Podcast appearances and mentions of brian gracely

SUMMARY: What does a Forward-Deployed Engineer actually do? And what about deploying AI Harness? Let's dig into the real-world with these evolving AI concepts and technologies. SHOW: 1039SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1039 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/QY0fqu2O84MSHOW SPONSORS:OutShift by Cisco - “Scaling Out Superintelligence”  The Internet of Cognition architectureShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this!Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoSHOW NOTES:Mozilla Thunderbolt launched Mozilla Thunderbolt (homepage)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days.Topic 2 - Let's talk about the role of Forward Deployed Engineer, it's being talked about a lot, but you're living in that world now. What problems are FDEs usually tasked with trying to solve, or new things to implement?Topic 3 - We've seen other roles (DevOps, PlatformEng, etc.) that evolved from other roles or skills. What type of background lends itself to success in FDE? What skills are needed going forward?Topic 4 - You're also working on some AI harness implementations. What can you tell us about those challenges and the technologies behind the harness?Topic 5 - At what point does an AI harness make sense for a company? What types of AI challenges typically require those next steps? Topic 6 - Working in the middle of this evolving AI space, what are some perspectives you've gained over the last 6-12 months? What do you wish you knew ahead of time? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY: As tools like Mythos create new AI-cybersecurity concerns, CIOs and CISOs need to be prepared for two challenges: Security Remediation and Patch to Production. SHOW: 1037SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1037 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/H5KxoiEIfUoSHOW SPONSORS:Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoOutShift by Cisco - “Scaling Out Superintelligence”  The Internet of Cognition architectureShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this!SHOW NOTES:Project Lightwell (Red Hat and IBM)Athena (Chainguard)Anthropic Project GlasswingOpenAI GPT 5.5-CyberTHESIS: Major initiatives are forming to help enterprise organizations combat security vulnerability threats found or created using new AI-cyber tools such as Anthropic Mythos. What are the key considerations, and what additional steps do organizations need to take to be advantaged by these capabilities? Part 1The Breaking Point and the Mythos MomentThe scope of open source security and supportPatches, disclosures and upstream open sourceClearinghouses, EOs, Laws and CommunitiesRemediation - Build vs. BuyPart 2How fast can you get from Patch to Production?Mitigation before patchingFast path and stable patch pipelines?Automation in patching vs. automation in deploymentFEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY: If the cost of public AI continues to rise, because of various market shortages, should CIOs start looking at backup plans to better own their AI journeys and futures?SHOW: 1035SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1035 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ngBBpP2LgdoSHOW SPONSORS:ShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this!Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoOutShift by Cisco - “Scaling Out Superintelligence”  The Internet of Cognition architectureSHOW NOTES:THESIS: Between pending IPOs (Wall St. demands), high user-demand, GPU/TPU shortages, Data Center shortages, Model prices increasing (open models fading away), the cost of using AI is going to get more expensive over time. Should CIOs start thinking about a Backup plan to their current AI adoption that has lower cost alternatives?Topic 1 - Assuming you could get access to GPUs/TPUs/Accelerators, and suitable data center space to host them, what would be your thinking as a CIO if you felt like you needed to own some aspect of your AI roadmap/journey? Topic 2 - Assuming the normal “Shadow AI” backlash that you'd receive for offering something that wasn't “frontier” level, how would you go about trying to communicate that within your organization?Topic 3 - What metrics or KPIs would you initially target to try and get buy-in that your approach was acceptable and moving towards the company goals?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY: When we get to the end of 2026, how will enterprise companies be measuring the success of their AI projects? And how well will their teams be sharing their AI learning curves?SHOW: 1034SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1034 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/TvIFwNN-6ckSHOW SPONSORS:Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoOutShift - “Scaling Out Superintelligence”  The Internet of Cognition architectureShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this!SHOW NOTES:Why AI Economics are changingHow will team collaboration evolve with Enterprise AI?Topic 1 - How do we measure AI-adoption success? Number of workloads?Financial metrics (Spend, ROI, Costs-Saved, etc.)?Speed improvements?People-level?Topic 2 Right now the AI tools are very individual-centric The machinery to share, even at the basic enterprise-level, is very difficultThe experience to share is non-deterministic, just as everyone's working style is different.Topic 3 - The motivation to share is still unknown. How do you encourage collaboration when so many companies are laying off people, or the specter of that happening is growing?What was the motivation before (team goals?) and how does that change now? People don't want to be monitored, so how does a manager have visibility?What happens when companies remove the managers (“the counters”)? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY: After the first successful AI IPO of 2026, we dig into what makes the Cerebras WSE architecture unique in the market for fast inference. GUEST: Andy Hock, at Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras AISHOW: 1033SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1033 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ed2nVbOtZiASHOW SPONSORS:OutShift - “Scaling Out Superintelligence”  The Internet of Cognition architectureShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this!Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoSHOW NOTES:OpenAI announces 750MW partnership with CerebrasCerebras and AWS partnershipCerebras announces IPOTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and what you focus on today. Topic 2 - For anyone that's not familiar with Cerebras, give us an overview of the company, and especially an overview on the Cerebras technologies (e.g. Wafer-Scale Engine).Topic 3 - Cerebras' WSE architecture is different from many of the GPU or GPU-like architectures in the market today. Centralized vs. distributed architectures always have their tradeoffs. Walk us through the technical and economic value of the Cerebras architecture.Topic 4 - Congratulations on the recent IPO (raised $5.55B). Let's use that as a point in time vs the previous planned IPO. How has the market changed in that timeframe, and how has the Cerebras position changed? Topic 5 - Cerebras (today) offer both WSE hardware, and Cerebras Cloud (API) - very different GTM paths. Can we expect both of those to stay top priorities, or have the market dynamics shifted such that the priorities shift more towards the WSE business - as we're seeing OpenAI, AWS and other engagements announced?Topic 6 - Is Cerebras a training and inference company, or are the economics of inference significantly different enough that it needs to be the sole focus of the company (for now)? Topic 7 - How much effort is it for any company to add support for the Cerebras chips if they have previously been using other architectures?Topic 8 - An IPO is a major milestone for any company, but the markets will now look for your future story. How do you see the AI market evolving over the next 2-5 years, and what are some things that people aren't understanding yet about how it will evolve?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY: The biggest enterprise AI question may no longer be which model is smartest? Instead, which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business?'SHOW: 1032SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1032 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/GsK_RUnYroISHOW SPONSORS:ShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance. We got this.Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoSHOW NOTES:Opening Thesis - How will team collaboration evolve within Enterprise AI?Question: Any suggestions on how to introduce enterprise-level governance and standardisation for agentic coding? Like skills, rules, plugins, context etcKey Topics 1. This isn't a Coding-specific problem. Every team has this issue. If your processes weren't well defined and enforced before, they will be worse nowNot it's not just process standardization, but “buy-in” standardization2. Everything moves so fast, so managers don't have the answers (yet) AI value is being created bottom-up, but paid for (and mandated) top-downThe current measurements aren't useful (tokenmaxxing, all-or-nothing, etc.)3. The governance tools don't exist yet.And it's not clear that anyone wants them. They didn't want them before. How do you even define governance? What's the baby step before that, reuse and basic sharing? 4. Are we ready to invest in “Centers of Excellence” again? 5. We under-estimate the “creativity” element in human buy-in. Is success measured in improvement or replacement?How much of that did “you” do? We don't know how to measure that.We haven't lived through an AI-centric promotion cycle yet6. Bottom-up and Top-down need to find some common language and middle ground. Have they walked a mile in each other's shoes yet (or lately)?How to bring a reality to the hype vs. demands vs. learning curve?How long is an AI-centric cycle vs. a pre-AI-centric cycle? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY:  Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the month of May, 2026. SHOW: 1031SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1031 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/MNihDdBSteISHOW SPONSORS:Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this!SHOW NOTES:Links to all the AI News covered in this month's showFEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY: The biggest enterprise AI question may no longer beWhich model is smartest? Instead, which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business?'SHOW: 1030SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1030 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/acOBfRI0P3USHOW SPONSORS:ShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance. We got this.Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoSHOW NOTES:Opening Thesis - Was the first wave of AI adoption artificially cheap? - The industry may be transitioning from subsidized growth to usage-based economics. Key Topics 1. Evidence AI Was Subsidized Massive CAPEX vs low end-user pricing Generous enterprise bundles Frontier model access for $20/month 2. The Hidden Economics of AI Agents - Agents consume exponentially more inference Tool orchestration, retries, memory, verification 3. Why Frontier Labs Are Shifting Focus From benchmark supremacy to orchestration Governance, memory, connectors, MCP, workflows 4. Forecasting AI Pricing 12 Months:  Commodity inference gets cheaper - Frontier reasoning remains premium 24 Months:  AI billing resembles AWS-style infrastructure billing Runtime, memory, latency and orchestration become billable 36 Months: Outcome-based pricing emerges AI spending shifts from IT budgets to labor budgets Final Takeaways  Commodity AI becomes utility-priced Frontier reasoning becomes premium Agents reshape enterprise economicsKey Conclusions1. AI probably was subsidizedThe economics strongly suggest adoption-first pricing.2. The subsidy era may be endingPremium tiers and metered pricing are emerging.3. AI agents fundamentally alter economicsUsage scales exponentially with autonomy.4. Commodity AI and frontier reasoning are separatingOne becomes cheap.One becomes premium.5. The real battle is moving upward in the stackThe future moat may be:orchestrationgovernanceworkflowsenterprise contextoperational toolingFinal Closing Thought“The biggest enterprise AI question may no longer be:‘Which model is smartest?'Instead:‘Which organization can most effectively operationalize, govern, and economically scale AI agents across the business?'”FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

