Podcasts about cloud architecture

Mark Tinderholt joins us to talk through practical cloud decision-making, why he prefers Terraform in multi-cloud setups, and the realities of working with Azure policies, Bicep, ARM templates, and more.Mark is an experienced technologist whose journey began in application development, spanning web and client-server applications to sophisticated distributed systems and microservices. Along this path, he developed deep expertise in automation and DevOps, leading diverse project teams and guiding organizations through strategic, operational, and pre-sales leadership roles. Currently, Mark holds a hands-on engineering position at Microsoft, contributing directly to the Microsoft Azure platform.Beyond his professional work, Mark shares his passion for cloud computing through his YouTube channel, "The Azure Terraformer." He is also the author of "Mastering Terraform," a practical, multi-cloud guide to Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure-as-Code covering AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and has created the Udemy course "Terraform 101.”

Can AI be used to control cloud expenses? Host Mitch Ashley is joined by DoiT's Eduardo Mota and Weaviate's Jobi George on this episode of DevOps Dialogues, for a conversation on how companies can manage their cloud expenditures in the context of GenAI tool utilization and strategize reinvestment for growth. Their discussion covers: The intricate cost relationship between cloud architecture and GenAI, highlighting the importance of expert partnerships in developing effective AI solutions Utilizing data as a competitive advantage, from leveraging existing datasets to enhancing them through transformations or graph database conversions A comparative analysis of RAG (Retrievable Augmented Generation) versus Agents in reducing hallucinations and costs while optimizing efficiency Evaluating ROI for AI-driven projects, considering aspects like end-user payment, competitive differentiation, and operational efficiencies The role of managed services in the initial stages of cloud transition, and advanced strategies such as fine-tuning, distillation, or quantizing a model for growth  

In episode 68, Ronald and Jan chat with Nicolas Braga from Essent about how a major service outage, caused by a surge in traffic during the Ukraine war and rising energy prices, led to a full rethinking of Essent's cloud architecture. Nicolas explains how they shifted their strategy to increase team ownership and why they chose AWS Lambda over Kubernetes. He highlights Lambda's advantages, such as auto-scaling, cost-efficiency, and simplified management, which allows Essent to innovate faster without worrying about infrastructure complexity. The episode explores how these changes align with Essent's goal to become a leading energy tech company.Stuur ons een bericht.

The transition to cloud computing by federal agencies has highlighted the importance of security, especially as sensitive federal assets are now in hybrid environments.   This week on Feds At the Edge, leaders from federal and commercial sectors focus on improving security within the complex cloud environment. When code is written with the cloud in mind, applications can be moved easily, updates can be mastered, and systems architects can leverage many aspects of the cloud that are missed with an old “lift and shift” approach.   Dave Hinchman, Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity for US GAO, coined an aphorism, “Documentation is easy, implementation is hard.”  Tune in on your favorite podcasting platform as participants discuss how to leverage cloud-native code and avoid the mishaps that plagued others.     

When you hear a name like “Jamf,” you aren't likely to think of cloud architecture, but for Levi McCormick, it's his bread and butter. On this Summer Replay of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey and Levi chat about how Jamf's business approach benefits both their clients and their development team. Levi gives his take on the relationship between software development and personal ownership, how he gamified learning for young engineers, the economic challenges presented to professionals trying to break into the cloud, and how AWS can improve its rollout of new products. Seeing as Levi McCormick is now Jamf's Director of Engineering, those insights have seemingly paid dividends! You can check out this blast from the past (as well as Corey's usual wit and hot takes) right now!Show Highlights(0:00) Intro to the episode(0:58) Panoptica sponsor read(1:49) Levi's role as a Cloud Architect(2:41) The history of Jamf and the services they provide(5:58) Breaking down the cloud for customers(8:18) Services, development, and ownership(11:44) Identity and assumed roles in software engineering(14:41) The woes of mismanagement in the field(17:03) Pantoptica sponsor read(17:26) Explaining the Cloud Resume Challenge(20:11) Hesitancy to take the challenge wider(21:26) Economic barriers for young engineers(26:00) Thoughts on reInvent 2021(28:45) What's ahead for Levi McCormick(29:33) Where you can find LeviAbout LeviLevi's passion lies in helping others learn to cloud better.Links ReferencedJamf: https://www.jamf.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/levi_mccormickOriginal Episode: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/an-enterprise-level-view-of-cloud-architecture-with-levi-mccormick/SponsorPanoptica: https://www.panoptica.app/

Three Technical Account Managers (TAMs) from DoiT share real-life stories about overspending on cloud and managing cloud commitment drawdowns, with practical lessons and strategies for optimizing your own cloud costs.

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Episode SummaryCorey is joined by William Collins, Alkira's head cloud architect, to discuss the obstacles and possibilities of cloud networking. They discuss the evolution, challenges, and necessity of cloud networking, highlighting why this fundamental part of cloud design often goes unrecognized yet truly deserves attention. From William's early days of cloud skepticism to the incredible influence of services such as AWS Transit Gateway, William shares his experiences and insights into how network planning can make a big difference in cloud installations in this episode of Screaming in the Cloud.Show Notes:About William Collins:William Collins is a principal cloud architect at Alkira, where he plays a pivotal role in evangelizing the company's vision, building customer relationships, and leading thought in the network, security, and automation spaces within the cloud ecosystem. With a rich background in enterprise technology across financial services and healthcare, including a significant tenure as Director of Cloud Architecture at Humana, William has made substantial contributions to cloud adoption and network modernization. Beyond his professional pursuits, William is passionate about content creation, hosting The Cloud Gambit Podcast, and teaching as a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. His expertise spans automation, cloud computing, and network engineering. An advocate for continuous learning and innovation, William's outside interests include woodworking, playing ice hockey, and guitar. While his insights are influential, they reflect his personal views and not those of his employer.Show Highlights: (00:00) Introduction(03:24) William Collins shares his initial skepticism towards cloud computing (07:28) The evolution of cloud networking(13:50) The role of upfront planning in cloud network deployment to avoid scalability and complexity issues.(21:10) The shift from complicated, manual network setups to simple, effective cloud systems .(24:13) William uses Netflix's network design as an example of how cloud networking powers seamless user experiences (27:44) The future of cloud networking and the ongoing need for innovation(30:23)  Closing remarks Links:Alkira's Website: https://www.alkira.com/The Cloud Gambit Podcast: https://www.thecloudgambit.com/William Collins on X (Twitter) https://twitter.com/WCollins502AWS Transit Gateway  https://aws.amazon.com/transit-gateway/William Collins on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-collins-

In this episode we are looking at the challenges AI technology faces when it comes to becoming, and then remaining sustainable.The benefits of AI are unquestionable: from improved medical assistance and increased efficiency in the workplace, to autonomous transportation and next-level gaming experiences. But the more expansive the abilities of AI become, the more data storage that's required. That data storage uses a lot of energy. In fact, it has been predicted that AI servers could be using more energy than a country the size of the Netherlands by 2030. For HPE Chief Technologist, Matt Armstrong-Barnes, the rate at which AI has grown in recent years has had an environmental impact, and he believes that's down to people rushing into training large language models without thinking about longevity, or the need for future change. And that, in turn, has led to data being stored that is no longer needed. The sustainability issue is something that is also a main focus of Arti Garg, Lead Sustainability & Edge Architect in the office of the CTO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Like Matt, Arti has kept a keen eye on the exponential growth of AI data storage and the effect that is having on the environment, and agrees that the key to a more sustainable future is in how we train models. However, whilst training models well is important, the tech itself is a key component in more efficient AI. Shar Narasimhan is the director of product marketing for NVIDIA's data center GPU portfolio. He believes that a combination of openly available model optimisations and chipsets, CPUs, GPUs and intelligent data centers optimised for AI is a key piece of the puzzle in avoiding energy wastage, and making AI more sustainable all round.Sources and statistics cited in this episode:Global AI market prediction - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1365145/artificial-intelligence-market-size/#:~:text=Global%20artificial%20intelligence%20market%20size%202021%2D2030&text=According%20to%20Next%20Move%20Strategy,nearly%20two%20trillion%20U.S.%20dollars.AI could use as much energy as a small country report - https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2542435123003653%3Fshowall%3DtrueIndustry responsible for 14% of earth's emissions - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-11-2021-0106/full/htmlNumber of AI startups - https://tracxn.com/d/explore/artificial-intelligence-startups-in-united-states/__8hhT66RA16YeZhW3QByF6cGkAjrM6ertfKJuKbQIiJg/companiesAI model energy use increase - https://openai.com/research/ai-and-computeEuropean Parliament report into AI energy usage - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021/662906/IPOL_STU(2021)662906_EN.pdf

To return more value from cloud, it's essential to optimize its infrastructure. Intel's Josh Hilliker has thoughts on how you can do that with optimization—and policy-as-code, as well as effective governance.

Implementing Generative AI requires re-evaluating all aspects of cloud architecture to ensure that it is optimized to return value to the business.

In this episode, Woody is joined by Deepika Nath, Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture at Kyndryl.Deepika has a passion for using technology to create differentiated customer outcomes. In this episode, she dives into hybridity and the concept of the middle cloud, a concept that emphasizes the importance of networking and connectivity in hybrid cloud architectures, highlighting the middle cloud's ability to bring greater flexibility to various workloads. She highlights the criticality of avoiding a one-size-fits-all strategy and instead, leveraging versatile options, exemplifying how a customized strategy carries such immense value in the cloud industry.Deepika's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepikanath/ About Altitude and Host Woody: https://aviatrix.com/altitude/ Timestamped Overview:00:00 Intro00:36 Deepika's background & the widespread impact of cloud technology on various aspects of our lives02:33 Hybrid cloud, the prevalence of cloud-native workloads and the challenges of developing hybrid applications05:09 The complexities of managing hybrid cloud solutions and the need for effective, consistent management07:17 The concept of the "middle cloud" 16:30 Alternative approaches to middle cloud 17:40 The capabilities of the middle cloud 20:37 Deepika's thoughts on Aviatrix, achieving simplification23:24 Why the middle cloud is important

Moving to the cloud is nothing new — but doing it efficiently is still tough. Brantley Richbourg is the Principal Technical Consultant of Cloud Networking at AHEAD, and it's his job to help companies navigate their journey to the cloud. On this episode, he describes some of the reasons companies are looking to make the move and the challenges they face along the way. Plus he explains where and how generative AI is playing a role and why innovation might not be the driving force behind customer decision making. Tune in to learn:What is Ahead? (1:32)Finally solving the problems with moving to the cloud (5:40)Integrating cloud systems and hybrid clouds (11:30)The role of generative AI (16:35)Why the cloud is not about saving money (30:00)How Ahead is working with clients (36:15)How to win at sales (38:38)The timeline for adopting new infrastructure (44:20)Predicting the next big thing (50:00)Mentions:Brantley's first appearance on IT Visionaries--Did you know that less than half of IT leaders feel their network infrastructure is ready to make the best use of emerging technologies?  Zayo, a leading global communications infrastructure provider, empowers some of the world's most innovative companies to take advantage of next generation technologies with the help of reliable, resilient network infrastructure. Read their research paper, IT Confidential, to gain valuable insights from IT leaders. Mission.org is a media studio producing content for world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

