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11.29.2023

Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success. SHOW: 775 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - ...

The Cloudcast episodes:

11.29.2023 Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success. SHOW: 775 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - ...
11.26.2023 Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud How did the 2001 dotCom bubble burst lead to the 2008 housing crisis and how did it impact the technology markets? And the OpenAI Coup-oops! SHOW: 774 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - ...
11.22.2023 Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering Can you still call them the FAANG companies considering Facebook is now Meta and Google is now Alphabet? Maybe it’s MAANA now?! Elliott Clark (CEO/Founder, Batteries Included) talks about creating a Platform Engineering org and building an IDP before it ...
11.19.2023 2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey What happened in the lead-up to the Internet Bubble burst of 2001? What went right, what went wrong, and what lessons did we learn? (Part 1 of 3) SHOW: 772 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR ...
11.15.2023 Intro to Vector Databases Jeff Huber (@jeffreyhuber, Founder/CEO @trychroma) talks vector databases, data integration, RAG, Embedded models, and AI integration. SHOW: 771 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into ...
11.12.2023 Is AI the new Oppenheimer event? AI is reaching the point where there is wild speculation, potential regulations, and opinions on if it will destroy humanity. So how does anyone make sense of all of it? SHOW: 770 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK ...
11.08.2023 Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. SHOW: 769 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero ...
11.05.2023 The Challenges of Pre-Announcements Your favorite product just announced something new and you’re upset. Why didn’t they tell you about it ahead of time? Why didn’t they ask for your feedback? How does a launch work? SHOW: 768 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - ...
11.01.2023 Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud. SHOW: 767 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - ...
10.29.2023 A New Perspective on The Cloudcast Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules. SHOW: 766 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW ...
10.25.2023 Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS. SHOW: 765 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK ...
10.22.2023 Lessons Learned from a Decade of CNCF Projects As Docker talks about their successes and failures after 10 years, what lessons can be learned by open source companies, projects and foundations over the past decade. SHOW: 764 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW ...
10.18.2023 Inside Open Source Software Joe Curley (VP/GM Software & Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (@arungupta, VP/GM Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosystems. SHOW: 763 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST ...
10.15.2023 Where Will the Next Software Business Model Come From? Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the next few years? SHOW: 762 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST ...
10.11.2023 Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup Anish Bishen (Chief Data Architect @Sliide), Jay Rawal (Head of DevOps @Sliide), Ieva Jonaityte (TAM @DoIT) talk about scaling infrastructure and data services at a rapidly growing startup, with FinOps enabled. SHOW: 761 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw ...
10.08.2023 Navigating the Annual Review With many companies doing annual reviews this time of year, we go through some guidance, tips and tricks and strategies for navigating reviews with your manager, and reviews with your teams. SHOW: 760 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw ...
10.04.2023 DevOps Automated Governance Mike Long (CEO @_kosli) talks about the challenges of enabling Governance and Compliance into DevOps teams and processes SHOW: 759 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" All Things Open 2023 is ...
10.01.2023 Technology Enthusiast Lost at Sea Today we explore what to do when you’re stuck at a career crossroads between being technically valuable and managerial or leadership valuable. How to consider the tradeoffs. SHOW: 758 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW ...
09.27.2023 Will a New Cloud Emerge? Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely discuss the possibility of another major cloud provider emerging as the economy changes and new application workloads begin to take shape. SHOW: 757 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT ...
09.24.2023 Every company is a Hardware company What happens when every software company needs to be a hardware company first? And how are leading VC firms potentially predicting that the 2000s will be repeating themselves? SHOW: 756 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR ...
09.20.2023 Training and Labeling Foundational AI Models Alex Ratner (@ajratner, CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about labeling and training of LLMs. We go over Foundational Models and how to take an “off the shelf” model and fine-tune it for private use. SHOW: 755 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - ...
09.17.2023 A Proposal for OSS Longevity As OSS projects continue to look for ways to balance community, sustainability and profitability, let’s explore some alternative considerations for companies and communities. SHOW: 754 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" ...
09.13.2023 Automating Developer Security and Compliance Matt Spitz (@mattspitz, Head of Engineering at @TrustVanta) talks about the challenges of developer security and compliance. SHOW: 753 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with ...
09.10.2023 Digital Transformation meets its Liability moment As digital transformations are happening to major industries, we’ve moved into an era where legal issues could become more prevalent than the technologies. SHOW: 752 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" ...
09.06.2023 Updates to Infrastructure as Code Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Co-Founder/CEO @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of infrastructure as code, the challenges of multi-cloud, and applying Generative AI to Ops. SHOW: 751 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" ...
09.03.2023 The Labor Day episode about Tech Labor As we celebrate Labor Day (at least in the US), a few labor-centric topics are starting to dominate the headlines - Return to Office (RTO) and AI Augmentation. Let’s discuss how they might play out. SHOW: 750 CLOUD NEWS OF ...
08.30.2023 Economics & Optimization of AI/ML Luis Ceze (@luisceze, Founder/CEO @OctoML) talks about barriers to entry for AI & ML, the economics of funding, training, fine tuning, inferencing and optimizations. SHOW: 749 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST ...
08.27.2023 Considerations for Enterprise AI Let’s talk through some of the challenges that Enterprises will have with AI - from data location to GPU location, to model biases, to data privacy to training vs. execution. SHOW: 748 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK ...
08.23.2023 Streaming alternatives to Kafka Yaniv Ben Hemo (@yanivbh1, Founder/CEO at @memphis_Dev) talks about Memphis Cloud, an alternative architecture to delivering streaming data for applications. SHOW: 747 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Reduce the ...
08.20.2023 What is AWS after crossing the Chasm? As the competitive cloud landscape is shifting, let’s take a look at some possibilities of what AWS might look like after they cross the chasm. SHOW: 746 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - ...
08.16.2023 Understanding Machine Learning Features and Platforms Gaetan Castelein (@gaetcast, VP Marketing at @tectonai) talks about the complexities of building AI models, features and deploying AI into production for real-time applications. SHOW: 745 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST ...
08.13.2023 Cloud and Software Economics If every company has become a software company, is it still easy to be a profitable software company? Lots of things are changing around the economics of software. SHOW: 744 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR ...
08.09.2023 Trends in API Security Filip Verloy (@filipv, Field CTO at @NonameSecurity) talks about the latest trends in API security, how you could be a victim of a Moveit attack, and more SHOW: 743 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK ...
08.06.2023 The PizzaHut and TacoBell of Platforms Does it ever feel like all the technologies are just things layered on top of each other? Does it ever feel like platforms are a combination of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell? SHOW: 742 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - ...
08.02.2023 What's Happening with SuperCloud? Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) gives an update on the status of SuperClouds and talks about the recent SuperCloud 3 event. SHOW: 741 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK ...
07.30.2023 The Future of Software? What does the future of the software business look like? How much of an impact will SaaS and AI have on the profitability of software? SHOW: 740 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - ...
07.26.2023 Building Large AI Models Dr. Ronen Dar (Co-Founder/ CTO of @runailabs) talks about the challenges of running compute infrastructure for AI, the GPU ecosystem, sizing LLMs and more. SHOW: 739 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST ...
07.23.2023 Free or Fee is Often Complicated Some recent events in the tech industry have questioned the spirit of open source, the value of contributions, and the standards that various entities should be held to. This is not a new concept, and it’s often complicated. SHOW: 738 ...
07.19.2023 Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services Addison Huddy (@addisonhuddy, Sr Dir of PM @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of cloud-based Kafka platforms, and how this might reshape how all OSS software moves into the cloud. SHOW: 737 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO ...
07.16.2023 Higher Quality Outputs are Expected Higher interest rates, fragmented platforms, WFH uncertainty, VC funding declines, generational blending and technology shifts are going to force a new level of quality to be demanded by businesses. SHOW: 736 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT ...
07.12.2023 Database Monitoring & Observability Jonathan Morin (Product Lead @datadoghq) & Jason Manson-Hing (Product Manager) talk about emerging trends in Database monitoring and observability. SHOW: 735 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern ...
07.09.2023 An Analogy for App Modernization Just as ChatGPT gave AI a simple user interface, Meta’s new Thread application is going to make it easy to explain app modernization to your management team. SHOW: 734 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW ...
07.05.2023 2023 MidYear Update Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about the major trends in the 1st half of 2023, plus some predictions for the rest of 2023. SHOW: 733 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT ...
07.02.2023 Kudos to Kelsey Hightower Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) announced his retirement from Google this week. What comes next is unknown, but let’s take a few moments to appreciate the lessons he passed along to everyone. SHOW: 732 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK ...
06.28.2023 Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan, Director of Product @SnowflakeDB) talks about bringing apps to data, how orgs manage AI/ML, and the “enterprise” needs of Generative AI. SHOW: 731 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST ...
06.25.2023 Passions, Emotions, Friendships and Teams For most people, you're not always associated with a winning team. But for those moments when you are, it's so important to embrace it, enjoy it, and share it, because it often doesn't last long. SHOW: 730 CLOUD NEWS OF ...
06.21.2023 Second Wave of DevOps Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, Founder/CEO of @thesysteminit) talks about the potential for DevOps 2.0. What’s new, what needs to be started from scratch, and the formation of new ecosystems. SHOW: 729 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? ...
06.18.2023 Nobody wants to own Security Developers don’t want to be told “NO” by the Security team. They also don’t want to be responsible for security. Is Shift Left the right or wrong answer? SHOW: 728 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR ...
06.14.2023 Developer Security Randall Degges (@rdegges, Head DevRel & Community @snyksec) talks about best practices of how to integrate security into application development environments. SHOW: 727 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog ...
06.11.2023 The Hollowing Out of the Software Middle 'Software companies taste like chicken,' says private-equity mogul. 'They’re selling different products, but 80% of what they do is pretty much the same' SHOW: 726 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" ...

