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469 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAn excellent source for industry thought leadership in Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Open Source base on discussions at.the2030.cloud
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Can ChatGPT do DevOps?
July 07, 2023 21:43 - 34 minutes - 32 MBWe use ChatGPT to live create DevOps, automation, Ansible, TerraForm, Python, and interact with different clouds to get advice on how to set up clouds. This discussion includes a screen share session, so if you're listening to this audio there will be times when we are talking about something you can't see but I do make a point of working to explain what we're doing. There’s also a video of the screen share session if you prefer. Video: https://youtu.be/hU7pUDfliGk Transcript: https://otter...
Leading And Selling Decisions in Enterprises
June 30, 2023 22:55 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBWhat does it take to make a good decision? We discuss an interesting take on this as we integrate the topic of how to sell into situations, and selling is the ultimate drive in a decision. Our conversation mixes the challenges of making decisions as a leader with the challenges of selling into organizations where people have to make a decision to choose your product. It also includes tips on how to frame decisions, how to position decisions, and more. If you engage in projects and selling...
Generative Coding & DevOps Challenges
June 30, 2023 22:53 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBWhat can we expect generative AI to generate and is it going to produce good code? Today we talk about Gluecon and generative DevOps and the different concepts and capabilities around it. What impact is it going to have on developers? How do we control that? Today’s discussion was in preparation for our session on June 13, where we're going to group program GPT to see what type of DevOps coding skills we can prompt. We talked about the necessity of prompting in this session and covered some...
Domains And Access For Metadata
June 17, 2023 16:40 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBWhat actually is used to describe the provenance and information that comes with our data? Today we discuss metadata and the governance, security, hint, domains, date that accompany data in ways that in some senses are more important than data. How can we move, change and transform data? We had a really robust conversation about how access to data is so critical in actually understanding how data is used. This is a topic we struggle with: figuring out the naming, how things work, and the c...
The Kubernetes Alternate Universe
June 17, 2023 16:36 - 55 minutes - 51 MBWhat would our systems look like if we didn't have Kubernetes? We started this discussion with platform engineering and its associated challenges. In talking about platforms, we covered ways in which people can consume infrastructure more effectively. That segwayed directly into ways in which Kubernetes could be changed under the covers, used for virtualization use for non traditional containerized automation. This episode is a pretty thorough review of alternatives to Kubernetes, and the...
Strengthening Security's Weakest Link
June 10, 2023 17:12 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBHow do you deal with the weakest link in security? Today we talk through how we can secure systems, all the way from what technical processes put in place to the people involved to legal enforcement, and who pays the price when data is compromised? There's a lot to digest here that comes back to thoughtful ways in which we can deal with the weakest link in the systems. How do we create robust security models? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/mkup2hKSzyP0PkpxkkoPbnQrNgw?utm_source=copy_url ...
Data Cartels Book Discussion
June 10, 2023 17:10 - 56 minutes - 52 MBThe book Data Cartels by Sarah Lambda serves as a starting point for our discussion today. https://www.amazon.com/Data-Cartels-Companies-Monopolize-Information/dp/1503633713 A dense and thoughtful book, it is straight up the alley of the type of conversations of the2030.cloud has. Our analysis of the book and the challenges it provides - the data compliance governance, the legality, the threat, and broader implications of what Dr. Lambda lays out - are all really important. Today’s podcas...
What is Zero Trust?
May 26, 2023 21:45 - 57 minutes - 53 MBHow can you execute on a zero trust strategy and what do you need to keep in mind while building it? Today covers the 101 and 201 levels on zero trust. We had a really good conversation about how it works, what doesn't work, what you need to be prepared for. Even if you think you understand zero trust, you will get something out of this conversation. And if it's a new topic for you, you can also benefit from this pragmatic discussion of zero trust, security and application architects. Tran...
Making SBOM A Reality
May 26, 2023 21:45 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBSoftware bills of materials are one of the most critical, modern software development practices that people should be doing but don't. They have significant impacts in improving security, provenance, reproducibility, and license compliance. The benefits of having a good software bill of materials in our technology industry are incredibly high, both as a producer and a consumer. And yet, this is one of those places where I feel like we have really fallen behind. Transcript: https://otter.ai...
AI And Technical Debt
May 13, 2023 14:49 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBWe dig into a topic written about by Eric Norlin or SK ventures about technical debt and AI. In this episode, we discuss the consequences of generative AI could be radically transforming the way in which we generate code and deal with code that has been generated in technical debt. We explore some fascinating concepts about how fast we can iterate, how we change the dynamics of building software, building automation, and the expertise required to architect systems. This leads pretty far dow...