Bad data costs organisations an average of USD$12.9 million annually. Major Transport Infrastructure Victoria worked to overcome this by established data reliability with a multi-cloud transformation journey that changed both behavious and systems. Saher Junaid discusses. Saher Junaid, Assistant Director, Digital Safety Systems, Major Transport Infrastructure Authority. This episode of the Public Sector Podcast is brought to you by AWS.  Digital transformation can be daunting. AWS Partners can help customers by transforming technical and security challenges into solutions. See the power of public service in the cloud. Read AWS Partner Innovator stories today.  For more great insights head to www.PublicSectorNetwork.co

In this episode, Katoria Henry, a multi-award winning cloud security and technical resilience expert, discusses the importance of building a resilient cloud architecture.Katoria covers the key concepts of cloud resilience, the challenges of building resilient cloud architectures, and best practices for overcoming these challenges.Katoria also shares her personal experiences working with organizations to help them build resilient cloud architectures. She provides practical advice on how to design, deploy, and manage microservices-based applications in a way that minimizes the risk of outages and data breaches.Whether you're a cloud architect, developer, or security professional, this video is essential viewing for anyone who wants to build resilient cloud applications.Listen to this episode to learn:- What is cloud resilience?- The challenges of building resilient cloud architectures and how to overcome them.- Practical advice on how to design, deploy, and manage microservices-based applications in a way that minimizes the risk of outages and data breaches.Get a discount on StationX cybersecurity courses here: https://www.stationx.net/cyberlifecloud resilience, microservices, cloud architecture, cloud security, data breaches, outagesSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/cyber-life/donations

778: In this episode, Rackspace Technology's President of Private Cloud, Brian Lillie, speaks about the keys to successful cloud adoption and the benefits of a multi-cloud architecture. Throughout this conversation, we dive into Rackspace's business, explore Brian's purview within Private Cloud, and discuss the shared and differing responsibilities with his counterpart in Public Cloud. Brian explains how having a CIO background has been advantageous to him when partnering with the current CIO and the IT organization. With a breadth of experience across companies, disciplines, and industries, Brian shares insights into his thoughtful leadership style shaped by his core values, walks us through his career path, and talks about the impact that both his military experience and his pursuit of higher education has had on his professional career. Finally, Brian covers the advantages of having technologists on a board of directors, looks ahead at the latest trends in technology, and reflects on the secrets to his career success.

778: In this episode, Rackspace Technology's President of Private Cloud, Brian Lillie, speaks about the keys to successful cloud adoption and the benefits of a multi-cloud architecture. Throughout this conversation, we dive into Rackspace's business, explore Brian's purview within Private Cloud, and discuss the shared and differing responsibilities with his counterpart in Public Cloud. Brian explains how having a CIO background has been advantageous to him when partnering with the current CIO and the IT organization. With a breadth of experience across companies, disciplines, and industries, Brian shares insights into his thoughtful leadership style shaped by his core values, walks us through his career path, and talks about the impact that both his military experience and his pursuit of higher education has had on his professional career. Finally, Brian covers the advantages of having technologists on a board of directors, looks ahead at the latest trends in technology, and reflects on the secrets to his career success.

In the final part of Thomas Erl's interview with David Linthicum (best-selling author of "An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing"), we address the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems being created for and used in clouds. David shares his experience with Cloud AI and reveals how he sees Cloud AI evolving in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cybersecurity has moved from a luxury to a necessity for pretty much every business. But still, many organizations are operating in a reactive rather than a proactive fashion when it comes to securing their networks. Adam Burke, VP Sales & Partnerships, Quest Technology Management, explains why this is and how to change your mindset and operate in a more secure fashion. Tune in to learn:What is Quest Technology? (1:45)The security needed to work in the cloud (5:10)Recommendations for organizations to address potential security concerns (11:45)Finding the right person to protect your infrastructure (19:30)How to choose the right third-party to help with cybersecurity (22:30)How Adam got his tech chops (25:55)The impact of AI in tracking cybersecurity activity (32:20)How fast Quest can help a customer in need (39:20)The benefits of military service for a tech professional (41:00)–Zayo's future-ready network and tailored connectivity solutions enable some of the world's most innovative companies to connect what's next for their business. Exceptional end-user experiences and better business outcomes demand one thing – a strong, healthy network. How's your network health? There's one way to find out – take Zayo's Network Health Check now. https://zayo.is/3ztMpIuMission.org is a media studio producing content for world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

In the second part of a three-part discussion with Thomas Erl and cloud computing visionary, David Linthicum, we delve into how we can leverage multicloud to create federated cloud applications that are distributed across multiple clouds, each providing an environment optimal for a given part of the application (as also documented in David's new book "An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing"). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sporo się dzieje w temacie AI, ale nie zapomnieliśmy o clodzie! W najnowszym odcinku razem z Wojtkiem Dąbrowskim (Head of Cloud Architecture) z DTiQ rozmawiamy między innymi o tym, czym jest cloud native, jaka jest rola Head of Cloud Architecture w zespole developmentu oraz czy początkujący developerzy powinni od razu uczyć się clouda?

As multicloud continues to become a greater reality for many organizations, so does the potential architectural complexity it can bring along with it. In this first part of a three-part podcast series dedicated to the future of cloud architecture, author Thomas Erl and industry thought leader David Linthicum do a deep-dive to explore the meta cloud (or "metacloud") architectural model that David recently documented in his powerful new book "An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing". As David explains, establishing a metacloud will introduce a critical abstraction layer that will provide centralized controls for the management, operations and security of multiple cloud environments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unlock the Mystery of Cloud Computing: Discover Its Incredible Benefits! In this Video, InfosecTrain will be hosting a “Cloud Computing Expert Masterclass” with certified experts, in order to help you unlock the mystery of cloud computing and its incredible benefits! If you're looking to learn more about the benefits of cloud computing, then this event is definitely for you! In this Masterclass, you'll get to hear from top experts on the topic, and explore the various benefits of cloud computing. From simplified management to improved security, this Masterclass has it all! Thank you for watching this video, For more details or free demo with our expert write into us at sales@infosectrain.com ➡️ Agenda for the Webinar ✑ Day-1

The cloud infrastructure and platform services (CIPS) market consists of standardized, highly automated offerings in which infrastructure resources such as compute, networking, and storage are complemented by integrated platform services (managed application, database, and functions as-a-service offerings).Gartner predicts that by 2027, more than 50% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to accelerate their business initiatives. Industry cloud platforms enable a shift from generic solutions to platforms designed to fit the specifics of the user's industry.In the race to the cloud, organisations are discovering for themselves just how 'not simple' things are in the cloud. The near ease at which organisations can now connect to the cloud and acquire the resources they need to run the business also introduced new challenges including security, scalability, compatibility and interoperability, and compliance. And like creatures of habit, businesses want to be able to customise the cloud to suit their business objectives – further introducing complexity and additional costs.In this PodChats for FutureCIO, we are joined by Matthew Swinbourne, CTO Cloud Architecture for APAC at NetApp, to walk us through we can turn this growing cloud complexity into a competitive advantage1.       How have cloud architectures changed since 2020? What is/are driving this change?2.       When viewed from the perspective of operations and business, is there (among C-suite and operation leaders) an understanding of how this complexity will hit back on the organisation in general? a.       Who is best qualified to lead organisations out of this complexity?3.       What is the role of the CTO?4.       Why should CTOs care about how complex cloud architectures have/are become/becoming?a.       How should CTOs work with CIOs to realise the business goals? 5.       How can the CIO work with business and operations leaders ensure user buy-in and adoption of applications and processes?6.       Drawing from the NetApp study on complexity, what are your recommendations given your role as CTO?7.       How should leadership navigate the web of emerging technologies without losing sight of business goals and objectives?8.       AI – what have we achieved so far?9.       Single pane of glass – are we there yet?

We dive back into bringing guests onto the show focusing on real problems with real people on the ground. In this episode, we are joined by Hecber Cordova, Director of Cloud Security at RBC. He shares insights around growth into DevSecOps, developing empathy with your engineering teams, creating cloud patterns, paved paths, and building secure architectures from the ground up. If you're interested in hearing from someone who has built strong security cultures in large institutions this is an episode to listen to!Links mentioned on the show:https://cloudseclist.com/https://cloudsecurityforum.slack.com

In the episode, Jim talks to Head of Software Innovation at Veloce Energy, Arila Barnes. Arila has extensive experience in enterprise software and product management. She is an expert in edge computing and IoT solutions. Jim and Arila discuss edge/IoT computing, multi-cloud deployments, Machine2Machine Zero Trust, Observability in the cloud and much more.Listen to other Navigating the Cloud Journey episodes here.

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.gotopia.tech/bookclubRead the full transcription of the interview hereEmily Freeman - Head of DevOps Product Marketing, Head of Community Engagement at AWS & Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"Nathen Harvey - Developer Advocate at Google Cloud and Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"Chris Williams - Cloud Therapist at World Wide TechnologyDESCRIPTIONMigrating to the cloud has become a "sine qua non" these days. The compact articles in 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know inspect the entirety of cloud computing, including fundamentals, architecture and migration. You'll go through security and compliance, operations and reliability and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more.Find out the story behind the benefits of curating such a community-driven book from the co-editors Emily Freeman, head of DevOps product marketing at AWS, Nathen Harvey, developer advocate at Google Cloud, and Chris Williams, cloud therapist and principal cloud solutions architect for World Wide Technologies.The interview is based on Emily's & Nathen's co-edited book "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"RECOMMENDED BOOKSEmily Freeman & Nathen Harvey • 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should KnowEmily Freeman • DevOps For DummiesMartin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsEmil Stolarsky & Jaime Woo • 97 Things Every SRE Should KnowKevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should KnowKevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should KnowHenney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should KnowKasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and RunningTwitterLinkedInFacebookLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily

Cloud architects have long wished for more flexibility in how memory is provisioned in servers, and CXL is finally delivering on a decade of promises. In this episode of Utilizing Tech, Stephen Foskett and Craig Rodgers talk to Dan Ernst of Microsoft, who is deeply involved in bringing CXL-attached memory to fruition within Azure. Dan was previously involved in the Gen-Z effort, and feels that CXL picks up the baton and brings valuable real-world benefits to cloud server architecture. Memory has a bigger impact on overall IT platforms than many are aware, and is already the costliest component in large servers. Per Amdahl's Law, it makes sense to look for cost savings in memory. And this is doubly the case because DIMMs only come in certain sizes so memory is usually over-specified. CXL memory modules cost a bit more than a DIMM, but this is offset by efficient right-sizing, and CXL is already cheaper than 3D stacked DIMMs. Hosts: Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Craig Rodgers: https://www.twitter.com/CraigRodgersms Guest Host: Dan Ernst, Principal Architect working on Future Azure Cloud Systems, Microsoft Azure https://www.linkedin.com/in/danernst/ Follow Gestalt IT and Utilizing Tech Website: https://www.UtilizingTech.com/ Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1789 Tags: #CXL #DIMMs #Azure #UtilizingCXL @Microsoft @Azure

