The Cloudcast

APIs and AI Gateways

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Marco Palladino (@subnetmarco, CTO/Co-Founder @thekonginc) talks about the evolution of APIs, the need for consolidation and integration of AI APIs, a...

The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Big 3 cloud providers investing in AI with cloud credits. $7 trillion dollar big plans. VCs concerned about AI valuations. It feels like a new set of ...

Cloud News of the Month

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the inaugural Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest tech stories from January 2024.SHOW: 793CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEE...

Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some say the Internet has gone to sh*t. Between bundling and unbundling, how does “ensh*tification” happen, and are there ways to prevent or reduc...

VCs and Open Source and Funding

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about the challenges of VC funding and building profitable companies based on...

Harnessing AI for Enterprise Adoption

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every company is trying to figure out how to harness the power of AI. Let’s look at some frameworks to accelerate innovation, allow for experimentat...

Wiring the Winning Organization

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim, Author, Organizational Operations Researcher) talks about the challenges of organizing a team, group, or company to be success...

Technology Shifts vs. Drifts

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of trends happen in technology, but which ones of them are significant changes vs. just adjacencies to previous trends. Let’s explore technolog...

AWS vs. Azure

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about comparing AWS vs Azure, evaluating alternatives and what changes over the nex...

Is 2024 the Year of Accountability?

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Return to Office, Layoffs, Acquisitions,and Shareholder Accountability are dominating the worker-level discussions in early 2024. Let’s dig into wha...

2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about surviving the annual planning process and Q1 goals, KPIs, politics, prioritie...

Is Cloud just a feature now?

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than a decade into cloud, is cloud just a feature of the systems we build these days? What else might become features in the near future? SHOW: ...

2024 Look Ahead - Using AI to Enable Personal Productivity

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle, Founder @peripety_labs) about enabling AI to drive personal productivity, AI experimentation and AIOps...

2023 Year in Review and 2024 Predictions

24 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

@AaronDelp and @BGracely talk about the biggest stories, trends and events of cloud in 2023, and some predictions for 2024.SHOW: 782CLOUD NEWS OF THE ...

The Industry Fallout from OpenAI 2023

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk) talk about the November OpenAI drama and how it potentially impacts the entire A...

2023 End of Year Mailbag

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian answer mailbag questions from the community about the future of open source, future of VMware, the Big 3 Clouds and how AI will impact...

SaaS Analytics and Dashboards

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Karel Callens (@KarelCallens, CEO/Founder @luzmo_official) talks about the importance of SaaS Analytics and how to build dashboards into SaaS services...

How AWS has evolved on Day 2

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What were the major announcements at 2023 AWS re:Invent? What did we learn about their AI strategy? What did we learn about how they continue to evolv...

LLMOps & Conversational Intelligence for AI

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

GUEST: Alex Kvamme (@KwameKvamme, CEO @GetPathlight) talks about using AI to unlock market insights from discussions with customers and partners.SHOW:...

From Cloud to Cloud-native to COVID

03 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How did the modern cloud evolve from the earliest days of AWS to today’s AI boom? What roles did open source, mobile apps, microservices and the sha...

Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training...

Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How did the 2001 dotCom bubble burst lead to the 2008 housing crisis and how did it impact the technology markets?  And the OpenAI Coup-oops!SHOW: 77...

Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Can you still call them the FAANG companies considering Facebook is now Meta and Google is now Alphabet? Maybe it’s MAANA now?! Elliott Clark (CEO/F...

2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What happened in the lead-up to the Internet Bubble burst of 2001? What went right, what went wrong, and what lessons did we learn? (Part 1 of 3)SHOW:...

Intro to Vector Databases

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Huber (@jeffreyhuber, Founder/CEO @trychroma) talks vector databases, data integration, RAG, Embedded models, and AI integration.SHOW: 771CLOUD N...

Is AI the new Oppenheimer event?

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

AI is reaching the point where there is wild speculation, potential regulations, and opinions on if it will destroy humanity. So how does anyone make ...

Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontai...

The Challenges of Pre-Announcements

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your favorite product just announced something new and you’re upset. Why didn’t they tell you about it ahead of time? Why didn’t they ask for yo...

Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges c...

A New Perspective on The Cloudcast

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules...

Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies fo...

Lessons Learned from a Decade of CNCF Projects

22 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As Docker talks about their successes and failures after 10 years, what lessons can be learned by open source companies, projects and foundations over...

Inside Open Source Software

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Curley (VP/GM Software & Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (@arungupta, VP/GM Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosys...

Where Will the Next Software Business Model Come From?

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the n...

Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anish Bishen (Chief Data Architect @Sliide), Jay Rawal (Head of DevOps @Sliide), Ieva Jonaityte (TAM @DoIT) talk about scaling infrastructure and data...

Navigating the Annual Review

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With many companies doing annual reviews this time of year, we go through some guidance, tips and tricks and strategies for navigating reviews with yo...

DevOps Automated Governance

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Long (CEO @_kosli) talks about the challenges of enabling Governance and Compliance into DevOps teams and processesSHOW: 759CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEE...

Technology Enthusiast Lost at Sea

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we explore what to do when you’re stuck at a career crossroads between being technically valuable and managerial or leadership valuable. How t...

Will a New Cloud Emerge?

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely discuss the possibility of another major cloud provider emerging as the economy changes and new application workloads beg...

Every company is a Hardware company

24 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when every software company needs to be a hardware company first? And how are leading VC firms potentially predicting that the 2000s will...

Training and Labeling Foundational AI Models

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Ratner (@ajratner, CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about labeling and training of LLMs. We go over Foundational Models and how to take an “off the shelf”...

A Proposal for OSS Longevity

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As OSS projects continue to look for ways to balance community, sustainability and profitability, let’s explore some alternative considerations for ...

Automating Developer Security and Compliance

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Spitz (@mattspitz, Head of Engineering at @TrustVanta) talks about the challenges of developer security and compliance. SHOW: 753CLOUD NEWS OF T...

Digital Transformation meets its Liability moment

10 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As digital transformations are happening to major industries, we’ve moved into an era where legal issues could become more prevalent than the techno...

Updates to Infrastructure as Code

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Co-Founder/CEO @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of infrastructure as code, the challenges of multi-cloud, and applying Ge...

The Labor Day episode about Tech Labor

03 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we celebrate Labor Day (at least in the US), a few labor-centric topics are starting to dominate the headlines - Return to Office (RTO) and AI Augm...

Economics & Optimization of AI/ML

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Luis Ceze (@luisceze, Founder/CEO @OctoML) talks about barriers to entry for AI & ML, the economics of funding, training, fine tuning, inferencing...

Considerations for Enterprise AI

27 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s talk through some of the challenges that Enterprises will have with AI - from data location to GPU location, to model biases, to data privacy ...

Streaming alternatives to Kafka

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yaniv Ben Hemo (@yanivbh1, Founder/CEO at @memphis_Dev) talks about Memphis Cloud, an alternative architecture to delivering streaming data for applic...

What is AWS after crossing the Chasm?

20 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the competitive cloud landscape is shifting, let’s take a look at some possibilities of what AWS might look like after they cross the chasm. SHO...

Understanding Machine Learning Features and Platforms

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gaetan Castelein (@gaetcast, VP Marketing at @tectonai) talks about the complexities of building AI models, features and deploying AI into production ...

Cloud and Software Economics

13 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If every company has become a software company, is it still easy to be a profitable software company? Lots of things are changing around the economics...

Trends in API Security

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Filip Verloy (@filipv, Field CTO at @NonameSecurity) talks about the latest trends in API security, how you could be a victim of a Moveit attack, and ...

The PizzaHut and TacoBell of Platforms

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Does it ever feel like all the technologies are just things layered on top of each other? Does it ever feel like platforms are a combination of Pizza ...

