Cloud Unfiltered

Why would you leave a perfectly good career as an English professor and start over again as a programmer? Bekah Hawrot Weigel explains on this week’s episode of Cloud Unfiltered. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

As a distinguished architect at Chef Software, Scott Ford is up to his neck in the business of IT automation--all day every day. So he's got a front row seat to what's actually happening out there, and a lot of insight as a result. Among other things, he says that digital transformation is real, that everything should be driven as code, that we should definitely read The Phoenix Project, and that the end of Windows 2008 support is a hot issue in his world right now. Hear what he has to say about all those things and more on this episode of Cloud Unfiltered. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

How do you make the right decisions about moving to the cloud when there are over half a million SKUs in AWS alone? In this week's episode, Jeff Aden of 2nd Watch explains how AWS has changed, how moving to the cloud is helping some companies save a LOT of money, and where the cost savings opportunities are for others that haven't made the move yet. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

Yes, companies are still doing it. They're moving to the cloud--or continuing to move to the cloud--and sometimes they need help. This week we talk with Javed Sikander about how companies in different market segments are approaching cloud differently, why they're choosing different cloud providers, which companies are asking for hybrid solutions, and how his conversations with cloud customers are different now than they were five years ago. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

More than 100 billion IoT devices will be shipped over the next 4-5 years, and those devices will generate an almost unimaginable volume of data. But we can't store it all in the cloud, and there aren't enough smart people to manage it all, so what happens with it? Simon Crosby says AI at the Edge is the answer, and he explains why in this week's episode of Cloud Unfiltered. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

What can AI contribute in the context of Operations? Who uses it? What do they use it for? How does it work? And does it actually mean you'll soon be replacing your Ops team with an application? We talk about this and more on Episode 75 of Cloud Unfiltered. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

Joe Duffy had been a software engineer for 20 years, but when he started working with container and serverless technologies he was stunned by the amount of time he had to spend learning obscure concepts and completing repetitive manual tasks. Convinced there had to be a better way, he started a multi-language, multi-cloud development platform called Pulumi. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

Pete Johnson has a side hustle. It's a serverless LAMP stack for Kubernetes that he calls FONK. In this episode we find out what FONK stands for, what it does, why Pete started it, and how it can make working with containers a whole lot more efficient all the way around. His main collaborator, Julio Gomez joins us as well to provide additional insight into how the project is moving forward and what problems it solves. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

Some places in the world simply aren't very well served by public cloud providers. Think most of Africa. Or South America. In those places, the distance between users and the nearest data center is great enough that latency becomes noticeable--and problematic. DeepCloud AI aims to address that problem by creating a network of unused compute and storage capacity that individual companies can make available to others in exchange for financial rewards. Can it work? And how will it work? We discuss that and more with DeepCloud CTO Geeta Chaun on this week's episode of Cloud Unfiltered! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

In late January, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of LF Edge--an umbrella organization to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. In this episode, Arpit Joshipura explains why LF Edge was needed, who it serves, which projects are anchoring it, and how edge computing impacts a wider variety of industries every day. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

Establishing an easy-to-use hybrid cloud that delivers a seamless user experience is virtually impossible if you go the DIY route. But the process gets a whole lot easier--and a whole lot faster--when you do it with the help of the recently announced Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS. In this episode we speak with Matt Ferguson of Cisco's Multicloud Integrations and Solutions Group about why Cisco collaborated with AWS on this project, which use cases the solution is best suited for, how it works on the back end, how it's supported, and where you can go today to try it out for free. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

When you change a product so much that you decide a name change is appropriate as well, you must have a heck of a story to tell. And that's exactly what Jeremy Oakey does in this episode of Cloud Unfiltered. Recorded on the exhibitor floor of Cisco Live Barcelona, this discussion explores the new CloudCenter Suite's features, consumption models, use cases, and more. If managing cloud workloads in a more efficient manner appeals to you in any way, be sure to check it out. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

How far into the cloud journey are most customers when they engage Cisco Services? What do they want help with? What percentage of their apps are ready to be moved to the cloud? And which apps are regularly problematic to move over? We'll answer these questions and many more on this week's episode of Cloud Unfiltered. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

What kind of gremlins lurk within the millions of lines of code that comprise your company's applications? Are they slowing transactions down? Causing your applications to use more capacity than they'd otherwise need? Stressing the system in ways that create a poor customer experience? Application Performance Management tools help you establish baselines for your environment, set thresholds for alerts, and give you the visibility you need to stay ahead of any problems those gremlins may create before they can do any damage. Today we speak with Kyle Tyacke, Ravi Lachhman, and Marco Coulter of the AppDynamics team. They explain why APM tools are important, how they're leveraged in the real world, and why AppD is uniquely equipped among those APM tools to help you identify problems within your applications and resolve them quickly. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

The grand finale of our KubeCon/CloudNativeCon series features Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS at RedHat. In this discussion he gives us the lowdown on newly-admitted CNCF incubator project etcd! Never heard of etcd? Take a few minutes to find out how this project has become an integral part of pretty much all Kubernetes clusters. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

New to Kubernetes? Then Noobernetes is for you. Neependra and Karthik are known for their wildly popular Kubernetes 101 classes on edX and Lynda.com. Today they talk through the ten most common questions they get from students who have taken those classes--as well as their best answers. If you're a Kubernetes noob (or know someone who is) this is the episode for you! This is the fourth episode in the KubeCon series. The links below will take you to some of the resources recommended during the show. http://bit.ly/k8s-courseshttps://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-kuberneteshttps://cloudyuga.guruhttps://pilot.cloudyuga.guru/explore This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

Migrating from legacy systems is time consuming, expensive, and risky--even if you're not a company that millions of people depend on for a ride. So what drove Lyft to make the move? How did they do it? And how did they manage to preserve service levels throughout the process? Lita explains it all in Part Three of our KubeCon/CloudNativeCon series. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

What do you do when your employer needs you to convert a huge catalog of music into new formats? You jump head-first into Kubernetes and build a scalable environment for executing batch and on-demand encoding workloads. At least that's what these guys did. Find out how they did it, what tools they employed, what they did right, and what they might have done differently. This is Day Two of the KubeCon series. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

This is the first episode in the series we're doing at KubeCon Seattle. In it, James explains how his company is jumping from one public cloud to another with the help of Kubernetes. He also covers why they're doing it and shares his top tips for anyone else contemplating such a move.Please forgive the dodgy audio. I'm working with some new audio equipment, and it may take a couple more shows to iron out the wrinkles. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

How is cloud at the edge going to make the world better? And does your business need to be worrying about it? On this week's episode we talk with Matt Caulfield about the reasons some companies will really want and need cloud at the edge, and why others will be just fine without it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com