Cloud Out Loud Podcast

Send a text Episode 12: Show Notes Lazy and cheap is the tagline of many programmers and often interpreted in a negative context. Being lazy and cheap has to do with streamlining operations and cutting costs, which are the goals of many organizations and companies. Many people are now beginning to see the advantages of cloud-based computing and automation to help streamline procedures and operatio...

Send a text Cloud certification tests can be incredibly stressful to take and are a big investment for companies. They require a tremendous amount of time, money, and expertise to create, and need to be updated regularly. While the majority of tests used to be done on-site, the COVID 19 pandemic has meant that most tests now take place online, which brings with it a unique set of challenges. They...

Send a text Protecting Your Assets From Cyber Attacks Episode 10: Show Notes The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a heightened paranoia about cyber attacks, prompting the Department of Homeland Security to release a warning that we should be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity. In this episode we are going to explain why transitioning to the cloud (if you aren’t already there) i...

Send a text The GiveSendGo Data Leak Episode 09: Show Notes As you are probably aware, earlier this year, a convoy of truckers was making the news for protesting COVID mandates and vaccinations in Canada. Part of the convoy was raising money through GoFundMe to support these protests. After they were shut down by the site, they moved their fundraising efforts to the religious-based fundraising sit...

Send a text Coinbase Super Bowl Ad Episode 08: Show Notes In today’s show, we talk about the “diminished user experience” Coinbase experienced after their Super Bowl ad and what can be learned from it. At the recent Super Bowl, Coinbase aired an advert that depicted a QR code floating on a screen which led users to a landing page that offered them Bitcoin in exchange for creating an account. The a...

Send a text This week we pivot our focus from Google Cloud to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their annual reinvent. We take a closer look at Amazon’s serverless offerings and how it measures up against other existing services. Tuning in you’ll hear us break down our internal definition of serverless as well as Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and how it diverges from the serverless p...

Send a text Episode 06: Show Notes DynamoDB is a product that signaled the beginning of the cloud-specific technology revolution; Cloud 2.0, in other words. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that can scale from small workloads to millions of transactions all while maintaining single-digit latency. Today’s episode is all about the numerous benefits which come with using DynamoDB, including its f...

Send a text Many of the conversations surrounding blockchain focus on the disruptive potential of decentralization. However, at the same time, many of the biggest cloud providers are either planning to offer blockchain-based services in the near future or already have them rolled out. This creates an interesting tension that we will be exploring on today’s show. We start by reviewing where Amazon,...

Send a text Episode 04: Show Notes This week we talk about the 5th on the series of blog entries from the Developers and Practitioners big: Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 5: How to run background processes correctly in Python. This post identifies problems where python code calls standard libraries to put processing in the background. While this is a common practice in data centers or on the deve...

Send a text Don't make promises you can't keep - Using Node.ja promises correctly in Google Cloud functions Episode 03: Show Notes (Recorded November 18, 2021) Today Jon and Logan discuss the recent Google Cloud blog “Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 4: How to handle Promises correctly in your Node.js Cloud Function”, and give their own views on how to go about this. They discuss the scen...

Send a text Avoiding Being Dumb Episode 2: Show Notes ( Recorded November 4, 2021) Welcome to episode two of the Cloud Out Loud Podcast! Today, Jon and Logan discuss a couple of blog posts; one from Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and creator of the Last Week in AWS newsletter, which shares some very valuable insights into where cloud providers should be going in terms of...

Send a text Reviewing What Not to do with Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Run Episode 1: Show Notes. (Recorded October 28, 2021) Welcome to the very first installment of Cloud Out Loud! For our first show, we catch up on some recent news, including our thoughts on Facebook’s ambitious plans for their new metaverse and its accompanying data requirements. Next, we dive into our main topic, namely s...

Send a text What To Expect From This Podcast with Logan and Jon Gallagher Episode 0: Show Notes. (Re-Recorded January 6, 2022) Welcome to the very first episode of Cloud Out Loud, a podcast hosted by Jon and Logan Gallagher that reviews cloud computing trends from the lens of humans and culture. Gone are the days when hosting a production server meant building racks and starting an on-premise data...