SUMMARY: Morgan Foster talks about the Kagenti project, which enables an AI Agent agnostic framework for security, authentication, identity and zero-trust.SHOW: 1011SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1011 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/djFZruLEDiwSHOW NOTES:Kagenti (homepage)Kagenti (use-cases)“Old Things that look like Agents”“What makes Agents different?”CNV - What Makes Agents Different?“Handing your phone to a stranger, why Agents need their own identity”Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and areas you focus on today. Topic 2 - Tell us a bit about the Kagenti project and the types of challenges it's trying to solve for Agentic AI deployments. Topic 3 - How much commonality exists between different Agentic frameworks that a common, agnostic agentic orchestration approach can work? And how much difference still exists and would drive companies to silo'd deployments? Topic 4 - How far should an Agentic Orchestration framework go, and what types of things do you expect will still be Agentic framework dependent? Is Kagenti more of a control-plane element, or more of a data-plane element? Topic 5 - As Kagenti evolves, what are some of the adjacent things that people should be keeping an eye on that might be a dependency, or could shift the direction of the project?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

This episode marks the transition from The Cloudcast to The Reasoning Show, focusing more on AI and cloud topics. Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss recent trends in AI, the evolution of tech teams, and the shifting landscape of enterprise AI tools.SHOW: 1006SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1006 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:Link to February 2026 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2026.SHOW: 997SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #997 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to January 2026 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from December 2025.SHOW: 990SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #990 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to December 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

This week, Brian Gracely joins to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars? Rundown Licensing in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/06/24/licensing-in-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0/) Hardened Images for Everyone (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/) Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS (https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing-chainguard-emeritoss) Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros) Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/anthropic-claude-reportedly-preparing-ipo-race-openai-chatgpt-ft-wilson-sonsini-goodrich-rosati.html) Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026 (https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/), February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com) with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x), March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026 (https://devnexus.com), March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open (https://app.sessionboard.com/submit/vmug-call-for-content-2026/ae1c7013-8b85-427c-9c21-7d35f8701bbe?utm_campaign=5766542-VMUG%20Voice&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_YREN7dr6p3KSQPYkFSN5K85A-pIVYZ03ZhKZOV0O3t3h0XHdDHethhx5O8gBFguyT5mZ3n3q-ZnPKvjllFXYfWV3thg&_hsmi=393690000&utm_content=393685389&utm_source=hs_email), go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/university-of-alabama-football-game-tuscaloosa-alabama-YcVe7gL9A0s) Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2025.SHOW: 981SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #981 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for freeSHOW NOTES:Link to November 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2025.SHOW: 973SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #973 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:Link to October 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2025.SHOW: 963SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #963 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcastSHOW NOTES:Link to August 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2025.SHOW: 955SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #955 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast[DoIT] Visit doit.com (that's d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.SHOW NOTES:Link to August 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelpt) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2025.SHOW: 947SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #947 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.[DoIT] Visit doit.com (that's d-o-i-t.com) to unlock intent-aware FinOps at scale with DoiT Cloud Intelligence.SHOW NOTES:Link to July 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from June 2025.SHOW: 937SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #937 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.[FCTR] Try FCTR.io (that's F-C-T-R dot io) free for 60 days. Modern security demands modern solutions. Check out Fctr's Tako AI, the first AI agent for Okta, on their websiteSHOW NOTES:Link to June 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from May 2025, including Google I/O, Microsoft Build, OpenAI, and Jony Ive. SHOW: 929SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #929 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[VASION] Vasion Print eliminates the need for print servers by enabling secure, cloud-based printing from any device, anywhere. Get a custom demo to see the difference for yourself.[US CLOUD] Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Link to May 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from April 2025, including OpenAI, MCP, VibeCoding and Hyperscaler earnings. SHOW: 921SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #921 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Link to April 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from March February 2025 including recent M&A activity.SHOW: 911SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #911 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Link to March 2025 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Recent M&AGood Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from February 2025 including NVIDIA's earnings,  Hashicorp, Intel's CEO trio, Developer Co-Pilots, and RIP Skype.SHOW: 895SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #903 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Try Postman AI Agent Builder Todaypostman.com/podcast/cloudcast/SHOW NOTES:Link to February 2025 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

This week, we're sharing a Software Defined Interviews episode. Coté and Whitney talk with Brian Gracely from the Cloudcast and Red Hat about cloud news, PaaS evolution, and career advice. If you like this, subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more great conversations! Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Special Guests: Brian Gracely and Whitney Lee.

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2025 including the new DeepSeek model that is shaking up the industry.SHOW: 895SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #895 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to January 2025 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

