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Satisfaction Factor
#81 - Diabetes Myth Busting with Esther Tambe

Satisfaction Factor

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 46:47


This week, we're talking to Esther Tambe, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES (she/her) about the mainstream myths about diabetes & what a weight inclusive approach to diabetes looks like!Esther Tambe is a New York-based weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian passionate about helping women recover from eating disorders and disordered eating. She has a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition from Long Island University and another in Health Science-Public Health from Stony Brook University. She also has a Master's degree in Nutrition from Long Island University. Esther is committed to increasing awareness of eating disorders/disordered eating in Black communities, which are often overlooked or misdiagnosed. She strongly believes culturally appropriate nutrition care is essential for the Black community. In addition to providing nutrition counseling for eating disorders, Esther is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist who helps clients manage diabetes from a weight-inclusive lens. Before opening her private practice, Esther worked in underserved communities providing nutrition education and counseling to individuals with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and HIV/AIDS. Now, she blends her passion for eating disorders with her clinical background to help clients heal their relationships with food while managing other health conditions.As a weight-inclusive provider, Esther believes women of all body shapes and sizes deserve respect and high-quality care. She provides individualized nutrition care for all her clients, regardless of their body shape or size, that centers on health-promoting behaviors rather than weight.You can find Esther traveling around the world, taking Zumba classes, and spending time with her family outside of work. She is also the co-founder of Fight Through Flights Inc., a non-profit organization that aims to empower and support the healing of Black women living with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors through wellness experiences and travel.We had an awesome conversation with Esther about...what diabetes is, and some common misconceptions about its causeshow to navigate a diabetes diagnosis, and what the deal is with prediabetesthe truth about the relationship between diabetes, body weight, sugar, and carbswhat factors have a bigger impact on blood sugar levels than body weight or dietwhat to know about diabetes medications, including drugs like Ozempichow to approach diabetes care from a weight-neutral lensand so much more!You can connect with Esther and learn how to work with her on Instagram @et.the.rd, or at her website, EstherTambeNutrition.com!Want to connect with us to deepen the conversation? Join us in our online community, The Satisfaction Space!Want to show the world that you love the pod? Get t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, stickers, totebags & more at Teepublic!You can stay up to date on all things Satisfaction Factor by following us on IG @satisfactionfactorpod!Here's where to find us:Sadie Simpson: www.sadiesimpson.com or IG @sadiemsimpsonNaomi Katz: www.happyshapes.co or IG @happyshapesnaomi

Professional Builders Secrets
109. Building To Sell With Rick Moore

Professional Builders Secrets

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2023 30:20


Professional Builders Secrets brings you an exclusive episode with Rick Moore, Executive Business Coach at APB. Throughout this episode, Rick delves into what makes a building company sellable, and the strategies you can put in place to ensure your building company is a valuable asset by retirement. INSIDE EPISODE 109 YOU WILL DISCOVER What defines a sellable business Common pitfalls in the structure of a building company How to ensure your company will run without you How to give up some control to create a valuable business What to do if the next generation doesn't want to inherit your company And much, much more. Listen to the full episode to learn exactly how you can create a sellable business that won't leave you working through your retirement. If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail. Which is why we created the Creating An Exit Strategy action plan. APB Members can access the couse by clicking on the button below and learn how to build a structure that supports your long-term goals. Access The Course: coaching.apbbuilders.com/courses/enrolled/1656005 ABOUT RICK MOORE Rick Moore has been at the forefront of steering businesses that have collectively amassed a staggering market capitalisation exceeding $3 billion CDN, served as the CEO of the Canadian division of the world's largest business coaching company, and is the author of “Scale-Up to Sell,” sharing his insights derived from his experiences, and his CEPA designation in exit planning underscores my commitment to guiding ventures towards successful transitions. Connect with Rick: linkedin.com/in/rick-moore-4069383a/ TIMELINE 0:49 Rick's career and how he got involved with APB 4:28 About Rick's book 'Scale-Up To Sell' 8:27 Building a sellable business 14:40 Mistakes that affect the saleability of your business 18:18 Why an owner needs to pay themselves a market salary LINKS, RESOURCES & MORE APB Website: associationofprofessionalbuilders.com APB Rewards: associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/rewards/ APB on Instagram: instagram.com/apbbuilders/ APB on Facebook: facebook.com/associationofprofessionalbuilders APB on YouTube: youtube.com/c/associationofprofessionalbuilders

Tank Talks
Building a Tech-Savvy Family Office from a Real Estate Empire with Ronald Shon of REDDS Capital

Tank Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2023 53:00


On Today's episode, we dive into the world of Family Office Investing with Ronald Shon from REDDS Capital.We talked about to him the beginnings of his family's real estate empire, the Shon Group, which flourished in Vancouver since 1954. Following his education at Stanford and Wharton, Ron took the helm of the business after his father's untimely passing, eventually diversifying into technology and venture capital investments, driven by a pivotal investment in Apple stock that revealed the limitations of real estate compared to institutional investing.Today, as the head of REDDS Capital, Ron emphasizes their distinctive approach to startup assessment, not only providing financial backing but also offering strategic guidance and networking support to foster innovation and growth within their portfolio companies.About Ronald Shon: Ronald Shon Chair & GP of REDDS Capital in Vancouver. He has investments in technology, education, real estate, natural resources, fashion, private equity, and venture capital primarily in North America and Asia. He was a founding shareholder of Salman Partners Inc. an independent boutique investment banking firm that has raised over $20 billion CDN.In this episode, we discuss:(01:11) News Round-Up with John Ruffolo(18:32) Ron Shon's Journey into Real Estate and Investment(21:14) Transition from Real Estate to Technology and VC Investments(23:50) How Ron's international worldview impacted his perspective in Vancouver(25:18) Insights on Real Estate Development and Challenges(31:09) Investing in Technology and Venture Capital(34:50) Assessing Potential Startup Investments(39:06) Impact of Investments and Future Plans(47:50) Advice to his children and the next generation of investorsFast Favorites:*

Screaming in the Cloud
Learnings From A Lifelong Career in Open-Source with Amir Szekely

