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What happens after you go cloud and the reality sinks in For some, the cloud is rainbows, puppies and happy promises. You’ve whiteboarded a vision, forecasted the benefits and made promises to the business. Now the real work begins. Is the design a reality ? How do you handle failure ? Can you…

Day 2 Cloud


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    D2DO273: Azure VNets Don't Exist

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 39:45


    Cloud networks aren’t like traditional data center networks, so applying a traditional network design to the cloud probably isn’t the best idea. On today’s Day Two Cloud, guest Aidan Finn guides us through significant differences between Microsoft Azure networking and on-prem data center networks. For instance, subnets don’t segment hosts, network security groups do; every... Read more »

    D2DO272: The Physics of DevOps

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 39:37


    How do you measure developer performance and productivity? On today’s Day Two DevOps, we look at different methods with guest Laura Tacho, the CTO at DX. We explore industry benchmarks such as the DORA report, SPACE, and DevEx. Laura also introduces us to Core 4, a project she’s been working on that provides a new... Read more »

    D2DO271: Public Vs. Private Cloud In 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 38:33


    The shine has been coming off public cloud for awhile. Cloud costs remain high, complexity is growing, and public cloud interoperability is difficult. And while there’s talk about moving back to private cloud, that migration presents its own costs and complexities. To help us navigate the challenge that is cloud in 2025, we welcome Mark... Read more »

    D2DO270: Spacelift Is Your Infrastructure Glue (Sponsored)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 39:51


    Working with multiple Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools can be painful. Spacelift provides a platform that operates on top of disparate IaC tools, including Ansible, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, and OpenTofu. Spacelift helps build the automation with and between these tools, creating graphs of graphs that make your dependencies just work. On today's show, we talk... Read more »

    D2DO269: Intergalactic Dataspeak and Making Data Actionable

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 39:39


    Data and what you do with it is the topic of today's show with guest Dominic Chapman, the Head of Product at Axiom. Dominic's career focus is on data, how to store and how to operationalize all the data that different technology stacks create. We talk with Dominic about how the data does not lie,... Read more »

    D2DO268: Solving Big Problems By Solving Small Problems

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 40:07


    “You build a shop that solves big problems by solving small problems” is advice given by today's guest, Merritt Baer. Merritt is currently a CISO at Reco, and has deep security experience in both government and private sectors. She chats with Day Two DevOps podcast hosts Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton to discuss the current... Read more »

    D2DO267: Get Excited About Riding the AI Infrastructure Wave

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 40:53


    The AI buildout is driving an infrastructure boom. On today's show, we talk with Kendall Miller, an independent consultant in the DevOps and cloud-native space, about the boom’s potential impacts on DevOps. For instance, the rise of AI workloads will increase the amount of infrastructure to be supported. At the same time, AI tools are... Read more »

    D2DO266: How AI Affects the Developer Experience

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 43:00


    Let’s talk about how AI affects the developer experience, particularly for open source tools such as Terraform. We’re joined by guests Welly Siauw and Tyler Lynch to examine a project that leverages AI to automate the generation of documentation and examples for AWS Terraform providers. We delve into the iterative development process with AI, the... Read more »

    D2DO265: How Do We Measure Developer Experience?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2025 40:18


    Developer experience is a hard metric to measure qualitatively. On today's show, we talk with Kristen Foster-Marks about Developer Experience, or DevEx. We start with the controversial concept of “ghost engineering,” which claims many software engineers do not contribute meaningfully to their work. We delve into the validity of this claim, and discuss the scientific... Read more »

    D2DO264: Serverless Goes Mainstream

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 38:40


    Serverless is mature enough now to be a mainstream choice for application development. But that doesn’t mean interesting things aren’t happening. Benjamen Pyle joins Kyler and Ned on Day Two DevOps to talk about the potential for small vendors and startups to develop high-quality services purpose-built to solve specific problems. They also discuss the benefits... Read more »

    D2DO263: An Anthropologist's Advice for Improving IT Cultures

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 45:23


    It’s tempting to run IT organizations the same way we run infrastructure: as resource units to be applied to various jobs. But people aren’t infrastructure. They have opinions. They form teams. They operate on different incentives, which sometimes clash within an organization (i.e. sales vs. product managers, or infosec vs. everybody). Today’s guest, Lianne Potter,... Read more »

    D2DO262: The Science and Magic of Network Mapping and Measurement

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 38:40


    Measuring network speed seems straightforward: send some traffic between two endpoints and see how long it took. But what path did the traffic take? Were wired or wireless networks involved? What intermediary devices stood between your two endpoints? Was there interference? Congestion? Are device limitations affecting your results? The fact is, there’s more to measurement... Read more »

    D2DO261: Year in Review: Peak Serverless, K8s Complexity, DevOps Sprawl (and What's Next)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 41:48