This week, Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely from The Cloudcast to tackle the top cloud news and trends of 2025. We sort through 12 big topics and decide which ones are still worth your time and which ones should be starred. archived, or marked as spam. Plus, some thoughts on Bill Belichick becoming the head coach at UNC. Runner-up Titles OpenAI's Open Relationship Why are you doing this? The Pete Rose of Silicon Valley Commit Fraud in a Bull Market A Phone that Doesn't Break Grouchy Parenting Teenagers Rundown Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI: The next wave of innovation and industry impact Nvidia's Role in AI: The power behind the AI boom Microsoft's Cloud & AI Strategy: How Microsoft is positioning itself for the future AWS Updates: Key trends and new services from the cloud leader Open Source Licensing: Trends, challenges, and changes Kubernetes and the CNCF Ecosystem: What's next for cloud-native computing Data Sovereignty and Regulations: How laws are shaping cloud strategies globally Repatriation: Is on-prem making a comeback? Broadcom/VMware: The fallout and what it means for cloud customers Return to Office vs. Work From Home: Policies, debates, and where things stand Apple's Cloud Ambitions: Is Apple finally serious about cloud? Bill Belichick at UNC: Leadership lessons from an unexpected crossover Relevant to your Interests Subscribe to The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net) China Opens Investigation Into Nvidia Over Potential Antitrust Violations (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/technology/china-nvidia-investigation-antitrust-ai.html) Gnomes ( (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Starred-Archived-or-Deleted--CcxaX_1TQMbovVOUc4lKd1KpAg-LNhPY8ia5CTwHX4ZJYlKJ)South Park (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Starred-Archived-or-Deleted--CcxaX_1TQMbovVOUc4lKd1KpAg-LNhPY8ia5CTwHX4ZJYlKJ)) (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Starred-Archived-or-Deleted--CcxaX_1TQMbovVOUc4lKd1KpAg-LNhPY8ia5CTwHX4ZJYlKJ) Conferences CfgMgmtCamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/), February 2-5, 2025. Civo Navigate North America (https://www.civo.com/navigate/north-america), San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025 DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/events/devopsday-la) at SCALE22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x), March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/soccer-players-on-field-during-daytime-dPy7wWeb4Pc) Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2024 including the breaking news of Pat Gelsinger's Thanksquitting departure from Intel.SHOW: 878SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #878 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:Link to November 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.SHOW: 871SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #871 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to October 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.SHOW: 861SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #861 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to September 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California's AI Act gets a veto)Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.SHOW: 855SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #855 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to August 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intel's struggles?Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if it's offered to you.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Aaron Delp (@aarondelp)  and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2024.SHOW: 845SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #845 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR JULY  2024 CLOUD NEWSSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - What do you tend to do (at work, or outside work) when things seem overly bad in lots of areas? Trend 2 - Are people starting to feel like AI is more sizzle (hype) than steak (reality)?Trend 3 - As you're looking at 2HCY24 now, with all the things that happened in July, are you expecting anything new/different than you thought a couple months ago? Trend 4 - Are we likely to be in “wait and see” mode for the rest of the year, with all the political uncertainty?  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) stories in Cloud and AI from June 2024, and then get into spirited discussions about RTO and Tech Exec poaching. SHOW: 835SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #835 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR JUNE 2024 CLOUD NEWSSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - Will the AI boom take a summer vacation?Trend 2 - Have AI expectations set up Enterprise CIOs for a rude awakening?Trend 3 - We're at the mid-year point. All the cloud providers are focusing on AI. Do you expect that we'll see a long period of stalled cloud innovation, or do you expect any interesting moves in the 2nd half of the year? Trend 4 - The big tech companies are now all sitting on record-setting market capitalizations. Do you expect any of them to go on an acquisition spree? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, from @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from May 2024SHOW: 827SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #827 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: The Cloudcast YouTube ChannelCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR MAY 2024 CLOUD NEWSSegments Covered in the Show:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - Is anyone going to talk about Cloud anymore? Trend 2 - Is AI a real conversation with Enterprise yet, or does AI need to go through a consumer period first? Trend 3 - Every large acquisition was deemed a “terrible mistake” within a few months, according to the press - (e.g. Hashicorp, VMware)Trend 4 - Is April to June the new “trade show season”, or will it just be “always on” in the new AI world?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

In this episode of Altitude, Woody is joined by Brian Gracely, co-host of The Cloudcast podcast and Senior Director of Portfolio Strategy at Red Hat.With his wealth of experience in the industry, Brian provides unique insights into potential trends for cloud customers in the year ahead. Brian and Woody discuss upcoming changes in migration, customer spending, and the role of AI in driving new business. While Brian and Woody agree that AI will lead to more spending and innovation, they deliberate on the future of cloud infrastructure in light of new AI demands and challenges. Will data for AI continue to move to the cloud, or will it be more successful at the edge?Brian wraps up the conversation by emphasizing the need for mastering the fundamentals of cloud in order to succeed at scale with AI: “When your fundamentals aren't there, and you're just focused on the sizzle as opposed to the steak, that's where you get yourself in trouble.”Learn more about Altitude and host Woody: https://aviatrix.com/altitude/Check out The Cloudcast podcast: https://www.thecloudcast.net/ Connect with Brian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briangracely/Timestamped Overview:00:00 Intro.05:29 Cloud providers offer ARM CPUs, addressing customer needs for reduced cloud costs.08:29 AI's explosive growth expands business opportunities.09:43 Tech companies rushing to capitalize on potential growth.15:14 Conundrum of data and compute in cloud.18:17 TCO study showed immediate cost savings, efficiency gains.21:05 Enhancing infrastructure operations through collaborative networking.29:06 Importance of understanding the fundamentals of cloud before leveraging AI.

Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely discuss the possibility of another major cloud provider emerging as the economy changes and new application workloads begin to take shape. SHOW: 757CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.appSHOW NOTES:Microsoft hiring to build small reactors near data centersThe economic case for Generative AI (a16z)AWS invests (up to) $4B in AnthropicNVIDIA DGX CloudNVIDIA's new computing model (Acquired podcast)Topic 1 - Do you remember back when AWS was starting to take off, and Simon Wardley used to talk about how IBM or HP or Cisco or EMC/VMware should have been the ones building the utility cloud services? Topic 2 - We're now at a stage when all anyone can talk about is AI (Generative AI, LLMs, etc.) and GPUs. So which one is more powerful, the Models/Data or the Infrastructure?Topic 3 - Is it possible that NVIDIA could start building their own cloud? Do they potentially want to own a more vertical experience? Topic 4 - Obviously the buildout costs are enormous, but are they that much different from what the Big 3 are trying to do in retrofitting existing data centers, or hiring to build their own mini-Nuclear reactors?Topic 5 - Who could potentially be a partner to NVIDIA in building out this type of cloud in the near-term? (Equinix, national governments, cities-of-the-future, sovereign wealth funds, etc.)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

This week, Brandon and Coté are joined by a special guest host, Brian Gracely. We discuss HashiCorp's transition to BSL and break down the recent interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Plus, some thoughts on the use of the word "orthogonal." Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7eM-EO8Lo) 428 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7eM-EO8Lo) Runner-up Titles I like T-Bone Re:invent the T-Bone Byzantine Bramble Path This show isn't three hours, but it could be Those who are satisfied do not speak. Rundown BSL As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending (https://www.runtime.news/as-hashicorp-adopts-the-bsl-an-era-of-open-source-software-might-be-ending/) HashiCorp changes its source licence to BSL (https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/hashicorp_bsl_licence/) HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License (https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-abandons-open-source-for-business-source-license/) Craig Box on LinkedIn: Hashicorp did a thing, and many people are responding with a variant of… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crbnz_hashicorp-did-a-thing-and-many-people-are-activity-7096055691773124608-BtQz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) There's no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky — Decoder with Nilay Patel (https://overcast.fm/+QLdsFX2X0) Relevant to your Interests Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? 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(https://medium.com/@gordon.messmer/fossy-panelists-talk-rights-what-about-responsibilities-8b2bb2ae95f5) Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/10/oracle-suse-and-ciq-launch-the-open-enterprise-linux-association-amid-red-hat-controversy/) Nonsense Why Taco Bell's free taco giveaway is happening everywhere but New Jersey | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/business/taco-bell-giveaway-new-jersey/index.html) Mike Young, co-founder of Chuy's, has died (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/mike-young-co-founder-of-chuys-has-died/) Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads (https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/Cv5CV3-rMKb/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Hitler Reacts to HashiCorp Transitioning to BSL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J10xyPTE4I) Man eats nothing but Whataburger for a week to unlock the secrets of Texan identity | Boing Boing (https://boingboing.net/2023/08/10/man-eats-nothing-but-whataburger-for-a-week-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-texan-identity.html) Conferences Aug 21 - 22, Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/) in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco (https://qconsf.com/workshop/oct2023/open-source-kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost), Matt's doing a workshop October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT's a sponsor, Matt's there Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/) If you want your conference mentioned, let's talk media sponsorships. 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Let's say you have a set of microservices running on a Kubernetes cluster. In the past, developers used to program features like service discovery, observability, who's allowed to talk to whom and other security related features directly into the application code. This slowed down the dev cycle and it made these microservices bigger and just The post Istio Ambient Mesh with Brian Gracely appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Let’s say you have a set of microservices running on a Kubernetes cluster. In the past, developers used to program features like service discovery, observability, who’s allowed to talk to whom and other security related features directly into the application code. This slowed down the dev cycle and it made these microservices bigger and just The post Istio Ambient Mesh with Brian Gracely appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

This week Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely cohost of the The Cloudcast and they discuss starting a podcast. They cover the Who, What, Why and How of launching a podcast and recommend podcast recording gear, editing software and hosting services. Rundown The Cloudcast and SDT origin stories Who should start a podcast? Why you should or should not start a podcast? What should your podcast be about? Podcast gear, software and hosting Links Record Podcasts with Audio Hijack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGyRbS5fyBU) SDT Podcast Gear Recommendations (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_FyZEY4-2rzcYDjxZrgpKXnKvKeirNB9B4jr5Tm_46M/edit#) Cloudcast Podcast Suggestions (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjXNhZLmweTbl2X9KomJmxhwzc7IDz8i1pkvPRlXu5o/edit?usp=sharing) Cloudcast Sample Podcast Show Notes (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTyxrlt11phyx6Gp_7k3DvK5cZDnOpO9t6cIPahmDts/edit?usp=sharing) Podcasting 101 via Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/how-to-make-a-podcast) Podcasting Microphones (https://www.thepodcasthost.com/equipment/the-best-podcasting-microphones-on-the-market/) Voice over Marketplace (https://www.fiverr.com/categories/music-audio/voice-overs) Royalty Free Music (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/2) Purchase Music Site (https://www.premiumbeat.com) Subscribe to The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net) Follow @bgracely (https://twitter.com/bgracely) and @thecloudcast (https://twitter.com/thecloudcastnet) on Twitter SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté's book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/VCFxt2yT1eQ) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/1oKxSKSOowE) Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

Brian Gracely, VP of Product Strategy at Solo.io and co-host of The Cloudcast, joins us to talk about service mesh management, podcasting, and what a career in Product Strategy looks like. Links https://twitter.com/bgracely https://www.solo.io https://www.thecloudcast.net Review us Reviews are what help us grow and tailor our content to what you want to hear. Give us a review here (https://ratethispodcast.com/podrocket). Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRocketpod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod) What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

Virtual Stack Podcast is back after a 10 months long hiatus! On the 40th episode of the show, I'm joined by a fellow Red Hatter and the co-host of the The Cloudcast, Brian Gracely. With Brian, we look into several technology trends such as cloud computing, web3, security then we discuss what to expect in 2022 and beyond. Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.   Show notes: 1:30: Intros 6:00: Cloud computing 20:30: web3 and Metaverse 27:45: Security 33:15: Tech investors and VC funding 39:45: Future of work and great resignation. 47:30: Closing notes   Links: Brian's twitter. The Cloudcast: Web, Twitter.

