The Cloudcast

Cloud & AI News of the Month - January 2025

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2025 including the new DeepSeek model that is sha...

Shut up and write code!

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It feels like we’ve gone the last 15+ years of tech without really having to directly involve politics in the discussion. But that seems to be comin...

Modernizing Video Production with AI

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Huckaby (@TimHuckaby, CTO at Lucihub) talks about building modern AI applications to generate business video, the human vs AI interactions, and th...

Big Announcements or BIG Announcements?

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At a time when many AI and Cloud announcements are happening, how can we determine which ones are important, disruptive, or just me-too? SHOW: 892SHO...

SaaS Pricing & Startup Monetization

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

James D. Wilton (@jamesdwilton, Managing Director, @Monevat) talks about pricing strategies for SaaS products and organizations as well as his new boo...

What would an AI-First CIO do?

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the 2010s, many CIOs adopted a Cloud-First strategy for building their digital services and skills. So how would a CIO build an AI-First strategy i...

The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian and Michael Cote (@cote, Co-Host @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about the ethics of using AI at for internal and external facing work.SHOW: 889SHOW ...

Does your CEO know what your group does?

12 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Does your boss’ boss know what your group does? How far up the org chart is it before your group is unknown? Let’s look at ways that your group ca...

Career Advice in 2025

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we start in 2025, we wanted to offer advice on job searching and evaluating roles. The market and the interviewing process have shifted; what do yo...

The Cloudcast #886 - Reflections, Resolutions and Beginning 2025

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a new year is upon us, let's make a checklist of the most important areas to focus upon to make Q1 successful and set up the rest of 2025 for ...

Auth in the Age of AI Agents

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jake Moshenko (@jacobmoshenko, CEO of @AuthZed) talks about the challenges of securing AI interactions, as well as authentication best-practices for A...

2024 Year-End Review and 2025 Predictions

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.SHOW: 884SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Clou...

Evaluating Market Changing Trends

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If AI is going to be the next big trend in tech and impact every aspect of society, how do you go about trying to evaluate where it is today and where...

2024 Year End Mailbag

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of the year… Aaron and Brian answer emails and questions for the second half of the year.SHOW: 882SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #8...

Does the AI startup ecosystem need Yacht Rock infrastructure?

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 70s and early 80s, a music revolution started because a bunch of talented musicians played on 100s of albums, behind the scenes. Would the...

Reacting to the AWS re:Invent Keynote

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 2024 AWS re:Invent happened, with a new CEO, and an appearance by a previous CEO. What were the big announcements, trends and stories coming out o...

Reviewing "AI Eats the World"

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How are the largest VCs viewing the early stages of the AI Era, from the perspective of investment, technology moats, economics, early adoption and fu...

Cloud News of the Month - November 2024

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2024 including the breaking news of Pat Gelsinge...

The Pros and Cons of Living in Silicon Valley during the AI Boom

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the AI era emerges, the debate about the best place to live to take advantage of it for your career has started up again. Is Silicon Valley still t...

Using GenAI for DevSecOps

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Manoske (@a2d2, VP Products @Kindo)  talks about the intersection of GenAI and DevSecOps, the WhiteRabbitNeo model, and learning adversary beh...

Searching for the Netflix of the AI Era

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the Cloud Era, Netflix was held up as the lighthouse for what was possible with cloud. So who is the Netflix of the AI era, and are we learning eno...

Building AI Models for IT Operations

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sunil Mallya (@sunilmallya, Co-Founder & CTO @_FlipAI) talks about building AI models to help IT Operations teams simplify troubleshooting, incide...

Times of Uncertainty lead to eras of Creativity

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not a reach to say that we’re currently in a time of uncertainty, across technology, economic and political spectrums. But historically, time...

Multi-Cloud Network Observability

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rosalind Whitley (Dir. Product @Kentikinc) and Ethan Smith (Staff SRE @ An Enterprise Security Company) talk about network observability, the evolutio...

13 Tech Communication Tips after the Election

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While there will be plenty of evaluation of how the 2024 US elections played out, we take a look at 13 tips that we can learn from the campaigns that ...

Cloud News of the Month - October 2024

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.SHOW: 870SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cl...

Improving Developer Productivity with AI Coding Assistants

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Keri Olson (@ksolson20, VP AI for Code at @IBM) talks about coding assistants across the software development lifecycle, the future of agents, and dom...

The Most Audacious Sales Pitch Ever

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When you’re asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So let’s just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 y...

A Modern Approach to App Modernization

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Edward Hieatt (@edwardhieatt, Chief Customer Officer @mech_orchard) talks about the challenges of app modernization, leveraging AI, and the process to...

More Keynote Presentation Tips

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After several months of travel and giving keynote at multiple events, Brian gives some new tips for building keynotes, capturing audience attention, m...

Data Lakehouses & Apache Iceberg

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.SHO...

Will the real AI breakthrough come from Big AI?

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are we sure that the next big thing in AI is going to come from OpenAI, or even one of the big cloud providers with $Billions to spend? History tells ...