Screaming in the Cloud

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 38:47


Amir Szekely, Owner at CloudSnorkel, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how he got his start in the early days of cloud and his solo project, CloudSnorkel. Throughout this conversation, Corey and Amir discuss the importance of being pragmatic when moving to the cloud, and the different approaches they see in developers from the early days of cloud to now. Amir shares what motivates him to develop open-source projects, and why he finds fulfillment in fixing bugs and operating CloudSnorkel as a one-man show. About AmirAmir Szekely is a cloud consultant specializing in deployment automation, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and CI/CD. His background includes security, virtualization, and Windows development. Amir enjoys creating open-source projects like cdk-github-runners, cdk-turbo-layers, and NSIS.Links Referenced: CloudSnorkel: https://cloudsnorkel.com/ lasttootinaws.com: https://lasttootinaws.com camelcamelcamel.com: https://camelcamelcamel.com github.com/cloudsnorkel: https://github.com/cloudsnorkel Personal website: https://kichik.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn, and this is an episode that I have been angling for for longer than you might imagine. My guest today is Amir Szekely, who's the owner at CloudSnorkel. Amir, thank you for joining me.Amir: Thanks for having me, Corey. I love being here.Corey: So, I've been using one of your open-source projects for an embarrassingly long amount of time, and for the longest time, I make the critical mistake of referring to the project itself as CloudSnorkel because that's the word that shows up in the GitHub project that I can actually see that jumps out at me. The actual name of the project within your org is cdk-github-runners if I'm not mistaken.Amir: That's real original, right?Corey: Exactly. It's like, “Oh, good, I'll just mention that, and suddenly everyone will know what I'm talking about.” But ignoring the problems of naming things well, which is a pain that everyone at AWS or who uses it knows far too well, the product is basically magic. Before I wind up basically embarrassing myself by doing a poor job of explaining what it is, how do you think about it?Amir: Well, I mean, it's a pretty simple project, which I think what makes it great as well. It creates GitHub runners with CDK. That's about it. It's in the name, and it just does that. And I really tried to make it as simple as possible and kind of learn from other projects that I've seen that are similar, and basically learn from my pain points in them.I think the reason I started is because I actually deployed CDK runners—sorry, GitHub runners—for one company, and I ended up using the Kubernetes one, right? So, GitHub in themselves, they have two projects they recommend—and not to nudge GitHub, please recommend my project one day as well—they have the Kubernetes controller and they have the Terraform deployer. And the specific client that I worked for, they wanted to use Kubernetes. And I tried to deploy it, and, Corey, I swear, I worked three days; three days to deploy the thing, which was crazy to me. And every single step of the way, I had to go and read some documentation, figure out what I did wrong, and apparently the order the documentation was was incorrect.And I had to—I even opened tickets, and they—you know, they were rightfully like, “It's open-source project. Please contribute and fix the documentation for us.” At that point, I said, “Nah.” [laugh]. Let me create something better with CDK and I decided just to have the simplest setup possible.So usually, right, what you end up doing in these projects, you have to set up either secrets or SSM parameters, and you have to prepare the ground and you have to get your GitHub token and all those things. And that's just annoying. So, I decided to create a—Corey: So much busy work.Amir: Yes, yeah, so much busy work and so much boilerplate and so much figuring out the right way and the right order, and just annoying. So, I decided to create a setup page. I thought, “What if you can actually install it just like you install any app on GitHub,” which is the way it's supposed to be right? So, when you install cdk-github-runners—CloudSnorkel—you get an HTML page and you just click a few buttons and you tell it where to install it and it just installs it for you. And it sets the secrets and everything. And if you want to change the secret, you don't have to redeploy. You can just change the secret, right? You have to roll the token over or whatever. So, it's much, much easier to install.Corey: And I feel like I discovered this project through one of the more surreal approaches—and I had cause to revisit it a few weeks ago when I was redoing my talk for the CDK Community Day, which has since happened and people liked the talk—and I mentioned what CloudSnorkel had been doing and how I was using the runners accordingly. So, that was what I accidentally caused me to pop back up with, “Hey, I've got some issues here.” But we'll get to that. Because once upon a time, I built a Twitter client for creating threads because shitposting is my love language, I would sit and create Twitter threads in the middle of live keynote talks. Threading in the native client was always terrible, and I wanted to build something that would help me do that. So, I did.And it was up for a while. It's not anymore because I'm not paying $42,000 a month in API costs to some jackass, but it still exists in the form of lasttootinaws.com if you want to create threads on Mastodon. But after I put this out, some people complained that it was slow.To which my response was, “What do you mean? It's super fast for me in San Francisco talking to it hosted in Oregon.” But on every round trip from halfway around the world, it became a problem. So, I got it into my head that since this thing was fully stateless, other than a Lambda function being fronted via an API Gateway, that I should deploy it to every region. It didn't quite fit into a Cloudflare Worker or into one of the Edge Lambda functions that AWS has given up on, but okay, how do I deploy something to every region?And the answer is, with great difficulty because it's clear that no one was ever imagining with all those regions that anyone would use all of them. It's imagined that most customers use two or three, but customers are different, so which two or three is going to be widely varied. So, anything halfway sensible about doing deployments like this didn't work out. Again, because this thing was also a Lambda function and an API Gateway, it was dirt cheap, so I didn't really want to start spending stupid amounts of money doing deployment infrastructure and the rest.So okay, how do I do this? Well, GitHub Actions is awesome. It is basically what all of AWS's code offerings wish that they were. CodeBuild is sad and this was kind of great. The problem is, once you're out of the free tier, and if you're a bad developer where you do a deploy on every iteration, suddenly it starts costing for what I was doing in every region, something like a quarter of per deploy, which adds up when you're really, really bad at programming.Amir: [laugh].Corey: So, their matrix jobs are awesome, but I wanted to do some self-hosted runners. How do I do that? And I want to keep it cheap, so how do I do a self-hosted runner inside of a Lambda function? Which led me directly to you. And it was nothing short of astonishing. This was a few years ago. I seem to recall that it used to be a bit less well-architected in terms of its elegance. Did it always use step functions, for example, to wind up orchestrating these things?Amir: Yeah, so I do remember that day. We met pretty much… basically as a joke because the Lambda Runner was a joke that I did, and I posted on Twitter, and I was half-proud of my joke that starts in ten seconds, right? But yeah, no, the—I think it always used functions. I've been kind of in love with the functions for the past two years. They just—they're nice.Corey: Oh, they're magic, and AWS is so bad at telling their story. Both of those things are true.Amir: Yeah. And the API is not amazing. But like, when you get it working—and you know, you have to spend some time to get it working—it's really nice because then you have nothing to manage, ever. And they can call APIs directly now, so you don't have to even create Lambdas. It's pretty cool.Corey: And what I loved is you wind up deploying this thing to whatever account you want it to live within. What is it, the OIDC? I always get those letters in the wrong direction. OIDC, I think, is correct.Amir: I think it's OIDC, yeah.Corey: Yeah, and it winds up doing this through a secure method as opposed to just okay, now anyone with access to the project can deploy into your account, which is not ideal. And it just works. It spins up a whole bunch of these Lambda functions that are using a Docker image as the deployment environment. And yeah, all right, if effectively my CDK deploy—which is what it's doing inside of this thing—doesn't complete within 15 minutes, then it's not going to and the thing is going to break out. We've solved the halting problem. After 15 minutes, the loop will terminate. The end.But that's never been a problem, even with getting ACM certificates spun up. It completes well within that time limit. And its cost to me is effectively nothing. With one key exception: that you made the choice to use Secrets Manager to wind up storing a lot of the things it cares about instead of Parameter Store, so I think you wind up costing me—I think there's two of those different secrets, so that's 80 cents a month. Which I will be demanding in blood one of these days if I ever catch you at re:Invent.Amir: I'll buy you beer [laugh].Corey: There we go. That'll count. That'll buy, like, several months of that. That works—at re:Invent, no. The beers there are, like, $18, so that'll cover me for years. We're set.Amir: We'll split it [laugh].Corey: Exactly. Problem solved. But I like the elegance of it, I like how clever it is, and I want to be very clear, though, it's not just for shitposting. Because it's very configurable where, yes, you can use Lambda functions, you can use Spot Instances, you can use CodeBuild containers, you can use Fargate containers, you can use EC2 instances, and it just automatically orchestrates and adds these self-hosted runners to your account, and every build gets a pristine environment as a result. That is no small thing.Amir: Oh, and I love making things configurable. People really appreciate it I feel, you know, and gives people kind of a sense of power. But as long as you make that configuration simple enough, right, or at least the defaults good defaults, right, then, even with that power, people still don't shoot themselves in the foot and it still works really well. By the way, we just added ECS recently, which people really were asking for because it gives you the, kind of, easy option to have the runner—well, not the runner but at least the runner infrastructure staying up, right? So, you can have auto-scaling group backing ECS and then the runner can start up a lot faster. It was actually very important to other people because Lambda, as fast that it is, it's limited, and Fargate, for whatever reason, still to this day, takes a minute to start up.Corey: Yeah. What's wild to me about this is, start to finish, I hit a deploy to the main branch and it sparks the thing up, runs the deploy. Deploy itself takes a little over two minutes. And every time I do this, within three minutes of me pushing to commit, the deploy is done globally. It is lightning fast.And I know it's easy to lose yourself in the idea of this being a giant shitpost, where, oh, who's going to do deployment jobs in Lambda functions? Well, kind of a lot of us for a variety of reasons, some of which might be better than others. In my case, it was just because I was cheap, but the massive parallelization ability to do 20 simultaneous deploys in a matrix configuration that doesn't wind up smacking into rate limits everywhere, that was kind of great.Amir: Yeah, we have seen people use Lambda a lot. It's mostly for, yeah, like you said, small jobs. And the environment that they give you, it's kind of limited, so you can't actually install packages, right? There is no sudo, and you can't actually install anything unless it's in your temp directory. But still, like, just being able to run a lot of little jobs, it's really great. Yeah.Corey: And you can also make sure that there's a Docker image ready to go with the stuff that you need, just by configuring how the build works in the CDK. I will admit, I did have a couple of bug reports for you. One was kind of useful, where it was not at all clear how to do this on top of a Graviton-based Lambda function—because yeah, that was back when not everything really supported ARM architectures super well—and a couple of other times when the documentation was fairly ambiguous from my perspective, where it wasn't at all clear, what was I doing? I spent four hours trying to beat my way through it, I give up, filed an issue, went to get a cup of coffee, came back, and the answer was sitting there waiting for me because I'm not convinced you sleep.Amir: Well, I am a vampire. My last name is from the Transylvania area [laugh]. So—Corey: Excellent. Excellent.Amir: By the way, not the first time people tell me that. But anyway [laugh].Corey: There's something to be said for getting immediate responsiveness because one of the reasons I'm always so loath to go and do a support ticket anywhere is this is going to take weeks. And then someone's going to come back with a, “I don't get it.” And try and, like, read the support portfolio to you. No, you went right into yeah, it's this. Fix it and your problem goes away. And sure enough, it did.Amir: The escalation process that some companies put you through is very frustrating. I mean, lucky for you, CloudSnorkel is a one-man show and this man loves solving bugs. So [laugh].Corey: Yeah. Do you know of anyone using it for anything that isn't ridiculous and trivial like what I'm using it for?Amir: Yeah, I have to think whether or not I can… I mean, so—okay. We have a bunch of dedicated users, right, the GitHub repo, that keep posting bugs and keep posting even patches, right, so you can tell that they're using it. I even have one sponsor, one recurring sponsor on GitHub that uses it.Corey: It's always nice when people thank you via money.Amir: Yeah. Yeah, it is very validating. I think [BLEEP] is using it, but I also don't think I can actually say it because I got it from the GitHub.Corey: It's always fun. That's the beautiful part about open-source. You don't know who's using this. You see what other things people are working on, and you never know, is one of their—is this someone's side project, is it a skunkworks thing, or God forbid, is this inside of every car going forward and no one bothered to tell me about that. That is the magic and mystery of open-source. And you've been doing open-source for longer than I have and I thought I was old. You were originally named in some of the WinAMP credits, for God's sake, that media player that really whipped the llama's ass.Amir: Oh, yeah, I started real early. I started about when I was 15, I think. I started off with Pascal or something or even Perl, and then I decided I have to learn C and I have to learn Windows API. I don't know what possessed me to do that. Win32 API is… unique [laugh].But once I created those applications for myself, right, I think there was—oh my God, do you know the—what is it called, Sherlock in macOS, right? And these days, for PowerToys, there is the equivalent of it called, I don't know, whatever that—PowerBar? That's exactly—that was that. That's a project I created as a kid. I wanted something where I can go to the Run menu of Windows when you hit Winkey R, and you can just type something and it will start it up, right?I didn't want to go to the Start menu and browse and click things. I wanted to do everything with the keyboard. So, I created something called Blazerun [laugh], which [laugh] helped you really easily create shortcuts that went into your path, right, the Windows path, so you can really easily start them from Winkey R. I don't think that anyone besides me used it, but anyway, that thing needed an installer, right? Because Windows, you got to install things. So, I ended up—Corey: Yeah, these days on Mac OS, I use Alfred for that which is kind of long in the tooth, but there's a launch bar and a bunch of other stuff for it. What I love is that if I—I can double-tap the command key and that just pops up whatever I need it to and tell the computer what to do. It feels like there's an AI play in there somewhere if people can figure out how to spend ten minutes on building AI that does something other than lets them fire their customer service staff.Amir: Oh, my God. Please don't fire customer service staff. AI is so bad.Corey: Yeah, when I reach out to talk to a human, I really needed a human.Amir: Yes. Like, I'm not calling you because I want to talk to a robot. I know there's a website. Leave me alone, just give me a person.Corey: Yeah. Like, you already failed to solve my problem on your website. It's person time.Amir: Exactly. Oh, my God. Anyway [laugh]. So, I had to create an installer, right, and I found it was called NSIS. So, it was a Nullsoft “SuperPiMP” installation system. Or in the future, when Justin, the guy who created Winamp and NSIS, tried to tone down a little bit, Nullsoft Scriptable Installation System. And SuperPiMP is—this is such useless history for you, right, but SuperPiMP is the next generation of PiMP which is Plug-in Mini Packager [laugh].Corey: I remember so many of the—like, these days, no one would ever name any project like that, just because it's so off-putting to people with sensibilities, but back then that was half the stuff that came out. “Oh, you don't like how this thing I built for free in the wee hours when I wasn't working at my fast food job wound up—you know, like, how I chose to name it, well, that's okay. Don't use it. Go build your own. Oh, what you're using it anyway. That's what I thought.”Amir: Yeah. The source code was filled with profanity, too. And like, I didn't care, I really did not care, but some people would complain and open bug reports and patches. And my policy was kind of like, okay if you're complaining, I'm just going to ignore you. If you're opening a patch, fine, I'm going to accept that you're—you guys want to create something that's sensible for everybody, sure.I mean, it's just source code, you know? Whatever. So yeah, I started working on that NSIS. I used it for myself and I joined the forums—and this kind of answers to your question of why I respond to things so fast, just because of the fun—I did the same when I was 15, right? I started going on the forums, you remember forums? You remember that [laugh]?Corey: Oh, yeah, back before they all became terrible and monetized.Amir: Oh, yeah. So, you know, people were using NSIS, too, and they had requests, right? They wanted. Back in the day—what was it—there was only support for 16-bit colors for the icon, so they want 32-bit colors and big colors—32—big icon, sorry, 32 pixels by 32 pixels. Remember, 32 pixels?Corey: Oh, yes. Not well, and not happily, but I remember it.Amir: Yeah. So, I started just, you know, giving people—working on that open-source and creating up a fork. It wasn't even called ‘fork' back then, but yeah, I created, like, a little fork of myself and I started adding all these features. And people were really happy, and kind of created, like, this happy cycle for myself: when people were happy, I was happy coding. And then people were happy by what I was coding. And then they were asking for more and they were getting happier, the more I responded.So, it was kind of like a serotonin cycle that made me happy and made everybody happy. So, it's like a win, win, win, win, win. And that's how I started with open-source. And eventually… NSIS—again, that installation system—got so big, like, my fork got so big, and Justin, the guy who works on WinAMP and NSIS, he had other things to deal with. You know, there's a whole history there with AOL. I'm sure you've heard all the funny stories.Corey: Oh, yes. In fact, one thing that—you want to talk about weird collisions of things crossing, one of the things I picked up from your bio when you finally got tired of telling me no and agreed to be on the show was that you're also one of the team who works on camelcamelcamel.com. And I keep forgetting that's one of those things that most people have no idea exists. But it's very simple: all it does is it tracks Amazon products that you tell it to and alerts you when there's a price drop on the thing that you're looking at.It's something that is useful. I try and use it for things of substance or hobbies because I feel really pathetic when I'm like, get excited emails about a price drop in toilet paper. But you know, it's very handy just to keep an idea for price history, where okay, am I actually being ripped off? Oh, they claim it's their big Amazon Deals day and this is 40% off. Let's see what camelcamelcamel has to say.Oh, surprise. They just jacked the price right beforehand and now knocked 40% off. Genius. I love that. It always felt like something that was going to be blown off the radar by Amazon being displeased, but I discovered you folks in 2010 and here you are now, 13 years later, still here. I will say the website looks a lot better now.Amir: [laugh]. That's a recent change. I actually joined camel, maybe two or three years ago. I wasn't there from the beginning. But I knew the guy who created it—again, as you were saying—from the Winamp days, right? So, we were both working in the free—well, it wasn't freenode. It was not freenode. It was a separate IRC server that, again, Justin created for himself. It was called landoleet.Corey: Mmm. I never encountered that one.Amir: Yeah, no, it was pretty private. The only people that cared about WinAMP and NSIS ended up joining there. But it was a lot of fun. I met a lot of friends there. And yeah, I met Daniel Green there as well, and he's the guy that created, along with some other people in there that I think want to remain anonymous so I'm not going to mention, but they also were on the camel project.And yeah, I was kind of doing my poor version of shitposting on Twitter about AWS, kind of starting to get some traction and maybe some clients and talk about AWS so people can approach me, and Daniel approached me out of the blue and he was like, “Do you just post about AWS on Twitter or do you also do some AWS work?” I was like, “I do some AWS work.”Corey: Yes, as do all of us. It's one of those, well crap, we're getting called out now. “Do you actually know how any of this stuff works?” Like, “Much to my everlasting shame, yes. Why are you asking?”Amir: Oh, my God, no, I cannot fix your printer. Leave me alone.Corey: Mm-hm.Amir: I don't want to fix your Lambdas. No, but I do actually want to fix your Lambdas. And so, [laugh] he approached me and he asked if I can help them move camelcamelcamel from their data center to AWS. So, that was a nice big project. So, we moved, actually, all of camelcamelcamel into AWS. And this is how I found myself not only in the Winamp credits, but also in the camelcamelcamel credits page, which has a great picture of me riding a camel.Corey: Excellent. But one of the things I've always found has been that when you take an application that has been pre-existing for a while in a data center and then move it into the cloud, you suddenly have to care about things that no one sensible pays any attention to in the land of the data center. Because it's like, “What do I care about how much data passes between my application server and the database? Wait, what do you mean that in this configuration, that's a chargeable data transfer? Oh, dear Lord.” And things that you've never had to think about optimizing are suddenly things are very much optimizing.Because let's face it, when it comes to putting things in racks and then running servers, you aren't auto-scaling those things, so everything tends to be running over-provisioned, for very good reasons. It's an interesting education. Anything you picked out from that process that you think it'd be useful for folks to bear in mind if they're staring down the barrel of the same thing?Amir: Yeah, for sure. I think… in general, right, not just here. But in general, you always want to be pragmatic, right? You don't want to take steps are huge, right? So, the thing we did was not necessarily rewrite everything and change everything to AWS and move everything to Lambda and move everything to Docker.Basically, we did a mini lift-and-shift, but not exactly lift-and-shift, right? We didn't take it as is. We moved to RDS, we moved to ElastiCache, right, we obviously made use of security groups and session connect and we dropped SSH Sage and we improved the security a lot and we locked everything down, all the permissions and all that kind of stuff, right? But like you said, there's stuff that you start having to pay attention to. In our case, it was less the data transfer because we have a pretty good CDN. There was more of IOPS. So—and IOPS, specifically for a database.We had a huge database with about one terabyte of data and a lot of it is that price history that you see, right? So, all those nice little graphs that we create in—what do you call them, charts—that we create in camelcamelcamel off the price history. There's a lot of data behind that. And what we always want to do is actually remove that from MySQL, which has been kind of struggling with it even before the move to AWS, but after the move to AWS, where everything was no longer over-provisioned and we couldn't just buy a few more NVMes on Amazon for 100 bucks when they were on sale—back when we had to pay Amazon—Corey: And you know, when they're on sale. That's the best part.Amir: And we know [laugh]. We get good prices on NVMe. But yeah, on Amazon—on AWS, sorry—you have to pay for io1 or something, and that adds up real quick, as you were saying. So, part of that move was also to move to something that was a little better for that data structure. And we actually removed just that data, the price history, the price points from MySQL to DynamoDB, which was a pretty nice little project.Actually, I wrote about it in my blog. There is, kind of, lessons learned from moving one terabyte from MySQL to DynamoDB, and I think the biggest lesson was about hidden price of storage in DynamoDB. But before that, I want to talk about what you asked, which was the way that other people should make that move, right? So again, be pragmatic, right? If you Google, “How do I move stuff from DynamoDB to MySQL,” everybody's always talking about their cool project using Lambda and how you throttle Lambda and how you get throttled from DynamoDB and how you set it up with an SQS, and this and that. You don't need all that.Just fire up an EC2 instance, write some quick code to do it. I used, I think it was Go with some limiter code from Uber, and that was it. And you don't need all those Lambdas and SQS and the complication. That thing was a one-time thing anyway, so it doesn't need to be super… super-duper serverless, you know?Corey: That is almost always the way that it tends to play out. You encounter these weird little things along the way. And you see so many things that are tied to this is how architecture absolutely must be done. And oh you're not a real serverless person if you don't have everything running in Lambda and the rest. There are times where yeah, spin up an EC2 box, write some relatively inefficient code in ten minutes and just do the thing, and then turn it off when you're done. Problem solved. But there's such an aversion to that. It's nice to encounter people who are pragmatists more than they are zealots.Amir: I mostly learned that lesson. And both Daniel Green and me learned that lesson from the Winamp days. Because we both have written plugins for Winamp and we've been around that area and you can… if you took one of those non-pragmatist people, right, and you had them review the Winamp code right now—or even before—they would have a million things to say. That code was—and NSIS, too, by the way—and it was so optimized. It was so not necessarily readable, right? But it worked and it worked amazing. And Justin would—if you think I respond quickly, right, Justin Frankel, the guy who wrote Winamp, he would release versions of NSIS and of Winamp, like, four versions a day, right? That was before [laugh] you had CI/CD systems and GitHub and stuff. That was just CVS. You remember CVS [laugh]?Corey: Oh, I've done multiple CVS migrations. One to Git and a couple to Subversion.Amir: Oh yeah, Subversion. Yep. Done ‘em all. CVS to Subversion to Git. Yep. Yep. That was fun.Corey: And these days, everyone's using Git because it—we're beginning to have a monoculture.Amir: Yeah, yeah. I mean, but Git is nicer than Subversion, for me, at least. I've had more fun with it.Corey: Talk about damning with faint praise.Amir: Faint?Corey: Yeah, anything's better than Subversion, let's be honest here.Amir: Oh [laugh].Corey: I mean, realistically, copying a bunch of files and directories to a.bak folder is better than Subversion.Amir: Well—Corey: At least these days. But back then it was great.Amir: Yeah, I mean, the only thing you had, right [laugh]?Corey: [laugh].Amir: Anyway, achieving great things with not necessarily the right tools, but just sheer power of will, that's what I took from the Winamp days. Just the entire world used Winamp. And by the way, the NSIS project that I was working on, right, I always used to joke that every computer in the world ran my code, every Windows computer in the world when my code, just because—Corey: Yes.Amir: So, many different companies use NSIS. And none of them cared that the code was not very readable, to put it mildly.Corey: So, many companies founder on those shores where they lose sight of the fact that I can point to basically no companies that died because their code was terrible, yeah, had an awful lot that died with great-looking code, but they didn't nail the business problem.Amir: Yeah. I would be lying if I said that I nailed exactly the business problem at NSIS because the most of the time I would spend there and actually shrinking the stub, right, there was appended to your installer data, right? So, there's a little stub that came—the executable, basically, that came before your data that was extracted. I spent, I want to say, years of my life [laugh] just shrinking it down by bytes—by literal bytes—just so it stays under 34, 35 kilobytes. It was kind of a—it was a challenge and something that people appreciated, but not necessarily the thing that people appreciate the most. I think the features—Corey: Well, no I have to do the same thing to make sure something fits into a Lambda deployment package. The scale changes, the problem changes, but somehow everything sort of rhymes with history.Amir: Oh, yeah. I hope you don't have to disassemble code to do that, though because that's uh… I mean, it was fun. It was just a lot.Corey: I have to ask, how much work went into building your cdk-github-runners as far as getting it to a point of just working out the door? Because I look at that and it feels like there's—like, the early versions, yeah, there wasn't a whole bunch of code tied to it, but geez, the iterative, “How exactly does this ridiculous step functions API work or whatnot,” feels like I'm looking at weeks of frustration. At least it would have been for me.Amir: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it wasn't, like, a day or two. It was definitely not—but it was not years, either. I've been working on it I think about a year now. Don't quote me on that. But I've put a lot of time into it. So, you know, like you said, the skeleton code is pretty simple: it's a step function, which as we said, takes a long time to get right. The functions, they are really nice, but their definition language is not very straightforward. But beyond that, right, once that part worked, it worked. Then came all the bug reports and all the little corner cases, right? We—Corey: Hell is other people's use cases. Always is. But that's honestly better than a lot of folks wind up experiencing where they'll put an open-source project up and no one ever knows. So, getting users is often one of the biggest barriers to a lot of this stuff. I've found countless hidden gems lurking around on GitHub with a very particular search for something that no one had ever looked at before, as best I can tell.Amir: Yeah.Corey: Open-source is a tricky thing. There needs to be marketing brought into it, there needs to be storytelling around it, and has to actually—dare I say—solve a problem someone has.Amir: I mean, I have many open-source projects like that, that I find super useful, I created for myself, but no one knows. I think cdk-github-runners, I'm pretty sure people know about it only because you talked about it on Screaming in the Cloud or your newsletter. And by the way, thank you for telling me that you talked about it last week in the conference because now we know why there was a spike [laugh] all of a sudden. People Googled it.Corey: Yeah. I put links to it as well, but it's the, yeah, I use this a lot and it's great. I gave a crappy explanation on how it works, but that's the trick I've found between conference talks and, dare I say, podcast episodes, you gives people a glimpse and a hook and tell them where to go to learn more. Otherwise, you're trying to explain every nuance and every intricacy in 45 minutes. And you can't do that effectively in almost every case. All you're going to do is drive people away. Make it sound exciting, get them to see the value in it, and then let them go.Amir: You have to explain the market for it, right? That's it.Corey: Precisely.Amir: And I got to say, I somewhat disagree with your—or I have a different view when you say that, you know, open-source projects needs marketing and all those things. It depends on what open-source is for you, right? I don't create open-source projects so they are successful, right? It's obviously always nicer when they're successful, but—and I do get that cycle of happiness that, like I was saying, people create bugs and I have to fix them and stuff, right? But not every open-source project needs to be a success. Sometimes it's just fun.Corey: No. When I talk about marketing, I'm talking about exactly what we're doing here. I'm not talking take out an AdWords campaign or something horrifying like that. It's you build something that solved the problem for someone. The big problem that worries me about these things is how do you not lose sleep at night about the fact that solve someone's problem and they don't know that it exists?Because that drives me nuts. I've lost count of the number of times I've been beating my head against a wall and asked someone like, “How would you handle this?” Like, “Oh, well, what's wrong with this project?” “What do you mean?” “Well, this project seems to do exactly what you want it to do.” And no one has it all stuffed in their head. But yeah, then it seems like open-source becomes a little more corporatized and it becomes a lead gen tool for people to wind up selling their SaaS services or managed offerings or the rest.Amir: Yeah.Corey: And that feels like the increasing corporatization of open-source that I'm not a huge fan of.Amir: Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to lie, right? Like, part of why I created this—or I don't know if it was part of it, but like, I had a dream that, you know, I'm going to get, oh, tons of GitHub sponsors, and everybody's going to use it and I can retire on an island and just make money out of this, right? Like, that's always a dream, right? But it's a dream, you know?And I think bottom line open-source is… just a tool, and some people use it for, like you were saying, driving sales into their SaaS, some people, like, may use it just for fun, and some people use it for other things. Or some people use it for politics, even, right? There's a lot of politics around open-source.I got to tell you a story. Back in the NSIS days, right—talking about politics—so this is not even about politics of open-source. People made NSIS a battleground for their politics. We would have translations, right? People could upload their translations. And I, you know, or other people that worked on NSIS, right, we don't speak every language of the world, so there's only so much we can do about figuring out if it's a real translation, if it's good or not.Back in the day, Google Translate didn't exist. Like, these days, we check Google Translate, we kind of ask a few questions to make sure they make sense. But back in the day, we did the best that we could. At some point, we got a patch for Catalan language, I'm probably mispronouncing it—but the separatist people in Spain, I think, and I didn't know anything about that. I was a young kid and… I just didn't know.And I just included it, you know? Someone submitted a patch, they worked hard, they wanted to be part of the open-source project. Why not? Sure I included it. And then a few weeks later, someone from Spain wanted to change Catalan into Spanish to make sure that doesn't exist for whatever reason.And then they just started fighting with each other and started making demands of me. Like, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to delete that, you have to change the name. And I was just so baffled by why would someone fight so much over a translation of an open-source project. Like, these days, I kind of get what they were getting at, right?Corey: But they were so bad at telling that story that it was just like, so basically, screw, “You for helping,” is how it comes across.Amir: Yeah, screw you for helping. You're a pawn now. Just—you're a pawn unwittingly. Just do what I say and help me in my political cause. I ended up just telling both of them if you guys can agree on anything, I'm just going to remove both translations. And that's what I ended up doing. I just removed both translations. And then a few months later—because we had a release every month basically, I just added both of them back and I've never heard from them again. So sort of problem solved. Peace the Middle East? I don't know.Corey: It's kind of wild just to see how often that sort of thing tends to happen. It's a, I don't necessarily understand why folks are so opposed to other people trying to help. I think they feel like there's this loss of control as things are slipping through their fingers, but it's a really unwelcoming approach. One of the things that got me deep into the open-source ecosystem surprisingly late in my development was when I started pitching in on the SaltStack project right after it was founded, where suddenly everything I threw their way was merged, and then Tom Hatch, the guy who founded the project, would immediately fix all the bugs and stuff I put in and then push something else immediately thereafter. But it was such a welcoming thing.Instead of nitpicking me to death in the pull request, it just got merged in and then silently fixed. And I thought that was a classy way to do it. Of course, it doesn't scale and of course, it causes other problems, but I envy the simplicity of those days and just the ethos behind that.Amir: That's something I've learned the last few years, I would say. Back in the NSIS day, I was not like that. I nitpicked. I nitpicked a lot. And I can guess why, but it just—you create a patch—in my mind, right, like you create a patch, you fix it, right?But these days I get, I've been on the other side as well, right? Like I created patches for open-source projects and I've seen them just wither away and die, and then five years later, someone's like, “Oh, can you fix this line to have one instead of two, and then I'll merge it.” I'm like, “I don't care anymore. It was five years ago. I don't work there anymore. I don't need it. If you want it, do it.”So, I get it these days. And these days, if someone creates a patch—just yesterday, someone created a patch to format cdk-github-runners in VS Code. And they did it just, like, a little bit wrong. So, I just fixed it for them and I approved it and pushed it. You know, it's much better. You don't need to bug people for most of it.Corey: You didn't yell at them for having the temerity to contribute?Amir: My voice is so raw because I've been yelling for five days at them, yeah.Corey: Exactly, exactly. I really want to thank you for taking the time to chat with me about how all this stuff came to be and your own path. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Amir: So, I really appreciate you having me and driving all this traffic to my projects. If people want to learn more, they can always go to cloudsnorkel.com; it has all the projects. github.com/cloudsnorkel has a few more. And then my private blog is kichik.com. So, K-I-C-H-I-K dot com. I don't post there as much as I should, but it has some interesting AWS projects from the past few years that I've done.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to all of that in the show notes. Thank you so much for taking the time. I really appreciate it.Amir: Thank you, Corey. It was really nice meeting you.Corey: Amir Szekely, owner of CloudSnorkel. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with an insulting comment. Heck, put it on all of the podcast platforms with a step function state machine that you somehow can't quite figure out how the API works.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