Jeff Fritz is an experienced developer, technical educator, and PM on the .NET team at Microsoft. He founded The Live Coders team on Twitch, and regularly livestreams builds of websites and fun applications. You can follow Jeff for more .NET, .NET Core, and Visual Studio content on Twitch and Twitter at @csharpfritz.   Topics of Discussion: [2:41] Jeff talks about surviving the .com bomb and his background as a longtime web developer and technical educator. [3:57] What have been some of the recent developments that Jeff and his team are most excited about at Microsoft? [5:45] Jeff talks about how the application has been growing and how he's had some bumps in the road. [7:40] How to make video clips searchable and discoverable on the web. [12:12] What made Jeff go for MySQL instead of serverless Azure SQL? [18:01] What's the duration of the journey from the first line of code to enterprise patterns? [21:09] As we grow applications, we need to figure out a better way to show people what happens when you make a mistake, and to help them through the growth. [27:13] How do you know what's going to happen at a certain level of production? [22:48] Does Jeff really believe we're going to end up at Kubernetes? [32:27] Re-architecting your database architecture.   Mentioned in this Episode: Architect Tips — New video podcast! Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Programming with Palermo programming@palermo.network Jeff on Twitch KlipTok Fritz's Tech Tips and Chatter   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Kat Traxler (Kat's Linkedin) about the skillset, certification and knowledge base required to become a cloud security architect in 2023. Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Twitter: Kat Traxler (Kat's Linkedin) Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels: - Cloud Security News - Cloud Security Academy Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions (00:00) Ashish's Intro to the Episode (02:28) https://snyk.io/csp (02:46) A bit about Kat (05:35) What does a security architect do? (06:46 )The difference in the Cloud Security Architect role (11:08) The building blocks of building an application in AWS (13:41) Are there DMZs in Cloud Architecture? (15:54) Cybercriminal and Cloud exploitation (19:04) How to keep with rapid changes in cloud? (20:08) AWS pre:invent update (21:39) Why is IAM important in Cloud? (25:03) Do cloud security architects need to know coding and automation? (27:38) How important are certifications? (31:49) Getting in cloud security with no experience (33:41) What are important skills for architect? (35:33) SANS certifications for Cloud Security Architects (37:04) How important is ist to have multi cloud knowledge (40:44) Frameworks to build cloud architecture (42:59) Do you need to know software development? (44:19) Roadmap to become a cloud security architect (45:32) What is the most difficult thing related to architecture? (49:32) The Fun Section

Welcome to Episode 127 Main Topic Microservices “Simpler” code? Easily scalable? “Complex” deployment?   What are they? Why build like that? How do you interact with a microservice? Pros/Cons ? Service Discovery Consul / etcd / Zookeeper https://www.consul.io/ https://etcd.io/ https://zookeeper.apache.org/ What?  Why? Service Mesh? Consul / Istio / Linkerd https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/connect https://istio.io/ https://linkerd.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_Multi-megabit_Data_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_Relay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_networking What?  Why? *kinda like* SMDS / Frame Relay / ATM / SDN “Free” mTLS and encryption !!!   Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast  OR https://twitch.tv/IronSysadminPodcast   Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wmxvQ4c2H6  Matrix Space: https://matrix.to/#/#IronSysadmin:trixie.undrground.org  Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.twitter.com/ironsysadmin Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin   Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/ 

Louis van Schalkwyk is the Head of Technical Operations for Digicloud Africa, a position he has held since October 2018. Van Schalkwyk is a Google-certified professional with qualifications in Cloud Architecture, Security, Collaboration, and Machine Learning. He previously worked at Grove Group for ten years, first as the Head of Deployments from 2007 and then as the Technical Presales Team Leader from 2012. In this What's Next interview, van Schalkwyk joins Aki Anastasiou to discuss the impact Machine Learning can have in business. He talks about the benefits it offers to businesses and provides several real-world examples of how Machine Learning is being used in South Africa.

Carlos Salas, a cybersecurity expert, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series. Hosted by Hilton Supra. Powered by citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil.Carlos Salas is a software architect and AWS cloud specialist with more than 12 years of experience in fields such as Unix Administration, Software Development, Database Administration, Cloud Architecture, and Research and Development. Carlos joined digital security and privacy solutions company NordLayer in 2021 and currently serves as an engineering manager there, supervising and coordinating the company's efforts towards updating and deploying their privacy and security solutions.  A Master's Degree in Informatics by the University of Vilnius, Carlos Salas is always innovating and looking for better ways to grow both professionally and personally.Carlos Salas Interview Questions1. Career and Academic Background 2. About NordLayer- Mission- Objectives- Context- Achievements3. Cyber Security And the Metaverse4. Information Authenticity5. Manipulation of Data6. Confidentiality7. How can we better protect people?8. The cutting-edge technologies of Web3 are revolutionizing industries and parts of everyday life, which also means they bring with them novel security threats. This begs the question: With such nascent technology, what other kinds of emerging threats are out there? And how do we protect ourselves?9. Cryptojacking and blockchain vulnerabilities10. Phishing Threats - as companies rush to be the first product on the market, holes and vulnerabilities that weren't expected can appear, and there is a higher chance of data compromises.11. Education - Additionally, next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint protection solutions are a necessity - We need a combination of the human brain, instinct and AI machine learning to detect and flush out novel threats.12. The “freedom” and end-user ownership that Web3 will offer consumers is the same freedom that cybercriminals will also be able to enjoy. We need to find a solution whereby the vision of an autonomous web for all can be experienced, without opening up a huge can of worms.About NordLayerNord Security is one of the leaders in providing digital security and privacy solutions for individuals and businesses. They are a home for advanced security solutions that share the Nord brand and values. Today, their products are used by millions of customers worldwide and acknowledged by the most influential tech sites and IT security specialists. Since 2012, NordLayer have been creating and building award-winning solutions for millions of customers and partners around the world, including:NordVPN - world's most trusted online security solution, used by over 15 million of Internet users worldwide.NordPass - a password manager that securely stores and helps users organize their passwords by keeping them in one convenient place.NordLocker - a file encryption tool that secures sensitive files and folders with zero-knowledge AES-256 encryption. NordLayer - network access security that scales with businesses.NordWL - An infrastructure, know-how and tools for businesses who want to build their own VPN products.About Dinis Guarda profile and Channelshttps://www.openbusinesscouncil.orghttps://www.intelligenthq.comhttps://www.hedgethink.com/https://www.citiesabc.com/More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube

Since 1990, the global rates of extreme poverty have gone from around 40% to around 10%, and ending World Poverty entirely by 2030 is one of the UN's Key Sustainable Development Goals, announced in 2015. However, progress is slowing, and 710 million people around the world still live in extreme poverty - currently earning below $1.90 per day. So how can technology help? In this episode, we'll be meeting some of the people and organisations aiming to eradicate poverty through the use of technology.The power of connectivityOne of the most important ways in which rural economies can grow and become more efficient and productive is to get access to communications technology. Isabelle Mauro is the Head of Information, Communications & Technology (ICT) Industries at the World Economic Forum. The WEF is the world body bringing together the public and private sectors, and has been pushing for greater co-operation between the public sector and telecoms providers to work on lifting developing communities out of hunger and poverty. The results speak for themselves: Research suggests a 10% improvement in mobile connectivity can add 1.5% to a country's GDP. The challenge is to provide a financial incentive for companies and Governments to reach out to poorer areas where the business case for connection might not be so obvious.Harnessing complex skills and technology for unconnected communitiesOne of the firms leading the charge to bring rural communities into the digital age is Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Brian Tippens is their Head of sustainability, and has been working closely with WEF and partners around the world to enable remote and disconnected communities to take advantage of HPE's experience in data and connectivity - particularly in encouraging skills sharing and industrial expertise among NGOs and other bodies. At the core of their philanthropic ambitions, however, is to allow and enable local communities to help provide their own solutions to their own problems, encouraging long-term, sustainable and useful programs of change to emerge.Getting educatedOne of the ways in which communities can be enabled to develop their own long-term solutions is through education and upskilling the population to take advantage of the opportunities offered by technology. Leading that charge is the Micro:bit Educational Foundation, which provides expandable, programmable micro-computers to schools around the world, alongside locally-led educational programs and learning resources. Gareth Stockdale is the organisations CEO and tells us that the democratisation of technology through enabling local participation is key to lifting people out of poverty, providing pathways to future skilled careers, and to enabling self-sufficiency among remote or impoverished communities. Whether it's educating children or upskilling adults to make the most of opportunities in their community and work in collaboration with international organisations, there's plenty being done to help end world poverty by 2030. Will it be enough? Time will tell. But the appetite seems to be real for long-lasting change.Key takeaways: Even small improvements to digital connectivity can have a lasting impact on local and national economic growth and resilience. Most people have the potential to get connected, and doing so can drastically improve lives in remote communities. The best way to lift the world out of poverty is through public-private partnerships which enable and upskill communities to create their own solutions and take long-term advantage of new technologies. Western organisations have a responsibility not to parachute in solutions, but to work on the ground with communities to enable them to make best use of the technology on offer, through collaboration and education. Links and resources:The UN Sustainable Development GoalsThe World Economic Forum's Edison AllianceTech Impact 2030 - How HPE is driving positive change through technologyThe micro:bit Educational FoundationThe impact of digital technology usage on economic growth in Africa - from the Elsevier Public Health Emergency CollectionBrian Tippens on LinkedInIsabelle Mauro on LinkedInGareth Stockdale on LinkedIn