Influence Marketing in Emerging Tech

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical produ...

5 AI Trends to Keep an Eye on

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024. SHOW: 862SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast ...

Cloud News of the Month - September 2024

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.SHOW: 861SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #8...

Tech Heroes and Imposters

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do we put too much emphasis on the leaders of the tech industry and not enough on the millions that support it? SHOW: 860SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudca...

Modern Identity Verification and Threat Detection

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.SHOW: 859Want to go to All Things Ope...

Will Amazon's new RTO policy reshape tech?

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This past week, Amazon announced a new RTO policy that required 5 days a week in the office. What types of impacts could this have on tech workers and...

AI for the Legal industry

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO @ Eve) talks about bringing AI to the legal vertical and the intersection of AI/ML of increased efficiency for lega...

Understanding the Global differences around Enterprise Cloud

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back from some recent travel, we look at why it’s important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how glob...

Cloud News of the Month - August 2024

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.SHOW: 855SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Clou...

Unstable Pillars for the Next Generation?

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The future of search advertising, the future of chips, the future of open source, AI monetization and government regulation of tech are all uncertain....

Understanding the Gartner perspective on Cloud (and more)

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform en...

Slow Data, Fast Data and Adapting AI models for your business

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With so much rapid change happening around AI models, is there a framework for when to build models, train models, fine-tune models, use RAG or someth...

How DevOps is helping to rethink the need for VPNs with Modern Security

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emrul Islam (Head of Platform Innovation @TwingateHQ) talks about the evolution of remote access, application security, and enabling DevOps teams to d...

From Kingmakers to co-pilots, what's the future for developers?

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is the market shifting from evaluating software as an economic driver to re-evaluating the cost of software in the context of how AI can improve, augm...

The Scale of Cloud Networking

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vinay Tripathi (Senior Member of IEEE,  Production Network Engineer @Google) talks about the evolution of backbone networks for the Cloud and Interne...

Reflections on the Cloud Evolution - with a special guest

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The summer lull has us reflecting on how the evolution of cloud computing has shaped the existing era that’s trying to figure out AI. With a special...

Data Center Buildouts for AI

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Jarnagin (Founder/CEO of Caddis Cloud Solutions (Caddis Cloud Solutions)) talks about the challenges of building modern data centers to handle t...

5 Storylines that will shape Cloud and AI in 2H 2024

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

They may not be major stories, but these 5 headlines will play an important role in how AI and the Cloud evolve in the 2H of 2024. SHOW: 846SHOW TRAN...

Cloud News of the Month - July 2024

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Aaron Delp (@aarondelp)  and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2024.SHOW: 845...

Technology and Politics Collide

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For many years, Silicon Valley was considered to be somewhat apolitical. But the last decade has changed the relationship with governments. What’s c...

The Evolution of Data Platforms

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Denworth, (@JeffDenworth, Co-Founder of @VAST_Data) talks about building data platforms for new AI application demands. SHOW: 843SHOW TRANSCRIPT:...

Forgetting the Fundamentals of High Availability

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If this past week’s Crowdstrike outage taught us anything, it’s that we seem to have forgotten the basics of how to run highly available environme...

Enabling Voice AI in Applications

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Stephenson (@deepgramscott, CEO of @deepgram) talks about building Voice AI into your applications.SHOW: 841SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #841 ...

Overcoming the Hurdles of Deploying Platforms

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Modern applications require modern platforms and team collaboration to deliver velocity, stability and security. So how do we overcome the hurdles to ...

The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 has been evolving very quickly for Cloud and AI. So as we get to the mid-year point, we stop and answer many of your mailbag questions. SHOW: 83...

Is there a Market for Private Cloud AI?

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the GenAI era took off, most of the discussion has been about AI in the public cloud. But is there a market for AI in the Private Cloud as well?...

Scaling Apple Apps with MacStadium

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Chapman (CTO at @MacStadium) talks about Mac-centric backend development, DevOps tools chains, and the best ways to take advantage of MacStadium...

The Challenges of Maintaining Freedoms

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In technology, we’re afforded many freedoms that enable us to work, live and play in new ways. But it’s important to reflect on technology freedom...

Cloud News of the Month - June 2024

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss stories in Cloud and AI from June 2024, and then get into spirited discussions abou...

Identifying Successful Open Source Projects

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As open source companies and projects enter a transition phase of funding, licensing, community participation, let’s look at the characteristics of ...

WASM, Developer Experiences and Kubernetes

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Butcher (@technosophos, CEO at @FermyonTech) talks about the evolution of WASM, the relationship with Kubernetes, and managing Developer Experien...

DevSecFinPlatMLOps

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we look at the continued expansion of the CNCF Landscape and the end of Cloud 1.0 era, are there any trends or patterns that identify which technol...

Zapier + AI integration

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Reid Robinson (@Reidoutloud_, Lead AI Product Manager @Zapier)  talks about automation, application integrations and how to integrate AI in projects ...