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speaks with Noah about the history of Red Hat OpenShift and how it, and its teams, have evolved to address the needs of the community. We talk about the duality of contributing to #Kubernetes in both an enterprise, and upstream sense, and how to solve for the requirements of companies that are NOT Google.

Source: https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/automated-data-labeling-for-ai-apps.htmlSee also: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/04/09/snorkel-training-dataset-management-with-braden-hancock/Software 2.0 is Andrej Karpathy's idea that instead of coding business logic by hand, the applications of the future will be trained by data. In other words, machine learning. But ML is limited by the quality of data available, and there is a lot of unstructured, unlabeled data out there that is still being manually labeled today. Scale.AI is a well known startup that has done very well offering a scalable manual labeling workforce, however they are still bottlenecked by the number of subject matter experts available for labeling critically important data, like cancer diagnosis and drug trafficking rings. In order to get labels from subject matter experts, you typically have to put them through a very tedious process of labeling to build up a useful structured dataset upfront before any useful machine learning can be done.I did some very minor ML work about 5 years ago and found Christopher Re's work on DeepDive at Stanford. It takes a revolutionary approach by making it easy to write the labeling functions themselves. This turns the labeling process into an iterative, REPL like experience where subject matter experts can suggest a function, see its impact right away, and continue refining it, assisted by AI. DeepDive is now commercialized in a startup called Snorkel.AI, so I was very excited to find a clear explanation of Snorkelflow from its CEO, Alex Ratner. Here it is!Transcript[00:01:15] Alex Ratner: [00:01:15] SnorkelFlow is a platform that's meant to take this process of building machine learning models and AI applications. And I get all starting with buildings, the data that they rely on that fuels them and make it, in a nutshell, look more like an iterative software development process. Then you know, this kind of 80, 90% upfront just, hand labeling exercise.[00:01:34]And so snorkel flow supports that entire iterative loop of, actually laboring data. Can be by hand in the platform, but also most centrally programmatically by letting users, what we call labeling. Basic idea, is that rather than say asking your, legal associate at a bank to, or your doctor friends to sit down and, label a hundred thousand contracts or a hundred thousand electronic health records have them, right.[00:02:00]Sharistics are bits of their expertise look for this keyword or look for this pattern or look for this, et cetera. I'm like a bridge from old, expert knowledge type input. Modern machine learning models using one to power. The other. So a snorkel flow is an IDE basically, and has a no-code UI component as well, but let's not people either via code or by pushing buttons for even, non-developer subject matter experts say to.[00:02:24]Programmatically labeled their data by writing these labeling functions and then uses a bunch of modeling techniques. A lot of which was actually, the work that, that the co-founding team. And I did in, in, in our kind of thesis work around how you take a bunch of programmatic data and clean it up and turn it into a final.[00:02:41]Instead of clean training data for machine learning models, and then actually in snorkel flow, you can, autumn, basically push button train best-in-class open source models. You can then analyze where they're succeeding or failing and, and use that to go back and iterate on your data.[00:02:54]And there's a Python SDK throughout the whole thing. So many of our customers will mix and match. Will you start.  Create the training data set and then train the model on some other system, et cetera. But what's normal flames of support. Is it basic iterative development process where, you know, rather than just spending months to label a training at once and then being stuck with it and having to throw it out and start all over again, anything in the world changes your upstream input, data changes your downstream objectives.[00:03:18] Change, making it again more like an iterative process where you push some buttons or write some code. That label the data. You compile a model or train it, but you can think of it like compiling and then you go back and debug by, by iterating on your data, everything centers and snorkel flow around looking at your data and iterating on how it's labeled to improve models.[00:03:38]Brian Gracely: [00:03:38] I'm curious. So you mentioned you mentioned in there's a there's a Python SDK, which for anybody who, works in data science, data modeling, right? Python is your language to Frank sort of the language you use or are you a couple of them, that's the language that, you how you do your program, but I'm curious, like in today's world, Do data scientists consider themselves programmers or is there still Hey, look, I work on the numbers, I'm good at building models and the numbers, but I don't think of myself as a programmer.[00:04:08] Like how do you bridge those two worlds together or do you not really have to bridge them together? How much does the data scientists have to go? I have to focus on numbers and models versus I have to focus on programming, something to do stuff. What's their world look like?[00:04:21]Alex Ratner: [00:04:21] It's a great question. I think I, I haven't been are currently I'm part of four or five different data science institutes or something. And I don't even still know. I mean, the data science is such a broad umbrella term. There's so many different varietals of us and, and types.