    Join us today for a look back at this year's developments in cloud security and DevOps. We ask if serverless computing has peaked, why Kubernetes continues to be so hard, whether cloud repatriation is a real trend, and whether the DevOps role has become too darn big. We also explore the future of cloud computing,... Read more »

    D2DO260: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Humor and Threat Detection

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2024 34:32


    Humor is the best medicine, so they say. In critical IT security jobs, a little humor could help you prevent burnout and maintain your mental equilibrium. Lydia Graslie, a Cloud Threat Detection Engineer at Edward Jones, shares her insights on the complexities of cloud security and the challenges posed by modern cloud platforms, as well... Read more »

    D2DO259: See Deep Inside Public Cloud for Greater Visibility and Troubleshooting with ThousandEyes Cloud Insights (Sponsored)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 33:14


    Public cloud networks can be a bit of a black box when it comes to monitoring and troubleshooting. Today on Day Two DevOps we talk with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes about its Cloud Insights tool, which aims to open that box so you can see exactly what’s going on in your cloud networks, identify problems, help... Read more »

    D2DO258: How System Initiative Rethinks Infrastructure as Code

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 45:05


    System Initiative is a new product that aims to improve on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). On today’s episode we talk with System Initiative creator Adam Jacob to find out why he wanted to improve on IaC, how System Initiative works, how it compares to other platforms in the market, how it handles key features such... Read more »

    D2DO257: Love is in the Firmware

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 42:21


    With the current cultural emphasis on AI and how that is changing our world, we often forget the human element of individuals and teams when building an effective software development team. On today's Day Two DevOps, we explore the psychology behind software teams, psychological safety for those teams and how the advent of AI plays... Read more »

    D2DO256: Alkira's Universal Transit: Simplifying Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Networks (Sponsored)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 39:15


    We are firmly entrenched in a hybrid cloud world, from on-prem data centers to multiple cloud platforms to branch and remote offices, not to mention wandering end users connecting via VPN. While the network is the common substrate among all these locations, every cloud provider has its own network implementation. Managing, monitoring and securing all... Read more »

    D2DO255: Is AI the Magic Solution for Refactoring Legacy Code?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 37:58


    AI is being integrated and adopted across much of the IT world, but can it work magic in transforming old legacy code into shiny modern code? When it comes to this magic trick, it’s important to look behind the curtain. On today’s Day Two DevOps podcast we discuss the reality of AI in refactoring code... Read more »

    D2DO254: Intelligent Data Infrastructure: How NetApp Builds for Performance, Security, and Visibility across Clouds (Sponsored)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 35:06


    Enterprise data is everywhere: on prem, at the edge, and across the public cloud. Storing and managing that data involves more than just SSDs and spinning disks; it’s about building and operating a data infrastructure. On today’s Day Two DevOps podcast, host Ned Bellavance explores the idea of data infrastructure with Jeff Baxter, VP of... Read more »

    D2DO253: Breaking Into Tech: Job Hunting Realities for Recent Graduates

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 45:46


    Job hunting is never easy and on today's Day Two Cloud, Katrina Janeczko shares her journey from college to her current role at Comcast.  Katrina discusses the challenges of job hunting, the relevance of her education, and the impact of AI tools on her learning process. She also talks about the importance of networking, mentorship,... Read more »

    D2DO252: (Re)Building Cloudflare's Millions-of-Logs-Per-Second Logging Pipeline

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 37:53


    Cloudflare’s transition from SysLog-NG to OpenTelemetry is the topic of discussion on this episode of Day Two DevOps. Guests Colin Douch and Jayson Cena from Cloudflare explain the reasons behind the migration, including the need for better scalability, memory safety, and maintainability. They delve into challenges such as ensuring uninterrupted customer traffic and optimizing performance.... Read more »

    D2DO251: AI For the Rest of Us – New Conference Alert!

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 34:07


    AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI via a new conference, AI for the Rest of Us, taking place October 24-25, 2024 in London. Hannah hopes to create a collaborative learning environment. In today’s Day Two DevOps... Read more »

    D2DO250: The Realities of Responsible Disclosure in the Cloud

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 32:28


    Cloud security and responsible disclosure are the focus of today's conversation with guest Kat Traxler. Kat shares her insights on identifying vulnerabilities in cloud services, particularly Google Cloud, and the importance of curiosity in her research. The episode explores the role of bug bounty programs and the shift towards issuing CVEs for cloud vulnerabilities. Lastly,... Read more »

    D2DO249: The Anatomy of TLS 1.3 and Why You Should Risk It

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 36:20


    Transport Layer Security (TLS) is today’s topic with guest Ed Harmoush. TLS plays a critical role in Internet security, and we dive into the differences between versions 1.2 and 1.3 In addition, Ed shares his journey into TLS, explains its components, and addresses common misconceptions about certificates and their validation processes. The episode also highlights... Read more »

