cloud2030

Joining us this week is Mark Imbriaco, Global CTO DevOps, Pivotal. Mark’s view of ops and open source from a platform perspective as it relates to SRE offers listeners a high-level approach to these concepts that is not often heard.

Highlights

• Site Reliability Engineering – Introduction and Advanced Discussion

• Edge Computing from Platform View

• Open Source Projects vs Products and Sustainability

• Monetization of Open Source Matters

Joining us this week is John Willis, VP DevOps and Digital Practices, SJ Technologies known for many things including being at the initial DevOps meeting in Europe, co-founder of the DevOpsDays events, and the DevOps Café podcast.

Highlights

• Introduction to the Phoenix Project and the new audio Beyond the Phoenix Project

• Docker discussion and the issues around its success based on the ecosystem success

• Docker vs operation split for two different audiences

• Issue of sustaining open source technology and lack of financing to support this

• Revenue arc vs viral adoption for open source model

• Three reasons to choose open source model for software

Joining us this week is Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside AWS Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of severless applications.

Highlights

• Intro of AWS Lambda and IOpipe

• Discussion of Observability and Opaqueness of Serverless

• Edge Computing Definition and Vision

• End of Operating Systems and Abstraction Boundaries

In this week’s podcast, we speak with Justin Garrison, co-author of Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNI).

• Behind scenes for O’Reilly book and choice of cover animal

• Infrastructure and CNI approach

• State and Immutability / Immutable VM

• Terraform and Kubernetes

• Observability

• The Why of Immutability

• Infrastructure as Software (Netflix)

• Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps

Joining us this week is Dave Nielsen, Head of Ecosystem Programs at Redis Labs. Dave provides background on the Redis project and discusses ideas for using Redis in edge devices.

Highlights

• Background of Redis project and Redis Labs

• Redis and Edge Computing

• Where is the Edge?

• Raspberry Pi for edge devices? It’s about management

• Wasteland of IT management at the edge

Joining us this week is Oliver Gould, CTO Buoyant who provides a service mesh abstraction view to micro-services and Kubernetes. Oliver and Rob also take a look at how applications are managed at the edge and highlights the future roadmap for Conduit.

Highlights

• Defining microservices and Kubernetes from Buoyant viewpoint

• Service mesh abstractions at a request level (load balance, get, put, …)

• Conduit overview – client-side load balancing

• Service mesh tool comparisons

• Edge Computing discussion from service mesh view

Joining us this week is Yadin Porter de León (@porterdeleon), IT Community at Druva as well as from the Level Up Project and host of the Tech Village podcast.

Highlights

" Open Source Communities and the People

" Relationship of Corporations in Open Source and Community

" Users of Open Source care about Community?

" Community's should FOCUS and not overlap to adjacencies

In this week's podcast, we speak with Kong Yang, Head Geek at SolarWinds. He also hosts the Wide World of Tech podcast. Key topics discussed in the podcast:

" State of cloud computing ~ entering its golden age

" IT & business units coming together to deal with shadow IT responsibly

" Building technology on services with no control over them

" CI/CD model

" Operators skills and time available

" Human aspect

Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Director Technical Marketing/Evangelist at Turbonomic and podcaster/evangelist at Discoposse.com.

Highlights

" RANT on Cloud Terminology w/ new terms "DevOpsishFullStackishness" & "Woke IT"

" Open Source communities, vendors, and value of users

" Edge Computing - Definition, Turbonomic Role in Cloud/Edge

" Edge and Cloud are Hybrid - Embrace multiple paradigms including legacy

" Discussion of Go language and RackN usage

In this week's podcast, we speak with Nic Jackson, Developer Advocate, HashiCorp (@sheriffjackson). Nic provides insight into the product and development philosophy of HashiCorp and how it impacts their products and open source components. The last section of the podcast on product feature limitations and how companies go too far is very interesting.

" HashiCorp Overview and Design Philosophy of their Solutions

" Company vs Community Open Source Comparison in Terraform

" Abstractions and Portability Failings

" Product Features and Doing Too Much