Life Without Kubernetes
May 13, 2023 14:49 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBWe continue our discussion of what would the environment look like without Kubernetes? We started with the idea of what if Kubernetes went away, what if there was a copyright or a trademark or an API issue that made us have to abandon Kubernetes altogether? In this episode we played what if scenarios, exploring what made Kubernetes unique, and if parts of Kubernetes or parts of the architectural model could exist outside of Kubernetes? What would be necessary? We identified enough parts o...
Generative DevOps
May 05, 2023 23:09 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBNOTE: This is Rob's Gluecon topic on 5/24. Save $300 if you register with speaker300 at https://www.gluecon.com We dive into the question of whether or not generative AI can be used to productively change DevOps automation and the control of infrastructure. We've discussed the closed loop side of using AI to manage infrastructure in the past, but this episode we really dive into the idea of creating automation and using generative AI. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/VtnznHgydT3_6QSJpkSb3uU...
AI Time To Decision
May 05, 2023 23:06 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBWe talk about improving the time it takes to make decisions - called time to decision, a topic that we like to address quite a bit. We started with the news of the day around AI, ml Chaffee GP, and learning models. We asked ourselves if AI/ML and generative AI could change the way expertise is used to make decisions and improve the time to the decision for experts. What type of implications would that have in the market? If you've been tracking this subject, I know you will find this exci...
Collaborative Platform Engineering
April 28, 2023 23:13 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBToday we look at what it takes to have much more collaborative building of automation, templates and shared components that are necessary to really drive platform engineering, and not just between teams at the same company. We make components for infrastructure automation that bridges the industry because they can be shared much more broadly, similar to the way we share modules in coding languages. We dug into what it takes to make that type of environment work in automation, and what are t...
Open Source Future
April 28, 2023 23:12 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBHow do we sustain open source? Today we discussed how the commercial models and sustaining models around open source are changing and evolving. We also included some conversations about whether or not generative AI might actually change the economics around that part of open source. We hit on top projects, open source hardware, open source, operating systems platforms, a whole gambit, and how it fits together into a sustainable model for the users, companies, enterprises, and really everybo...
AI And Platform Migration
April 22, 2023 19:42 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBA conversation about platform migration turned into an interesting topic about the end of expertise and the changing of the way we think about expertise in a variety of contexts. How can platform improvement be radically transformed by the use of AI? We discuss entering a world where the lock that we've had in a platform, or the longevity of a platform, is radically transformed by the ability to review, scan, test, correct, and transport the data included in that system. The expertise neede...
Ops After Kubernetes?
April 22, 2023 19:41 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBHow has Kubernetes changed our industry? Today's discussion is part of a multi podcast conversation in which we're going to think about ways in which Kubernetes could go away, or could influence other technologies in such a way to be transformative. We went down the path of what we have learned from Kubernetes and how it influences other aspects of IT operations, architecture and design, and explored the impact that the expectation for declarative immutable operational constructs will play ...
Metadata Architecture
April 16, 2023 22:48 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBEvery time we look at data analytics and data systems, the idea of having a way to manage control and explain the data is actually as important as the data itself. This episode is all about metadata, specifically, metadata related to data analytics analysis, Big Data computation, sort of the data lake metadata problem. Today we discuss the challenges of data management, but also the potential of understanding so much more about how data is used. If you are an IT professional or a data profes...
The Evolving SDLC
April 16, 2023 22:47 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBEmily Friedman's DevOpsDays Ukraine presentation about rethinking the software development lifecycle or SDLC sparks our conversation today. She describes looking at it as a multi-dimensional cross functional discipline, that actually accounts for six different vectors of capabilities that need to be factored in - a resilient and robust look at the SDLC. Watch her YouTube: We found that the model does not cover all of the things that we've been discussing as important things to consider in bu...
Decentralized Platform Engineering
April 01, 2023 14:15 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBWhat are the human and management factors that go into building great platform engineering? And what are the efforts of control having too much control or too much flexibility, not enough collaboration, not creating space for innovation, and changing inside what's inside these platform engineering efforts? Today, we discuss centralized versus decentralized platform engineering, or as came up in the conversation about platform engineering, it's the opposite of Java Enterprise, version and pl...