What's Happening with SuperCloud?

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) gives an update on the status of SuperClouds and talks abou...

The Future of Software?

30 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does the future of the software business look like? How much of an impact will SaaS and AI have on the profitability of software? SHOW: 740CLOUD...

Building Large AI Models

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ronen Dar (Co-Founder/ CTO of @runailabs) talks about the challenges of running compute infrastructure for AI, the GPU ecosystem, sizing LLMs and ...

Free or Fee is Often Complicated

23 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some recent events in the tech industry have questioned the spirit of open source, the value of contributions, and the standards that various entities...

Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Addison Huddy (@addisonhuddy, Sr Dir of PM @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of cloud-based Kafka platforms, and how this might reshape how all...

Higher Quality Outputs are Expected

16 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Higher interest rates, fragmented platforms, WFH uncertainty, VC funding declines, generational blending and technology shifts are going to force a ne...

Database Monitoring & Observability

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Morin (Product Lead @datadoghq) & Jason Manson-Hing (Product Manager) talk about emerging trends in Database monitoring and observability...

An Analogy for App Modernization

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just as ChatGPT gave AI a simple user interface, Meta’s new Thread application is going to make it easy to explain app modernization to your managem...

2023 MidYear Update

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about the major trends in the 1st half of 2023, plus some predictions for the r...

Kudos to Kelsey Hightower

02 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) announced his retirement from Google this week. What comes next is unknown, but let’s take a few moments to appr...

Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan, Director of Product @SnowflakeDB) talks about bringing apps to data, how orgs manage AI/ML, and the “enterprise” needs o...

Passions, Emotions, Friendships and Teams

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For most people, you're not always associated with a winning team.  But for those moments when you are, it's so important to embrace it, en...

Second Wave of DevOps

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, Founder/CEO of @thesysteminit)  talks about the potential for DevOps 2.0. What’s new, what needs to be started from scratch, ...

Nobody wants to own Security

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Developers don’t want to be told “NO” by the Security team. They also don’t want to be responsible for security. Is Shift Left the right or wr...

Developer Security

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Randall Degges (@rdegges, Head DevRel & Community @snyksec) talks about best practices of how to integrate security into application development e...

The Hollowing Out of the Software Middle

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

'Software companies taste like chicken,' says private-equity mogul. 'They’re selling different products, but 80% of what they do is p...

The Economics & Beyond of Object Storage

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Toor (CMO @CloudianStorage) talks about the history and evolution of object storage, the rise of enterprise class object storage, and the changing...

How to Build a Tech ROI Model

04 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

They get requested all the time; a technology ROI model. But how do you build one, what does it tell you, and how are they relevant for technology pur...

DevOps, OSS Communities & WASM in the Public Cloud

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout, Principal PM @Azure) & Ralph Squillace (@ralph_squillace, Principal PM @Azure) talk about DevOps, Public Cloud...

AI is the new Bi-Modal IT

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As AI begins to go mainstream in IT, we’re now at the stage where projects will either be AI-enabled or not, creating the new Bi-Modal IT for the 20...

The Rise of Platform Engineering

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Luca Galante (@luca_cloud, Product @humanitec_com & PlatformCon Organizer) talks about the latest trends in Platform Engineering, what to expect a...

The Cloud-Native Trough of Disillusionment

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are some of the flaws of the Cloud-native ecosystem and architectures starting to get exposed? Or is this just the natural evolution of new technologi...

Simplifying FinOps for AI Workloads in the Cloud

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Clark (Technical Account Manager, @doitint) and Miguel Mendao (CTO @Recognyte) talk about managing the cloud costs of AI services, FinOps implemen...

Recognizing the Adults in the Room

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Can we take the lessons we learned from our mothers (on Mothers Day), and apply some of those lessons to the known challenges of generative AI?   SH...

Nautobot Network Source of Truth

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Edelman (@jedelman8, Founder/CTO @networktocode) talks about the challenges of managing complex networks in a world of DevOps and automation.SHO...