Naturally Savvy
EP #1238: The Little Book of Game Changers: 50 Healthy Habits for Managing Stress & Anxiety with Jessica Cording

Naturally Savvy

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 23:15


Lisa is joined by Jessica Cording, the author of The Little Book of Game Changers: 50 Healthy Habits for Managing Stress & Anxiety.Jessica Cording, MS, RD, CDN, INHC is a registered dietitian, health coach, and author with a passion for helping people simplify their wellness routine by building sustainable healthy habits. Through her writing, consulting, public speaking, and counseling, she works with individuals, corporations, and the media to help make drama-free healthy living approachable and enjoyable. She is the author of The Little Book of Game-Changers: 50 Healthy Habits For Managing Stress & Anxiety and the upcoming The Farewell Tour: A Caregiver's Guide To Stress Management, Sane Nutrition, and Better Sleep (Viva Editions). She also runs the Drama-Free Healthy Living podcast and has recorded guided meditations for Simple Habit. She also has created educational content for CARAVAN Wellness. Cording is a part of the mindbodygreen Collective and a frequent contributor to various media outlets such as Forbes, SHAPE, and more. Additionally, a big believer in the mental and physical benefits of exercise, she is a certified Pilates mat instructor. BOOK DESCRIPTION:Dietician and health coach Jessica Cording provides anyone burdened with stress and anxiety with the encouragement to make life-changing improvements one small step at a time.For anyone burdened by stress and anxiety, just the thought of trying to make a positive life change can feel utterly overwhelming. Wanting to live a healthier life may sound easy, but what about the time needed for meal prepping? What about the added meal plan costs to your budget? Do you have to wake up at dawn to take that meditation class? When you are surrounded by stress, it's all too easy to completely derail yourself . . . with more stress. Life is hard enough--the road to a stress-free life should feel easy!Dietitian and health coach Jessica Cording is here with one simple solution: focus on healthy living for your real life. Just like you, she doesn't have time for a step-by-step plan or a one-size-fits-all, gimmicky solution to all your stress- or anxiety-related health and wellness problems.Cording's short, simple, no-nonsense advice will help you make healthy choices to improve your eating habits, sleep, energy levels, mentality, and exercise routines. These 50 mind, body, and spirit hacks will dial down the drama and find workable ways to nurture health and wellness when life gets real.Cording's insight and experience will have you laughing, rolling your eyes along with her, and exclaiming "Aha!" more than once. This book is for anyone and everyone who wants to chill the heck out and feel a little--or a lot--better. Watch out health and wellness goals--we're coming at you with some game changers!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5948889/advertisement

Alix Turoff Nutrition Podcast
Alix Turoff MS, RD, CDN, CPT | See you in January!

Alix Turoff Nutrition Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 6:23


Episode 103: Alix Turoff MS, RD, CDN, CPT | See you in January! Show Notes: Join Alix in this special episode as she signs off for a seasonal break, returning this January recharged with more educational nutrition content. In this episode, Alix shares her gratitude for the unwavering support from listeners that has carried the podcast past its 100th episode.  In this episode…. Alix celebrates the milestone of crossing 100 episodes of her podcast Alix announces a FREE workshop- ‘Tis The Season For Food Freedom. She gives all the details about the upcoming workshop. To register, go to www.alixturoffnutrition.com/workshop. Alix acknowledges global events and the Israel-Hamas war. She shares a few thoughts and emotions about the recent tragic events, emphasizing peace, healing, and a hopeful vision for the future. Alix announces her guest appearance on the Diet Starts Tomorrow Podcast. Listen to the episode on Apple podcasts or Spotify Follow Alix on Instagram for the latest updates (@alixturoff_RD) Resources: Submit your questions for upcoming podcast episodes Get the 5 week Flexible Nutrition Starter Kit Apply for Alix's 12 week small group coaching program Apply for Alix's 1:1 coaching program Follow Alix on Instagram  Join Alix's private Facebook group Download your FREE Happy Hour Survival Guide Buy Alix's book on Amazon Shop my favorite products on Amazon Contact Alix via email   Be sure you're subscribed to this podcast to automatically receive your episodes!!!  If you enjoyed today's episode, I'd love it if you would take a minute to leave a rating and review! Subscribe to The Alix Turoff Nutrition Podcast Discount Codes: Built Bar: Use the code ALIX for 10% off your order Legion Athletics: Use the code Alix for 20% off your order

Dietetics with Dana
Episode 110: Interview with Amy Plano the Reimbursement Dietitian

Dietetics with Dana

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 39:50


In this episode Dana interview Amy Plano, The Reimbursement Dietitian, RD, MS, CDE, CDN. Dana and Amy talk about the current education/mood about accepting insurance that we both experienced during our training to becoming dietitians, the benefits of taking insurance and how to get started whether you are a RD2Be or RD!Amy is a successful private practice dietitian passionate about helping dietitians create a profitable nutrition private practice using an insured-based model. Together with her husband, Marc Plano, she runs the profitable, The Plano Program, a health and wellness-based center in Orange, CT. Through her coaching programs, online resources, and seminars, she teaches dietitians exactly how to use health insurance to make money in their nutrition practices.Find her on Instagram @thereimbursement_dietitian

The Dan Rayburn Podcast
Episode 73: Netflix's AVOD Business; ESPN's Balance Sheet; and Lumen Exits the CDN Market

The Dan Rayburn Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2023 59:00


This week we break down the numbers from Netflix's Q3 earnings, their content spend for 2024, what their ad business looks like today and the reasons why many are undervaluing Netflix's prospects for AVOD in the coming years. We also talk about YouTube's statement indicating that they most likely won't participate in the upcoming round of bidding for NBA broadcast rights and we highlight ESPN's newly released revenue figures. In conclusion, we discuss Lumen's departure from the CDN sector and the recent patent litigation filed by Sling TV and Dish Network against BritBox.

Dietitian Connection Podcast
Dietitian to Dietitian: The Mediterranean diet and gut health: From research to recipes

Dietitian Connection Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 61:54


The Mediterranean diet has become one of the most popular and well-researched diets with a wide range of health benefits. New research now suggests that positive changes to the gut microbiome may contribute to improved outcomes related to cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and aging. In this episode of Dietitian to Dietitian, NBC's Today Show nutrition and health expert Joy Bauer, Professor Hannah Holscher, PhD, RD and culinary nutrition expert and chef Abbie Gellman, MS, RD, CDN, discuss how the Mediterranean diet can impact the gut microbiome – as well as how to teach your clients and patients to eat this way. You don't want to miss this fascinating discussion – based around research and recipes – pertaining to the Mediterranean eating style. For the shownotes: https://dietitianconnection.com/podcasts/mediterranean-diet-gut-health-research-recipes/  This podcast is not, and is not intended to be, medical advice, which should be tailored to your individual circumstances. This podcast is for your information only, and we advise that you exercise your own judgment before deciding to use the information provided. Professional medical advice should be obtained before taking action.  Please see here for terms and conditions.

Pink WheelNuts
PWN-433 Rambling Around Palm Springs

Pink WheelNuts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 15:41


Fey has arrived in Palm Springs, Palm Desert. Fey starts the show with a list of complaints about dust and dirt, heat and burrs and skinny palm trees. Sharp turns off the freeway exits. Diesel is costing $9.30 CDN per gallon. Can I turn right on a red light when there are two right turn lanes? Ranger John asked about chunks of tires on the freeways. Fey is going to an Apple Store. What will he buy?

JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast
Weighty Issues: A Whole Family Approach with Dr. Joey Skelton, MD, MS

JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2023 69:45


Dr. Joseph "Joey" Skelton is a board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist. He has a particular interest in working with entire families to change behavior, as well as working with community organizations who have the same goals. He is the founder and director of Brenner FIT® (Families In Training), a family-based pediatric obesity program; we are active in clinical care, research, education, and community outreach. He conducts research focused on attrition from and adherence to treatment, and how to incorporate the entire family system into health care. He also teaches medical students in a field called Culinary Medicine, which is a way to improve nutrition and health through cooking. He spends most of his free time with his wife, a surgical pharmacist at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, and his two teenage sons. They like to cook and eat with his extended family and friends, who live all over North Carolina, from the beach (Wilmington) to the mountains (Asheville).   ____________________________________________________ JOWMA Podcast | OMG! You Think I'm Fat!?! How To Talk (or Not Talk) about Your Child's Weight with Madeleine Berg, MS, RD, CDN https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/OMG--You-Think-Im-Fat----How-To-Talk-or-Not-Talk-about-Your-Childs-Weight-with-Madeleine-Berg--MS--RD--CDN-e1un9na JOWMA Podcast | We Have a Weight Problem with Miriam Pascal https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/We-Have-a-Weight-Problem-with-Miriam-Pascal-e1v4i16 JOWMA Podcast | Special Episode: We Have a Weight Problem with Yaffi Lvova, RDN, Alisa Minkin, MD, FAAP, Tobi Ash, RN, BSN, MBA and Dr. Marcy Forta, EdD, MBA https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Special-Episode-We-Have-a-Weight-Problem-with-Yaffi-Lvova--RDN--Alisa-Minkin--MD--FAAP--Tobi-Ash--RN--BSN--MBA-and-Dr--Marcy-Forta--EdD--MBA-e1ucb7o JOWMA Podcast | Health At All Sizes with Malka Katzenstein https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Health-At-All-Sizes-with-Malka-Katzenstein-e1eqv64 JOWMA Podcast | Atzmi: My Body Is Not My "Self" https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Atzmi-My-Body-Is-Not-My-Self-e1ipcsc JOWMA Podcast | Hunger Games: Raising Healthy Eaters https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Hunger-Games-Raising-Healthy-Eaters-e1eqv66 ______________________________________________________ Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org  Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org  Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med  Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg/ Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

The RD2BE Podcast
The RD2BE Podcast - Kelly Martin - SUNY Oneonta MS Nutrition and Dietetics (Online 1 year)

The RD2BE Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2023 66:35


We love featuring graduate and supervised practice programs that offer affordability, flexibility, while still prioritizing RD2BEs education. This week we did just that, featuring SUNY Oneonta's online MS Nutrition-Dietetics degree program! This is a one-year, get er done, combined supervised practice and graduate program option for students aspiring to become a registered dietitian. It offers community and research opportunities while still providing flexibility for you to choose your location and where you complete the program. Dr. Kelly Martin, DCN, RDN, CDN, Assistant Director, dives into all the information regarding the program, involving how and when to find preceptors, what specific preceptors they look for, your community health intervention project, as well as making the most of this short and robust program. For more information, visit their website here: https://suny.oneonta.edu/ms-nutrition-and-dietetics-program-online

Drunk Dietitians Podcast
EP179: Finding the Nuance with Kimmie Singh

Drunk Dietitians Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2023 51:45


We're so happy to welcome Kimmie Singh back to the podcast! She joins us this week to talk about finding nuance in nutrition care and supporting body autonomy with clients. Kimmie Singh, MS, RD, CDN is a self-described fat Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. As the owner of Body Honor Nutrition, a nutrition private practice, she supports individuals to heal their relationship with food and body through a fat-positive and anti-oppressive framework. You can follow her activist work on Instagram (@bodyhonornutrition) and learn more about Kimmie at www.bodyhonornutritoin.com.Sam and the Find Food Freedom® team is headed to Denver along with thousands of other Registered Dietitians the first weekend in October so we figured, why not try to get a ton of amazing humans in one room?! Come enjoy a cocktail / mocktail and connect with individuals who celebrate diversity and promote a healthy relationship with food and our bodies! This Anti-Diet Sunday Funday will be filled with fun, games, and laughter! Head to https://bit.ly/antidietdenver to find out more.Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that's over 40% off) with promo code FORK at lumepodcast.com! #lumepodNamed one of Oprah's favorite things in 2018, Cozy Earth's best-selling bamboo sheet set is temperature-regulating and incredibly soft. Cozy Earth has provided an exclusive offer for our listener's. Get 35% off site-wide when you use the code FORK.Find us on Instagram! What The Actual Fork https://www.instagram.com/whattheactualforkpod/Sammy Previte https://www.instagram.com/find.food.freedom/Jenna Werner https://www.instagram.com/happystronghealthy.rd/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

DishWithDina
077. Dishing with Greg Zacarese, MS, RD, CDN, Proud LGBTQ Dietitian and Chocoholic

DishWithDina

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 50:13


Greg and Dina dish about the challenges around certain patient populations, taking into account childhood traumas, and their thoughts on quality patient care in the clinical and community settings. Greg Zacarese, MS, RD, CDN (he/him) is a Registered Dietitian at the New York State Office of Mental Health. He hails from Roslyn, NY and is passionate about helping his patients set achievable lifestyle management goals. Greg is particularly knowledgeable in diabetes education and management, especially after having been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of six. He has experience in both community and clinical settings. His current role is in a psychiatric hospital working with patients who are severely mentally ill. Greg uses nutritional interventions to help his patients manage their symptoms of anxiety, eating, mood, neurodevelopmental, personality, psychotic, and substance use disorders. You can find and connect with Greg on LinkedIn and Instagram (@Greg_Zacarese). Mentioned in this episode: Jess Freeman's interview (Season 5, ep 60) If you enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with others! You can also submit listener feedback or request to be a guest on a future episode by completing this form: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/7UZ2kEPDHjBgLhRU9⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Help support this podcast for as little as $0.99/month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dishwithdina/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dishwithdina/support

Acupuncture Marketing School
Marketing Ethics, Informed Consent, and Google Ads with Liane Wood

Acupuncture Marketing School

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 41:11


Today I'm speaking with Liane Wood, a psychotherapist practicing in Ontario, Canada, and the founder of Psychotherapy Mastermind, which is an organization dedicated to helping therapists navigate entrepreneurship and learn to build successful practices.Liane's first career was in insurance, so she has a unique perspective on helping practitioners navigate risk as healthcare providers. In this episode we talk about some unique ideas, including what makes ethical marketing, what counts as informed consent, and much more. Liane also runs a successful multipractitioner practice, and we discuss what marketing is working for her right now. Hope you enjoy!SHOW NOTES:Liane's clinic websiteTo book a consult about informed consent or marketing with Liane email her at liane@rethinkme.ca. Consults are 60 minutes and the cost is $169.50 CDN.Psychotherapy Masterminds websiteInstagram: @psychotherapy_mastermindsFacebook: @Psychotherapy.MastermindsThank you to our sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Jane. Jane is an all-in-one practice management software designed to help you streamline your Acupuncture practice.With helpful features like online booking, electronic charting, insurance billing, and much more, Jane works hard to keep up with your busy practice.If you're interested in learning more, head to jane.app/acupuncture-us. Or use the code ACUSCHOOL1MO at sign-up for a one-month grace period inside Jane.Support the showCurious about Acupuncture Marketing School, the online course for marketing beginners? Join me inside! Click here to learn more.

CruxCasts
E79 Resources (CSE:ESNR) - Pivots to Nickel & Lithium As Gold Market Slumps

CruxCasts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2023 11:02


Interview with Patrick Donnelley, President & CEO of E79 Resources Corp.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/e79-resources-esnr-finding-high-grade-gold-in-australia-2603Recording date: 13th September 2023E79 Resources Corp. is a mineral exploration company focused on discovering Fosterville-style high-grade gold mineralization at its Beaufort and Myrtleford properties in the Victorian Goldfields of Australia. The company is also evaluating new opportunities across various commodities and jurisdictions to expand its project portfolio into metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. With a strong cash position of CDN$4.5 million, E79 Resources is well-funded to pursue accretive transactions and advance exploration on new projects. Under the leadership of President & CEO Patrick Donnelly, the company aims to leverage its technical expertise to unlock value from drill-ready mining assets with exceptional mineral potential.—View E79 Resources' Company Profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/e79-resourcesSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

The Dude Therapist
Eating with ADHD w/ Brittany Modell

The Dude Therapist

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 55:04


On this episode of the Dude Therapist podcast, Eli Weinstein and Brittany Modell discuss managing ADHD, with a focus on how to balance mental health needs with food and nutrition when taking medication. They discuss physical side effects, such as suppressed appetite, and how to combat fatigue and cravings for unhealthy foods. Lastly, they emphasize the importance of having compassion for oneself and prioritizing food when it comes to managing ADHD. [00:00:06] Healing ADHD with food and self-care. [00:05:16] ADHD journey: Zero to sixty success. [00:12:18] Manage ADHD with food: Easy, accessible, nutritious. [00:17:45] Balance mental health needs, and nutrition: Eat enough, feel good. [00:23:11] Health over diet culture: Do best, listen, balance. [00:28:55] ADHD, binge eating, seeking dopamine, eating consistently. [00:34:03] ADHD-related restrictive binge cycle. [00:38:48] Compassionate tips for ADHD: Music, shortcuts, batch cooking, help. [00:44:08] Cooking with ADHD: Simplify, takeout, be compassionate. [00:49:56] Prioritize self-care, nourish your body, and have compassion. Brittany Modell, MS, RD, CDN is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and founder of Brittany Modell, Nutrition and Wellness, INC, a virtual weight-inclusive private practice that focuses on helping folks heal their relationship with food and body image. Brittany uses a non-diet approach to nutrition and health and practices from a HAES (Health at Every Size) perspective. Brittany helps her clients break the cycle of chronic dieting by cultivating a healthy relationship with food and helping them to reconnect their minds and body. Brittany's work is rooted in self-compassion, non-judgment and self-care. Brittany has been featured as a speaker at the American Heart Association, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Warby Parker, Mediacom, among others. Brittany graduated from Columbia University with a Masters degree in Nutrition Education and completed her Dietetic Internship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedudetherapist/support

2 Mutts Podcast
Bob Stauffer of the Edmonton Oilers

2 Mutts Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 65:43


- Empathy and compassion - September is Suicide Prevention Month  - Oilers usages for the button 6  - Jack Campbell's body composition - Sutter & Gagner  - Connor Brown  - Dylan Holloway  - Flames next captain  - Brad Treliving  - Auston Matthews  - Fan questions for our friends at https://wearecdn.ca/ in the CDN text inbox  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 350 – Take a look, it’s in a book, or in a Microsoft Learn exam

Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 36:12 Transcription Available


In Episode 350, Ben and Scott talk about some of the ambiguity in features between several types of Teams channels, a new model that includes access to Microsoft Learn for those taking role-based Microsoft certification exams, and a simplified experience for creating and managing CDN endpoints using Azure Front Door for Azure Storage customers. Like what you hear and want to support the show? Check out our membership options. Show Notes Overview of teams and channels in Microsoft Teams Introducing a new resource for all role-based Microsoft Certification exams Open Book Microsoft Certification Exams | Interview with Microsoft's Liberty Munson Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts About the sponsors Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.

The Running Explained Podcast
s3/e33 Foundations of Triathlon Nutrition with Natalie Robertello, MS, RD, CSSD, CDN

The Running Explained Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 69:40


Our miniseries on triathlon continues with Sports Dietitian Natalie Robertello, MS, RD, CSSD, CDN of BeFueled Sports Nutrition to educate us on the FOUNDATIONS of fueling for multisport events, i.e. triathlon! The basics of multisport fueling How do your daily nutrition needs change as training volume increases? Understanding your hydration needs Planning your multisport nutrition plan Sport fuel vs. "whole" food fueling Liquid carbs: how and when? 60-90 g/hr vs 90+ g/hr in training and racing Having a plan vs EXECUTING the plan! Being a data-driven athlete: the role of continuous glucose monitors for performance and more!

LiveWild Radio
Ep. 96: Back to School, Back to Program

LiveWild Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 56:48


  Summer is over and the kids are back in school. This gives you the opportunity to create a schedule and get back on track with your training. The distractions of vacations, kids activities, BBQs, drinks on the patio, and beers around the campfire are replaced with a regimented schedule leading up to Thanksgiving and Christmas.    In this episode, we talk about how your fitness journey should flow in seasons with different emphasis during different times of year. We talk about how we build our own programs around our interests and give some tips to help you stay consistent.   Fitness needs to be a lifestyle if you want to be strong in your senior years so think about finding ways to make it fun and rewarding so you are around to be that kickass grandparent.   Fitness Equipment We Endorse and Support Us:   Bells of Steel Adjustable Kettlebells -Get the world's smallest gym with a pair of adjustable kettlebells from Bell of Steel https://rb.gy/nccwf. If you get the full set, you will have a set of bells that covers 12-32 kg (26-70lbs), which is enough to cover you from beginner to pro athlete.   Great Lakes Girya-  Save 10% on your fitness equipment by using Promo Code "LIVEWILD" at Great Lakes Girya.  CDN website: https://www.greatlakesgirya.com   US website: https://us.greatlakesgirya.com/  

SEO para Google

Artículo completo con los pasos para acelerar tu web: https://borjagiron.com/como-mejorar-velocidad-web/Muy buenas y bienvenido al podcast “SEO para Google”, soy Borja Girón y cada miércoles aprenderás todo lo necesario para salir en las primeras posiciones de Google y generar más visitas y ventas. Recuerda unirte a la Comunidad Emprendedores desde: https://borjagiron.com/comunidad y podrás acceder a las sesiones de Mastermind cada lunes conmigo y el resto de emprendedores, al podcast secreto, a los retos y las categorías dentro del grupo de Telegram sobre Instagram, RRSS, Finanzas, criptomonedas, salud, Inteligencia Artificial, marketing, podcasting, productividad y todo lo necesario para hacer crecer tu negocio.Y ahora sí…¿Estás preparado? ¿Estás preparada? ¡Comenzamos!Mi web iba lenta. Pensaba que era del servidor, migraciones o de mi plantilla. No.Mejor Hosting WordPress Hostinger: https://borjagiron.com/hostinger

Sin Maquillaje, Altagracia Salazar
En RD los ladrones dan clases de decencia, SM, Septiembre 6, 2023

Sin Maquillaje, Altagracia Salazar

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2023 30:08


Guillermo Moreno dijo ayer algo que la mayoría de la población quisiera decir y no se atreve porque le teme al poder económico de una clase política que se enriqueció robando. Quienes aun estando el PLD en el poder nos atrevimos a criticar gestiones plagadas de corrupción tuvimos que hilar fino y a pesar de eso hubo un grupo de periodistas que pasó mucho tiempo en los tribunales imputados de lo que fuera porque el asunto era fuñirle la vida a una y mientras yo pagaba a mi abogada con dulce de coco y Huchi con mandarinas, los abogados de los funcionarios públicos y sus socios se pagaban con dinero público o sea con los cuartos de mis impuestos. Guillermo dijo ayer que la alianza “Rescate RD” integrada por el PRD, la FUPU y el PLD abunda gente que es “Carne de presidio” y que producto de sus robos tienen los recursos suficientes para intentar volver al poder y yo le agrego a seguir robando. Alguno recordará trabajando yo en CDN que cité el vínculo del señor Pool Dominici, el artífice de la venta del Barrio Los Tres Brazos con Miguel Vargas y tuve, por petición de la dirección del canal, que hacer una aclaración rápida de que el vínculo no implicaba nada. A mi aclaración le aclaré, y no es redundancia, que lo hacía porque le temía al poder económico de Vargas Maldonado.  Nuestro sistema político está hecho para que los presidentes no tengan responsabilidad directa sobre sus decisiones y eso les libera de responsabilidades sobre decisiones que todos sabemos ellos toman. Cuando iniciaron los grandes casos de corrupción había mucha gente que preguntaba cuando caerá Danilo Medina y yo decía cuando haya pruebas de su responsabilidad. En el caso de Medina la única acción directa que se conoce fue su negociación en el caso de Punta Catalina porque eso se anunció públicamente como un logro. Guillermo Moreno deploró que, los beneficiarios de impunidad, gente, que según explicó, debieran estar cumpliendo condena “hoy ocupan páginas en diarios e incluso, hay que soportarles que quieran dar lecciones de moral. Leonel Fernández se libró del caso Sun Land que envolvió la sumita de 130 millones de dólares manejados casi en su totalidad por el senador de San Juan, Félix Bautista y según el libro de Jaime Aristy fue dinero usado para quedarse en el poder y reelegirse en el 2008.  Solo por un caso así debería callarse pero, como dijo Moreno, tenemos que aguantarlo.  