The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today's challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice. Dynamics 365 runs on the Azure cloud service, and today's cloud architecture expert, Tony Begum, highlights why that's valuable and what that means to all you Biz Apps innovators out there! Episode TopicsAzure and Dynamics are different products, so how are they important to each other?When it comes to our competitors, do you think Azure + D365 separates us? If so, how?How does IoT play a part in the Azure + D365 story? What are some good nuggets to know?How can partners tell a better together story with Azure + D365? Useful Resources:Azure + DynamicsAzure + Customer EngagementDynamics Field Service + IoT + Azure About Tony BegumTony Begum brings over 25yrs of experience building enterprise solutions ranging from his first ISP startup in 1994 to putting in the most remote VoIP system in in the world in Perdo Bay Alaska. He has over 25 industry cloud technical certifications from AWS, Salesforce, and Microsoft. His current role is developing our new business architecture service for Microsoft to help our customers realize their digital transformation more rapidly. Tony brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with over 20 years of business application value selling. Tony has also held positions at IBM and Cisco where he acquired in-depth knowledge of Cloud Architecture, Customer Service, Business Architecture, and B2B Commerce. Connect with Tony here - Tony Begum | LinkedIn We'd love to hear from you:Don't hesitate to reach out with any questions, comments, suggestions or feedback! We'd love to hear from you. Send your hosts an email at digestibledynamics@microsoft.comDiscover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're continuing our conversation on Modern Cloud. There are a couple of previous episodes: an overview of the CEO's perspective and an overview of Product's perspective. I figured we would look at the Developer perspective today. This ties in with our 'next best action' or 'bias for action' concept. Sometimes when you meet with developers, you don't know what's working or not. By mapping out the tech stack, it's easy to spot things that are in the wrong place. In the modern cloud, capabilities are evolving and merging rapidly. So mapping out your tech stack and understanding what's available in a modern cloud environment is very valuable. You can have a conversation with your teams on the components of the tech stack and see if there are more advanced modern cloud capabilities to take advantage of. Is there a managed service capability that can offload some of the burden in our tech stack? Can you leverage DynamoDB, step functions or some other evolved modern cloud capability to meet those needs? It's a cracking exercise to involve business or product people who don't understand the full value stream. Typically in organisations, investment is done at the UI or UX level. Perhaps they want to make a change but don't really understand the level of complexity that's involved. A map can be a vehicle for a conversation to get investment to replace a legacy part of the platform. With mapping, you can't change everything there and then, but you can plot a path. It's a good way to set goals, look for opportunities and work towards those goals. I like to do that very early with squads and look for opportunities for the year ahead. What areas need investment for modernization or to move up a level? It's a really good approach to have a joined up and holistic conversation. As well as having that conversation as a team, you're implicitly putting the concept of evolutionary architecture into everyone's head. In other words, it's okay to keep changing. There isn't a sunk cost fallacy where we hang on to something for years, because we built it. What you also need from your tech stack is rapid delivery. You want your engineers to deliver features into production quickly. There's lots of ways to do that. One way is by using decent developer patterns like CDK patterns. Composable building blocks are critical for rapid delivery. In the modern cloud with Product Leader needs and CEO needs, speed is key. You need proved patterns to compose your solution from. With the emergence of infrastructure as code, CDK, SAM and other infrastructure code capabilities, you can bring expertise and patterns to your teams to rapidly stand up solutions. For example a single page app pattern is a building block that can be deployed. Or an API gateway that connects to a new SQL database with step functions in the middle to do workflow. Pattern collections have exploded over the last couple of years. With modern cloud, you should be able to find a well proven pattern that you can leverage or customize to your needs. And you are rapidly delivering value. Sometimes people think rapid means poor quality! And if you're going to build with those patterns, then you need to build quality in! You actually need to start by having a high standard of technical excellence to make sure those patterns have quality attributes, in the first place. When you are talking about modern cloud, serverless, and leveraging managed services, a lot of things shift left. There's a lot of responsibility on the squad to assemble things to meet certain standards in the organisation. Building up squads is a huge aspect. You start off with the basics and get your observability set up which takes time, and you will go slow. But it's amazing, because after one or two months, you begin to see the philosophy creep in and before you know it you're ten times what you were at the start and you've got all the confidence in the world. The engineers are empowered and they're very creative. With continuous architecture you've got everything you need to confidently pivot and deliver rapidly. As a developer, you've got to invest in continuous education and continuous learning. We've benefited massively from following the right people on Twitter and subscribing to YouTube channels to watch videos as well. It pays dividends. If you have mapped your tech stack, have situational awareness and if you are leveraging modern cloud properly, you can apply the features that are being announced today. That is the differentiator for your team and for your business. You have happy developers! Nicole Forsgren describes it in her 'Accelerate' book: if you invest in your team to make them go fast and safely, then employee engagement shoots up. It's quite hard to explain because some people see it as money spent. But the business benefits at the other end. Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge theserverlessedge.com @ServerlessEdge

Seneca College: Cloud Architecture and Administration Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this Education release from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario. Today is the 19th of Mar, 2022. Education releases highlight opportunities for international students which a focus on course as well as resettlement opportunities for International students who is desirous of making Canada their future home. If you would like to do a 1-year certificate program after your schooling or bachelors, Cloud Architecture and Administration offered by Seneca College could provide you with knowledge and skills to become an essential part of a modern information technology (IT) team. You will learn how to effectively and securely integrate IT infrastructure, including cloud services, internet of things devices and traditional on-premises equipment. You will also develop an understanding of potential issues with privacy and the law and how to mitigate those risks according to the institution. International students who have completed their high school 12 years, also called Higher Secondary in some regions of the world or finished your bachelors could qualify for this program. They require a good score with a IELTS score requirement of around 6.5 in each band.Cloud Architecture and Administration is offered by Seneca College in Toronto, a large city in the province of Ontario, this institution offers several courses in multiple specialties from its multiple locations around Greater Toronto Authority. This program offers tremendous employment opportunities and offers good Canadian Permanent Residence pathways. In addition to selecting the right course, we recommend students to also learn and understand Settlement pathways for students under the various Immigration Programs, both federal and provincial. Please visit the Canadian government Immigration website at Canada.ca and the Provincial website ontario.ca to learn of immigration pathways for settlement. Students must remember that the number of temporary residents in Canada far exceeds Canadian permanent residents' annual quotas. Therefore, targeting the Canadian Experience Class of the PR pathway may not be enough. We encourage students to have a backup of Immigration programs depending on the province or location of the educational institution. If you have any questions, please get them answered at the FREE Zoom event every Fridays, times and credentials posted on my screen Be brilliant students and target colleges or universities for Canadian Permanent Residence. If you currently have work experience want to learn more about Permanent Residence pathways for students, please attend the FREE on Demand webinar by following this link on my screen https://polinsys.com/p and selecting the 4th On-demand webinar, “Education pathway for Students. Once you observe that webinar, and if you have any doubts, you can always come and get your immigration questions answered in the Live Zoom event every Friday! The Image on my screen shows the time and the Zoom link. This way, you can study in an area where Canadian Permanent Residence may be a little easier. Good luck to all of you, and I hope to see some of you in Canada soon!

We wrap up our patterns focus with the space-based pattern.  This is also known as cloud architecture.  We will see how this approach allows us to break out the solution into components suited for scaling.  We solve the problem of scalability in architecture instead of tools. The Space-Based Pattern Defined We have often seen layers in our architecture discussions.  Similarly, this pattern breaks out each layer into many workers.  Therefore, it is described as a collection of grids.  First, we have processing units that do the bulk of the work.  We then have a virtual middleware composed of messaging, data, processing grids, and a deployment manager. Applying The Pattern We see in the above list of components that each step of functionality in an application is broken out.  However, the critical piece is the processing unit.  There is often a bottleneck somewhere among the layers.  We avoid that by replicating the entire solution across processing units in this approach.  Then we can laterally scale out the solution by adding more units. This solution may seem obvious and straightforward.  However, keeping those processing units in sync requires overhead.  We are replicating data and code.  Thus, breaking the reliance on a single database or store.  That often is the limiting factor that we are now getting away from. Challenges Synchronizing the components is the hardest part of the space-based pattern.  Each piece needs to fulfill the requirements for the solution and "know" the current state.  Of course, a stateless solution makes this a breeze.  However, that would essentially be a microservices architecture.  This approach needs more information to provide the necessary services.  Nevertheless, this also is a solution that tends to be perfect for high availability.  When you have units shut down, you launch more to recover from those downed components.

Sirish Raghuram's entire career has revolved around bringing creative technological solutions that solve the biggest challenges in organizations. In this episode, he shares stories about how he helped create technology solutions that have advanced the capabilities of some of the biggest companies — from BMW to VMware. Special Guest: Sirish Raghuram.

What happens if you put two Enterprise Cloud Architects into a conversation ... you are right ... they create the next episode of GeekSprech[EN]. This time talking with Dennis Schoone about Cloud Architecture and Cloud Governance and the importance of having a plan and staying flexible in your Cloud Journey.

