THE ARCHITECHT SHOW

THE ARCHITECHT SHOW

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THE ARCHITECHT SHOW episodes

  • Episode 9: Cloudera co-founder on the future of big data / A tough week in the cloud

    In this episode of the ArchiTECHt Show, host Derrick Harris (ArchiTECHt) speaks with Cloudera co-founder and chief strategy officer Mike Olson about the state of Hadoop and Spark, and how machine learning is driving adoption of big data technologies. Olson also weighs in on the recent Hadoop cluster hacks and how companies like his can compete in the cloud, among other topics.

    In the news portion, Derrick is joined by special guest Stacey Higginbotham (Stacey on IOT and the Internet of Things Podcast) to discuss how the big Amazon S3 outage affected the world of connected devices; the infamous connected teddy bear hack rooted in an insecure MongoDB instance; and how we'll finally make the Internet of Things intelligent.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 8: The future of enterprise IT: Containers, clouds and even IBM?!

    In this episode of the ArchiTECHt Show, host Derrick Harris (ArchiTECHt) interviews Peter Yared, co-founder and CTO of enterprise IT startup Sapho. Yared discusses a wide range of issues, including:

    • Sapho's mission of helping enterprises optimize their myriad services through "micro apps."
    • The role Kubernetes plays in Sapho's software, as well as in the future of software delivery.
    • His time as CIO at CBS Interactive, spent modernizing the company's IT operation.
    • Why it might be too early to write off IBM's future.
    • Seattle's move to displace Silicon Valley as in innovation hub.
    • And, most importantly, his decades of training in various martial arts, including muay thai.

    There is no news segment this week.

    36 min
  • Episode 7: Box co-founder talks Kubernetes and multi-cloud nirvana

    In this episode, co-hosts Derrick Harris (ArchiTECHt) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) interview Sam Ghods, co-founder and systems architect at Box, about his company's migration from a PHP monolith to microservices. Ghods details why Box chose Kubernetes as the foundation of its new backend, and why he believes containers can bring about a cloud computing nirvana where developers don't worry about servers and workloads can move freely among platforms.

    In the news segment, Barb and Derrick break down Google's big Cloud Spanner database announcement and Amazon's collaboration-focused Chime product, among other topics.

    57 min
  • Episode 6: Managing scale at GitHub and realizing Walmart is an 'open source Mecca'

    In this episode, Derrick Harris (ArchiTECHt) interviews Sam Lambert, senior director of infrastructure engineering at GitHub, about how the company manages its global data center footprint. Lambert also shares insights into how the company works with large companies, including Apple, on their open source endeavors and some of his favorite open source projects. If you write software, you'll want to listen.

    In the news segment, Derrick and co-host Barb Darrow (Fortune) discuss AWS earnings, Snap's $2 billion commitment to Google Cloud and if the RethinkDB saga portends broader changes in open source.

    52 min
  • Episode 5: All things AI with Andrew Ng

    In this episode, Derrick Harris (ArchiTECHt) interviews Baidu chief scientist (and Coursera co-founder) Andrew Ng on a wide range of artificial intelligence topics, including voice control vs. screens; how market forces in China have made it a frontrunner in NLP; the feasibility of "enterprise" deep learning software; and how to address the impacts of AI on the labor force.

    In the news segment, Derrick and co-host Barb Darrow (Fortune) talk open source AI, Alexa and cloud earnings season.

    54 min
  • Episode 4: The Schrodinger's cat school of leadership

    In this episode, co-hosts Derrick Harris (ArchiTECHt) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) discuss Cisco's big $3.7 billion acquisition of AppDynamics; Oracle's mega hardware layoffs; Microsoft appointing former LinkedIn SVP Kevin Scott to CTO; and the trend of NBA teams putting advertising on their jerseys (yes, there's a tech hook).

    Derrick also interviews Instagram's head of engineering, James Everingham, who shares his insights of more than 30 years as a software engineer. Everingham talks about how software has evolved, how software developers have evolved and how his management style has evolved (hint: it involves quantum physics).

    53 min
  • Episode 3: The rise of "serverless" and the demise of the "blade-SAN mafia"

    In this episode of the ArchiTECHt show, co-hosts Derrick Harris and Barb Darrow discuss Microsoft's multi-million-dollar investment in Montreal's artificial intelligence community; former Microsoft SVP Qi Lu taking on the COO role at Baidu; and why Oracle insists on trying to compete with Amazon in the cloud.

    This week's (highly opinionated) guest is Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill. He talks all about why Samsung is intent on running its own cloud; why cloud lock-in happens easier than you might think (especially when that Amazon Snowmobile backs up to your data center); and why he hates the term "serverless" but believes it's the future of computing.

    58 min
  • Episode 2: A crash course from Google on engineering for uptime

    In this episode, Derrick and Barb discuss the week's news in enterprise IT, including:

    • The Greenpeace cloud rankings.
    • The difficulty of regulating artificial intelligence.
    • Atlassian buying Trello for $425 million.

    Then, they interview Dave Rensin, director of Google's Customer Reliability Engineering team, to get the details on:

    • How Google actually helps customers run reliable applications in the cloud.
    • Common mistakes and application architectures the CRE team sees, and how they fix them.
    • How Google plans to make money from this free and resource-limited service.
    45 min
  • Episode 1: The Amazon Menace

    In the inaugural episode, Mike Driscoll (Founder and CEO, Metamarkets) joins hosts Derrick Harris (ArchiTECHt) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) to discuss the week's news—including Google's full-court press to attract data center professionals to its cloud—and make predictions for 2017. Driscoll also shares his experiences running a fast-growing startup, which include coming to terms with cloud lock-in and deciding to open source a foundational technology.

    43 min

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A weekly podcast about the business of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and data science. Hosted by Derrick Harris.