Screaming In The Cloud

Docker went from being a small startup to an enterprise company that changed the way people think about their infrastructure to now, where its relevance is somewhat minimal. The conversation is no longer around the container level. Docker has become commonplace. Today, we’re talking to Jérôme Petazzoni, formerly of Docker. While he was with the company for about 8 years, Docker definitely experienced a roller coaster ride.   Some of the highlights of the show include: Amount of work conducted on the enterprise vs. community editions Docker was so widely adopted because its core technology was open source Challenge is to build a viable business and revenue model for the long run Similarities between Docker and Red Hat open source platforms Docker went from six people working in a garage to having a few hundred employees and $1.3 billion valuation Changes happened, but they were gradual; the changes were necessary to be a profitable and sustainable company Contingent of internal and external people believed

Like migrating caribou, you tend to follow the trends of what clients are doing, which dictates what you work on as a consultant. Today, we’re talking to Lynn Langit, an independent Cloud architect. She is an AWS Community Hero, Google Cloud developer expert, and former Microsoft MVP. Lynn is a lifelong learner, and she has worked broad and deep across all three large providers. These days, she works mostly with Google Cloud and AWS, rather than Azure, because that’s what her clients are using. Some of the highlights of the show include: Differences between the West Coast and global use of Cloud Education is key; Lynn is th co-founder of Teachingkidsprogramming.org Lynn helped create curriculum and resources for school-age children; even her young daughter taught classes on how to code Training for teachers was also needed, so TKP Labs was formed to offer fee-based teacher and developer training Lynn started with classroom training, but has transitioned to online learning Lynn is focusing on Big Data projec

Microsoft has experienced a renaissance. By everything that we've seen coming out of Microsoft over the past few years, it feels like the company is really walking the walk. Instead of just talking about how it’s innovative, it’s demonstrating that. Microsoft has been on an amazing journey, making the progression from telling customers what they need to listening to them and responding by building what they ask for. Today, we’re talking to Corey Sanders, Corporate Vice President of Azure Compute at Microsoft. Some of the highlights of the show include: Customers are asking for Microsoft to help them through support and enabling platforms Storytelling efforts through advocates, who play a double role – engaging and defending Microsoft Customers moving to the Cloud are focused on a continuum and progression; they have stuff to move from one location to another and want all the benefits–better agility, faster startup time, etc. Virtual serial console into existing VMs; this is how people are using this and Mic

Have you dabbled with IT infrastructure in AWS? Have you been through the process of AWS partnership? Does being an AWS partner add value? Amazon seeks partners that helps drive its business, goals, and value. Today, we’re talking to Justin Brodley, the vice president of Cloud engineering at Ellie Mae. He has been through the AWS partnership process and shares his thoughts about it. He encourages you to find the right partner for your business! Some of the highlights of the show include: Different levels and types of AWS partnerships Shakedown vs. opportunity method for new leads; lead generation expectations Amazon’s improvements eroding business models Partners trying to pivot, but not exclusive to AWS Whether to invest in multi-Cloud Amazon can’t scale its sales team to handle everybody; views partner program as an extension of its salesforce Your company is important and you’re spending a lot of money, but Amazon may not care about you; partner market fills that gap and makes you feel important Corporate

Monitoring in the entire technical world is terrible and continues to be a giant, confusing mess. How do you monitor? Are you monitoring things the wrong way? Why not hire a monitoring consultant!          Today, we’re talking to monitoring consultant Mike Julian, who is the editor of the Monitoring Weekly newsletter and author of O’Reilly’s Practical Monitoring. He is the voice of monitoring. Some of the highlights of the show include: Observability comes from control theory and monitoring is for what we can anticipate Industry’s lack of interest and focus on monitoring When there’s an outage, why doesn’t monitoring catch it?” Unforeseen things. Cost and failure of running tools and systems that are obtuse to monitor Outsource monitoring instead of devoting time, energy, and personnel to it Outsourcing infrastructure means you give up some control; how you monitor and manage systems changes when on the Cloud CloudWatch: Where metrics go to die Distributed and Implemented Tracing: Tracing calls as they move