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The Cloudcast episodes:

Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps

Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud

Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering

2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey

Intro to Vector Databases

Is AI the new Oppenheimer event?

Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration

The Challenges of Pre-Announcements

Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis

A New Perspective on The Cloudcast

Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success

Lessons Learned from a Decade of CNCF Projects

Inside Open Source Software

Where Will the Next Software Business Model Come From?

Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup

Navigating the Annual Review

DevOps Automated Governance

Technology Enthusiast Lost at Sea

Will a New Cloud Emerge?

Every company is a Hardware company

Training and Labeling Foundational AI Models

A Proposal for OSS Longevity

Automating Developer Security and Compliance

Digital Transformation meets its Liability moment

Updates to Infrastructure as Code

The Labor Day episode about Tech Labor

Economics & Optimization of AI/ML

Considerations for Enterprise AI

Streaming alternatives to Kafka

What is AWS after crossing the Chasm?

Understanding Machine Learning Features and Platforms

Cloud and Software Economics

Trends in API Security

The PizzaHut and TacoBell of Platforms

What's Happening with SuperCloud?

The Future of Software?

Building Large AI Models

Free or Fee is Often Complicated

Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services

Higher Quality Outputs are Expected

Database Monitoring & Observability

An Analogy for App Modernization

2023 MidYear Update

Kudos to Kelsey Hightower

Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud

Passions, Emotions, Friendships and Teams

Second Wave of DevOps

Nobody wants to own Security

Developer Security

The Hollowing Out of the Software Middle