LiveWild Radio
Ep. 95: Training for Cycling

LiveWild Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 54:09


We've talked about the health benefits of cycling and how to make your bike more comfortable but now it's time to delve into the workouts. Winston's been a cycling coach for over 25+ years and shares his tips on getting the most out of your rides for cycling performance and health.    You can use the bike to build aerobic endurance, VO2 max, speed, and work capacity.  We talk about the ideal workouts to optimize health markers for longevity and health span.   And for those who are time-pressed, don't let optimal be the enemy of good enough. We give a few ideas for short workouts that pay big dividends.   Enjoy the podcast.   Fitness Equipment We Endorse and Support Us:   Bells of Steel Adjustable Kettlebells -Get the world's smallest gym with a pair of adjustable kettlebells from Bell of Steel https://rb.gy/nccwf. If you get the full set, you will have a set of bells that covers 12-32 kg (26-70lbs), which is enough to cover you from beginner to pro athlete.   Great Lakes Girya-  Save 10% on your fitness equipment by using Promo Code "LIVEWILD" at Great Lakes Girya.  CDN website: https://www.greatlakesgirya.com   US website: https://us.greatlakesgirya.com/  

LiveWild Radio
Ep. 94: Bike Fitting 101

LiveWild Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2023 66:22


We've talked about why we love the bicycle as a tool for building fitness, but it can be downright painful if your bike doesn't fit you properly.   Winston has fit hundreds of people on their bikes to alleviate pain and improve performance.   In this episode, we talk about tips for improving the fit of your bike and fixing common problems like numb crotch and hands, sore neck and shoulders, and knee pain.   Most people assume the way you get a bike from the shop should be comfortable and don't realize that the saddle, stem and handlebars might not be the right size for you.   And once you have the right size, how you position them makes a big difference in your comfort level.   Reach out to us if you have questions about how to improve the comfort of your bike.   Fitness Equipment We Endorse and Support Us:   Bells of Steel Adjustable Kettlebells -Get the world's smallest gym with a pair of adjustable kettlebells from Bell of Steel https://rb.gy/nccwf. If you get the full set, you will have a set of bells that covers 12-32 kg (26-70lbs), which is enough to cover you from beginner to pro athlete.   Great Lakes Girya-  Save 10% on your fitness equipment by using Promo Code "LIVEWILD" at Great Lakes Girya.  CDN website: https://www.greatlakesgirya.com   US website: https://us.greatlakesgirya.com/  

Grimerica Outlawed
#155 - Hottest Ever? - Ontario Land Grab - Surgery Wait Deaths - Idiocracy

Grimerica Outlawed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 52:53


Darren and Graham go over some of the latest news, deconstruction of the Hottest Ever by CDN, Ontario land developers grab land, and the atrocious Ontario health care system in a downward spiral. We also get into a Substack from Alex Krainer talking about the idocracy double speak world we are living in now.   Our new Adultbrain Audiobook podcast is up and running. Hopefully this will be viable since being cancelled off Amazon/Audible. Lot's of books already updated at https://adultbrain.ca/   https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/08/13/greenbelt-land-grab-wasnt-about-affordable-housing-unprecedented-report-shows/   https://tnc.news/2023/08/16/dying-surgery-wait-list/   https://youtu.be/Ogb_ln6ZzAY CDN Heat   https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-rising-rule-of-idiocracy-in-the   Subscribe to our PLUS feed for more of these but more controversial - chats and second half of interviews for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support.   For Video's of more of these but more controversial and the second half of video interviews (when applicable and audio) go to our Substack and Subscribe. https://grimericaoutlawed.substack.com/ or to our Locals  https://grimericaoutlawed.locals.com/   Help support the show, because we can't do it without ya. If you value this content with 0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites, please assist. Many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!!   If you would rather watch: https://rumble.com/v3a846n-outlawed-round-up-8.21-hottest-ever-ontario-land-grab-and-surgery-wait-deat.html https://rokfin.com/stream/38119 https://grimericaoutlawed.locals.com/post/4466633/outlawed-round-up-8-21-hottest-ever-ontario-land-grab-and-surgery-wait-deaths   Support the show directly: https://grimerica.ca/support-2/ Our Audiobook Site: www.adultbrain.ca Our Audiobook Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@adultbrainaudiobookpublishing/videos Grimerica Media Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@grimerica/featured Darren's book www.acanadianshame.ca Check out our next trip/conference/meetup - Contact at the Cabin www.contactatthecabin.com Other affiliated shows: www.grimerica.ca The OG Grimerica Show www.Rokfin.com/Grimerica Our channel on free speech Rokfin Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimericans  Https://t.me.grimerica https://www.guilded.gg/chat/b7af7266-771d-427f-978c-872a7962a6c2?messageId=c1e1c7cd-c6e9-4eaf-abc9-e6ec0be89ff3   Get your Magic Mushrooms delivered from: Champignon Magique  Mushroom Spores, Spore Syringes, Best Spore Syringes,Grow Mushrooms Spores Lab Get Psychedelics online Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/grimerica-outlawed http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grimerica-outlawed Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/  Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ ART - Napolean Duheme's site http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/  MUSIC Tru Northperception, Felix's Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com

Healthcare Business Radio
Overcoming The Fear of Putting Yourself Out There with Amy Plano, The Reimbursement Dietitian

Healthcare Business Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 50:49


Are you...an introvertor an overthinkeror a  perfectionistOr all of the above?  Even having just one of these traits can significantly hinder self-promotion.Today's guest, Amy Plano, The Reimbursement Dietitian, RD, MS, CDE, CDN, is a successful private practice dietitian passionate about helping dietitians create a profitable nutrition private practice using an insured-based model. Together with her husband, Marc Plano, she runs the profitable, The Plano Program, a health and wellness-based center in Orange, CT. Through both her coaching programs, online resources, and seminars, she teaches dietitians exactly how to use health insurance to make money in their nutrition practices. Join me as we delve into her journey of conquering insecurities, overcoming camera shyness, and navigating through failures and successes! TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Intro02:05 - Our guest and her story24:04 - Her learnings from her biggest failure31:10 - How she overcame the fear of putting herself out there43:02 - Plans for life & business in the next couple years  46:49 - Follow Amy  on :IG: reimbursement_dietitian  & Amy PlanoFB & LinkedIn:  The Reimbursement Dietitian  If you are an RD, RD2B or nutrition coach interested in learning more about how you can start and grow your nutrition business, we'd like to invite you to join us in our Facebook group where you can receive additional resources and trainings to help you on your journey. Click the link to join: https://thepracticerevolution.co/groupoAdditional information:If you are tired of trying to figure out this game of business, marketing, and sales, all on your own, and  you are ready to just implement what's already proven to work, rather than reinventing the wheel, schedule a COMPLIMENTARY game plan call with us by heading over to the link below right now and there you will find over $7,000 worth of trainings, resources, and coaching available only for our followers of this show.https://thepracticerevolution.co/gameplanpStay up to date with The Practice Revolution for upcoming events by following us on Instagram @thepracticerevolutionhttps://www.instagram.com/thepracticerevolution/

Babes and Babies
EP 280: Reducing Childhood Allergy Rates with Pediatric Nutritionist, Ali Bandier

Babes and Babies

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 70:41


Can parents turn the tide on allergy rates and reduce their child's chances of developing one? According to Columbia-trained pediatric nutritionist, Ali Bandier, MS, RD, CDN the science shows that yes – they can.  Former feeding guidelines encouraged parents to limit exposure to high-allergy foods, like peanut butter or shellfish, and refrain from offering those foods until at least two years of age. Recent data shows the opposite: earlier and regular exposure to these foods can reduce developing food allergies. Ali helps navigate the ever-changing food landscape, specifically noting the significant shifts in the science of food allergies, to support parents on their feeding journies.  Connect with Ali: https://sentahealth.com/ https://www.instagram.com/alibandier/ Connect with Liz https://www.instagram.com/esandoz/?hl=en https://www.Elizabethjoy.co Sponsors jennikayne.com. Our listeners get 15% off their first order when they use code CHAVA new customers get $5 off Lume's Starter Pack with code CHAVA at LumeDeodorant.com Try Blissy now risk-free for 60 nights, at Blissy.com/CHAVA and get an additional 30% off   Why Chava? Episode 248: https://podcasts.apple.com/jm/podcast/ep-248-welcome-to-morning-chava/id1343507855?i=1000593089125 Chava Meaning https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/video_cdo/aid/3506698/jewish/Inside-the-Name-Chava.htm

SaaS for Developers
Cloudflare: Performance isolation in multi-tenant DB

SaaS for Developers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2023 36:14


Cloudflare is no longer "just" a CDN serving 55M HTTP requests/sec; they now offer a wide range of cloud services on the edge. These services run on a data layer with 15 Postgres clusters running hundreds of databases. Vignesh Ravichandran, engineering manager of Cloudflare's database team, joined us to discuss the challenges of running this large-scale multi-tenant environment - dealing with network partitions, noisy neighbors, floods of connections, and even global warming. We talk about the importance of having a good toolset, of practicing incidents, and of internally advocating database best practices to a large engineering organization. The blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/performan... The Scale presentation: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/...

LiveWild Radio
Ep.93: Fat Loss Cheat Code

LiveWild Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2023 40:13


If you want to drop body fat quickly for a big event or kick-start your fitness journey, our new free program, The Fat Loss Cheat Code, might be just for you.   Winston came up with this program by combining a number of fat-loss training and nutritional tactics into one easy-to-follow plan. It combines muscle-building kettlebell workouts, conditioning workouts and an easy-to-follow nutrition plan.   Give a listen and then head to our website to download the free PDF.   https://www.livewildradio.com/post/fatloss-cheat-code     Fitness Equipment We Endorse and Support Us:   Bells of Steel Adjustable Kettlebells -Get the world's smallest gym with a pair of adjustable kettlebells from Bell of Steel https://rb.gy/nccwf. If you get the full set, you will have a set of bells that covers 12-32 kg (26-70lbs), which is enough to cover you from beginner to pro athlete.   Great Lakes Girya-  Save 10% on your fitness equipment by using Promo Code "LIVEWILD" at Great Lakes Girya.  CDN website: https://www.greatlakesgirya.com   US website: https://us.greatlakesgirya.com/  

Screaming in the Cloud
How Cloudflare is Working to Fix the Internet with Matthew Prince