    D2DO248: Using Creativity and Empathy to Ease the Pain of Compliance Audits

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 32:59


    On today’s Day Two DevOps we talk with Jen Stone, a technical security assessor and aerial arts competition organizer. Jen shares her journey from IT service desk to becoming a security assessor. She emphasizes the importance of creativity and empathy in regulatory compliance while advocating for a collaborative approach to assessments and auditing Episode Guest:... Read more »

    D2DO247: Chocolate or Carrots? How Humor Can Foster Good DevOps Relationships

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 41:02


    Guests Ashish and Shilpi from the Cloud Security Podcast converse with Ned and Kyler on how humor and relatability can foster an engaging and collaborative environment in DevOps. The conversation also covers the importance of foundational knowledge in technology, the impact of AI on careers, and the value of just being human and learning from... Read more »

    D2C246: Can Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Help Keep Users Happy?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024 38:39


    Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are a set of reliability measurements for customer or user expectations of services; in other words, are people having a good experience with your application or service? Today's Day Two Cloud explores SLOs, the relevant metrics, and how to measure them. We also talk about how SLOs are a cross-discipline objective... Read more »

    D2C245: Don't Fear Database DevOps

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2024


    Most platform engineers are scared of databases, and most database administrators prefer it that way. But our guest today says it's time to move forward together toward a future of database linters, observability, and abstraction. Adam Furmanek makes the case that just like how developers had to learn some networking, and networking tools were created... Read more »

    D2C244: When the Cloud was Born

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 45:10


    Eric Chou was there for the birth of the public cloud. Before DevOps or SREs were a thing, before Azure was Azure, Eric was a network engineer for Amazon, helping them build out their retail technology platform. Of course, that platform evolved into the world's leading public cloud–AWS. Eric joins the show today to tell... Read more »

    Heavy Strategy: Failure and Resilience

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2024 45:20


    Welcome to a crossover episode with the Heavy Strategy podcast! Firing the wrong person, mistakenly rebooting core switches in a massive network, not passing the CCIE exam– today we talk all about failure. For this conversation, we're joined by fellow Packet Pushers Kyler Middleton and Ned Bellavance, hosts of the Day Two Cloud podcast. We... Read more »

    D2C243: Your Kubernetes Clusters are Showing

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 38:27


    There are about 1.4 million Kubernetes clusters just sitting out there on the public internet as we speak. That is 1.4 million lateral-movement rich, highly privileged environments. The bearer of this anxiety-provoking news is today's guest, Lee Briggs. Lee explains why major cloud providers make this the default option– ease of use. The good news... Read more »

    D2C242: Data Engineering and its Streams, Rivers, and Lakes

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024


    Keith Gregory teaches us about data engineering in a way DevOps folks (and hydrologists) can understand. He explains that the role of a data engineer is to create pipelines to transport data from metaphorical rivers and make it usable for data analysts. Keith walks us through the testing process; the difference between streaming pipelines and... Read more »

    D2C241: Choose Your Own Adventure: Manager, Director, or IC

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2024 39:10


    What makes for a good manager, director, and independent contributor (IC), and how do you figure out which is the best fit for you? Hazel Weakly has had a whirlwind tour of all three and is ready to share her insight into each. We talk about the skill set needed for each, and figuring out... Read more »

    D2C240: The Duality of Enterprise AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 54:53


    AI has been around forever; AI is emergent. AI is just data analytics; AI hallucinates. AI doesn't have many business use cases; AI is already being used by your employees. Today, Greg and Johna from the Heavy Strategy podcast join Day Two Cloud to give their takes on enterprise AI. Johna brings with her the... Read more »

    D2C239: “(Almost) Every Infrastructure Decision I Endorse or Regret”

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 41:56


    You can't just drop a knife on fish and expect there to be sushi. Jack Lindamood joins us today to share his metaphors and thoughts on picking the right IT tools and processes as outlined in his popular article, “(Almost) Every Infrastructure Decision I Endorse or Regret after 4 Years Running Infrastructure at a Startup.”... Read more »

    D2C238: Tech Hiring is Borked

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2024 38:36


    Life isn't easy for someone looking for a job in tech. There are lots of content mills pushing the idea that if you just pass this one six-month course, you'll have a six-figure career in no time. There are lots of hiring companies who make job applicants jump through a ton of hoops, but often... Read more »

    D2C237: Managing Medical IoT Devices on AWS

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 49:32


    In this podcast episode, Randy Horton from Orthogonal and Ian Sutcliffe from AWS discuss the complexities of supporting regulated medical devices in the cloud. They explore the challenges of adhering to regulations, the importance of security, and the need for robust frameworks. The conversation highlights the non-prescriptive nature of regulations, encouraging best practices rather than... Read more »