[00:04:35] And so I do think there's a very broad spectrum of, the data scientists. An ML engineer and just, loves writing codes are the one that, to your point really just wants to push some buttons and get back to the numbers and the modeling and the outcome. And, we definitely, try to support the range through a layered approach.[00:04:50]And, we, we have , but on top of that, we have a a no-code UI that allows you to write these wavelength functions without writing code. So for example, if you're trying to train a CA a contract classifier and snorkeled flow, you can, write Lateline functions based on clicking on keywords or pressing buttons with kind of templates for types of patterns or signals you want to look for.[00:05:11] So, No we try to support basically, if you want to move fast and you're a non developer, or you're just not looking to spend time there, you can just do it in push-button way. But then if you want to go and customize or inject custom logic or really get creative, you can always fall back to the Python SDK.[00:05:27] And so, I mean, I think a lot of the what we're trying to accomplish in the very beginning, right? Raised me abstraction know level at which you're interfacing with and programming your machine learning model or your AI application. And the first step is the hardest, right?[00:05:39] If you think of the way that hand labeled training data is, it's like the machine code, or really actually, just so you know, I think of it as like the ones and zeros, literally for binary classification cases. Yeah, a lot of the effort behind the circle project and the company is just, or was just getting from that layer to the layer of, assembly language day.[00:05:57] But once you get there, you can build all those layers on top and you can go up the stack and down the stack, according to the application of the user type, right. Actually, my co-founder Braden who was, who also did his PhD around, snorkel related stuff, had a paper actually on how you could use natural language inputs.[00:06:12] You could explain in, in natural light. Just speaking to the computer, why a certain data point should be labeled a certain way and then use off the shelf semantic parsers to parse that down to code, which then would get dumped into snorkel. So basically once you make this leap from labeling data, by ham kind of zeros and ones to labeling your training data with code, then the sky's the limit in terms of building layers of abstraction on top of it.[00:06:35] And that's actually a lot of what the company does and has been doing over the last two years is. Building a flexible interface through our platform, snorkel flow for different data types and use case types and user types. [00:06:45]Brian Gracely: [00:06:45] Yep. Well, and, and I think you, you really answered my question in there.[00:06:49] The reason I brought it up was on one hand you have this you have this language level SDK in terms of Python, you can get into, Some pretty granular level stuff. And then you have, on the other end, you've got application studio, which you said, like you said is this sort of low code graphical way of, building templates and building applications.[00:07:08] And I was like, There must be like, I think sometimes there's just perspective of there's one profile of a data scientist. And I think what you really highlighted is it, it's like a lot of things there's a spectrum of, those that specialize in one part of the job, others that don't care about it and want it, certain things to be easy.[00:07:25] And so that, that was useful because I think sometimes like in my head, I'm thinking, okay, Data scientists is served a certain sort of task the same way you might say okay, they're a Java developer. So they, there's a tool set that they always use. So that was super helpful.[00:07:39]Alex Ratner: [00:07:39] Yeah. And it depends on what the problem is too. I mean, the other thing also that I think goes under, emphasized in the air space big. Points number one. And I don't think it's that avant gardening where to say it was maybe more back in 2015 is, Hey, AI is about the data, not the models or the algorithms, which I think, fewer people will find a controversial statement today.[00:07:57]Even if it's phrases in a somewhat reductive way. But the other thing that I still think is under emphasized in practices and necessity of lupus. What we often refer to as subject matter experts into the process. And so I think w and I won't ramble here too long, but just for some perspective, and this is actually the very first  funding that, that the snorkel project ever had was specifically about looping what they call SMEEs and the government subject matter experts.[00:08:20]Our original partners were some genomicists at Stanford. How do you loop them into the. Of AI in a better way than just saying, Hey go label data for eight months for me, please. And this idea of how do you get subject matter expertise from a human's head into a scalable machine format has been the focus of AI for, decades, but the answer of modern machine learning today for the last, five, 10 years.[00:08:44] Okay, just sit them down, have them labeled data points one by one, nothing else. They've got all of this rich domain knowledge, a doctor, a lawyer, a cyber analyst, network, technician, and underwriter. Throw that all away, just have them literally just, give zeros and ones labeling data. And that's a nice abstraction.[00:09:01]And it has been actually a very productive one for the field, because that means the ML engineers can totally abstract the way the messy realities of real-world data and real world subject matter experts. And just focus on optimizing, a fancier model architecture. But I think we've reached a point where it starts to become silly and impractical to have this wall.[00:09:19] The subject matter expert and the data scientists. So I'll let us loop back and say, but a big focus of circle flow is about making these interfaces in this process, accessible to a non-developer who's, a legal associate or an underwriter or a network technician and have the process too. And that's another motivation behind the kind of, layers, including no-code UI.