Screaming in the Cloud

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2023 42:30


Matthew Prince, Co-founder & CEO at Cloudflare, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how and why Cloudflare is working to solve some of the Internet's biggest problems. Matthew reveals some of his biggest issues with cloud providers, including the tendency to charge more for egress than ingress and the fact that the various clouds don't compete on a feature vs. feature basis. Corey and Matthew also discuss how Cloudflare is working to change those issues so the Internet is a better and more secure place. Matthew also discusses how transparency has been key to winning trust in the community and among Cloudflare's customers, and how he hopes the Internet and cloud providers will evolve over time.About MatthewMatthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks, which spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. Matthew is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, winner of the 2011 Tech Fellow Award, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. Matthew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and awarded the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Illinois Bar, and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago and B.A. in English Literature and Computer Science from Trinity College. He's also the co-creator of Project Honey Pot, the largest community of webmasters tracking online fraud and abuse.Links Referenced: Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/eastdakota TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. One of the things we talk about here, an awful lot is cloud providers. There sure are a lot of them, and there's the usual suspects that you would tend to expect with to come up, and there are companies that work within their ecosystem. And then there are the enigmas.Today, I'm talking to returning guest Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO and co-founder, who… well first, welcome back, Matthew. I appreciate your taking the time to come and suffer the slings and arrows a second time.Matthew: Corey, thanks for having me.Corey: What I'm trying to do at the moment is figure out where Cloudflare lives in the context of the broad ecosystem because you folks have released an awful lot. You had this vaporware-style announcement of R2, which was an S3 competitor, that then turned out to be real. And oh, it's always interesting, when vapor congeals into something that actually exists. Cloudflare Workers have been around for a while and I find that they become more capable every time I turn around. You have Cloudflare Tunnel which, to my understanding, is effectively a VPN without the VPN overhead. And it feels that you are coming at building a cloud provider almost from the other side than the traditional cloud provider path. Is it accurate? Am I missing something obvious? How do you see yourselves?Matthew: Hey, you know, I think that, you know, you can often tell a lot about a company by what they measure and what they measure themselves by. And so, if you're at a traditional, you know, hyperscale public cloud, an AWS or a Microsoft Azure or a Google Cloud, the key KPI that they focus on is how much of a customer's data are they hoarding, effectively? They're all hoarding clouds, fundamentally. Whereas at Cloudflare, we focus on something of it's very different, which is, how effectively are we moving a customer's data from one place to another? And so, while the traditional hyperscale public clouds are all focused on keeping your data and making sure that they have as much of it, what we're really focused on is how do we make sure your data is wherever you need it to be and how do we connect all of the various things together?So, I think it's exactly right, where we start with a network and are kind of building more functions on top of that network, whereas other companies start really with a database—the traditional hyperscale public clouds—and the network is sort of an afterthought on top of it, just you know, a cost center on what they're delivering. And I think that describes a lot of the difference between us and everyone else. And so oftentimes, we work very much in conjunction with. A lot of our customers use hyperscale public clouds and Cloudflare, but increasingly, there are certain applications, there's certain data that just makes sense to live inside the network itself, and in those cases, customers are using things like R2, they're using our Workers platform in order to be able to build applications that will be available everywhere around the world and incredibly performant. And I think that is fundamentally the difference. We're all about moving data between places, making sure it's available everywhere, whereas the traditional hyperscale public clouds are all about hoarding that data in one place.Corey: I want to clarify that when you say hoard, I think of this, from my position as a cloud economist, as effectively in an economic story where hoarding the data, they get to charge you for hosting it, they get to charge you serious prices for egress. I've had people mishear that before in a variety of ways, usually distilled down to, “Oh, and their data mining all of their customers' data.” And I want to make sure that that's not the direction that you intend the term to be used. If it is, then great, we can talk about that, too. I just want to make sure that I don't get letters because God forbid we get letters for things that we say in the public.Matthew: No, I mean, I had an aunt who was a hoarder and she collected every piece of everything and stored it somewhere in her tiny little apartment in the panhandle of Florida. I don't think she looked at any of it and for the most part, I don't think that AWS or Google or Microsoft are really using your data in any way that's nefarious, but they're definitely not going to make it easy for you to get it out of those places; they're going to make it very, very expensive. And again, what they're measuring is how much of a customer's data are they holding onto whereas at Cloudflare we're measuring how much can we enable you to move your data around and connected wherever you need it. And again, I think that that kind of gets to the fundamental difference between how we think of the world and how I think the hyperscale public clouds thing of the world. And it also gets to where are the places where it makes sense to use Cloudflare, and where are the places that it makes sense to use an AWS or Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.Corey: So, I have to ask, and this gets into the origin story trope a bit, but what radicalized you? For me, it was the realization one day that I could download two terabytes of data from S3 once, and it would cost significantly more than having Amazon.com ship me a two-terabyte hard drive from their store.Matthew: I think that—so Cloudflare started with the basic idea that the internet's not as good as it should be. If we all knew what the internet was going to be used for and what we're all going to depend on it for, we would have made very different decisions in how it was designed. And we would have made sure that security was built in from day one, we would have—you know, the internet is very reliable and available, but there are now airplanes that can't land if the internet goes offline, they are shopping transactions shut down if the internet goes offline. And so, I don't think we understood—we made it available to some extent, but not nearly to the level that we all now depend on it. And it wasn't as fast or as efficient as it possibly could be. It's still very dependent on the geography of where data is located.And so, Cloudflare started out by saying, “Can we fix that? Can we go back and effectively patch the internet and make it what it should have been when we set down the original protocols in the '60s, '70s, and '80s?” But can we go back and say, can we build a new, sort of, overlay on the internet that solves those problems: make it more secure, make it more reliable, make it faster and more efficient? And so, I think that that's where we started, and as a result of, again, starting from that place, it just made fundamental sense that our job was, how do you move data from one place to another and do it in all of those ways? And so, where I think that, again, the hyperscale public clouds measure themselves by how much of a customer's data are they hoarding; we measure ourselves by how easy are we making it to securely, reliably, and efficiently move any piece of data from one place to another.And so, I guess, that is radical compared to some of the business models of the traditional cloud providers, but it just seems like what the internet should be. And that's our North Star and that's what just continues to drive us and I think is a big reason why more and more customers continue to rely on Cloudflare.Corey: The thing that irks me potentially the most in the entire broad strokes of cloud is how the actions of the existing hyperscalers have reflected mostly what's going on in the larger world. Moore's law has been going on for something like 100 years now. And compute continues to get faster all the time. Storage continues to cost less year over year in a variety of ways. But they have, on some level, tricked an entire generation of businesses into believing that network bandwidth is this precious, very finite thing, and of course, it's going to be ridiculously expensive. You know, unless you're taking it inbound, in which case, oh, by all means back the truck around. It'll be great.So, I've talked to founders—or prospective founders—who had ideas but were firmly convinced that there was no economical way to build it. Because oh, if I were to start doing real-time video stuff, well, great, let's do the numbers on this. And hey, that'll be $50,000 a minute, if I read the pricing page correctly, it's like, well, you could get some discounts if you ask nicely, but it doesn't occur to them that they could wind up asking for a 98% discount on these things. Everything is measured in a per gigabyte dimension and that just becomes one of those things where people are starting to think about and meter something that—from my days in data centers where you care about the size of the pipe and not what's passing through it—to be the wrong way of thinking about things.Matthew: A little of this is that everybody is colored by their experience of dealing with their ISP at home. And in the United States, in a lot of the world, ISPs are built on the old cable infrastructure. And if you think about the cable infrastructure, when it was originally laid down, it was all one-directional. So, you know, if you were turning on cable in your house in a pre-internet world, data fl—Corey: Oh, you'd watch a show and your feedback was yelling at the TV, and that's okay. They would drop those packets.Matthew: And there was a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of data that would go back the other direction, but cable was one-directional. And so, it actually took an enormous amount of engineering to make cable bi-directional. And that's the reason why if you're using a traditional cable company as your ISP, typically you will have a large amount of download capacity, you'll have, you know, a 100 megabits of down capacity, but you might only have a 10th of that—so maybe ten megabits—of upload capacity. That is an artifact of the cable system. That is not just the natural way that the internet works.And the way that it is different, that wholesale bandwidth works, is that when you sign up for wholesale bandwidth—again, as you phrase it, you're not buying this many bytes that flows over the line; you're buying, effectively, a pipe. You know, the late Senator Ted Stevens said that the internet is just a series of tubes and got mocked mercilessly, but the internet is just a series of tubes. And when Cloudflare or AWS or Google or Microsoft buys one of those tubes, what they pay for is the diameter of the tube, the amount that can fit through it. And the nature of this is you don't just get one tube, you get two. One that is down and one that is up. And they're the same size.And so, if you've got a terabit of traffic coming down and zero going up, that costs exactly the same as a terabit going up and zero going down, which costs exactly the same as a terabit going down and a terabit going up. It is different than your home, you know, cable internet connection. And that's the thing that I think a lot of people don't understand. And so, as you pointed out, but the great tragedy of the cloud is that for nothing other than business reasons, these hyperscale public cloud companies don't charge you anything to accept data—even though that is actually the more expensive of the two operations for that because writes are more expensive than reads—but the inherent fact that they were able to suck the data in means that they have the capacity, at no additional cost, to be able to send that data back out. And so, I think that, you know, the good news is that you're starting to see some providers—so Cloudflare, we've never charged for egress because, again, we think that over time, bandwidth prices go to zero because it just makes sense; it makes sense for ISPs, it makes sense for connectiv—to be connected to us.And that's something that we can do, but even in the cases of the cloud providers where maybe they're all in one place and somebody has to pay to backhaul the traffic around the world, maybe there's some cost, but you're starting to see some pressure from some of the more forward-leaning providers. So Oracle, I think has done a good job of leaning in and showing how egress fees are just out of control. But it's crazy that in some cases, you have a 4,000x markup on AWS bandwidth fees. And that's assuming that they're paying the same rates as what we would get at Cloudflare, you know, even though we are a much smaller company than they are, and they should be able to get even better prices.Corey: Yes, if there's one thing Amazon is known for, it as being bad at negotiating. Yeah, sure it is. I'm sure that they're just a terrific joy to be a vendor to.Matthew: Yeah, and I think that fundamentally what the price of bandwidth is, is tied very closely to what the cost of a port on a router costs. And what we've seen over the course of the last ten years is that cost has just gone enormously down where the capacity of that port has gone way up and the just physical cost, the depreciated cost that port has gone down. And yet, when you look at Amazon, you just haven't seen a decrease in the cost of bandwidth that they're passing on to customers. And so, again, I think that this is one of the places where you're starting to see regulators pay attention, we've seen efforts in the EU to say whatever you charge to take data out is the same as what you should charge it to put data in. We're seeing the FTC start to look at this, and we're seeing customers that are saying that this is a purely anti-competitive action.And, you know, I think what would be the best and healthiest thing for the cloud by far is if we made it easy to move between various cloud providers. Because right now the choice is, do I use AWS or Google or Microsoft, whereas what I think any company out there really wants to be able to do is they want to be able to say, “I want to use this feature at AWS because they're really good at that and I want to use this other feature at Google because they're really good at that, and I want to us this other feature at Microsoft, and I want to mix and match between those various things.” And I think that if you actually got cloud providers to start competing on features as opposed to competing on their overall platform, we'd actually have a much richer and more robust cloud environment, where you'd see a significantly improved amount of what's going on, as opposed to what we have now, which is AWS being mediocre at everything.Corey: I think that there's also a story where for me, the egress is annoying, but so is the cross-region and so is the cross-AZ, which in many cases costs exactly the same. And that frustrates me from the perspective of, yes, if you have two data centers ten miles apart, there is some startup costs to you in running fiber between them, however you want to wind up with that working, but it's a sunk cost. But at the end of that, though, when you wind up continuing to charge on a per gigabyte basis to customers on that, you're making them decide on a very explicit trade-off of, do I care more about cost or do I care more about reliability? And it's always going to be an investment decision between those two things, but when you make the reasonable approach of well, okay, an availability zone rarely goes down, and then it does, you get castigated by everyone for, “Oh it even says in their best practice documents to go ahead and build it this way.” It's funny how a lot of the best practice documents wind up suggesting things that accrue primarily to a cloud provider's benefit. But that's the way of the world I suppose.I just know, there's a lot of customer frustration on it and in my client environments, it doesn't seem to be very acute until we tear apart a bill and look at where they're spending money, and on what, at which point, the dawning realization, you can watch it happen, where they suddenly realize exactly where their money is going—because it's relatively impenetrable without that—and then they get angry. And I feel like if people don't know what they're being charged for, on some level, you've messed up.Matthew: Yeah. So, there's cost to running a network, but there's no reason other than limiting competition why you would charge more to take data out than you would put data in. And that's a puzzle. The cross-region thing, you know, I think where we're seeing a lot of that is actually oftentimes, when you've got new technologies that come out and they need to take advantage of some scarce resource. And so, AI—and all the AI companies are a classic example of this—right now, if you're trying to build a model, an AI model, you are hunting the world for available GPUs at a reasonable price because there's an enormous scarcity of them.And so, you need to move from AWS East to AWS West, to AWS, you know, Singapore, to AWS in Luxembourg and bounce around to find wherever there's GPU availability. And then that is crossed against the fact that these training datasets are huge. You know, I mean, they're just massive, massive, massive amounts of data. And so, what that is doing is you're having these AI companies that are really seeing this get hit in the face, where they literally can't get the capacity they need because of the fact that whatever cloud provider in whatever region they've selected to store their data isn't able to have that capacity. And so, they're getting hit not only by sort of a double whammy of, “I need to move my data to wherever there's capacity. And if I don't do that, then I have to pay some premium, an ever-escalating price for the underlying GPUs.” And God forbid, you have to move from AWS to Google to chase that.And so, we're seeing a lot of companies that are saying, “This doesn't make any sense. We have this enormous training set. If we just put it with Cloudflare, this is data that makes sense to live in the network, fundamentally.” And not everything does. Like, we're not the right place to store your long-term transaction logs that you're only going to look at if you get sued. There are much better places, much more effective places do it.But in those cases where you've got to read data frequently, you've got to read it from different places around the world, and you will need to decrease what those costs of each one of those reads are, what we're seeing is just an enormous amount of demand for that. And I think these AI startups are really just a very clear example of what company after company after company needs, and why R2 has had—which is our zero egress cost S3 competitor—why that is just seeing such explosive growth from a broad set of customers.Corey: Because I enjoy pushing the bounds of how ridiculous I can be on the internet, I wound up grabbing a copy of the model, the Llama 2 model that Meta just released earlier this week as we're recording this. And it was great. It took a little while to download here. I have gigabit internet, so okay, it took some time. But then I wound up with something like 330 gigs of models. Great, awesome.Except for the fact that I do the math on that and just for me as one person to download that, had they been paying the listed price on the AWS website, they would have spent a bit over $30, just for me as one random user to download the model, once. If you can express that into the idea of this is a model that is absolutely perfect for whatever use case, but we want to have it run with some great GPUs available at another cloud provider. Let's move the model over there, ignoring the data it's operating on as well, it becomes completely untenable. It really strikes me as an anti-competitiveness issue.Matthew: Yeah. I think that's it. That's right. And that's just the model. To build that model, you would have literally millions of times more data that was feeding it. And so, the training sets for that model would be many, many, many, many, many, many orders of magnitude larger in terms of what's there. And so, I think the AI space is really illustrating where you have this scarce resource that you need to chase around the world, you have these enormous datasets, it's illustrating how these egress fees are actually holding back the ability for innovation to happen.And again, they are absolutely—there is no valid reason why you would charge more for egress than you do for ingress other than limiting competition. And I think the good news, again, is that's something that's gotten regulators' attention, that's something that's gotten customers' attention, and over time, I think we all benefit. And I think actually, AWS and Google and Microsoft actually become better if we start to have more competition on a feature-by-feature basis as opposed to on an overall platform. The choice shouldn't be, “I use AWS.” And any big company, like, nobody is all-in only on one cloud provider. Everyone is multi-cloud, whether they want to be or not because people end up buying another company or some skunkworks team goes off and uses some other function.So, you are across multiple different clouds, whether you want to be or not. But the ideal, and when I talk to customers, they want is, they want to say, “Well, you know that stuff that they're doing over at Microsoft with AI, that sounds really interesting. I want to use that, but I really like the maturity and robustness of some of the EC2 API, so I want to use that at AWS. And Google is still, you know, the best in the world at doing search and indexing and everything, so I want to use that as well, in order to build my application.” And the applications of the future will inherently stitch together different features from different cloud providers, different startups.And at Cloudflare, what we see is our, sort of, purpose for being is how do we make that stitching as easy as possible, as cost-effective as possible, and make it just make sense so that you have one consistent security layer? And again, we're not about hording the data; we're about connecting all of those things together. And again, you know, from the last time we talked to now, I'm actually much more optimistic that you're going to see, kind of, this revolution where egress prices go down, you get competition on feature-by-features, and that's just going to make every cloud provider better over the long-term.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Panoptica.  Panoptica simplifies container deployment, monitoring, and security, protecting the entire application stack from build to runtime. Scalable across clusters and multi-cloud environments, Panoptica secures containers, serverless APIs, and Kubernetes with a unified view, reducing operational complexity and promoting collaboration by integrating with commonly used developer, SRE, and SecOps tools. Panoptica ensures compliance with regulatory mandates and CIS benchmarks for best practice conformity. Privacy teams can monitor API traffic and identify sensitive data, while identifying open-source components vulnerable to attacks that require patching. Proactively addressing security issues with Panoptica allows businesses to focus on mitigating critical risks and protecting their interests. Learn more about Panoptica today at panoptica.app.Corey: I don't know that I would trust you folks to the long-term storage of critical data or the store of record on that. You don't have the track record on that as a company the way that you do for being the network interchange that makes everything just work together. There are areas where I'm thrilled to explore and see how it works, but it takes time, at least from the sensible infrastructure perspective of trusting people with track records on these things. And you clearly have the network track record on these things to make this stick. It almost—it seems unfair to you folks, but I view you as Cloudflare is a CDN, that also dabbles in a few other things here in there, though, increasingly, it seems it's CDN and security company are becoming synonymous.Matthew: It's interesting. I remember—and this really is going back to the origin story, but when we were starting Cloudflare, you know, what we saw was that, you know, we watched as software—starting with companies like Salesforce—transition from something that you bought in the box to something that you bought as a service [into 00:23:25] the cloud. We watched as, sort of, storage and compute transition from something that you bought from Dell or HP to something that you rented as a service. And so the fundamental problem that Cloudflare started out with was if the software and the storage and compute are going to move, inherently the security and the networking is going to move as well because it has to be as a service as well, there's no way you can buy a you know, Cisco firewall and stick it in front of your cloud service. You have to be in the cloud as well.So, we actually started very much as a security company. And the objection that everybody had to us as we would sort of go out and describe what we were planning on doing was, “You know, that sounds great, but you're going to slow everything down.” And so, we became just obsessed with latency. And Michelle, my co-founder, and I were business students and we had an advisor, a guy named Tom [Eisenmann 00:24:26] in business school. And I remember going in and that was his objection as well and so we did all this work to figure it out.And obviously, you know, I'd say computer science, and anytime that you have a problem around latency or speed caching is an obvious part of the solution to that. And so, we went in and we said, “Here's how we're going to do it: [unintelligible 00:24:47] all this protocol optimization stuff, and here's how we're going to distribute it around the world and get close to where users are. And we're going to use caching in the places where we can do caching.” And Tom said, “Oh, you're building a CDN.” And I remember looking at him and then I'm looking at Michelle. And Michelle is Canadian, and so I was like, “I don't know that I'm building a Canadian, but I guess. I don't know.”And then, you know, we walked out in the hall and Michelle looked at me and she's like, “We have to go figure out what the CDN thing is.” And we had no idea what a CDN was. And even when we learned about it, we were like, that business doesn't make any sense. Like because again, the CDNs were the first ones to really charge for bandwidth. And so today, we have effectively built, you know, a giant CDN and are the fastest in the world and do all those things.But we've always given it away basically for free because fundamentally, what we're trying to do is all that other stuff. And so, we actually started with security. Security is—you know, my—I've been working in security now for over 25 years and that's where my background comes from, and if you go back and look at what the original plan was, it was how do we provide that security as a service? And yeah, you need to have caching because caching makes sense. What I think is the difference is that in order to do that, in order to be able to build that, we had to build a set of developer tools for our own team to allow them to build things as quickly as possible.And, you know, if you look at Cloudflare, I think one of the things we're known for is just the rapid, rapid, rapid pace of innovation. And so, over time, customers would ask us, “How do you innovate so fast? How do you build things fast?” And part of the answer to that, there are lots of ways that we've been able to do that, but part of the answer to that is we built a developer platform for our own team, which was just incredibly flexible, allowed you to scale to almost any level, took care of a lot of that traditional SRE functions just behind the scenes without you having to think about it, and it allowed our team to be really fast. And our customers are like, “Wow, I want that too.”And so, customer after customer after customer after customer was asking and saying, you know, “We have those same problems. You know, if we're a big e-commerce player, we need to be able to build something that can scale up incredibly quickly, and we don't have to think about spinning up VMs or containers or whatever, we don't have to think about that. You know, our customers are around the world. We don't want to have to pick a region for where we're going to deploy code.” And so, where we built Cloudflare Workers for ourself first, customers really pushed us to make it available to them as well.And that's the way that almost any good developer platform starts out. That's how AWS started. That's how, you know, the Microsoft developer platform, and so the Apple developer platform, the Salesforce developer platform, they all start out as internal tools, and then someone says, “Can you expose this to us as well?” And that's where, you know, I think that we have built this. And again, it's very opinionated, it is right for certain applications, it's never going to be the right place to run SAP HANA, but the company that builds the tool [crosstalk 00:27:58]—Corey: I'm not convinced there is a right place to run SAP HANA, but that's probably unfair of me.Matthew: Yeah, but there is a startup out there, I guarantee you, that's building whatever the replacement for SAP HANA is. And I think it's a better than even bet that Cloudflare Workers is part of their stack because it solves a lot of those fundamental challenges. And that's been great because it is now allowing customer after customer after customer, big and large startups and multinationals, to do things that you just can't do with traditional legacy hyperscale public cloud. And so, I think we're sort of the next generation of building that. And again, I don't think we set out to build a developer platform for third parties, but we needed to build it for ourselves and that's how we built such an effective tool that now so many companies are relying on.Corey: As a Cloudflare customer myself, I think that one of the things that makes you folks standalone—it's why I included security as well as CDN is one of the things I trust you folks with—has been—Matthew: I still think CDN is Canadian. You will never see us use that term. It's like, Gartner was like, “You have to submit something for the CDN-like ser—” and we ended up, like, being absolute top-right in it. But it's a space that is inherently going to zero because again, if bandwidth is free, I'm not sure what—this is what the internet—how the internet should work. So yeah, anyway.Corey: I agree wholeheartedly. But what I've always enjoyed, and this is probably going to make me sound meaner than I intend it to, it has been your outages. Because when computers inherently at some point break, which is what they do, you personally and you as a company have both taken a tone that I don't want to say gleeful, but it's sort of the next closest thing to it regarding the postmortem that winds up getting published, the explanation of what caused it, the transparency is unheard of at companies that are your scale, where usually they want to talk about these things as little as possible. Whereas you've turned these into things that are educational to those of us who don't have the same scale to worry about but can take things from that are helpful. And that transparency just counts for so much when we're talking about things as critical as security.Matthew: I would definitely not describe it as gleeful. It is incredibly painful. And we, you know, we know we let customers down anytime we have an issue. But we tend not to make the same mistake twice. And the only way that we really can reliably do that is by being just as transparent as possible about exactly what happened.And we hope that others can learn from the mistakes that we made. And so, we own the mistakes we made and we talk about them and we're transparent, both internally but also externally when there's a problem. And it's really amazing to just see how much, you know, we've improved over time. So, it's actually interesting that, you know, if you look across—and we measure, we test and measure all the big hyperscale public clouds, what their availability and reliability is and measure ourselves against it, and across the board, second half of 2021 and into the first half of 2022 was the worst for every cloud provider in terms of reliability. And the question is why?And the answer is, Covid. I mean, the answer to most things over the last three years is in one way, directly or indirectly, Covid. But what happened over that period of time was that in April of 2020, internet traffic and traffic to our service and everyone who's like us doubled over the course of a two-week period. And there are not many utilities that you can imagine that if their usage doubles, that you wouldn't have a problem. Imagine the sewer system all of a sudden has twice as much sewage, or the electrical grid as twice as much demand, or the freeways have twice as many cars. Like, things break down.And especially the European internet came incredibly close to just completely failing at that time. And we all saw where our bottlenecks were. And what's interesting is actually the availability wasn't so bad in 2020 because people were—they understood the absolute critical importance that while we're in the middle of a pandemic, we had to make sure the internet worked. And so, we—there were a lot of sleepless nights, there's a—and not just at with us, but with every provider that's out there. We were all doing Herculean tasks in order to make sure that things came online.By the time we got to the sort of the second half of 2021, what everybody did, Cloudflare included, was we looked at it, and we said, “Okay, here were where the bottlenecks were. Here were the problems. What can we do to rearchitect our systems to do that?” And one of the things that we saw was that we effectively treated large data centers as one big block, and if you had certain pieces of equipment that failed in a way, that you would take that entire data center down and then that could have cascading effects across traffic as it shifted around across our network. And so, we did the work to say, “Let's take that one big data center and divide it effectively into multiple independent units, where you make sure that they're all on different power suppliers, you make sure they're all in different [crosstalk 00:32:52]”—Corey: [crosstalk 00:32:51] harder than it sounds. When you have redundant things, very often, the thing that takes you down the most is the heartbeat that determines whether something next to it is up or not. It gets a false reading and suddenly, they're basically trying to clobber each other to death. So, this is a lot harder than it sounds like.Matthew: Yeah, and it was—but what's interesting is, like, we took it all that into account, but the act of fixing things, you break things. And that was not just true at Cloudflare. If you look across Google and Microsoft and Amazon, everybody, their worst availability was second half of 2021 or into 2022. But it both internally and externally, we talked about the mistakes we made, we talked about the challenges we had, we talked about—and today, we're significantly more resilient and more reliable because of that. And so, transparency is built into Cloudflare from the beginning.The earliest story of this, I remember, there was a 15-year-old kid living in Long Beach, California who bought my social security number off of a Russian website that had hacked a bank that I'd once used to get a mortgage. He then use that to redirect my cell phone voicemail to a voicemail box he controlled. He then used that to get into my personal email. He then used that to find a zero-day vulnerability in Google's corporate email where he could privilege-escalate from my personal email into Google's corporate email, which is the provider that we use for our email service. And then he used that as an administrator on our email at the time—this is back in the early days of Cloudflare—to get into another administration account that he then used to redirect one of Cloud Source customers to a website that he controlled.And thankfully, it wasn't, you know, the FBI or the Central Bank of Brazil, which were all Cloudflare customers. Instead, it was 4chan because he was a 15-year-old hacker kid. And we fix it pretty quickly and nobody knew who Cloudflare was at the time. And so potential—Corey: The potential damage that could have been caused at that point with that level of access to things, like, that is such a ridiculous way to use it.Matthew: And—yeah [laugh]—my temptation—because it was embarrassing. He took a bunch of stuff from my personal email and he put it up on a website, which just to add insult to injury, was actually using Cloudflare as well. And I wanted to sweep it under the rug. And our team was like, “That's not the right thing to do. We're fundamentally a security company and we need to talk about when we make mistakes on security.” And so, we wrote a huge postmortem on, “Here's all the stupid things that we did that caused this hack to happen.” And by the way, it wasn't just us. It was AT&T, it was Google. I mean, there are a lot of people that ended up being involved.Corey: It builds trust with that stuff. It's painful in the short term, but I believe with the benefit of hindsight, it was clearly the right call.Matthew: And it was—and I remember, you know, pushing ‘publish' on the blog post and thinking, “This is going to be the end of the company.” And quite the opposite happened, which was all of a sudden, we saw just an incredible amount of people who signed up the next day saying, “If you're going to be that transparent about something that was incredibly embarrassing when you didn't have to be, then that's the sort of thing that actually makes me trust that you're going to be transparent the future.” And I think learning that lesson early on, has been just an incredibly valuable lesson for us and made us the company that we are today.Corey: A question that I have for you about the idea of there being no reason to charge in one direction but not the other. There's something that I'm not sure that I understand on this. If I run a website, to use your numbers of a terabit out—because it's a web server—and effectively nothing in—because it's a webserver; other than the request, nothing really is going to come in—that ingress bandwidth becomes effectively unused and also free. So, if I have another use case where I'm paying for it anyway, if I'm primarily caring about an outward direction, sure, you can send things in for free. Now, there's a lot of nuance that goes into that. But I'm curious as to what the—is their fundamental misunderstanding in that analysis of the bandwidth market?Matthew: No. And I think that's exactly, exactly right. And it's actually interesting. At Cloudflare, our infrastructure team—which is the one that manages our connections to the outside world, manages the hardware we have—meets on a quarterly basis with our product team. It's called the Hot and Cold Meeting.And what they do is they go over our infrastructure, and they say, “Okay, where are we hot? Where do we have not enough capacity?” If you think of any given server, an easy way to think of a server is that it has, sort of, four resources that are available to it. This is, kind of, vast simplification, but one is the connectivity to the outside world, both transit in and out. The second is the—Corey: Otherwise it's just a complicated space heater.Matthew: Yeah [laugh]. The other is the CPU. The other is the longer-term storage. We use only SSDs, but sort of, you know, hard drives or SSD storage. And then the fourth is the short-term storage, or RAM that's in that server.And so, at any given moment, there are going to be places where we are running hot, where we have a sort of capacity level that we're targeting and we're over that capacity level, but we're also going to be running cold in some of those areas. And so, the infrastructure team and the product team get together and the product team has requests on, you know, “Here's some more places we would be great to have more infrastructure.” And we're really good at deploying that when we need to, but the infrastructure team then also says, “Here are the places where we're cold, where we have excess capacity.” And that turns into products at Cloudflare. So, for instance, you know, the reason that we got into the zero-trust space was very much because we had all this excess capacity.We have 100 times the capacity of something like Zscaler across our network, and we can add that—that is primar—where most of our older products are all about outward traffic, the zero-trust products are all about inward traffic. And the reason that we can do everything that Zscaler does, but for, you know, a much, much, much more affordable prices, we going to basically just layer that on the network that already exists. The reason we don't charge for the bandwidth behind DDoS attacks is DDoS attacks are always about inbound traffic and we have just a ton of excess capacity around that inbound traffic. And so, that unused capacity is a resource that we can then turn into products, and very much that conversation between our product team and our infrastructure team drives how we think about building new products. And we're always trying to say how can we get as much utilization out of every single piece of equipment that we run everywhere in the world.The way we build our network, we don't have custom machines or different networks for every products. We build all of our machines—they come in generations. So, we're on, I think, generation 14 of servers where we spec a server and it has, again, a certain amount of each of those four [bits 00:39:22] of capacity. But we can then deploy that server all around the world, and we're buying many, many, many of them at any given time so we can get the best cost on that. But our product team is very much in constant communication with our infrastructure team and saying, “What more can we do with the capacity that we have?” And then we pass that on to our customers by adding additional features that work across our network and then doing it in a way that's incredibly cost-effective.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to, basically once again, suffer slings and arrows about networking, security, cloud, economics, and so much more. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Matthew: You know, used to be an easy question to answer because it was just, you know, go on Twitter and find me but now we have all these new mediums. So, I'm @eastdakota on Twitter. I'm eastdakota.com on Bluesky. I'm @real_eastdakota on Threads. And so, you know, one way or another, if you search for eastdakota, you'll come across me somewhere out there in the ether.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the show notes. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.Matthew: It's great to talk to you, Corey.Corey: Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry, insulting comment that I will of course not charge you inbound data rates on.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

