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Today's episode is about how to trust machine learning in operations. This is a really serious issue because the attraction of machine learning is strong, but does not translate into operations. Why doesn’t it translate? Because operations is a closed loop process where we constantly get feedback and have to adapt and adjust. That makes it difficult to train models and hope that they work. This di...

This episode explores applications for the edge. We really try to dig in on what will work in the edge from an application perspective. We also explore what's holding us back. Every time we have a conversation about Edge, we help undangle the components of Edge. In this discussion, we get more concise about what type of infrastructure is needed to build real edge applications. We also define where...

To explore HCI at the edge, we started with SUSE’s Harvester. It’s an HCI integration of Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and Longhorn (their storage system) plus some PXE booting magic they threw in there. From there we explored how Kubernetes can fit into Edge HCI. That really morphed into Edge operations more generally. It’s not clear if hyperconverged infrastructure can or can't fit. We covered items lik...

Dependency chains are complex and fragile when you're depending on software, hardware cloud services that go away or change. In this conversation, we really examine the challenge of having dynamic vendor relationships and what we can do to fix and protect our environments. It's really hard to fix what can be vulnerable when it also changes your software supply chain at any moment! And that can imp...

This episode was a fun and interesting ride from boring standards to locking APIs via NFTs! We started talking about “civilization technology” where standards and regulations are applied to infrastructure. We are expecting this to happen in cloud (eventually) because it allows us to create ecosystems around the infrastructure. The historical patterns that we see in railroads, buildings and electri...

We reflected on 2021 and our four key panelists talked through what's coming for 2022. Instead of making broad predictions, we focused on the needs of the market. We felt there were many immediate needs around cloud outages and security challenges. Of course, we also discuss how the edge is coming up along with more physical integrations like for automotive, healthcare, and energy creation and sto...

How do we make data centers green because, fundamentally, they are going to use electricity. But the sources of that electricity, how we respond to shortages of electricity and cost signals about that electricity are all critical to consider. These are the questions that lead us to how a green data center or green infrastructure gets created. Our discussion also includes how infrastructure at the...

How do we evolve technology in the future? We centered the answer on networking, but in a very general way. The ability for a vendor to distribute technology and then connect things together and then build networks of that technology is a core component of how networking is evolving. Ultimately, this is about building technology systems. Sadly, that led us into a very dark place where we really th...

Our scheduled topic was supply chains generally, but the Log4Shell vulnerability dominated the discussion. We dove into the challenge of patching and fixing a library that is literally in nearly every device or service for years and years. That led us to supply chains in the context of software, and specifically Java Log4j. This is a critical topic and our conversation about it was very thoughtful...

We discussed the Amazon outage of December 7. Instead of simply blaming Amazon, we went looking for how the outage impacted people globally. We considered how hyper scalars are being treated and how these outages can be avoided or understood. We focused on who is impacted and what companies who are building on top of Cloud providers can do going forward. We really took a classic Cloud 2030 approac...

What is platform engineering? And why is it necessary and how to make it work compared to DevOps. In this conversation, we really hit on the challenges of creating automation teams for building automation in scalable ways. Frustratingly, we never really came up with a particularly good answer to “what is a platform team” and why you should care. Strangely, your organization is probably building on...

We discuss standards, de facto standards, and cloud standards. It comes down to how we are creating repeatable results for the cloud marketplace. Ideally, we're creating marketplaces where standards can be shared. We’d consider Amazon as the primary example, but we also talk about hardware and Kubernetes which have their own marketplaces. Ultimately, we asked if we are creating standardized cloud...

Serverless at the edge, part one. This is a dynamic and engaged conversation with key questions like: What is serverless? Do we need serverless? How is edge serverless different than cloud serverless? We see edge environments as collecting data from sensors that needs to be heterogeneous, multi vendor, dynamic and centralized. But where centralized? I think that the serverless aspect of this reall...

Today we talked about supply chains, but mainly security and the security aspects of supply chains because we have a very serious challenges here. We have made software and on boarding software for developers so easy, but haven't put the same efforts in how to manage production systems! The team really talked about what it takes to build production systems that respect security, supply chains, dep...

We explored Operations Value mapping. This lead to an a very interesting discussions of complexity budgets and how to measure complexity budgets. This includes managing supply chain, and value pipelines, and system coupling. Complexity budgets could be a very powerful measuring tool for understanding operations value In an organization. Overall, this helps you explain the cost of complexity to org...

Today's episode is about supply chains but with a Cloud2030 twist. We focused on forward leaning futures by looking into how supply chains are being disrupted. It's going to be hard to get them working again if they can ever come back! Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/fBMFUh1TtBwdFvh7q0tKgpwW7kA Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/buildings-cars-city-cross-harbour-tunnel-262100/

We start talking about conferences using biometric security, edge detection, and included your right to be forgotten. In this fascinating conversation, we go into future projections of what it's going to take for people get privacy including the idea of using AI so face are left out the photographs! Would be possible? If so, what would drive that as potential thing. We started it humorously thinki...

Why are Backups so Tricky? Backups are really, really tricky! We talk through a lot of different things that you have to consider in making successful backups like security, resilience, how you store the data, how you recover the data and rebuild the systems. Basically, we ran the gamut on backup challenges. You really need to think through a lot of the considerations! Our discussion will help mak...

We talk about Infrastructure as Code through a Kubernetes filter. We started with a check in on KubeCon and VMworld, both of which had just ended. Both of those shows are very relevant in our IaC discussion and considerations because we dig into how we build on those platforms. Ultimately, that lead to the idea of pipelines and processes for building sustainable automation and operations. That got...

Today's episode is about business value mapping. Instead of focusing on Ray Wang's "Who wants to rule the world" book, we got really deep into the why. We discuss what is business value mapping, how it works, why it works, when it doesn't work, and what it takes to make it succeed. So if you've read Ray's book, I think you'll get a lot of extra depth out of this, if you haven't read it at all, it...

During this 20 minute check-in we dive security and SaaS infrastructure. Can we protect the secrets that people are trusting to SaaS providers to store for us? The topic was inspired by the Twitch leak where a lot of sensitive information was exposed exposed to the public. That comes on the heels of all sorts of other leaks, compromises and down time on systems. Overall, it seems like bad news is...

Today's episode is about Minimal Viable Product (MVP) which is a product development process focused on learning. It is an important element to building good resilient products and spending the right amount of time doing the right things. But it's not a cure all! It might be right for what you're trying to accomplish. In this podcast, we really go through when MVP works, when it doesn't work, and...

Edge networking is hard! Because before we can talk about edge networking, we actually have to talk about edge management and edge control, and what it takes to build resilient infrastructure and train people to use it. In the first half, we're talking about the challenges of managing infrastructure, using the Facebook outage of the week we recorded as a starting point for how challenging it is to...

What was working what wasn't working with conferences. But in traditional Cloud2030 style, we dove into the future, what would make great conferences, what makes conferences good, what made them good in the past and what technology changes we think could be coming in the future. We extended that from conferences into meetings and meeting technology and transcription in the second half of this podc...

Understanding and Managing Certificates is a critical operational skill in which we cover the basics and then go deeper. If you are familiar with SSL HTTPS, you are using certificates on a daily basis. And yet, actual management of trust and root CA is and distributing private and public keys or distributing public keys and managing private keys is tricky. Even our expert panel still struggles whi...