How Today's AI is like the Early 2020s

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s explore how today’s early AI era is like the unicorn-filled, heavily VC-funded early 2020s. (Part 3 of 3)SHOW: 830SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloud...

Modern Approaches to Continuous Integration

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Solomon Hykes (@solomonstre, Co-Founder @Dagger_io) talks about the evolution of the container industry, fixing broken CI/CD systems, and modern DevOp...

How Today's AI is like the Early 2010s

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The introduction of cloud computing brought about a significant change on how we use technology with our businesses. Let’s look at the historical pa...

Cloud News of the Month - May 2024

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, from @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from May 2024...

How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s put today’s AI era into some historic context by looking at the similarities and parallels to the explosion of the 1st wave of the consumer ...

Understanding and Advising CIOs

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Crawford (@tcrawford, CIO Advisor at @AVOAcom) talks about the challenges of the modern CIO, managing stability vs. innovation, and understanding ...

Is Everyone's AI Strategy in Chaos?

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When you see the headline “<ex-employee> says <company> AI strategy is in chaos”, what does it really mean? Is any company’s AI stra...

Using AI to Build Tech Communities

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jonas Rosland (@jonasrosland, Head of Open Source Community @CIQ) talks about using AI tools to accelerate building and communications in Open Source ...

Lessons Learned from AWS Leadership Transition

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After just three years, AWS is making another change at the top of the leadership org-chart. What lessons can we learn from leadership transitions and...

AI Safety and Regulation

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Collier (@sparkycollier, COO @openInfradev) talks about the advantages of open source AI and the intersection of OSS and AI transparency, safety,...

Bringing Open Source to AI

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Mothers Day! And let’s explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI. SHOW: 820SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #820SHO...

Front-End Clouds and Web Development

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Malte Ubl (@cramforce, CTO @Vercel) talks about Front-End web development and clouds, how AI impacts front-end infrastructure, and impacts to the busi...

Identifying Leadership Traits to Follow

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are the key characteristics and red flags with today’s leaders in the tech industry? How to identify the leadership skills, the team building s...

Cloud News of the Month - April 2024

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024SHOW: 817TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CN...

Open Source and Business…sigh

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep...

Sizing AI Workloads

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more.SHOW...

The Maintenance Episode

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated...

Synthetic Data for AI

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI.SHOW: 813CLOUD NE...

The Fear and Excitement of Learning in a new era

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the AI Era upon us, the challenge of trying to learn and make sense of the technologies, the business opportunities and the pitfalls is both exci...

Building Media and Streaming Platforms

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Winett (President/Co-founder @TrackItCloud) talks about platforms for entertainment and media. Topics include use cases, partnering with AWS, and...

Will Enterprise AI adoption patterns follow Enterprise Cloud adoption?

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What will be the adoption patterns for AI within the Enterprise? Will it follow the early days of Cloud Computing, or will new and different patterns ...

Cloud News of the Month - March 2024

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024.SHOW: 809SHOW TRANSCRIPT: https:/...

The $69B bet against replacement

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023. SHOW: 808CLOUD N...

LLM Security and Privacy

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Falconer (@seanfalconer, Head of Dev Relations @SkyflowAPI, Host @software_daily) talks about security and privacy of LLMs and how to prevent PII...

Cloud Fundamentals needed for AI

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re planning to deploy AI for your business, here’s 5 important capabilities your business needs from the cloud era in order to be successfu...

Building an AI Product Company

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Krish Ramineni (@krishramineni, CEO/Founder of @Firefliesai) talks about what it is like to build an AI product company in both the pre-LLM era as wel...

What if the CNCF was private equity?

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For years, the CNCF has been the central governance body for cloud-native projects. But are there too many projects now? What if the CNCF was less gov...

Integration and Observability of 3rd Party APIs

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643, CEO/Founder of @lunardevapi) talks about integrating, controlling, and observability into 3rd party APIs and services....

The End of the Free Tiers

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 is the year of business accountability across all aspects of the software industry. This means that all variations of the free tier are going awa...

Cloud News of the Month - February 2024

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the "second monthly" Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest tech stories and five trends from February 2024...

Anatomy of a Side Hustle

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of people want to turn their hobby or passion into a money-making activity, or as the kids call it “a side hustle”. Let’s explore how to do...

Observability and Visualizing Data with Grafana

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ronald McCollum (@RonaldMcCollam, Solutions Engineering @GrafanaLabs) talks about updates in the observability space and learning more about Grafana a...

Building a Keynote Presentation

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you have to build a keynote presentation, or any presentation for a large audience, what are the key areas to focus on? Here’s some tips on story...

Validation and Guardrails for LLMs

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shreya Rajpal (@ShreyaR, CEO @guardrails_ai ) talks about the need to provide guardrails and validation of LLM’s, along with common use cases and Gu...

Experiencing The Sphere in Las Vegas

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stu Miniman (@stu, Senior Director of Market Insights @RedHat) talks about the experience of The Sphere (@SphereVegas) in Las VegasSHOW: 796CLOUD NEWS...