LiveWild Radio
Ep. 92: Bikes are the Ultimate Conditioning Tool

LiveWild Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 65:29


Anyone who listens to the podcast knows Catharine and Winston love riding their bikes.    Not discounting that it is fun and relaxing, even when going hard, cycling offers many fitness benefits, especially to those over 40.   In this episode, we talk about the different types of cycling and how to incorporate them into your fitness plan.    Building cardiovascular fitness is vital for health and how you feel and look, so finding a tool you enjoy training on is essential.    We talk about suggested training plans, ideas of where to ride and types of bikes that would be good for beginner cyclists.    Give a listen and then get out and ride.     Fitness Equipment We Endorse and Support Us:   Bells of Steel Adjustable Kettlebells -Get the world's smallest gym with a pair of adjustable kettlebells from Bell of Steel https://rb.gy/nccwf. If you get the full set, you will have a set of bells that covers 12-32 kg (26-70lbs), which is enough to cover you from beginner to pro athlete.   Great Lakes Girya-  Save 10% on your fitness equipment by using Promo Code "LIVEWILD" at Great Lakes Girya.  CDN website: https://www.greatlakesgirya.com   US website: https://us.greatlakesgirya.com/  

Addict II Athlete's podcast
In Good Health: Drew Mulvey

Addict II Athlete's podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 52:47


Today Blu interviews Drew Mulvey MS, CDN, CNS, CLT, PNL1, CISN. Drew graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Bridgeport with a Master of Science in Human Nutrition in 2018 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology in 2012.  She is currently certified by the state of Connecticut as a Certified Dietitian/Nutritionist as well as a Board-Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Leap Therapist, Precision Nutrition Level 1 Coach, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Integrative Sports Nutritionist, and has her own practice Redeeming Life Nutrition, LLC.   Drew has gained her nutrition experience working in several arenas including weight loss clinics, personal training, interning under a naturopathic doctor, through her personal practice, and a competitive residency program under a functional medicine nutritionist. She prides herself in helping active women transform their mindsets and beliefs around food, find their true selves, and empower them to ignite their true athletic potential. Her passion stems from my struggles with disordered eating and multiple health battles during my teens, such as Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Autoimmunity, and bulimia. In her twenties, from overactivity and disordered eating patterns known as orthorexia, she developed the Female Athlete Triad, a complex stemming from low energy intake and leading to a loss of menses and decreased bone density.  All these significantly impacted on her athletic career and could have all been avoided.    She decided to enroll in her Master of Nutrition program so that her eyes were open to other avenues such as Naturopathic Medicine, Acupuncture, Nutrition, Supplementation, Food Sensitivity Testing, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Mindset Reformation. By incorporating these principles, entering a 12-step program known as Celebrate Recovery, and reshaping her relationship with food and herself; she was able to break the chains of disordered eating and regain her athletic ability back. Today, she has now found a deep passion for endurance sports and has an Ironman 70.3 set in her future endeavors.   Her goal is to get to the root cause of the problem spiritually, emotionally, and physically to create new foundations, leading these women to transformation and success in their athletic careers and their lives.  It is an incredibly individualized approach that captures their strengths and uses them to "break the cycle."  