About LeviLevi's passion lies in helping others learn to cloud better.Links: Jamf: https://www.jamf.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/levi_mccormick 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: It seems like there is a new security breach every day. Are you confident that an old SSH key, or a shared admin account, isn't going to come back and bite you? If not, check out Teleport. Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all of your infrastructure. The open-source Teleport Access Plane consolidates everything you need for secure access to your Linux and Windows servers, and I assure you there is no third option there. Kubernetes clusters, databases, and internal applications like AWS Management Console, Yankins, GitLab, Grafana, Jupyter Notebooks, and more. Teleport's unique approach is not only more secure, it also improves developer productivity. To learn more visit: goteleport.com. And not, that is not me telling you to go away, it is: goteleport.com.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Rising Cloud, which I hadn't heard of before, but they're doing something vaguely interesting here. They are using AI, which is usually where my eyes glaze over and I lose attention, but they're using it to help developers be more efficient by reducing repetitive tasks. So, the idea being that you can run stateless things without having to worry about scaling, placement, et cetera, and the rest. They claim significant cost savings, and they're able to wind up taking what you're running as it is in AWS with no changes, and run it inside of their data centers that span multiple regions. I'm somewhat skeptical, but their customers seem to really like them, so that's one of those areas where I really have a hard time being too snarky about it because when you solve a customer's problem and they get out there in public and say, “We're solving a problem,” it's very hard to snark about that. Multus Medical, Construx.ai and Stax have seen significant results by using them. And it's worth exploring. So, if you're looking for a smarter, faster, cheaper alternative to EC2, Lambda, or batch, consider checking them out. Visit risingcloud.com/benefits. That's risingcloud.com/benefits, and be sure to tell them that I said you because watching people wince when you mention my name is one of the guilty pleasures of listening to this podcast.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I am known-slash-renowned-slash-reviled for my creative pronunciations of various technologies, company names, et cetera. Kubernetes, for example, and other things that get people angry on the internet. The nice thing about today's guest is that he works at a company where there is no possible way for me to make it more ridiculous than it sounds because Levi McCormick is a cloud architect at Jamf. I know Jamf sounds like I'm trying to pronounce letters that are designed to be silent, but no, no, it's four letters: J-A-M-F. Jamf. Levi, thanks for joining me.Levi: Thanks for having me. I'm super excited.Corey: Exactly. Also professional advice for anyone listening: Making fun of company names is hilarious; making fun of people's names makes you a jerk. Try and remember that. People sometimes blur that distinction.So, very high level, you're a cloud architect. Now, I remember the days of enterprise architects where their IDEs were basically whiteboards, and it was a whole bunch of people sitting in a room. They call it an ivory tower, but I've been in those rooms; I assure you there is nothing elevated about this. It's usually a dank sub-basement somewhere. What do you do, exactly?Levi: Well, I am part of the enterprise architecture team at Jamf. My roles include looking at our use of cloud; making sure that we're using our resources to the greatest efficacy possible; coordinating between many teams, many products, many architectures; trying to make sure that we're using best practices; bringing them from the teams that develop them and learn them, socializing them to other teams; and just trying to keep a handle on this wild ride that we're on.Corey: So, what I find fun is that Jamf has been around for a long time. I believe it is not your first name. I want to say Casper was originally?Levi: I believe so, yeah.Corey: We're Jamf customers. You're not sponsoring this episode or anything, to the best of my knowledge. So, this is not something I'm trying to shill the company, but we're a customer; we use you to basically ensure that all of our company MacBooks, and laptops, et cetera, et cetera, are basically ensured that there's disk encryption turned on, that people have a password, and that screensaver is turned on, basically to mean that if someone gets their laptop stolen, it's a, “Oh, I have to spend more money with Apple,” and not, “Time to sound the data breach alarm,” for reasons that should be blindingly obvious. And it's great not just at the box check, but also fixing the real problem of I [laugh] don't want to lose data that is sensitive for obvious reasons. I always thought of this is sort of a thing that worked on the laptops. Why do you have a cloud team?Levi: Many reasons. First of all, we started in the business of providing the software that customers would run in their own data centers, in their own locations. Sometime in about 2015, we decided that we are properly equipped to run this better than other people, and we started to provide that as a service. People would move in, migrate their services into the cloud, or we would bring people into the cloud to start with.Device management isn't the only thing that we do. We provide some SSO-type services, we recently acquired a company called Wandera, which does endpoint security and a VPN-like experience for traffic. So, there's a lot of cloud powering all of those things.Corey: Are you able to disclose whether you're focusing mostly on AWS, on Azure, on Google Cloud, or are you pretending a cloud with something like IBM?Levi: All of the above, I believe.Corey: Excellent. That tells you it's a real enterprise, in seriousness. It's the—we talk about the idea of going all in on one providers being a general best practice of good place to start. I believe that. And then there are exceptions, and as companies grow and accumulate technical debt, that also is load-bearing and generates money, you wind up with this weird architectural series of anti-patterns, and when you draw it on a whiteboard of, “Here's our architecture,” the junior consultant comes in and says, “What moron built this?” Usually two said quote-unquote, “Moron,” and then they've just pooched the entire engagement.Yeah, most people don't show up in the morning hoping to do a terrible job today, unless they work at Facebook. So, there are reasons things are the way they are; they're constraints that shape these things. Yeah, if people were going to be able to shut down the company for two years and rebuild everything from scratch from the ground up, it would look wildly different. But you can't do that most of the time.Levi: Yeah. Those things are load bearing, right? You can't just stop traffic one day, and re-architect it with the golden image of what it should have been. We've gone through a series of acquisitions, and those architectures are disparate across the different acquired products. So, you have to be able to leverage lessons from all of them, bring them together and try and just slowly, incrementally march towards a better future state.Corey: As we take a look at the challenges we see The Duckbill Group over on my side of the world, where we talk to customers, it's I think it is surprising to folks to learn that cloud economics as I see it is—well, first, cost and architecture the same thing, which inherently makes sense, but there's a lot more psychology that goes into it than math. People often assume I spend most of my time staring into spreadsheets. I assure you that would not go super well. But it has to do with the psychological elements of what it is that people are wrestling with, of their understanding of the environment has not kept pace with reality, and APIs tend to, you know, tell truths.It's always interesting to me to see the lies that customers tell, not intentionally, but the reality of it of, “Okay, what about those big instances you're running in Australia?” “Oh, we don't have any instances in Australia.” “Look, I understand that you are saying that in good faith, however…” and now we're in a security incident mode and it becomes a whole different story. People's understanding always trails. What do you spend the bulk of your time doing? Is it building things? Is it talking to people? Is it trying to more or less herd cats in certain directions? What's the day-to-day?Levi: I would say it varies week-to-week. Depends on if we have a new product rolling out. I spend a lot of my time looking at architectural diagrams, reference architectures from AWS. The majority of the work I do is in AWS and that's where my expertise lies. I haven't found it financially incentivized to really branch out into any of the other clouds in terms of expertise, but I spend a lot of my time developing solutions, socializing them, getting them in front of teams, and then educating.We have a wide range of skills internally in terms of what people know or what they've been exposed to. I'd say a lot of engineers want to learn the cloud and they want to get opportunities to work on it, and their day-to-day work may not bring them those opportunities as often as they'd like. So, a good portion of my time is spent educating, guiding, joining people's sprints, joining in their stand-ups, and just kind of talking through, like, how they should approach a problem.Corey: Whenever you work at a big company, you invariably wind up with—well, microservices becomes the right answer, not because of the technical reasons; because of the people reason, the way that you get a whole bunch of people moving in roughly the same direction. You are a large scale company; who owns services in your idealized view of the world? Is it, “Well, I wrote something and it's five o'clock. Off to production with it. Talk to you in two days, if everything—if we still have a company left because I didn't double-check what I just wrote.”Do you think that the people who are building services necessarily should be the ones supporting it? Like, in other words, Amazon's approach of having the software engineers being responsible for the ones running it in production from an ops perspective. Is that the direction you trend towards, or do you tend to be from my side of the world—which is grumpy sysadmin—where people—developers hurl applications into your yard for you to worry about?Levi: I would say, I'm an extremist in the view of supporting the Amazon perspective. I really like you build it, you run it, you own it, you architect it, all of it. I think the other teams in the organization should exist to support and enable those paths. So, if you have platform teams are a really common thing you see hired right now, I think those platforms should be built to enable the company's perspective on operating infrastructure or services, and then those service teams on top of that should be enabled to—and empowered to make the decisions on how they want to build a service, how they want to provide it. Ultimately, the buck should stop with them.You can get into other operational teams, you could have a systems operation team, but I think there should be an explicit contract between a service team, what they build, and what they hand off, you know, you could hand off, like, a tier one level response, you know, you can do playbooks, you could do, you know, minimal alert, response, routing, that kind of stuff with a team, but I think that even that team should have a really strong contract with, like, here's what our team provides, here's how you engage with our team, here's how you will transition services to our team.Corey: The challenge with doing that, in some shops, has been that if you decide to roll out a, you build it, you own it, approach that has not been there since the beginning, you wind up with a lot of pushback from engineers who until now really enjoyed their 5:30 p.m. quitting time, or whenever it was they wound up knocking off work. And they started pushing back, like, “Working out of hours? That's inhumane.” And the DevOps team would be sitting there going, “We're right here. How dare you? Like, what do you think our job is?” And it's a, “Yes, but you're not people.” And then it leads to this whole back and forth acrimonious—we'll charitably call it a debate. How do you drive that philosophy?Levi: It's a challenge. I've seen many teams fracture, fall apart, disperse, if you will, under the transition of going through, like, an extreme service ownership. I think you balance it out with the carrot of you also get to determine your own future, right? You get to determine the programming language you use, you get to determine the underlying technologies that you use. Again, there's a contract: You have to meet this list of security concerns, you need to meet these operational concerns, and how you do that is up to you.Corey: When you take a look across various teams—let's bound this to the industry because I don't necessarily want you to wind up answering tough questions at work the day this episode airs—what do you see the biggest blockers to achieving, I guess, a functional cultural service ownership?Levi: It comes down to people's identity. They've established their own identity, “As I am X,” right? I'm a operations engineer. I'm a developer, I'm an engineer. And getting people to kind of branch out of that really fixed mindset is hard, and that, to me, is the major blocker to people assuming ownership.I've seen people make the transition from, “I'm just an engineer. I just want to write code.” I hate those lines. That frustrates me so much: “I just want to write code.” Transitioning into that, like, ownership of, “I had an idea. I built the platform or the service. It's a huge hit.” Or you know, “Lots of people are using it.” Like, seeing people go through that transformation become empowered, become fulfilled, I think is great.Corey: I didn't really expect to get called out quite like this, but you're absolutely right. I was against the idea, back when I was a sysadmin type because I didn't know how to code. And if you have developers supporting all of the stuff that they've built, then what does that mean for me? It feels like my job is evaporating. I don't know how to write code.Well, then I started learning how to write code incredibly badly. And then wow, it turns out, everyone does this. And here we are. But it's—I don't build applications, for obvious reasons. I'm bad at it, but I found another way to proceed in the wide world that we live in of high technology.But yeah, it was hard because this idea of my sense of identity being tied to the thing that I did, it really was an evolve-or-die dinosaur kind of moment because I started seeing this philosophy across the board. You take a look, even now at modern SRE is, or modern DevOps folks, or modern sysadmins, what they're doing looks a lot less like logging into Linux systems and tinkering on the command line a lot more like running and building distributed applications. Sure, this application that you're rolling out is the one that orchestrates everything there, but you're still running this in the same way the software engineers do, which is, interestingly.Levi: And that doesn't mean a team has to be only software engineers. Your service team can be multiple disciplines. It should be multiple disciplines. I've seen a traditional ops team broken apart, and those individuals distributed into the services that they were chiefly skilled in supporting in the past, as the ops team, as we transitioned those roles from one of the worst on-call rotations I've ever seen—you know, 13 to 14 alerts a night—transitioning those out to those service teams, training them up on the operations, building the playbooks. That was their role. Their role wasn't necessarily to write software, day one.Corey: I quit a job after six weeks because of that style of, I guess, mismanagement. Their approach was that, oh, we're going to have our monitoring system live in AWS because one of our VPs really likes AWS—let's be clear, this was 2008, 2009 era—latency was a little challenging there. And [unintelligible 00:17:04] he really liked Big Brother, which was—not to—now before that became a TV show and at rest, it was a monitoring system—but network latency was always a weird thing in AWS in those days, so instead, he insisted we set up three of them. And whenever—if we just got one page, it was fine. But if we got three, then we had to jump in. And two was always undefined.And they turned this off from I think, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. every night, just so the person I call could sleep. And I'm looking at this, like, this might be the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. This was before they released the Managed NAT Gateway, so possibly it was.Levi: And then the flood, right, when you would get—Corey: Oh, God this was the days, too—Levi: Yeah.Corey: —when you were—if you weren't careful, you'd set this up to page you on the phone with a text message and great, now it takes time for my cell provider to wind up funneling out the sudden onslaught of 4000 text messages. No thanks.Levi: If your monitoring system doesn't have the ability to say, you know, the alert flood, funnel them into one alert, or just pause all alerts, while—because we know there's an incident; you know, us-east-1 is down, right? We know this; we don't need to get 500 text messages to each engineer that's on call.Corey: Well, my philosophy at that point was no, I'm going to instead take a step beyond. If I'm not empowered to fix this thing that is waking me up—and sometimes that's the monitoring system, and sometimes it's the underlying application—I'm not on call.Levi: Yes, exactly. And that's why I like the model of extre—you know, the service ownership: Because those alerts should go to the people—the pain should be felt by the people who are empowered to fix it. It should not land anywhere else. Otherwise, that creates misaligned incentives and nothing gets better.Corey: Yeah. But in large distributed systems, very often the person is on call more or less turns into a traffic router.Levi: Right. That's unfair to them.Corey: That's never fun—yeah, that's unfair, and it's not fun, either, and there's no great answer when you've all these different contributory factors.Levi: And how hard is it to keep the team staffed up?Corey: Oh, yeah. It's a, “Hey, you want a really miserable job one week out of every however many there are in the cycle?” Eh, people don't like that.Levi: Exactly.