Data Gravity vs AI and Metadata
March 24, 2023 21:52 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBWe check in on data gravity to see how generative AI and conversations about metadata and thinking on data lakes impacts data gravity thinking in general. Data gravity is a concept that has been propagated by David McCrory, a friend of mine, who defined this idea that data itself, the aggregation of data, the use and transit of data has a gravitational effect. That it pulls more data to it as well as workloads towards it. We jumped right into impacts of data gravity in this conversation. ...
Deflating Cloud Mythology [+ book club]
March 18, 2023 22:49 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBIs hardware going to be innovative and change? Brian Cantrell brings up oxide computing and some of their design motivation. Today we discuss our skepticism about some of his points, as well as the impacts for cloud distributed Compute hardware design mainframes, cloud, repatriation, and a whole bunch of topics about next generation thinking in Compute infrastructure management and applications. We are officially starting our cloud2030 book group and I hope you will join us - we are going...
Generative AI Social Medial
March 11, 2023 00:47 - 57 minutes - 53 MBHow does AI chat and generative AI have the potential to disrupt everything we know about social media? Today we talk Twitter versus mastodon. We spend most of our time talking about the power, influence and simple use cases for generative AI. Is this going to break Mastodon, Twitter and other forms of social media? We have a pretty compelling conversation about that, too. If you're a fan of Mastodon and Twitter, jump forward to about 30 minutes in when we really start getting down to t...
Generative AI In IT
March 03, 2023 19:12 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBWhat is generative AI and what are people now just generically calling ChatGPT? We put these things in a technical frame, meaning can we use generative AI to improve our programming, testing or automation? What does it take to use these concepts in ways that iteratively improve IT infrastructures. We review the state of chat, ChatGPT, AI infrastructure and things like that. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/nFCSMPFyUVHO50I0jGP2HXCas7c?utm_source=copy_url Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/...
Can Platform Engineering Hide Complexity?
March 03, 2023 19:11 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBIs platform engineering effective at hiding complexity from developers? Today we tear apart what platform engineering is doing, how it came about and what it's trying to be. We discuss what companies are trying to accomplish with platform engineering - how can successful efforts improve outcomes for development teams and operations teams by improving collaboration in contracts? Why and how is that important, and what do those efforts entail? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/bVd1_IwEqFD-uEYxs...
Digital Twins + AI = WOW
February 25, 2023 15:56 - 1 hour - 58 MBHow can the intersection of generative AI machine learning and artificial intelligence be applied to environments using digital twins? Today we discuss digital twins and artificial intelligence. How can we improve the simulations, the systems, the interactions that we build? How can we correctly model complex components of everything from cars to pumps in ways that allow us to then build on top and build more intelligent systems. We come up with some grounded examples. Mentioned: https:...
Business Value Of Platform Engineering
February 18, 2023 03:18 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBPlatform engineering is quite buzzy and has a lot of hype at the moment. Today we dug behind the hype to acknowledge how the term is being used and misused. We cover why this is a topic of interest, how it’s driving customer thinking around operations and development teams, how it's working to establish standard operating procedure around infrastructure and operations to support a business, and how those needs drive the evolution of our technology, infrastructure and design thinking. Trans...
Chick-Fil-A Edge Kubernetes Deep Dive
February 18, 2023 03:18 - 53 minutes - 49 MBWe break down the edge compute cluster by the Chick-fil-A team, and we talk about how they use Kubernetes, specifically K3s in 2500 of their restaurants to build an IoT and restaurant management system. This system uses Intel Knucks, a commodity commercial residential grade hardware. It’s an update on a four year old Kubernetes story with a lot of buzz, and they show how they have been successful building this system. If you're interested in Kubernetes, Edge DevOps and distributed systems...
Improving Time To Decision
February 11, 2023 15:14 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBHow do we improve the time to decision for CIOs? Today we talk about general business practice and how we can help. Technical innovators and architects create value for the teams that they support. This can either be from an automation perspective, which is what RackN does, or from a data perspective, which Tyler describes in the podcast today. These are real challenges. When we flip the script and talk about the miscommunication between how CIOs see business challenges and translate busi...
Thoughts About Cloud2030 [retro]
February 11, 2023 15:11 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBThis episode is a one person retrospective on Cloud 2030. As well as what we want to be talking about and doing over the next year. I hope you'll take a second and listen to my reflection on what we've been talking about and where things are going. Think about what you want the show to be. This podcast is structured around the discussions we come up with together, as well as current events. We try to think deeply and in an unusual way here, and I hope you're getting a lot of that. Transcri...
