MLOps Coffee Sessions #164 with Rob Hirschfeld, Open Source and Fast Decision Making. This episode is brought to you by.

// Abstract

Rob Hirschfeld, the CEO and co-founder of Rack N, discusses his extensive experience in the DevOps movement. He shares his notable achievement of coining the term "the cloud" and obtaining patents for infrastructure management and API provision. Rob highlights the stagnant progress in operations and the persistent challenges in security and access controls within the industry. The absence of standardization in areas such as Kubernetes and single sign-on complicates the development of robust solutions. To address these issues, Rob underscores the significance of open-source practices, automation, and version control in achieving operational independence and resilience in infrastructure management.

// Bio

Rob is the CEO and Co-founder of RackN, an Austin-based start-up that develops software to help automate data centers, which they call Digital Rebar.

This platform helps connect all the different pieces and tools that people use to manage infrastructure into workflow pipelines through seamless multi-component automation across the different pieces and parts needed to bring up IT systems, platforms, and applications.

Rob has a background in Scale Computing, Mechanical and Systems Engineering, and specializes in large-scale complex systems that are integrated with the physical environment.

He has founded companies and been in the cloud and infrastructure space for nearly 25 years and has done everything from building the first Clouds using ESXi betas to serving four terms on the OpenStack Foundation Board.

Rob was trained as an Industrial Engineer and holds degrees from Duke University and Louisiana State University.

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Rob's preferred coffee

[00:17] Rob Hirschfeld's background

[01:42] Takeaways

[02:36] Please like, share, and subscribe to this channel!

[03:09] Creation of Cloud

[08:38] Changes in Cloud after 25 Years

[10:54] Pros and cons of microservices

[13:06] Secure Access Provisioning

[15:46] Parallelism with ads

[18:08] Redfish protocol

[20:21] Impact of using open source vs using a SAS provider

[26:15] Automation

[32:39] Embrace Operational Flexibility

[35:08] Automating infrastructure inefficiently

[41:26] Legacy code and resiliency

[43:39] Collection of metadata

[45:50] RackN

[51:23] Granular Cloud Preferences

[54:35] Reframing of perceived complexity

[57:32] Generative DevOps

[58:50] Wrap up