We went deep into vendors, specifically Red Hat. So if you like vendor gossip and speculation then you'll love this. We talked about Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, a couple other vendors of note and speculated on their strategy.

Transcript https://otter.ai/u/L_uP42EK4AVjVmDxERD3f0V-2Yw

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Is there a Jevons Paradox of Complexity? We started by asking key questions like: How much complexity is too much? How do we measure it? What's the business risk? DId we make complexity cheaper or just hide it away? Is there a price to be paid for building incredibly complex systems?

We answered these and more in the reference of business concerns and the business value.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/WfbSCL5GUiXCoSpFqe8DsTqxzw4

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How Service Mesh works and why they're important. Towards the end, we start talking about the rationale and whys and hows of the architecture.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/OPEKGyWT6iDjMLVQlHZeKVWkh_I

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James Urquhart joins the DevOps lunch for an impromptu discussion about the importance of Flow Architecture. You will learn a lot about how flow architecture work and why they are important to infrastructure and application design.

This is a great follow-up to our 1x1 interview with him on an earlier episode.

The RackN team goes behind the scenes describing the many ways that we've worked with customers to automated VMware deployments from the bare metal up.

Short checking w/ Rob about the format and community supporting the Cloud2030 discussions.

How businesses need to be thinking in order to respond to the cloud?

Tim Crawford led this round table conversation about the challenges facing us. We also talk about managing complexity and what it takes to build a successful business in today's technology environment

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/4iOmpqQsAhqW7RPwgz0sthpFC2s

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We were frustrated that we couldn't pull security together as cleanly as we want. So we extended the conversation beyond simple security into integrations and what you need to get done in order to automate security,

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/08NW-tmEEH4E84UunOmfrLuvp4g

Detailed discussion about how to improve platform operations with Artificial Intelligence in general and how CAST AI does this for Kubernetes specifically. Leon Kuperman discusses additional benefits from being able to learn across a range of clouds and customers.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/OZIQK1DhTWC4G1ocLwVgbQzao8s

How do you bridge ecosystems and marketplaces and open source?

Using Amazon and Kubernetes as examples of toolboxes that enables people to do other things leads to a discussion about what makes successful ecosystem.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/J2fDtW6wdIuAW09PR3fNIy0-Kuc

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