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave, a new high-performance accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service, although I insist on calling it, “My squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the world's most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, you know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLAP and OLTP—don't ask me to ever say those acronyms again—workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora, and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: So, I've been tracking what you're up to for little while now—you're always a blast to talk with—what is this whole Cloud Builder thing that you were talking about for a bit, and then I haven't seen much about it.Levi: Ah, so at the beginning of the pandemic, our mutual friend, Forrest Brazeal, released the Cloud Resume Challenge. I looked at that, and I thought, this is a fantastic idea. I've seen lots of people going through it. I recommend the people I mentor go through it. Great way to pick up a couple cloud skills here and there, tell an interesting story in an interview, right? It's a great prep.I intended the Cloud Builder Challenge to be a natural kind of progression from that Resume Challenge to the Builder Challenge where you get operational experience. Again, back to that, kind of, extreme service ownership mentality, here's a project where you can build, really modeled on the Amazon GameDays from re:Invent, you build a service, we'll send you traffic, you process those payloads, do some matching, some sorting, some really light processing on these payloads, and then send it back to us, score some points, we'll build a public dashboard, people can high five each other, they can razz each other, kind of competition they want to do. Really low, low pressure, but just a fun way to get more operational experience in an area where there is really no downside. You know, playing like that at work, bad idea, right?Corey: Generally, yes. [crosstalk 00:21:28] production, we used to have one of those environments; oops-a-doozy.Levi: Yeah. I don't see enough opportunities for people to gain that experience in a way that reflects a real workload. You can go out and you can find all kinds of Hello Worlds, you can find all kinds of—like, for front end development, there are tons of activity activities and things you can do to learn the skills, but for the middleware, the back end engineers, there's just not enough playgrounds out there. Now, standing up a Hello World app, you know, you've got your infrastructures code template, you've got your pre-written code, you deploy it, congratulations. But now what, right?And I intended this challenge to be kind of a series of increasingly more difficult waves, if you will, or levels. I really had a whole gamification aspect to it. So, it would get harder, it would get bigger, more traffic, you know, all of those things, to really put people through what it would be like to receive your, “Post got slash-dotted today,” or those kinds of things where people don't get an opportunity to deal with large amounts of traffic, or variable payloads, that kind of stuff.Corey: I love the idea. Where is it?Levi: It is sitting in a bunch of repos, and I am afraid to deploy it. [laugh].Corey: What is it that scares you about it specifically?Levi: The thing that specifically scares me is encouraging early career developers to go out there, deploy this thing, start playing with it, and then incur a huge cloud bill.Corey: Because they failed to secure something or other reasons behind that?Levi: There are many ways that this could happen, yeah. You could accidentally push your access key, secret key up into a public repo. Now, you've got, you know, Bitcoin miners or Monero miners running in your environment. You forget to shut things off, right? That's a really common thing.I went through a SageMaker demo from AWS a couple years ago. Half the room of intelligent, skilled engineers forgot to shut off the SageMaker instances. And everybody ran out of the $25 of credit they had from the demo—Corey: In about ten minutes. Yeah.Levi: In about ten minutes, yeah. And we had to issue all kinds of requests for credits and back and forth. But granted, AWS was accommodating to all of those people, but it was still a lot of stress.Corey: But it was also slow. They're very slow on that, which is fair. Like, if someone's production environment is down, I can see why you care more about that than you do about someone with, “Ah, I did something wrong and lost money.” The counterpoint to that is that for early career folks, that money is everything. We remember earlier this year, that tragic story from the Robinhood customer who committed suicide after getting a notification that he was $730,000 in debt. Turns out it wasn't even accurate; he didn't owe anything when all was said and done.I can see a scenario in which that happens in the AWS world because of their lack of firm price controls on a free tier account. I don't know what the answer on this is. I'm even okay with a, “Cool you will—this is a special kind of account that we will turn you off at above certain levels.” Fine. Even if you hard cap at the 20 or 50 bucks, yeah, it's going to annoy some people, but no one is going to do something truly tragic over that. And I can't believe that Oracle Cloud of all companies is the best shining example of this because you have to affirmatively upgrade your account before they'll charge you a dime. It's the right answer.Levi: It is. And I don't know if you've ever looked at—well, I'm sure you'd have. You've probably looked at the solutions provided by AWS for monitoring costs in your accounts, preventing additional spend. Like, the automation to shut things down, right, it's oftentimes more engineering work to make it so that your systems will shut down automatically when you reach a certain billing threshold than the actual applications that are in place there.Corey: And I don't for the life of me understand why things are the way that they are. But here we go. It's a—[sigh] it just becomes this perpetual strange world. I wish things were better than they are, but they're not.Levi: It makes me terribly sad. I mean, I think AWS is an incredible product, I think the ecosystem is great, and the community is phenomenal; everyone is super supportive, and it makes me really sad to be hesitant to recommend people dive into it on their own dime.Corey: Yeah. And that is a—[sigh] I don't know how you fix that or square that circle. Because I don't want to wind up, I really do not want to wind up, I guess, having to give people all these caveats, and then someone posts about a big bill problem on the internet, and all the comments are, “Oh, you should have set up budgets on that.” Yeah, that's thing still a day behind. So okay, great, instead of having an enormous bill at the end of the month, you just have a really big one two days later.I don't think that's the right answer. I really don't. And I don't know how to fix this, but, you know, I'm not the one here who's a $1.7 trillion company, either, that can probably find a way to fix this. I assure you, the bulk of that money is not coming from a bunch of small accounts that forgot to turn something off or got exploited.Levi: I haven't done my 2021 taxes yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm not there either.Corey: The world in which we live.Levi: [laugh]. I would love this challenge. I would love to put it out there. If I could, on behalf of, you know, early career people who want to learn—if I could issue credits, if I could spin up sandboxes and say, like, “Here's an account, I know you're going to be safe. I have put in a $50 limit.” Right?Corey: Yeah.Levi: “You can't spend more than $50,” like, if I had that control or that power, I would do this in a heartbeat. I'm passionate about getting people these opportunities to play, you know, especially if it's fun, right? If we can make this thing enjoyable, if we can gamify it, we can play around, I think that'd be great. The experience, though, would be a significant amount of engineering on my side, and then a huge amount of outreach, and that to me makes me really sad.Corey: I would love to be able to do something like that myself with a, “Look, if you get a bill, they will waive it, or I will cover it.” But then you wind up with the whole problem of people not operating in good faith as well. Like, “All right, I'm going to mine a bunch of Bitcoin and claim someone else did it.” Or whatnot. And it's just… like, there are problems with doing this, and the whole structure doesn't lend itself to that working super well.Levi: Exactly. I often say, you know, I face a lot of people who want to talk about mining cryptocurrency in the cloud because I'm a cloud architect, right? That's a really common conversation I have with people. And I remind them, like, it's not economical unless you're not paying for it.Corey: Yeah, it's perfectly economical on someone else's account.Levi: Exactly.Corey: I don't know why people do things the way that they do, but here we are. So, re:Invent. What did you find that was interesting, promising there, promising but not there yet, et cetera? What was your takeaway from it? Since you had the good sense not to be there in person?Levi: [laugh]. To me, the biggest letdown was Amplify Studio.Corey: I thought it was just me. Thank you. I just assumed it was something I wasn't getting from the explanation that they gave. Because what I heard was, “You can drag and drop, basically, a front end web app together and then tie it together with APIs on the back end.” Which is exactly what I want, like Retool does; that's what I want only I want it to be native. I don't think it's that.Levi: Right. I want the experience I already have of operating the cloud, knowing the security posture, knowing the way that my users access it, knowing that it's backed by Amazon, and all of their progressively improving services, right? You say it all the time. Your service running on Amazon is better today than it was two years ago. It was better than it was five years ago. I want that experience. But I don't think Amplify Studio delivered.Corey: I wish it had. And maybe it will, in the fullness of time. Again, AWS services do not get worse as they age they get better.Levi: Some gets stale, though.Corey: Yeah. The worst case scenario is they sit there and don't ever improve.Levi: Right. I thought the releases from S3 in terms of, like, the intelligent tiering, were phenomenal. I would love to see everybody turn on intelligent tiering with instant access. Those things to me were showing me that they're thinking about the problem the right way. I think we're missing a story of, like, how do we go from where we're at today—you know, if I've got trillions of objects in storage, how do I transition into that new world where I get the tiering automatically? I'm sure we'll see blog posts about people telling us; that's what the community is great for.Corey: Yeah, they explain these things in a way that the official docs for some reason fail to.Levi: Right. And why don't—Corey: Then again, it's also—I think—I think it's because the people that are building these things are too close to the thing themselves. They don't know what it's like to look at it through fresh eyes.Levi: Exactly. They're often starting from a blank slate, or from a greenfield perspective. There's not enough thought—or maybe there's a lot of thought to it, but there's not enough communication coming out of Amazon, like, here's how you transition. We saw that with Control Tower, we saw that with some of the releases around API Gateway. There's no story for transitioning from existing services to these new offerings. And I would love to see—and maybe Amazon needs a re:Invent Echo, where it's like, okay, here's all the new releases from re:Invent and here's how you apply them to existing infrastructure, existing environments.Corey: So, what's next for you? What are you looking at that's exciting and fun, and something that you want to spend your time chasing?Levi: I spend a lot of my time following AWS releases, looking at the new things coming out. I spend a lot of energy thinking about how do we bring new engineers into the space. I've worked with a lot of operations teams—those people who run playbooks, they hop on machines, they do the old sysadmin work, right—I want to bring those people into the modern world of cloud. I want them to have the skills, the empowerment to know what's available in terms of services and in terms of capabilities, and then start to ask, “Why are we not doing it that way?” Or start looking at making plans for how do we get there.Corey: Levi, I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me. If people want to learn more. Where can they find you?Levi: I'm on Twitter. My Twitter handle is @levi_mccormick. Reach out, I'm always willing to help people. I mentor people, I guide people, so if you reach out, I will respond. That's a passion of mine, and I truly love it.Corey: And we'll of course, include a link to that in the [show notes 00:32:28]. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time. I appreciate it.Levi: Thanks, Corey. It's been awesome.Corey: Levi McCormick, cloud architect at Jamf. 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 a comment telling me that service ownership is overrated because you are the storage person, and by God, you will die as that storage person, potentially in poverty.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.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Although you may think of Intel as just a CPU company, the truth is that they have made major investments into cloud computing and have many technologies that you can take advantage of via the cloud. As more and more data center workloads shift to cloud-based solutions, Intel continues to play a significant role in that industry. Shelby Skrhak speaks with Peter Tea, Data Center Platform Specialist, and Christopher Creech, Sr. Technical Account Manager, both of Intel, about: What Intel is doing with data centers today How Intel is data center agnostic for cloud, on-prem and hybrid The strategy of Intel's cloud architecture How Intel is uniquely suited for the data center market  For more information, contact Christopher (christopher.creech@ingrammicro.com) or visit Intel Cloud Computing. To join the discussion, follow us on Twitter @IngramTechSol #B2BTechTalk Listen to this episode and more like it by subscribing to B2B Tech Talk on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. Or, tune in on our website.