The Cloudcast
The PizzaHut and TacoBell of Platforms

The Cloudcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2023 19:37


Does it ever feel like all the technologies are just things layered on top of each other? Does it ever feel like platforms are a combination of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell? SHOW: 742CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:The Combination Pizza Hut and Taco BellTaco Town2023 ACC PreviewWHEN EVERYTHING IS A PLATFORM, FOR PLATFORM ENGINEERING TEAMSIs everything really now on the shoulders of the Platform Engineering team?Are all platform engineering teams all combined together?BE CAREFUL ABOUT CREATING THINGS WITH NO MEANING“It still stands as the best summary of the state of living we call Now imaginable. No business or brand means anything, no meaning cannot be bundled for the purpose of the sales team, nothing is too special that it can't be balled up into a late night chaos meal thrown straight into the mouth of drunken capitalism.” - Holly Anderson and Spencer Hall, Channel 6FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

The Cloudcast
What's Happening with SuperCloud?

The Cloudcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2023 38:24


Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) gives an update on the status of SuperClouds and talks about the recent SuperCloud 3 event. SHOW: 741CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesFind "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:2022 Look Ahead to SuperClouds (Cloudcast Eps.586)SuperCloud 3 (event)SuperCloud 2 (event)The Rise of SuperCloud (2021)theCUBE (homepage)Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You cover everything, but where are your main focuses these days?Topic 2 - For anyone that's new to Cloudcast, or new to this concept of SuperCloud (which has evolved over time), give us the high-level overview of the concept.Topic 3 - Let's dive right into SuperCloud, since you just finished the SuperCloud 3 event. What were the big trends within the event?Topic 4 - The new focus on AI seems to have shown a new light on the location of data, and how well isolated data (and models) are from other companies. How do you see the concept of SuperCloud playing with new AI demands around data locality? Topic 5 - It seems like nobody is going to be able to afford the CAPEX required to do AI (GPUs) at scale except the big three hyperclouds. They are all going through various levels of economic challenges. Do you expect to see infrastructure becoming an AI bottleneck soon? Topic 6 - Are you seeing any companies or technologies breaking away from the pack with regard to the SuperCloud capabilities? Topic 7 - Where are you focusing on the next SuperCloud event and research? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

The Data Center Frontier Show
History and Reach of Edge Data Centers

The Data Center Frontier Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2023 28:18


According to a recent State of the Edge report, global capital expenditure on IT equipment for edge infrastructure is projected to grow to $104 billion by 2028. Moreover, recent IDC research forecasts worldwide spending on edge computing platforms to reach nearly $274 billion by 2025. As AFL executives in a related DCF 'Voices of the Industry' essay from earlier this year explained further, "Edge data centers are key to unleashing advanced use cases resulting in new user experiences and new business opportunities." As recently as last month, a market brief from JLL unpacked just why smaller data centers are taking off, as AI, 5G and hybrid work fuel an exponential expansion of edge computing footprints. As noted by the brief, "Hyperscale centers are usually located in cities and can typically house 10,000 racks with a capacity in excess of 80 MW. Edge data centers by comparison, have a smaller capacity between 500 kilowatts to 2 MW and, as the name suggests, are located on the outer edge of networks. They bring computing capability geographically closer to those users situated further away from the heart of the cloud." “These assets are increasingly important to the architecture of computing networks, thanks to the continued adoption of IoT devices and now the rise of generative AI applications, and machine learning,” added Tom Glover, JLL Head of EMEA Data Center Transactions. For its part, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwC) recently noted that "the global market for edge data centers is expected to nearly triple to $13.5 billion in 2024 from $4 billion in 2017, thanks to the potential for these smaller, locally located data centers to reduce latency, overcome intermittent connections and store and compute data close to the end user." PwC's edge data center examination cautioned, "However, the right timing and strategy for moving data centers (and related services) to the edge will be different for each organization, depending on the conditions, environment and business opportunities in its marketplace." So even a just a cursory reading of the business and technology prospects for edge data centers told DCF's editors that it was time for a podcast discussion probing the history and reach of this most evergreen (yet paradoxically sometimes elusive) technology topic for our industry. Here's a summary points discussed by of DCF editors Matt Vincent and David Chernicoff in today's podcast. 1:01 - Framing the topic with a Bill Kleyman quote. 2:06 - Comparing and contrasting the "original" or "local" edge vs. the hyperscale version. 3:33 - How a lot of edge data centers have come out of the CDN model. 4:23 - From Google and AWS to Akamai, Cloudflare and Rackspace. 6:46 - Optimizing delivery at the edge to challenge the hyperscalers for business. 7:45 - Blending edge computing and edge data centers to move data around as little as possible. 9:11 - 5G and telco: The 'red-headed stepchild' of the edge data center? 9:43 - "If you think about it, every cell tower you see has a data center attached to it." 11:32 - Many major CSPs didn't expect the kind of usage their cell towers are getting. 12:35 - On self-driving cars and autonomous vehicles as competitive edge use-cases. 14:26 - Leveraging 5G, actual connectivity, and localized data centers. 15:17 - How latency and bandwidth have become huge issues in gaining a business advantage. 15:34 - Edge permutations redux. 16:47 - "You just had to work AI into the conversation, didn't you?" 17:50 - When data center-quality analytics live in the trunk of a vehicle. 18:25 - Qualcomm: "Wherever a phone is, that's the edge." 19:21 - "Think of the issues involved. The backhaul, the latency, the security of that data moving across that much fiber." 20:15 - Latency Makes People Go Away 21:31 - "There's certainly a lot more edge-type data centers being built than giant hyperscale data centers." 22:03 - What have supply chain issues done to these smaller data center builds? 22:40 - How edge data center development may depend on what the market does. 23:12 - Engineering the industrial vs. the suburban edge in rural areas. 26:10 - Closing thoughts: "What's old is new again...The first point of contact is the edge." Here are links to some recent DCF stories on edge data centers: Akamai Bets on Bringing Cloud In Closer with 5 New Data Center Sites Getting Closer to the Edge: Data Centers Move Closer to Consumption Roundtable: Growth Seen Across Many Flavors of Edge Computing Data Center Insights: Phillip Marangella of EdgeConneX Tower Operators Step Up the Pace of Their Edge Deployments Let Form Follow Function at the Edge

The Cloudcast
Building Large AI Models

The Cloudcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 44:29


Dr. Ronen Dar (Co-Founder/ CTO of @runailabs) talks about the challenges of running compute infrastructure for AI, the GPU ecosystem, sizing LLMs and more. SHOW: 739CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesEquinix Global Data Centers and Networking Learn more and signup at https://deploy.equinix.com/. Use the coupon code CLOUDCAST to get $500 in credits to get started.Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Run:ai - Build Your Next Large Model (homepage)Ronen Dar, Run:AI's CTO, on managing computation resources in ML pipelinesTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Run:ai.Topic 2 - Let's begin by talking about the challenges of running AI applications. What unique characteristics and requirements do AI applications have?Topic 3 - Most AI applications run on GPUs. How do things change when using GPUs vs. CPUs to power AI applications? What is needed to get the most out of GPUs?Topic 4 - As environments grow larger, what is needed to scale-up environments, both in terms of scheduling applications and managing the underlying GPU infrastructure?Topic 5 - GPUs are not only expensive resources, but also in high-demand. How are companies doing capacity planning with GPUs? What struggles are you seeing companies have as they manage planning for AI projects?Topic 6 - Are the new Large Language Models (LLMs) much different in size than AI models of the past? Topic 7 - How well is the industry prepared to deal with the new interest in AI from across the industry? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

The Water Table
The Real Price of Drainage: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Cost?

The Water Table

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2023 24:23 Transcription Available


In this episode of The Water Table, Jamie and Tom Christensen discuss the importance of public and private partnerships in agricultural water management and the importance of investing in drainage management practices. From cost-sharing to education to removing barriers, it's a wealth of information that every crop producer should hear!About the Guest: Tom Christensen is the chair of the Conservation Drainage Network's Growth Committee. He also works with Ecosystem Services Exchange and spent 40 years with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) before retiring from the USDA in 2020. Tom spent 24 years in Washington, DC in a variety of positions in policy, program development and implementation, agency and mission area operations and partnership building. He also served as NRCS's Regional Conservationist for the Central U.S. and prior to that was the NRCS State Conservationist for the state of Illinois.Suggested Links: USDA NRCSConservation Drainage NetworkIowa Department of Agriculture & Land StewardshipChapters & Episode Topics:00:00   Intro00:32   Coming up on today's episode…01:00   Welcome to Tom Christensen02:00   What is conservation drainage?03:00   CDN – how it all works04:00   A public-private partnership that really works05:30   A Growth Committee??06:30   Adoption barriers08:30   Cost sharing – yes or no?10:30   Why is it so cumbersome?11:30   Out of sight, out of mind12:15   Oh, the innovation of automation13:40   The role of the government14:30   The Turnkey Project16:00   Future opportunities18:30   We need education and awareness21:30   Proper drainage – the benefits are significant22:50   The last word…Follow us on social media! Facebook Twitter Find us on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to our Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts Visit our website to explore more episodes & water management education:https://www.watertable.ag/the-podcast/ 

Grimerica Outlawed
#149 - ROUND UP 7/2/23

Grimerica Outlawed

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2023 66:51


Darren and Graham solo Round Up some recent stories and current events. Universe 25 & The Collapse of Populations from the Naked Emperor's Newsletter,  bogus 22 year old climate predictions from Canada via CDN,  your TV is nudging you green - from the same purveyor of Globalism propaganda, The CBC's balance sheet with massive government funding turned into profits, Russian's kicked out of Edmonton's Heritage Festival and the 17 SDG's of the UN in regards to tourism.... wtf?   See links below:   https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/organizers-of-russian-pavilion-say-exclusion-from-edmonton-heritage-festival-a-violation-of-human-rights-5415903?utm_source=MB_article_paid&src_src=MB_article_paid&utm_campaign=mb-2023-07-23-ca&src_cmp=mb-2023-07-23-ca&utm_medium=email&est=j719o%2FdExlPeSBX5yEcf%2BPA2RcRU%2BZdj8M38CKvFHlYvndeh%2B3ERD1E20OQ3NyI%3D&utm_term=news3&utm_content=3   https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-officer-foreign-interference-1.6913872   https://www.unwto.org/tourism-in-2030-agenda   https://the-message.ca/2023/01/06/10-big-numbers-and-one-chart-on-the-size-of-canadas-media-economy/   https://site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountability/finances/2020-2021-annual-report.pdf   The 2001 "Canada Action Plan" Crystal Ball Check - Climate Discussion Nexus   https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/updated-report-pegs-cost-of-net-zero-power-grid-at-1-7-trillion/article_11d2791a-2677-11ee-98ff-93870d407bd9.html   https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/plan-divide-liverpool-13-neighbourhoods-27351527   Your TV is Nudging You to Decarbonise Your Lifestyle (substack.com)   https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=602373&post_id=134364659&utm_source=post-email-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNTc5MjA2LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxMzQzNjQ2NTksImlhdCI6MTY4OTAyMTkwOCwiZXhwIjoxNjkxNjEzOTA4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNjAyMzczIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.hRHAB0im-ddfdcVTmAYVhg_IdmakW3EdmPlBJ3Qamjs     Subscribe to our PLUS feed for more of these but more controversial - chats and second half of interviews for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support.   For Video's of more of these but more controversial and the second half of video interviews (when applicable and audio) go to our Substack and Subscribe. https://grimericaoutlawed.substack.com/ or to our Locals  https://grimericaoutlawed.locals.com/   Help support the show, because we can't do it without ya. If you value this content with 0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites, please assist. Many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!!   Support the show directly: https://grimerica.ca/support-2/ Our Audiobook Site: www.adultbrain.ca Our Audiobook Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@adultbrainaudiobookpublishing/videos Grimerica Media Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@grimerica/featured Darren's book www.acanadianshame.ca Check out our next trip/conference/meetup - Contact at the Cabin www.contactatthecabin.com Other affiliated shows: www.grimerica.ca The OG Grimerica Show www.Rokfin.com/Grimerica Our channel on free speech Rokfin Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimericans  Https://t.me.grimerica https://www.guilded.gg/chat/b7af7266-771d-427f-978c-872a7962a6c2?messageId=c1e1c7cd-c6e9-4eaf-abc9-e6ec0be89ff3   Get your Magic Mushrooms delivered from: Champignon Magique  Mushroom Spores, Spore Syringes, Best Spore Syringes,Grow Mushrooms Spores Lab Get Psychedelics online Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/grimerica-outlawed http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grimerica-outlawed Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/  Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ ART - Napolean Duheme's site http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/  MUSIC Tru Northperception, Felix's Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com

The Cloudcast
Free or Fee is Often Complicated

The Cloudcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2023 28:11


Some recent events in the tech industry have questioned the spirit of open source, the value of contributions, and the standards that various entities should be held to. This is not a new concept, and it's often complicated.SHOW: 738CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:GCore - Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud ServicesUse promocode “CLOUDCAST” to receive a €100 credit on Gcore servicesEquinix Global Data Centers and Networking Learn more and signup at https://deploy.equinix.com/. Use the coupon code CLOUDCAST to get $500 in credits to get started.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Meta's LLAMA-2 is not Open Source (OSI opinion)LLAMA-2 doesn't fit the definition of open source (Twitter)Are Software Companies Bad Businesses? (Clouded Judgment)John Rockefeller Jr. and Grand Teton National ParkGrand Tetons National Park (Wyoming, USA)History of Standard Oil, Trusts and MonopoliesTHE TECH WORLD HAS A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH FREEThis past week I didn't think about tech very oftenBut coincidentally the world I was in had a historic overlap with some discussions in the tech world.FREE IS GOOD RIGHT? WHAT ABOUT WHEN IT'S DEEMED TO BE NOT GOOD?When do we determine that free is a good thing or a bad thing?When do we determine that work or contributions are valuable? Or invaluable?Are there always good actors and bad actors when something of value is involved?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

BSD Now
516: Computer Time Origins

BSD Now

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2023 46:07


Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Part 1, Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN, Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares, Installing and running Gitlab howto, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Linux vs. FreeBSD : Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide : Part 1 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-linux-and-freebsd-firewalls/) Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN (https://www.nginx.com/blog/why-netflix-chose-nginx-as-the-heart-of-its-cdn/) News Roundup FreeBSD: Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares (https://ozgurkazancci.com/freebsd-protect-your-web-server-against-php-shells-and-malwares/) HowTo: Installing and running Gitlab (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/howto-installing-and-running-gitlab.89436/) Beastie Bits • [World built in 36 hours on a Pentium 4!](https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/13undl9/world_built_in_36_hours_on_a_pentium_4/) • [Fart init](https://x61.sh/log/2023/05/23052023153621-fart-init.html](https://x61.sh/log/2023/05/23052023153621-fart-init.html) • [Organized Freebies](https://mwl.io/archives/22832) • [OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p0 released](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230617111340) • [shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230620064255) • [Where does my computer get the time from?](https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. *** Feedback/Questions sam - fav episodes (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/515/feedback/sam%20-%20fav%20episodes.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***