Cloud Commute

Gerald Venzl, lead product manager for Oracle databases, talks about the shift of focus away from on-premise databases towards the cloud. It's a big change for a company like Oracle, but a necessary one. Learn more about the challenges and why Oracle believes multi-cloud is the future. If you have questions to Gerald, you can reach him here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldvenzl/ X/Twi...

Brian Vermeer from Snyk, a cybersecurity company providing tooling to detect common code issues and vulnerabilities throughout your development and deployment pipeline, talks about the necessity of multi checks, the commonly found threads, and how important it is to rebuild images for every deployment, even if the code hasn’t changed. If you have questions to Brian, you can reach him here: Blog: h...

Jimmy Angelakos, a freelance consultant, talks about his experiences with customers running PostgreSQL on bare-metal, in the cloud, and on Kubernetes. He also talks about his new book "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" (discount link below). If you have questions to Jimmy, you can reach him here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vyruss/ X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/vyruss Mastodon:...

Gunnar Morling, from Decodable, a company simplifying the use of Apache Flink, talks about how to extract modifications from a database using change data capture tools, such as Debezium, and how to use Apache Flink or Decodable to run your real-time analytics or queries in a stream processing fashion. If you have questions to Gunnar, you can reach him here: Blog: https://www.morling.dev/ LinkedIn:...

Nicolas Fränkel from API7.ai, the major company behind the Apache APISIX API gateway, talks about how APISIX helps you implement rate limiting, customer-specific behavior, and how API gateways in general help secure your APIs. Editor's note: Sorry for the bad audio quality. The recording got messed up. For questions, you can reach Nicolas at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasfrankel X/...

Steven Sklar from QuestDB, a company producing a time series database for large IoT, metrics, observability and other time-component data sets, talks about how they implemented their database offering, from building their own operator to how storage is handled. For questions, you can reach Steven at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-sklar-1ab7103/ X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sklarsa...

Álvaro Hernández Tortosa from OnGres, a company providing the necessary tooling to run a production-grade PostgreSQL in Kubernetes. Álvaro talks about the issues with the many-solutions-to-a-problem situation in Postgres and how it can be overwhelming and alarming to newcomers. For questions, you can reach Álvaro at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahachete/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ahac...

Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting, a company helping to cost-optimize their AWS EC2 spent by automatically supplying matching workloads with spot instances. For questions, you can reach Cristian at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristimagherusan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/magheru_san You can learn more about AutoSpotting at: Website: https://autospotting.org/ The Cloud Commu...

In this episode of Cloud Commute, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Abdel Sghiouar, a Kubernetes expert from Google, to discuss various aspects of cloud technology, with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions. Abdel, who has been with Google for a decade and specializes in Kubernetes networking, security, and storage, shares insights into the evolution and current state of container technolo...

In this episode, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Moritz Eckert from Edgeless Systems, a company specializing in confidential computing technologies. Moritz shares his background in computer security and his journey into co-founding Edgeless Systems. He dives deep into the concept of confidential computing, explaining its hardware-based approach to encrypt memory at runtime and perform remote attesta...

In this episode of our podcast, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Franck Pachot from Yugabyte, a distributed SQL database company. Franck, a developer advocate with extensive experience in databases, discusses the advantages of distributed SQL databases over traditional single-node SQL databases. He explains that Yugabyte offers the robust features of PostgreSQL with the added benefits of horizontal s...

In this episode, host Chris Engelbert sits down with Rich Kenny, Managing Director of Interact and a visiting lecturer at London South Bank University. Rich shares his extensive experience in machine learning-based environmental consultancy and his work on the circular economy. Rich dives into Interact's innovative product that optimizes the performance of enterprise IT, focusing on energy efficie...