Cloud architecture is more art than science. Building a solid architecture takes a broad understanding of both IT in general and cloud specifically, and it also takes lots of up-front work. In this podcast, David Linthicum shares four key tips for building a sound cloud architecture: Focus on the business value, build in security and governance from the get go, have a solid plan for ops and tech, and test as you go to ensure the final product meets your needs from day one.

Third Friday in this month means - It's Podcast time!In episode 23 we have two masterminds combined. Steve Smith and Mirano Galijasevic are discussing a hot topic: ‘Cloud Architecture and Microservices Design Patterns'.The benefits of Microservices architecture are obvious to everybody, but properly designing solutions around this architecture is quite challenging and involved. There are many patterns that can be used to achieve this, but when and how to use each one of them requires a high level of knowledge and experience from the architects who are tasked with implementing it.”Steve Smith (ardalis.com) is an experienced software architect, entrepreneur, and trainer. He is co-founder of NimblePros, a small consulting firm focused on helping software teams deliver better software, faster. Steve has published numerous books and Pluralsight courses on software architecture and development. Mirano Galijasevic is a Head of R&D at Authority Partners. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and he is one of the most knowledgeable guys that we know. Mirano firmly believes in working on real-life projects and learning by doing. Even after having 25+ years of experience, he still firmly believes that there is so much more that we can improve when it comes to the technology, we use every day to build solutions for our clients.

Cloud adoption is often driven by modernization efforts, but the increased investment usually represents a broader approach to digital transformation because, in reality, the public cloud is not always the best option. And once organizations undergo modernization efforts, they often find the increasing complexity creates new challenges. As more companies have gained confidence in the benefits of cloud computing (scalability, operational velocity, elasticity), they have learned new tricks of the trade, including: avoiding vendor lock-in; ensuring resource management and capacity planning; and blending legacy applications and infrastructure. Register for this episode of DMRadio to learn how today's innovators are tackling the challenges of heterogeneous infrastructure and solving for the complexity of hybrid cloud. Host @eric_kavanagh will interview Kris Beevers of NS1 and AB Periasamy of MinIO.

Jonathan Seelig (@j_seelig, Co-Founder/CEO of Ridge) talks about building the distributed cloud, remotely managing cloud resources, and the evolution of the edge. SHOW: 557CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsSHOW NOTES:Ridge - Distributed Cloud ComputingWhat is Cloud Gaming? The Future is NowTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to trying to create a new vision of “the cloud”. Topic 2 - What types of problems exist with the current (mostly centralized) cloud architectures today? Or where are there new opportunities to rethink and introduce a new architecture?Topic 3 - Let's talk about the main concepts behind the Ridge architecture. How much does it borrow from your experience at Akamai, and how much of it is your team looking at the world differently?Topic 4 - What are the core primitives of Ridge? How do companies engage with it? Topic 5 - What are some of the near-term and long-term impacts that you expect companies would see in using the Ridge architecture vs. more centralized cloud architectures? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Originally aired in 2019. Join Brian this week as he reviews White Russian Nitro from Left Hand Brewing Company, Bloom IPA from Parish Brewing Company, and Cloud Architecture from Trimtab Brewing Company. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brewswithbrian/support

Michelle Dennedy sits down with Greg Lavender, Chief Technology Officer at VMware and former CTO for Cloud Architecture and Technology Engineering at Citigroup to continue the conversation about digital innovation’s role in advancing the ESG Economy. 

Kicking off the first edition of 'Tech Leaders Hiring Well", Zac Colip, VP - Tech Practice at Hirewell welcomes Rich Kopeikin, Director of Cloud Architecture at Prime TSR, a cloud enterprise solution consulting firm. We get the inside scoop on how Rich and Prime TSR identify candidates that will be successful in consultant roles, how evaluating talent for the newest technologies always comes back to fundamentals, and the explosive growth happening at Prime TSR right now. This is a fun episode and gives great insight into one of the most successful tech consultant companies and how they hire. Enjoy!   Connect with Zac Colip and Richard Kopeikin: Zac Colip: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaccolip/ Richard Kopeinkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-kopeikin/  

AI, Everything as a service, Hyper Converged Infrastructure, The Edge (not that one), Containers, the Internet of Things, Apple, PC, VPNs, Virtual reality, Augmented Reality, Self-Driving Cars, Networks, WiFi, 4G, 5G, Quantum Computing, Chess Computers, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Supercomputers, Smart Cities, Hyper Automation, Extended Reality, Enhanced Connectivity, Net Neutrality, Big Data, Data Mining, Voice Recognition, Robotics, Smart Industry 4.0, Blockchain, On-Prem, Off-Prem, Chatbots, Augmented Reality, The Cloud, and all in a pandemic? Technology Untangled is back for a second series.

On this episode, we discussed how the Life On A Mission Podcast came to existence, we discussed who we are and our professions/careers in the technology field (Cyber Security and Cloud Architecture), the power of having a strong mindset for success, self-worth and why it is critical to personal growth, why you need to be on a mission and a few pathways in which you can align with it, the importance of passive income and some strategies the can be used, how using the Digital Age/Information Age/Social Media effectively in the 21st Century can benefit you tremendously and much more. For more information and to learn more about us you can follow us on social media. Follow us on Instagram @loampod Steph: Instagram @misterbottles and Twitter @DaSheeplesChamp Fonz: Instagram @fonz_onamission27 and Twitter @onamission_27

What a year! It’s around this time of year when I would be heading to Dreamforce (Salesforce’s biggest event of the year) to meet up with students and present some ... The post The Salesforce Learning Week! first appeared on Cloud Architecture.

In this podcast, Tara Griffin, Director of Strategic Solution Sales at Genesys describes the flexibility multi-cloud architecture brings to businesses, allowing them to tailor their infrastructure, deployment and management models to fit their business. 

A multi-hybrid cloud architecture allows organizations to take advantage of the benefits of both private and public clouds, optimizing resources and cost efficiency. This model has five main advantages: agility, flexibility, predictive performance, security and compliance, and efficiency. Blog: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/government/podcasts/embracing-digital-transformation-episode3.html Video: https://youtu.be/XjL9Rn81EcE

This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what's working and what's breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week's episode, we cover a widespread T-Mobile outage that took down its cellular network for several hours and elicited a rare condemnation from the FCC. The culprit, according to the carrier, was a fiber cut—highlighting the need for redundancy and resiliency in the nation's cellular networks. We also cover an issue with What's App's privacy settings that sent users scrambling to Twitter, as well as a recent move by Russia to “un-ban” the messenger app, Telegram. Then, stay tuned as we go one-on-one with Jason Black, the Head of Global Network Infrastructure at Uber Technologies, to discuss how Uber approaches its cloud architecture.

The Salesforce platforms are huge and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the changes. These Salesforce capability maps are based on my own experience but if you find any gaps please let me know!! I’d love to make them as complete as I can. Updates: 10/Jun/2020 – Thanks to Bonny Hinners & Mark ... The post The Salesforce Capability Map first appeared on Cloud Architecture.

Introducing Technology Untangled, a new fortnightly show coming soon to this feed.

Martin cut his teeth as an early AWS pioneer leading two of the largest migrations in the world in the early naughties. He now has 15 years’ experience in Digital Strategy, Cloud Architecture and Digital Operating models and has provided best practice cloud usage, DevOps/Agile operating models and technical leadership to some of the world’s largest companies. I hope you enjoy the show and if you have any comments or suggestions please write to me at: tc@wickedproblems.fm. Enjoy, Toby

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Mahendra Sundarraj, IT architect at SunPower, a manufacturer of high efficiency solar panels, discusses the strategies used to handle huge volumes of data with Janice Abel, Principal analyst from ARC Advisory Group. The podcast covers the entire data architecture is based on a hybrid cloud architecture that uses multiple terabytes of data to handle the huge volume of data and their data growth from their production systems, and how they catalog the data for a common understanding, how they scale the data and simplify the data from production to the data consumer. and various types of data, and how they handle huge volumes of data, catalog data for a common understanding, scale the data and simplify data from production to the consumer.

Your co-hosts move from the atmosphere to DigitalOcean as they recap the week in Cloud on this episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week's sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today's IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data —  no matter its source — with the world's leading monitoring and analytics platforms.  This week's highlights Microsoft releases an ambitious plan to erase its carbon footprint. Amazon slashed prices for two services. Google Cloud fights for market share as connections change with Epic and Sabre. Justin's Adventures in Oracle Cloud Revisited On Episode 54 we featured an investigative segment where Justin sought answers as to whether non-boot volume cross-region backups were available yet. And while that sleuthing was still an informative experience, Max Verun, a Product Manager at Oracle, has reached out to let us know that those answers were also in paragraph two of the

David Rice and Tom Bruce are founders of Snap Analytics, an innovative data consultancy start up. They bring data, technology and teams together to help solve business problems. In this podcast we discuss many things including; Cloud data warehousing, Agile modelling, Automation, Openness and connectivity to other vendors. We also touch on Foundations for AI Data quality, Structured data, Central source of truth for data scientists to build on top of, Integrating results from data science back into the structured data model for wide consumption across the business.

  This week we're coming to you from Microsoft Ignite in Orlando Florida. Scott Sale joins us to talk about Cloud Migration at a Fortune 100 Company. Scott is Director of Cloud Architecture at Humana, where he's Leading Cloud Platform Architecture for Azure, AWS & GCP. * Opinions are his own and not necessarily those of his employer.   Thanks for listening to our podcast! We recorded it at Microsoft Ignite, and Microsoft is giving away Microsoft Surface Earbuds to our listeners. To enter, visit https://aka.ms/PodcastSweepstakes before December 15, 2019.   Links https://twitter.com/The_Scott_Sale https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottsale/   Resources edX Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure - docs Microsoft Ignite   Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by Datadog, a cloud-scale monitoring service that provides comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Datadog unifies your metrics, logs, and distributed traces in one platform, so you can investigate and troubleshoot issues across every layer of your stack. Enable successful cloud migrations and digital transformations with Datadog by getting full visibility into both legacy systems and cloud applications. Start a free trial today, and Datadog will send you a free t-shirt! Visit datadoghq.com/6figure for more details.   "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

While the shift to hybrid cloud presents opportunities for how businesses access and utilize their data, there are still hurdles preventing companies from fully embracing hybrid cloud. In this episode, we’ll explore how standardization and security are necessary to enable data to be more accessible and more normalized across IT environments. This episode’s guests include Robert Christiansen, Scott Yow, Daniel Newman, Jo Petersen, Anurag Agrawal, Dana Gardner and Tim Crawford.

In this episode we answer listener questions about Azure, Terraform, deploying apps across multiple clouds, and more, with my guest Nick Colyer, Chief Architect at Ahead and Co-Founder of Skylines Academy.

Dan and Abi continue to look at the technology that will shape our future and where you can invest time to stay afloat in that brave new world. From lego to data science taking in generative art and our usual dig at Netflix - film genre's really do need to be redesigned. How smart is smart?

In this episode, David Linthicum speaks with Gordon Davey about the operations that go on behind the scenes of Cloud Architecture and management. Voices in Cloud – Episode 6: A Conversation with Gordon Davey of Willis Towers Watson

In this episode, David Linthicum speaks with Gordon Davey about the operations that go on behind the scenes of Cloud Architecture and management. Voices in Cloud – Episode 6: A Conversation with Gordon Davey of Willis Towers Watson

In this episode, David Linthicum speaks with Gordon Davey about the operations that go on behind the scenes of Cloud Architecture and management. Voices in Cloud – Episode 6: A Conversation with Gordon Davey of Willis Towers Watson

In this episode, David Linthicum speaks with Gordon Davey about the operations that go on behind the scenes of Cloud Architecture and management. Voices in Cloud – Episode 6: A Conversation with Gordon Davey of Willis Towers Watson

Recorded live from the NAB Show floor! Konstantin Wilms, SVP of Cloud Architecture for Deluxe sits down with host Lori H. Schwartz to delve into cloud technologies in our final onsite conversation of 2019.