How many of you are considered heroes? Specifically, in the serverless Cloud, Twitter, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) communities? Well, Ben Kehoe is a hero. Ben is a Cloud robotics research scientist who makes serverless Roombas at iRobot. He was named an AWS Community Hero for his contributions that help expand the understanding, expertise, and engagement of people using AWS. Some of the highlights of the show include: Ben’s path to becoming a vacuum salesman History of Roomba and how AWS helps deliver current features Roombas use AWS Internet of Things (IoT) for communication between the Cloud and robot Boston is shaping up to be the birthplace of the robot overlords of the future AWS IoT is serverless and features a number of pieces in one service Robot rising of clean floors AWS Greengrass, which deploys runtimes and manages connections for communication, should not be ignored Creating robots that will make money and work well Roomba’s autonomy to serve the customer and meet expectations Robots with Clou

How are companies evolving in a world where Cloud is on the rise? Where Cloud providers are bought out and absorbed into other companies? Today, we’re talking to Nell Shamrell-Harrington about Cloud infrastructure. She is a senior software engineer at Chef, CTO at Operation Code, and core maintainer of the the Habitat open source product. Nell has traveled the world to talk about Chef, Ruby, Rails, Rust, DevOps, and Regular Expressions. Some of the highlights of the show include: Chef is a configuration management tool that handles instance, files, virtual machine container, and other items. Immutable infrastructure has emerged as the best of practice approach. Chef is moving into next gen through various projects, including one called, Compliance - a scanning tool. Some people don’t trust virtualization. Habitat is an open source project featuring software that allows you to use a universal packaging format. Habitat is a run-time, so when you run a package on multiple virtual machines, they form a supe

Open source activism tends to focus on running on hardware you can trust and avoiding Cloud computing. The problem with some Cloud providers has to do with a conflict of interest between serving customers and how they generate revenue. It’s important for the customer to have control of their computer and their data in the Cloud. But what about their security and privacy?Today, we’re talking to Kyle Rankin, chief security officer at Purism and writer for Linux Journal. He is a Linux expert who decided to work at Purism because of the company’s belief in free software and the Linux community.Some of the highlights of the show include: Cloud providers have faced challenges when it comes to data privacy and who owns what. The word “Cloud” is overloaded, and it is unclear who is in control. Cloud providers can sabotage efforts to make programs work together. Cloud providers may not troll through data and exploit it. Yet, they develop tools for customers to be able to do that.   Even though Linux Journal stopped

How do you encourage businesses to pick Google Cloud over Amazon and other providers? How do you advocate for selecting Google Cloud to be successful on that platform? Google Cloud is not just a toy with fun features, but is a a capable Cloud service. Today, we’re talking to Seth Vargo, a Senior Staff Developer Advocate at Google. Previously, he worked at HashiCorp in a similar advocacy role and worked very closely with Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, and other tools. He left HashiCorp to join Google Cloud and talk about those tools and his experiences with Chef and Puppet, as well as communities surrounding them. He wants to share with you how to use these tools to integrate with Google Cloud and help drive product direction. Some of the highlights of the show include: Strengths related to Google Cloud include its billing aspect. You can work on Cloud bills and terminate all billable resources. The button you click in the user interface to disable billing across an entire project and delete all billable re

When companies migrate to the Cloud, they are literally changing how they do everything in their IT department. If lots of customers exclusively rely on a service, like us-east-1, then they are directly impacted by outages. There is safety in a herd and in numbers because everybody sits there, down and out. But, you don’t engineer your application to be a little more less than a single point of failure. It’s a bad idea to use a sole backing service for something, and it’s unacceptable from a business perspective. Today, we’re talking to Chris Short from the Cloud and DevOps space. Recently, he was recognized for his DevOps’ish newsletter and won the Opensource.com People’s Choice Award for his DevOps writing. He’s been blogging for years and writing about things that he does every day, such as tutorials, codes, and methods. Now, Chris, along with Jason Hibbets, run the DevOps team for Opensource.com Some of the highlights of the show include: Chris’ writing makes difficult topics understandable. He is frank

This podcast features people doing interesting work in the world of Cloud. What is the state of the technical world? Let’s first focus on the up or down, on or off function of feature flags. Today, we’re talking to Heidi Waterhouse, a technical writer turned Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, which is a feature flag service - a way to wrap a snippet of code around your feature and make it into an instrument to turn on or off. It lets you turn things on and off in your codebase quickly without having to do several commits. However, it is difficult to track it when there are more than about a dozen flags. So, LaunchDarkly provides a way to manage your features at scale with a usable interface and API. Some of the highlights of the show include: A feature flag allows you to hide items before you want them to go live on your Website. You hide it behind a feature flag, doing all the work ahead of time. Then, at some point, you turn it all on instantly without the risk of pushing untested code into your productio