Hachyderm.io Leaves Basement
February 03, 2023 20:52 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBHazel walks us through the Hackyderm.io leaving the basement migration. We also talk much more generally about Mastodon fediverse and scaling distributed systems. This podcast is like a super class in what it takes to scale infrastructure and systems, especially live and under duress. Every minute of this conversation is worth listening to twice. Check out these resources as well: * https://hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly * https://opalstack.social/@d3cline/109638734488964593 * https://communit...
Meta Data, Dark Data and Intent
February 03, 2023 20:50 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBData comes from many different places, sources, and ways. Some data we call dark data, which is data not accessible to you, and all of it relevant. Today we talk about metadata as part of the governance control management exposure of data. An important layer beyond the data itself is the governance intent, how people access it, and how you combine data. We discuss exactly what that is, but still only touch the surface. References: https://yago-knowledge.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On...
Retail Edge Kubernetes ala Chick-Fil-A
January 29, 2023 02:34 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBWe get an update for the first time in four years about Chick-fil-A edge Kubernetes clusters that gets to the heart of how building distributed infrastructure works and what the challenges are. Article: https://medium.com/chick-fil-atech/enterprise-restaurant-compute-f5e2fd63d20f We had a fantastic conversation about laying the foundations for this. We came away with two really important thoughts about what edge infrastructure looks like, how you pick it, can Kubernetes be used, what is Io...
Platform Engineering on API Abstractions
January 29, 2023 02:32 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBOur mini episode today is a short discussion of API delineation and abstractions for platform engineering. This was a short intro discussion, and it is especially interesting because platform is a major topic we will be exploring in the coming year. We highlight the challenges of finding the right abstraction points as well as building front end and back end automation. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/5gzoEliQ5H7N5LnGSP6sdOFNjv8 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-paper-rolls-on-white...
Stochastic Parrots And Processes
January 21, 2023 14:56 - 38 minutes - 35 MBToday is a one on one discussion between me and Rocky Grover about infrastructure, infrastructure patterns, AI, and how all of these systems connect. We think deeply about what it takes to design great systems and cover a ton of ground to connect it all back together into systems design. Rocky has a lot of depth of experience here. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/EYgaZUm5s36KYrUhDIwcXTkLHcA Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/bird-blue-zoo-large-52549/
Metadata For A Data Control Plane
January 21, 2023 14:54 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBMetadata is information that travels with the raw data that provides context, provenance, security, authorship, controls, and indexing. The number of ways that you can expand the use of data is controlled by adding metadata. It creates a change in how we look at and manage data. Instead of creating control systems that contain the data, it’s actually packaged the control infrastructure, or the data control plane, as part of the data so that all of the systems can participate in it. We als...
ROI from Putting Data In Context
January 13, 2023 19:40 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBIf you love data and data context formats for exchanging data, you will love this conversation. Today’s episode is a deep conversation about the potential ability to define ways in which we produce, store and share data, providing context using markup languages, and then being able to extend that. It’s a fascinating conversation about how much we could improve our use of data if we were able to provide more context about who wanted to see it and what relevance it had. We also have some in...
Exploring Backstage.io Integration
January 13, 2023 19:30 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBToday we talk about backstage.io, and we have that conversation centered around a demo done by one of the RackN and interns, Zander Franks. Check out the demo video here: https://youtu.be/cAQQOmKz4OI Zander has been exploring with the backstage to Digital Rebar integration, and the conversation that results explains backstage in some fundamental ways and also what it takes to build good developer portals. You will find in this episode both the broader information about how to do integrati...
Chat GPT In IT
January 06, 2023 23:03 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBWe discussed the implications of chat GPT for it and the industry. In today’s episode, we spend a lot of time figuring out how data provenance governance, bias, and ownership will impact chat GPT in IT and technology and cloud contexts. This discussion really looks into how chat GPT can be used in disruptive ways, but also in protective ways as what we describe as guardrails for how these systems are going to get built. We come to some very interesting conclusions. Transcript: https://...
Balancing Architecture and Ease of Use
December 30, 2022 17:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBWhat is the architectural balance between learning curve, architecture, building things that can scale while acknowledging overhead, and the attitude of just get it done? Don't make my tools complex and let me be very productive quickly. If it doesn't scale, then we see this as an ongoing challenge. Two engineers from RackN led today’s discussion in which we really talked about the balance that we try to achieve at RackN as we design our product, with the understanding that, ultimately, sca...