Join Jason Henderson, Kyle Hoyer and Allen Saslaw as they welcome guests Bill Church and Michael Coleman from F5 to discuss their collaboration with Microsoft to create the Secure Azure Cloud Infrastructure, an enterprise grade production ready BIG-IP VE Cluster that is deployable in just ten minutes on Azure. SACA on github: https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-azure-saca  

In this episode, Wayne Eckerson asks Steve Dine about the approach needed to migrate to the Cloud and architecture required to run analytics in the Cloud. Steve Dine talks extensively about the pitfalls to avoid during Cloud migration and finishes off by saying that even though security is a big issue, most organizations will have part of their architecture in the Cloud during the next two-three years. Steve Dine is a BI and enterprise data consultant and industry thought leader who has extensive experience in designing, delivering and managing highly scalable and maintainable modern data architecture solutions.

Application modernization projects with AWS start with creating an AWS Landing Zone. Based on AWS best practices, AWS Landing Zones help ensure a secure, performant, highly available, and cost-efficient AWS environment. Common hybrid cloud use cases, such as cloud migration, data center extension, disaster recovery, cloud bursting, and edge computing, require data integration, operations management and monitoring, security, and networking as the foundational components of a hybrid cloud architecture. In this session, we dive deep on the networking, security, account management structure, operating management, and monitoring best practices to build your own AWS Landing Zone that can be extended into your data center. AWS partner, GreenPages, demonstrates a repeatable hybrid cloud architecture to secure, manage, and integrate your network across on-premises and multiple AWS regions using an AWS Landing Zone. AWS customer, Finch Therapeutics, then discusses how the company utilized the GreenPages hybrid cloud reference implementation to deploy, secure, and manage its hybrid cloud environment.

In this episode Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, talks to Ben Chartrand a Platform Development lead at Timely about Azure Functions v2, Cloudflare Workers and his favourite Cloud architecture patterns for economy and scale. Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner Hub Download the Cloud Practice Playbooks Azure Functions Cloudflare workers Download the Cloud Application Architecture Guide Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. This episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen is an employee of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are his own and not an official company statement.

Additional resources referenced in the episode: Landing Page for Data Warehousing: http://bit.ly/2RqxIxQ SAP SQL Data Warehouse Trial: http://bit.ly/2PEkj80 HANA Academy Data Warehousing Foundation YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/2P44mbY HANA Academy Big Data Warehousing YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/2P6xQpi

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Suyash Sinha, CEO of Midfin Systems, joins us to talk about software-defined multi-data center clouds on Intel infrastructure. Suyash explains that Midfin Systems’ intelligent software, eFabric, combines network virtualization with compute and storage virtualization to provide a fully […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Suyash Sinha, CEO of Midfin Systems, joins us to talk about software-defined multi-data center clouds on Intel infrastructure. Suyash explains that Midfin Systems’ intelligent software, eFabric, combines network virtualization with compute and storage virtualization to provide a fully […]

In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Suyash Sinha, CEO of Midfin Systems, joins us to talk about software-defined multi-data center clouds on Intel infrastructure. Suyash explains that Midfin System's intelligent software, eFabric*, combines network virtualization with compute and storage virtualization to provide a fully software-defined data center. He also discusses INFRASTRUCTURE 3.0, which encompasses four main focus points – plug-and-play open hardware, a distributed control plane, a micros-segmented data plane, and cloud connection. To learn more about Midfin and their collaboration with Intel go to http://www.midfinsystems.com/main/ or follow Midfin on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MidfinSystems.

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Ishai Tal, Head of Platform and Cloud Architecture at Carestream, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss hyper-converged cloud solutions for healthcare using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct on Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Ishai talks about the drive for a new era […]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Ishai Tal, Head of Platform and Cloud Architecture at Carestream, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss hyper-converged cloud solutions for healthcare using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct on Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Ishai talks about the drive for a new era […]

Ishai Tal, Head of Platform and Cloud Architecture at Carestream, joins us on this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss hyper-converged cloud solutions for healthcare using Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Ishai talks about the drive for a new era of healthcare and cloud solutions and why Caretsream is moving to the cloud for medical imaging. Ishai and Jake also discuss the pilots that Carestream completed utilizing Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 processors and Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) to render high resolution images on the server side rather than the client side, to accommodate a cloud-based model. To learn more about this trial and the work that Carestream is doing in medical imaging, go to http://intel.ly/2GCsXfi, or follow Carestream on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Carestream.

In this episode of the podcast, Chris Knotts is joined by The Tek’s Joe Costa and Joe Gross, and they discuss practical ways to keep your cloud architecture secure.

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Ishai Tal, Head of Platform and Cloud Architecture at Carestream Health, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss next generation medical imaging data and analytics over the cloud, using NVMe technologies. Intel Solid State Drive Data Center Family for NVM Express […]

Ishai Tal, Head of Platform and Cloud Architecture at Carestream Health, joins us in this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss next generation medical imaging data and analytics over the cloud, using NVMe technologies. Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Family for NVM Express* is utilized to power the Carestream Vue Clinical Collaboration Platform which can be deployed onsite or via cloud services. Ishai talks about the benefits of using Intel technology for medical imaging, including improved productivity, reduced operations costs, better data growth management, and the ability to prepare for a new era of medical imaging data analytics. To find out more go to storagebuilders.intel.com/membership/carestream, or follow Carestream at carestream.com/collaboration and Twitter at twitter.com/Carestream.

Throughout 2016, the community around the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration tool has continued to grow at a pace that surprised many. “Probably the biggest defining moment for the Kubernetes community right now is that other communities are communities of vendors more so than Kubernetes. I think Kubernetes is more a community of developers, operators, and users than it is of vendors. It's up to us as users and developers in that community to continue to keep that feeling,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies Jonathan Donaldson said on the 114th edition of the The New Stack Analysts podcast, a special “Pancake Breakfast Podcast” recorded during the CoreOS Tectonic Summit, held in New York this week. Donaldson was joined by SAP Director of Cloud Architecture & Engineering Nishi Davidson, CoreOS Vice President of Engineering Mike Saparov, and Tigera CEO Andy Randall. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT9p17y5Fcw Learn more at: http://thenewstack.io/tectonic-summit-pancake-breakfast/

Ken and his companies began developing software applications in 1980 before the PC as we know it existed. Getting involved in the Internet very early on (1994), Ken developed the 1st Internet site for MLS data in 1995 and begin local marketing in 1995 as well (long before the market was ready for it). Kens & his companies have developed a number of high end applications. These include very high end mapping and database solutions reviewed by the FBI and Homeland Security, presentations at Nation Association of REALTORS technology and conventions events and participating as 1 of 50 Microsoft Partners from around the world in New York City for the rollout of his mobile running on the Pocket PC. His was one of the very first high end mobile apps running at that time. Most recently Ken has been involved in Online Marketing, starting with developing a very high-end Cloud Architecture for a large database and video platform and progressing to his current endeavors Impact Marketing Group and Publisher of the Impact Magazine along with Ken McArthur. http://www.theimpactmagazine.org Seth Greene is a 6 Time Best Selling Author, Nationally Recognized Direct Response Marketing Expert, and the only back to back to back GKIC Dan Kennedy Marketer of the Year Nominee. To Get a FREE Copy of Seth’s new book Podcast Marketing Magic, and access to a Live Podcast Marketing Training Conference Call go to http://www.UltimateMarketingMagician.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Graham Smith joins us to talk about the PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture, the future of PeopleSoft and how the PeopleSoft Administrator role is changing. Show Notes SQL Server/Windows @ 3:00 Reaction to Changes in PeopleSoft @ 8:00 PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture @ 12:00 Why the PCA? @ 30:30 Graham's Predictions about PeopleSoft @ 35:00 How the PS Admin role is changing @ 43:30

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Some things are just better explained on a whiteboard. According to Windows Azure guru Cory Fowler, the Cloud is one of those things. Watch as he demystifies Windows Azure using nothing other than a whiteboard.Watch the news from this episode >>D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE     Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTIVE (D³) is a monthly show hosted by Jonathan Rozenblit. The show airs live every first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 PM ET and features the latest updates on what's new and exciting in the world of development; featured presentations; and guests. LIVE and INTERACTIVE means that you'll be part of the show – You're invited to interact with us; ask questions and get them answered; and share your thoughts and opinions. Join the Canadian Developer Connection LinkedIn group   Follow @devsdevdevs Like D³ on Facebook Subscribe to podcasts via iTunes, Zune, or RSS Download the Canadian Developer Connection Windows Phone appMore D³: LIVE & INTERACTIVE >>

ZDNet's All About Microsoft blog editor and frequent commentator on all things Microsoft, Mary Jo Foley, gives an industry take on the Developer Opportunity made possible with the recent announcements for Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, and Visual Studio 2012. Plus: Mary Jo answers questions from the live chat and discussion on the Canadian Developer Connection LinkedIn group.Watch the start of this conversation with Richard Campbell >>Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has been a tech journalist for more than 25 years. She has worked for a variety of tech publications and Web sites, including PCWeek/eWeek, CRN and ZDNet. She is the editor of the "All About Microsoft" blog on ZDNet, and the author of the book "Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era" (John Wiley & Sons). She also is the co-host of the Windows Weekly show on the TWiT network and a frequent commentator and speaker on all things Microsoft-related on TV, radio, podcasts and at industry events.D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE     Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTIVE (D³) is a monthly show hosted by Jonathan Rozenblit. The show airs live every first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 PM ET and features the latest updates on what's new and exciting in the world of development; featured presentations; and guests. LIVE and INTERACTIVE means that you'll be part of the show – You're invited to interact with us; ask questions and get them answered; and share your thoughts and opinions. Join the Canadian Developer Connection LinkedIn group   Follow @devsdevdevs Like D³ on Facebook Subscribe to podcasts via iTunes, Zune, or RSS Download the Canadian Developer Connection Windows Phone appMore D³: LIVE & INTERACTIVE >>

Arne Josefsberg, CTO at ServiceNow, has an exciting background in the cloud and online computing industry including working on MSN 1.0, building all of Microsoft's global data centers and networks, and running development organizations for Windows Azure. Now he's driving the next generation cloud architecture for ServiceNow. In this podcast episode, Arne focuses on two topics: 1. The unique cloud architecture behind ServiceNow. 2. The emerging role of the ServiceNow platform as a PaaS for advanced application development. Listen now to learn how ServiceNow uses a multi-instance SaaS model to isolate individual customer data sets. This architecture sets up support for advanced high availability which includes multiple levels of redundancy, data replication, data restore points, rapid failover and more. It also delivers enterprise class performance, scale, reliability and security. This is one you don't want to miss!