SHOW: Season 3, TrailerOVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, The Cloudcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce this new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.In this season of Cloudcast Basics, we're going to focus on how the Economics of Cloud Computing have evolved from Traditional IT to the newer Cloud Computing environments. We look at how to create efficient economics models for your business, how Cloud evolves your thinking about technology usage, and other economic considerations for your business.SUBSCRIBE: Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.).CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwLEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. CBT Nuggets - Training and CertificationsA Cloud Guru - Training and CertificationsCloud Academy - Training and CertificationsKatakoda - Self-Paced, Interactive LearningGitHub - Code Samples and CollaborationFEEDBACK?Web: Cloudcast Basics Email: show at cloudcastbasics dot netTwitter: @cloudcastbasics

SHOW: Season 3, Show 1OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, The Cloudcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce this new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.TRADITIONAL IT ECONOMICSIntroduction & Explanation: Dominated by proprietary hardware and software. 3yr, 5yr, 7yr hardware refresh cycles - required to depreciate assets1yr, 3yr, 5yr software contracts - often include in “Enterprise License Agreements” (ELAs)Successful POCs were often contractually bound to buy the solution.Not all software was easy to upgrade between tiers of features. No “free-tier”.Large vendors would have financing arms to create loans, or “on-demand” pricing (typically based on “true-up” reports at various times of year).Businesses still needed to pay for all the facilities to house the data center (building, power, electricity, insurance, etc.)Open source software began to change some of those dynamics, but not all companies had the staff to operate open source software.SUBSCRIBE: Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.).CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwLEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. CBT Nuggets - Training and CertificationsA Cloud Guru - Training and CertificationsCloud Academy - Training and CertificationsKatakoda - Self-Paced, Interactive LearningGitHub - Code Samples and CollaborationFEEDBACK?Web: Cloudcast Basics Email: show at cloudcastbasics dot netTwitter: @cloudcastbasics

SHOW: Season 3, Show 2OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, The Cloudcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce this new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.THE BASICS OF CLOUD ECONOMICSIntroduction & Explanation: Payment Flexibility (Free Tiers, Per-user (SaaS), On-Demand, Reserved-Instances, Usage-Credits, Spot Markets, Capacity Usage); Can Mix & Match as neededImmediate access to different parts of the stack, at different price points and different trade-off levels (IaaS vs. Serverless vs. PaaS vs. SaaS)A certain amount of IT skills can be “outsourced” to the cloud, but with more flexible payment models than legacy outsourcing. Not actually moving the people, but acquiring technology that runs itself.Discounts tend to live at the beginning (free tiers, introductory offers), and then when you start becoming “too big to leave”.Keeping track of spending is just as complicated, and sometimes more complicated than in your data center - can only spin up what you own vs. the “unlimited cloud”Pricing models continue to be complex in the cloud (per-user, per-task, per-GB, per-usage, etc.), but there are so many options that you might be able to better align it to your business needs. SUBSCRIBE: Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.).CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwLEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. CBT Nuggets - Training and CertificationsA Cloud Guru - Training and CertificationsCloud Academy - Training and CertificationsKatakoda - Self-Paced, Interactive LearningGitHub - Code Samples and CollaborationFEEDBACK?Web: Cloudcast Basics Email: show at cloudcastbasics dot netTwitter: @cloudcastbasics

SHOW: Season 3, Show 4OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, The Cloudcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce this new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.OTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR CLOUD ECONOMICSIntroduction & Explanation: Read up on how other people have engaged with the cloud and their experiences from an economic perspective - both good and bad. Baseline your usage with early applications and usage models. Focus early-on to align your cloud costs to the revenues or business metrics for specific projects. Consider evolving your Financial team to understand the various cloud economic models, or consider investing in FinOps skills and toolsUnderstand your vendors's business model - where/when do they discount, where/when do they apply credits, etc.Educate your teams that experimentation is something to embrace. Educate them about how to leverage the services within the cloud to augment their teams. SUBSCRIBE: Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.).CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwLEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification. CBT Nuggets - Training and CertificationsA Cloud Guru - Training and CertificationsCloud Academy - Training and CertificationsKatakoda - Self-Paced, Interactive LearningGitHub - Code Samples and CollaborationFEEDBACK?Web: Cloudcast Basics Email: show at cloudcastbasics dot netTwitter: @cloudcastbasics

This week on The Business of Cloud Native, I talked with Brian Gracely about using Kubernetes for edge workloads as well as the difference between “cloud” and “edge.” HighlightsIs edge part of the cloud, is cloud a part of edge or are they completely separate but slightly related environments? What makes something a data center vs what makes something an edge device? How enterprises think of edge vs how Telcos think about edge. How the edge has gone from being a cost center to a competitive advantage for enterprises.Why Telcos have always thought of edge as a market opportunity. Why Kubernetes can help standardize environments and make it easier to deploy software to the edge, but there are still challenges to overcome. Why edge deployments require re-thinking many basic environmental factors like bandwidth and compute capacity. Why consistency at the edge is so important. Why you can't ignore the physical conditions that make edge environments unique. LinksBrian on TwitterThe CloudcastRedHat OpenShift

In episode #49, David chats with VMware vExpert Aaron Delp of Cohesity and The Cloud Cast Podcast. You'll find out about Aaron's new team at Cohesity (Yes, he is hiring!) and what's made his podcast (@TheCloudCastNet) with Brian Gracely so popular. The CloudCast is now up to almost 350 episodes so make sure you listen […]

In episode #49, David chats with VMware vExpert Aaron Delp of Cohesity and The Cloud Cast Podcast. You'll find out about Aaron's new team at Cohesity (Yes, he is hiring!) and what's made his podcast (@TheCloudCastNet) with Brian Gracely so popular. The CloudCast is now up to almost 350 episodes so make sure you listen […]