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How do you moderate content, and why? What is important to enforce and what are we thinking about? We talk content moderation all the way to the point of open source licenses for different rules of engagement depending on the space you are in. How we got there is fascinating and important. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/UK3qGMyAc4EqSjHzeUwOW3MbgI0 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/police-fun-fun...

How do you build GitOps, infrastructure and systems relying on events and monitoring, when you need to revert to a polling loop, or augment a polling loop with an event system? Today, we drill into concrete technical details about events and monitoring. We also suggest practical functional advice on how Git Ops works, how systems work, and how you can build a resilient system. Stick around for a b...

How do we handle distributing identity? DID stands for distributed identifiers, and today we talk about Web3 as well as distributing identity. Distributing identity is not just about people and personal identity, but also about things and how we identify and track different things in a distributed way without a centralized infrastructure. That's fundamental to what Web3 is talking about. How do we...

Human factors make governance as code a challenge - today we discuss why looking at things like audit and how we determine what has happened and respond to it in an automated way, may be a great first step to adding controls into a system. We talk about a lot of human factors of what makes it hard to create a governance system, or what creates a biased system or an unevenly governed system. We spe...

How do we use chaos monkeys in real life, and practically? This happens all the time when we have failures. The Rogers failure that took out the internet and cell phone use in Canada last week was the start of our discussion. Predicting how things are going to go out is a common theme for chaos monkeys, and really comes back to how we test infrastructure. Should we be putting it under stress in pl...

Today, we sat down and talked about current events and how things are going. We don't need to have an agenda to have a really interesting conversation, and that is exactly what happens! We start with some current events, the Rogers outage, Elon Musk, Twitter, GDPR, and the Jim's West space telescope. Then we put those things together into common threads about automation, autonomous cars and how so...

How do we manage complexity? Today we discuss sources of complexity and explore design rules. We also talk about how you think about the systems that you're building in ways that allow them to handle complexity gracefully. The simple answer is to have people who are good at thinking about complex systems. Part of that is experience in looking at complex systems, seeing how they operate and being r...

What makes people interested in new tech versus the stable, boring, things that keep the lights on work? It feels to me as if we're in the phase of development where we start saying, I need to make sure this all works. I've followed all the cool stuff, now I need to make sure everything's working and get my ROI out. This conversation questions that assumption, talks about why we care, what we're r...

We continue our Governance as Code discussions in today's episode. We started by very broadly looking at Governance as Code generally, but quickly drilled down into Infrastructure as Code meets Governance as Code focused discussion. Understanding that intersection is critical to building something that is both automated and governable. The topic explored how we audit controls for systems. We also...

Can we use DLT and cryptocurrencies for microtransactions? Today we break this down into component parts like what is a microtransaction? How does crypto help us? Does crypto help us? In Cloud2030 discussions, we break things down. We explore how it helps, what it helps, what problems it does or doesn't solve, and what problems does it create? In this conversation we find some intriguing questions...

How can we make Open Source go faster, and how can we improve its interaction with vendors, especially hardware vendors? We explore different ways that open source helps foster innovation, as well as where it creates ethical, financial, and legal conflicts in that process. Thinking through how we want to bring vendor information into Open Source communities is an ongoing challenge. Transcript: htt...

We started with a question in our warm up that was so motivating and exciting for the group that we continue talking about it the entire time! In today’s episode, we discuss career advice, as the group looks back on things that would have helped them at the beginning of their career. We have a fantastic conversation full of details, stories, and sage advice. Even if you are well on your way in you...

We conceptualize data centers as core infrastructure components in today’s discussion about green infrastructure. In our discussion about data centers as an industrial load that have peaks and valleys in demand, we dive into the grid as a connected system. We discuss how storage can disrupt the way power is generated and distributed, not only in the United States, but also around the world. Distri...

What makes Open Source projects work? Today we discuss open source business models, motivations, what and how these projects work. We moved from that into testing quality maintenance and ultimately SpaceX and Tesla. This conversation dives into how Elon Musk is transforming the industries that he's in by looking at the delivery process. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/MuWt-gSkzOnUjFz8ioI3dNtAsa8 Im...

How do you manage complexity? Something we talk about a lot in Cloud2030 is how challenging it is to understand complexity, measure it and cope with it. Richard Cooke wrote a paper called “How Complex Systems Fail,” (http://how.complexsystems.fail) and in it he talks about complex systems having strong defense mechanisms against failure. That’s what we talked about today. How do we build defense m...

How is data center infrastructure adapted to edge distributed ledger technology workloads? We think through if those demands (blockchain, proof-of-stake coins, etc) are changing the way we look at data center infrastructure, and the short answer is yes. We also explore the impacts of the type of workloads that we're running and how we distribute them, rather than the type of equipment that we need...

What kind of orchestration systems does the industry use for infrastructure, automation and controlling day to day operations? In today’s episode, we talk about infrastructure pipelines at the tooling level, and specifically the use of Jenkins and other CI pipelining tools for ops and orchestration. We dig into why and how you would do this, and what pieces are missing from the system. That conver...

What is the intersection between augmented and virtual reality? In today’s episode, we discuss changes in payment systems, Metaverse, NFTs and micro payments. All of which have to do with PCI and how we handle process payments. We had a fascinating conversation about how all of these technologies intersect, and how one can drive another. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Jbj52Opa37Vwmci1myBC7LsSXtY I...

What type of speech can we control, allow and amplify? Today's episode was about content moderation in social media. The issues here are nuanced, but absolutely critical for our functioning society to get right. We discuss various interlocking issues, including what type of feedback loops we are creating and what the historical precedents for building safe systems are. Transcript: https://otter.ai...

Our discussion about governance as code today is one of a series that we're going to be starting. In today’s episode, we started out discussing what is Governance as Code. Then we dug into identity and how important it is to know who is doing what in a governance process. Special Guest: Kapil Thangavelu https://twitter.com/kapilvt Along the way, we touch on topics such as Infrastructure as Code, t...

What’s going on with green data centers, why does it matter, and how do we think about it in a wider context? In this short conversation, we discuss green data centers and creating carbon neutral infrastructure. This isn't just about servers using electrons - the actual conversation about making our infrastructure carbon neutral includes thinking about all of the components that go into our infras...

How do authorization systems need to be built and made resilient for distributed infrastructure? We discuss how having a single centralized authorization system is incredibly fragile compared to distributed edge infrastructure. Everything we build has some element of distributed component tree and resiliency in it, and we need to make sure that the authorization systems are included in that analys...

How can promotion boards be hostile or hurtful to open source technology? We talk about the dynamics of corporate support in open source technology, and if being rewarded for internal work at companies translates into challenges for open source technology. This discussion starts to peel apart what makes open source technology sustainable, and what it works for. We bring up an analogy of a lava lam...

What makes API's complex? In this episode, we talk about how we compose APIs into higher level systems, and how we think about the design elements that go into building durable, reusable API's. This is a classic topic for us, and in this discussion we looked beyond the API itself and started talking about the state of the system and how you manage that state. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Oae5e_a...

Will Elon Musk take over Twitter? What are the tech and societal motivations for creating distributed social media? In today’s episode, we discuss the future of social media and if we can create distributed social media and distributed user interactions. We also question how these systems could be monetized and controlled, and who would benefit from those changes. This is a fascinating discussion...