cloud2030

What 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...

We 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...

Platform 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 DevOp...

There’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 podc...

How 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...

How 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 fed...

We 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 t...

Klaus 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...

Distributed 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: http...

How 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 hypotheti...

How 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...

What happens in the age of cloud scarcity, and are the major public clouds going to become our next OPEC, where they regulate and control prices to such a degree that they can float things up and down? In doing that, does that mean that cloud computing has become a commodity that can be traded and bought from different providers with a marketplace? All of these questions and more are on our minds...

Our discussion about development methodologies quickly turns into one about product management methodology. Those things are interlinked, and we spend a lot of time talking about how product management and the influence on user and operational experience has been transformed by the forces of the market. We also discuss how difficult it is to then organize team development processes to fit these qu...

We talk about understanding analyst reports and engaging with analysts. How do analysts shape the industry and the industry shapes the analysts? Today we discuss how every part of this ecosystem has to work together in order for us to build serviceable technology, because fundamentally, we count on the analysts to help understand what's ready, what the problems are, and what's working or not worki...

Special guest Bill Mulligan (https://twitter.com/breakawaybilly/) talks to us about the use cases for BPF and how it works. We discuss eBPF, the kernel extensions that allow you to write small programs that work inside of kernel space in a safe sandbox way. These have a lot of applications, and they’ve been creating a lot of hype inside of the Kubernetes community as a way to address networking sh...

How do you build, manage and fund your systems? Today's episode is about talent, staffing and hiring the right people to do the job for you. How you make hiring decisions is inexorably linked to how you think about solving, funding, and structuring solutions around those problems. You cannot hire people without also having straightforward answers for those questions. We have a fantastic conversati...

How do we help junior people build the right skills to do advanced automation system administration, and actually build systems that are resilient and robust? Then, after understanding that that is a learned skill that's predominantly learned by doing the work, troubleshooting. We started the conversation talking through how to teach troubleshooting and find opportunities for that. But we transfor...

VMware Explore is a show at the end of August where VMware brings together its community, its vendors and tells what's going on. VMware is dominating in their market, they are making the right moves, and doing a good job for their customers and their partners. This is a surprising summary of the conversation, because this conclusion is certainly not where we started out. In this conversation, we s...

How do you build effective, productive platform teams? What should their mission be, and what type of tools and dangers do they have? We start by questioning if there are such things as platform teams and their roles, as well as how they can go awry in modern organizations. At the end, we recognize that they do and can provide a very important role. In this conversation, you will learn the right w...

How do supply chain, ecologic, capital, and political issues limit our ability to continue to build big data centers? Today we expand on this continued conversation. We're already seeing this in the news, and we need to rethink how we are building a lot of the core infrastructure we depend on. That includes power, data centers, networking and connectivity. Potentially even human logic, which we ge...

How do we build advanced innovative products and companies? We discuss the Chips act and global supply chain of silicon and manufacturing in today’s episode. We took that apart into its component parts: supply chains, raw materials, power, whether talent, real estate, and put it back together in ways that look forward towards how we think these forces and global politics are going to shape manufac...

When working with orchestration in automated systems, how do you find the right balance between things that are event driven and things that are workflow driven, or more linear? We go through some of the history of where we went from linear orchestration (Ansible) to timed orchestration (Chef or Puppet). We also discussed SaltStack, which had an event driven system into it, but didn't gain the tra...

How can we structure incentives to build strong, resilient infrastructure? Today we talk about power infrastructure. There are a lot of commercial incentives for internet providers and for consumers to have good internet, but there aren't the same incentives for consumers to have reliable power systems. We're seeing a rash of failures and faults in the grid. In this conversation, we talk about sto...

We continue our hiring advice series in this episode. It's a really powerful thing to have people who have established careers, think about what would have made a difference, think about what is important when we work with and mentor inexperienced and junior people who are building a career. This episode is full of thoughtful advice on how to build subject matter expertise, and the ephemeral quali...

What are the challenges of interconnectedness and transparency, specifically concerning Kubernetes and cloud native applications? We have a fascinating discussion sparked by the question of how exposed we are. What happens when something we don't know is connected is open and exposed as hackable? What happens when it closes, and we didn't know? We talked about how this is inherent in the architect...