2030 Forecast for 2023
December 26, 2022 22:21 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBWe do a 2022 retrospective slash 2023 prediction episode - a sort of end of the year classic for us, except our predictions and look ahead are different from most people's. We're looking at some broader trends around software, build materials, impact of GPT (which will be a future episode), edge Technology, cloud adoption, security, faults and failures. Not your garden variety look back look ahead type of show. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/IzKlo7CAljPkSzmyV5qLy5kLPj0 Image: https://www....
Platform Engineering Makes You Angry?
December 22, 2022 17:31 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBPlatform engineering is a topic that seems to be generating a lot of interest going into 2023. It’s sure to be one of those things that enterprises spend a lot of time arguing about and telling each other that they're doing it wrong. In this podcast, we dissect why platform engineering seems to be so controversial, and what we can do to help make it more understandable. We break it down into DevOps components, team components, Dev components, operations components, and ultimately talk abo...
Picking up Web3 after FTX
December 17, 2022 01:25 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBThere’s a lot to the evolving world of web three, crypto, and distributed infrastructure blockchain, jump and distributed ledger. That environment has changed dramatically in the last several weeks with the crypto winter followed by the ft x implosion. It has really changed people's perception of the market, which is much broader than just crypto but yet they are very closely coupled. In this podcast, we're going to discuss what happened and what the ramifications are, why things like thi...
Explaining Kubernetes Controller Architecture
December 09, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBHow does the Kubernetes admission controller work, what are the failure modes and what do we need to guard against? Today, we discuss almost everything that you need to know to understand the admission controller process better and to think about it in a secure, robust and resilient way. I can't think of a better primer on today’s topic and Kubernetes architecture more generally, I am certain you will enjoy the discussion. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/RG9oPvwRtpofwUfg0rXLMKdV50I Image:...
Making Social Media Safe (for Brands?)
December 06, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBHow do we make social networks safe? Who we make them safe for is really important, and today we talked about making them safe for brands, advertisers and communities. These groups want to organize in technical and professional ways, not just to prevent harm for the users or the safety of the users from persecution. We drilled into Mastodon specifically as a haven for Twitter users and how the federated system that Mastodon uses could actually be a really fantastic commercial model for bran...
Whats After Twitter?
November 05, 2022 02:07 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBWe dig into the news of the day instead of a scheduled topic on today’s podcast. This news was about Twitter, and what is going on in the social media landscape. We have a fantastic 2030 style conversation, not specifically about Twitter, or even its new owner, but social media and its needs, how people think about social media, what societal purpose it serves, and how we construct the back ends to support those systems. We talked about alternative platforms and historical platforms, as w...
Kubecon Retrospective
November 05, 2022 02:06 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBKlaus and I go through what happened at the Kubecon North America event in Detroit. Specifically, lessons learned in watching how the community reacts to new technologies like CRDs, declarative programming, and cluster APIs. We also discuss the health of the community and the operators and vendors who were involved. We give our impressions and insight - this conversation deep dives into practical use and futures in Kubernetes. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/8sNj_ZMTbKuJxAhOZhlvLAckWhc Im...
Deep Dive into Distributed ID
October 31, 2022 15:23 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBDistributed ID is a web three concept of being able to use zero trust and identify users without having a central authority. In this conversation, we talk about critical concepts like Open ID trust government actions, and how this could be influential and important in a web three and IoT context. We really drill into how the system works, and I know you will enjoy the conversation Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/X_5lffVEG0LUTgsyoDOx5sJDwYM Images: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-putti...
Cloud Service Providers vs "The Supercloud"
October 22, 2022 03:59 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBHow does the moniker Supercloud apply to how cloud providers are changing over time? Specifically when facing market pressures, trying to lock in, get bigger and become essential. Today we discuss the changing nature of service providers, specifically cloud providers. This topic has been coming up on Twitter, and I know you will find this conversation fascinating. It talks both about the hypothetical and very practical drivers behind concepts like supercloud. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u...
What We're Watching At Kubecon
October 16, 2022 02:52 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBHow do Helm charts and operators interact with Kubernetes? Today we have a fascinating discussion about the interesting components of Kubernetes including Helm charts, admission controllers and things that are changing and being revised and updated. We discuss potential topics in anticipation for Kubecon, and if you're at all interested in Kubernetes, whether you're attending the conference or not, you will find this to be a must follow list of topics related to Kubernetes. Transcript: htt...