
Feb 27, 2019•31 min
Show: 386 Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Jeff Aden (@aden_jeff, Founder/EVP at @2ndWatch) about the evolution of 2ndWatch as a Cloud Integrator as AWS has grown and shifted their focus from startups to Enterprise customers. Show Sponsor Links: Liquid Technology - IT Value Recovery Try CloudLast Service, get a free t-shirt and chance at Amazon Gift Card Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today . Listeners of this podcas...
Feb 20, 2019•31 min
Show: 385 Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) about jobs around the IT industry, and the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs in making various types of mid-career job changes. Show Sponsor Links: Liquid Technology - IT Value Recovery Try CloudLast Service, get a free t-shirt and chance at Amazon Gift Card Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today . Listeners of this podcast will also receive...
Feb 15, 2019•42 min
Show: 384 Description: Aaron talks with Harry Sverdlove ( @TheSecureWord , Founder & CTO Edgewise Networks) about the evolution of security to embrace both a micro-services and multi-cloud world. 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 Liquid Technology - IT Value Recovery Try CloudLast Service, get a free t-shirt and chance at Amazon...
Feb 06, 2019•32 min
Show: 383 Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Paul D. Johnston (@PaulDJohnston, Co-Founder ServerlessDays (creator of “Jeff”), CXO Serverless Consultant) about the current state of Serverless, Serverless vs. FaaS, how to economically think about functions of code, and areas where Serverless needs to improve. 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 Dat...
Jan 30, 2019•41 min
Show: 382 Description: Brian talks with Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Machine Learning & AI analyst, advisor & host of “This Week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast) about trends in the industry, the evolution of AI at the edge, new research areas in 2019, and a discussion about adding AI and ML to business applications. Show Sponsor Links: Liquid Technology - IT Value Recovery Try CloudLast Service, get a free t-shirt and chance at Amazon Gift Card Datadog Homepage - Modern Monit...
Jan 23, 2019•41 min
Show: 381 Description: Brian talks with Ethan Banks (@ecbanks, co-founder of @PacketPushers) about the state of ITOps and Infrastructure heading into 2019. 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 Show Interview Links: Ethan’s Blog - https://ethancbanks.com/ Packet Pushers Homepage - https://packetpushers.net/ Datanauts Podcast - https://p...
Jan 16, 2019•37 min
Show: 380 Description: Brian talks with Jeff Meyerson (@the_prion, Host of @software_daily) about the state of Cloud-native application development heading into 2019. 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 Show Interview Links: Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com Show Notes: Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Tell us...
Jan 09, 2019•31 min
Show: 379 Description: Brian talks with Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell, Sr. Technology Advocate @Splunk and co-host of @SpeakingInTech) about the state of DevOps and NewOps heading into 2019. 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 Show Interview Links: Josh’s Blog - https://josh-atwell.com NewOps Days - http://www.newopsdays.org/ DevOps Days ...
Jan 03, 2019•28 min
Show: 378 Description: Aaron and Brian review the biggest news, trends and topics of 2018. 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 Cloudcast Housekeeping: Thank you to our sponsors, both A Cloud Guru and DataDog 64% of Krispy Kreme Funding - http://bit.ly/Cloudcast-Donuts2019 51 Shows, Avg Listens (show): 18-20k (+19%), Avg Rank iTunes Te...
Dec 31, 2018•51 min
Show: 377 Description: Aaron talks with Brad Rydzewski (@bradrydzewski, Co-Founder of Drone.io ) about the current state of CI/CD in our industry. 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 Show Interview Links: Drone.io Homepage Feedback? Email: show at thecloudcast dot net Twitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast...
Dec 21, 2018•25 min
Show: 376 Description: Aaron talks with Dave Blakey, CEO and Founder of @SnaptADC, about the international startup scene, the evolution of application delivery and the emerging trends around the intersection of networking and DevOps. 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 Show Interview Links: Snapt Homepage - https://www.snapt.net/ Feed...
Dec 13, 2018•29 min
Show: 375 Description: Brian talks with Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle) and Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa), Co-Founders of @TriggerMesh, about the evolution of serverless and functions-as-a-service in the Kubernetes ecosystem, the new Knative framework, and how companies are considering the use of functions for new applications. 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 ...
Dec 06, 2018•29 min
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, 2018•33 min
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, 2018•33 min
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, 2018•34 min
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 Blog ...
Nov 14, 2018•20 min
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, 2018•24 min
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, 2018•25 min
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 favorite...
Oct 25, 2018•22 min
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, 2018•51 min
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, 2018•52 min