How AI will impact Cloud-Native

07 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

AI is at the center of many tech conversations these days. How will it potentially impact the Cloud-native ecosystem now, and into the future?  SHOW:...

Behind the Scenes of a Major OSS Release

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leonard Pahlke (@LeonardPahlke, CNCF Ambassador & K8s 1.26 Release Team Lead) talks about the behind the scenes activities of releasing a major op...

Kubernetes Community and Career Building

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Buchanan (@buchatech, Principal PM @Azure,  Author @Pluralsight) talks about his journey in Kubernetes community, building a personal brand thr...

Reviewing KubeConEU 2023

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

KubeConEU 2023 in Amsterdam had over 10,000 attendees. What were the highlights and new trends happening in the CNCF ecosystem? SHOW: 713CLOUD NEWS O...

Fax to the Future

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shawn Freligh (SVP/GM, Content Lifecycle Automation @UplandSoftware) talks about cloud delivery, AI and Security in managing document workflows and fa...

How Incumbents Thrive and Survive

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How much of an impact has Digital Transformation really had on major markets? How often do unicorns disrupt incumbents? Let’s dig into the data over...

SBOM and Software Supply Chain

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Szumski (@robszumski, Founder/CEO @Edgebitio) talks about the evolution of software supply chains, SBOMs, and managing software dependencies in th...

A Framework for Making Sense of AI Chaos

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

AI is either having its 15 minutes of fame, or completely reshaping every aspect of technology (and maybe every aspect of life), right now. How is eve...

The Evolution of SaaS Business Models

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jamin Ball (@jaminball, Partner @ Altimeter Capital, author Clouded Judgement) talks about SaaS business models, common SaaS terminology in judging fi...

Free Lunches Don't Last for Long

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Free is great, until it isn’t. Now that the unicorn buffet of VC funding has less cheap money, expect to see more announcements about free stuff no ...

Open Telemetry

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gordon Radlein (@maascamp, Engineering Director at @Datadoghq) talks about the evolution of Open Telemetry (OTel), Logging, Metrics and Observability....

Stop Investing in IT Skills

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The managers vs. workers leverage pendulum is swinging back again. Will management continue investing in IT Skills, or hollow out the IT future? SHOW...

Cost-Efficient Scale-Out Cloud Storage

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gleb Budman (@GlebBudman, CEO/Co-Founder of @Backblaze) talks about the evolution of cloud storage, the shift from on-prem to cloud, best practices an...

3 Trends Shaping the Madness of March

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

March comes in like a lion, but goes out like a lamb. Let’s explore 3 storylines that might have long-ranging implications for cloud. SHOW: 703CLOU...

Backstage & Internal Developer Portals

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Martina Iglesias Fernández (@martina_if, CTO)  & David Tuite (@dtuite, CEO of @Roadiehq) talk about the rise of Internal Developer Portals, the ...

Understanding How a Bank can Fail

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This past week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by banking regulators. Let’s understand the basics of how this happened and why it matters to t...

2023 Look Ahead for Developers

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

James Governor (@monkchips, Co-Founder @Redmonk) talks about Developer experience in 2023. Topics include trends, platforms, languages and culture.SHO...

Lessons Learned from 3yrs of COVID

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s now been 3 years since the world was disrupted by COVID-19. How has the tech industry been impacted, changed, and altered? SHOW: 699CLOUD NEWS...

Edge, InterConnects & CoLo

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zachary Smith (@zsmithnyc, Head of Edge Infrastructure @Equinix) talks about Edge Computing, the evolution of CoLocation, Cloud Interconnects and Emer...

The Ala Carte Internet is Coming

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The economics of the Internet are changing as the foundational ad-driven model is being disrupted. How will this impact the cost of things we’ve lon...

Cloud-Native Security & Usage

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Isbitski (@michaelisbitski, Director Cybersecurity Strategy @sysdig) talks about about Sysdig's 2023 Cloud Native Security and Usage Repo...