    D2C236: Introducing New Co-Host Kyler Middleton

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 33:20


    Today we welcome a new co-host, Kyler Middleton, to the Day Two Cloud podcast. Kyler grew up in rural Western Nebraska, fixing neighboring farmers' computers in exchange for brownies and Rice Krispies. Now she's the newest co-host for Day Two Cloud… perhaps a lateral move, given the lack of baked goods. Kyler will draw on... Read more »

    D2C235: Building Modern Apps In GovCloud

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024


    Chances are, you've probably only heard of GovCloud because at the bottom of new feature releases from the Big 3 there's usually an asterisk that says “not yet available in GovCloud.” So what is GovCloud? And why does it not get the newest shiny thing as fast as the rest of us? Chris Wahl has... Read more »

    D2C234: What to Do About VMware

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 42:04


    Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has generated a lot of anxiety among VMware customers. In this episode, we closely analyze the situation. First, we look at Broadcom's past acquisitions in the infrastructure sector. Then we examine the product alignment and possible new product offerings and whether the acquisition will hamper innovation and development. We also cover... Read more »

    D2C233: Pinning Down Private Clouds

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2024 30:59


    What are we talking about when we are all talking about private clouds? On-prem? Hybrid? Virtualization? Where does hardware fit into it all– and would younger engineers even know what to do with a physical piece of hardware? Driven by Broadcom's acquisition of VMare and the anticipated rising costs of VMare licenses, enterprises are exploring... Read more »

    D2C232: Chaos Engineering: Breaking Things on Purpose

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2024 36:57


    Chaos engineering is all about resilience and reliability… it just takes the harder path to get there. By injecting random and unpredictable behavior to the point of failure, chaos engineers observe systems' weak points, apply preventative maintenance, and develop a failover plan. Matt Schillerstrom from Harness introduces Ned and Ethan to this wild corner of... Read more »

    D2C231: Cloud Repatriation: Can Workloads Ever Come Home Again?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 48:39


    Cloud repatriation: Is it a good idea? Guest Marino Wijay, an OSI and networking open source advocate, joins hosts Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance to discuss the recent interest in cloud repatriation. They cover the intricacies of moving workloads from the cloud back to on-premises or edge environments, and question if it is possible to... Read more »

    D2C230: Adding Python To Your Operations Toolkit

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2024 53:56


    Today we’re talking about Python. If you’re new to Python and want to add it to your toolkit, this is the show for you. This episode offers a broad perspective on all the approaches and plug-ins that Python includes. Our guest Michael Kennedy is a Python enthusiast and Python instructor. We discuss: Why you should... Read more »

    D2C229: Standing Out From The Crowd With Tim Banks

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2024 48:31


    We talk with Tim Banks about a wide range of topics including career development, how to stand out as an interview candidate, building a resume, finding your blind spots, diversity in tech (or lack thereof), and more. Let’s get into all the things with Tim! Episode Guest: Tim Banks | Lead Developer Advocate at Dell... Read more »

    D2C228: Building Local Tech Communities

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 44:21


    While it’s easy to find technical content and make professional connections online, in-person interactions are still valuable for learning, forging business and personal connections, and career development. On today’s Day Two Cloud we discuss how and why to build local tech communities. Guest Laura Santamaria is a developer, developer advocate, and longtime community builder. We... Read more »

    D2C227: Platforms Reduce Cognitive Overhead

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2023 41:45


    Today's Day Two Cloud explores platform engineering. We talk about how to balance the needs of infrastructure engineers and developers, how to shift to a delivery model, and how to account for human personalities and operational processes in your platform. Tools and tech are essential, but you also have to consider and incorporate the non-tech stuff. The post D2C227: Platforms Reduce Cognitive Overhead appeared first on Packet Pushers.

    D2C227: Platforms Reduce Cognitive Overhead

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2023 41:45


    Today’s show explores platform engineering. Guest Chad McElligott has thought a lot about the practice of platform engineering, and a blog post and talk he gave about the subject inspired us to reach out and have a conversation. Chad describes platform engineering as “the application of a Product Mindset to supporting your engineering organization’s software... Read more »

    D2C226: Creating An Effective Cloud Migration Strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 44:42


    On today’s Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about a cloud project where things didn’t go as planned. There were people problems, technical problems, and regulatory problems. Our guest Jonah Andersson shares lessons learned and how they can inform your own cloud strategies. We also talk about how to identify your project goals to determine... Read more »

    D2C226: Creating An Effective Cloud Migration Strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 44:42


    On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about a cloud project where things didn't go as planned. There were people problems, technical problems, and regulatory problems. Our guest Jonah Andersson shares lessons learned and how they can inform your own cloud strategies. We also talk about how to determine if cloud is the right choice, why you need to account for people and processes and not just tech, and more. The post D2C226: Creating An Effective Cloud Migration Strategy appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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