The Cloudcast

Here Comes the anti-Cloud Crowd

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Public cloud usage. Cloud-native application development. Developer relations. In a down economy, everything gets questioned. Expect a lot of naysayer...

Data Lakehouses and Apache Hudi

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Weller (@KyleJWeller, Head of Product @onehousehq) talks about the latest trends in  OSS Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and the evolution to “Da...

Takeaways from the Latest Cloud Earnings

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Now that AWS, Azure, GCP earnings are slowing down across the board, let’s look at what this could mean in the near-term and long-term. SHOW: 693CL...

Composable Data Analytics

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Patterson (@datametrician, Co-Founder & CEO @VoltronData) talks about the concept of composable data analytics and how it benefits our indust...

Everybody Gets Fired, Eventually

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The tech industry is going through an employment level downturn at the moment, so what should you do? What shouldn’t you do? SHOW: 691CLOUD NEWS OF...

2023 Look Ahead with the CNCF

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Aniszczyk (@cra, CTO of @CloudNativeFdn) talks about the evolution of CNCF projects, major cloud-native trends, and managing the intersection of...

New Technologies are Difficult to Explain

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While we all live in a world of constantly emerging and evolving technologies, sometimes new technologies are so different from the past that they are...

2023 Look Ahead to FinOps

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Ray (@mattray, Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) talks about the evolution of FinOps, alignment between Eng and Finance, and FinOps best pra...

Self Service and Org Charts

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Does any technology make sense if the organization surrounding it is misaligned? Let’s look at some examples of the right and wrong ways to align th...

2023 Look Ahead to VC Funding

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about life as a VC, upcoming trends to look out for, and what to expect with ...

The Decisions that VMware made

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition....

2023 Look Ahead to AI/ML

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, host @twimlai podcast) talks about the evolution of AI & ML in 2023, and the possibilities of ChatGPT.SHOW: 684C...

How Microsoft Evolved

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The evolution of Microsoft under Satya Nadella provides a blueprint for how to transition companies from one focus to another.  SHOW: 683CLOUD NEWS O...

2023 Look Ahead to Platform Engineering

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle Founder & CEO @rackngo) talks about how Platform Engineering has evolved from DevOps and SRE and how it aligns to Cloud P...

2022 Year-End Mailbag

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You asked, we answered. A year-end mailbag of the best of the questions we received from our community in 2022.SHOW: 681CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http:...

A Perspective on Perspectives

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last Sunday Perspective of the year, so let’s look at how we put together the perspectives, and why it can be a valuable framework for evaluation an...

2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian discuss the 2022 Year in Review, highlighting the biggest trends, as well as making 2023 predictions. SHOW: 679CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK...

Technology Booms and Busts

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s look at the differences between when technology is in a boom-cycle vs. a bust-cycle, and what happens as things transition between cycles. SH...

Bringing The Cloud to IT

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Thompson (VP  Product Management of @HPE_GreenLake Cloud Services) talks about managing private and hybrid cloud services and bringing the Clou...

State of the OpenCloud 2022

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Looking at the Battery Ventures “State of OpenCloud 2022” for trends that will impact 2023.SHOW: 676CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudca...

2022 AWS re:Invent Announcements

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s look at the NEW announcements from AWS re:Invent. Not as many as usual, but some interesting new focus areas for AppDev, AppNet, and Security....

Thoughts from AWS re:Invent

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

AWS re:Invent is the largest Cloud conference of the year, and it was back after a downturn from the COVID pandemic. What was the vibe in Las Vegas in...

Building Vector Search Applications

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Edo Liberty (@edoliberty, Founder/CEO @Pinecone) talks about vector databases and building applications that leverage data in new and unique ways. SH...

The Be Thankful Episode

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year when we step back and consider the important things for which we are thankful. SHOW: 672CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit....

Developer Data Platforms

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Davidson (SVP Products, @MongoDB) talks about MongoDB's evolution from a software company to a cloud services company (MongoDB Atlas), how...

API First, Lifecycles and Governance

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kin Lane (@kinlane, Founder API Evangelist  & Chief Evangelist @Postman) talks about getting started with APIs. We also cover API lifecycle &...

Cloud Cost Management

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kayla Taylor (Sr. Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about taking control of cloud costs and managing costs along with observability and troubleshootin...

What if Twitter Goes Away?

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Twitter is going through some things. For the life of The Cloudcast, it’s been our ERP, CRM, Collaboration and PR engine. What if it goes away? Are ...

From Monolith to Microservice with CI/CD

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marko Anastasov (@markoa, Co-Founder Semaphore CI) talks about how to manage the evolution of monoliths to microservices using modern CI/CD.SHOW: 667C...

The Future of KubeCon?

06 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many people are asking about the future of KubeCon now that Kubernetes isn’t the central focus. How does it evolve? Is it like re:Invent or VMworld ...

Reviewing KubeCon Detroit

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.SHOW: 665CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAS...

The Open Source Dead End?

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is the new intersection between open-source communities, vendors and VCs? Is it changing? Should we be concerned about the future of open source?...

GitOps, Security and Modern CI/CD Pipelines

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Durkin, Field CTO & VP of Engineering at Harness talk about how the journey to success for cloud-native often runs through CI/CD fundamentals...

Examining SuperCloud 3.0

23 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s take a look at the evolution of “SuperCloud”, and if it’s a trend, an architecture, an application model, or something else all together...

From QAos to Chaos Engineering

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Wilms (@MrBWilms, co-founder/CEO of @Steadybit) talks about the importance of resilience for SREs, DevOps, and developers through chaos engin...

ROIOps and the Mediocre Middle

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Technical Debt has a branding problem, and in a shifting economy, it becomes increasingly important to have a focus on projects that drive positive RO...

90 Days of DevOps

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Cade (@michaelcade1) talks about learning in public and his creation of "90 Days of DevOps" to enable others by teaching the process...

Where's my 20-30%?

09 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s important to remember not to “equate fun with money”, especially when you have to do repetitive and boring things that aren’t fun and don...

The Evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Founder/CEO of @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of cloud engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code.SHOW: 657CLOUD NEWS OF TH...

VCs vs. the Cloud

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

VCs used to love the public cloud because it disrupted old guard vendors. Now the cloud is keeping more of the profits and the VCs are starting to fig...

Secure Software Supply-Chain

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.SHOW: 655CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - h...

Sometimes Boring is OK

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Headlines are boring. New technologies are boring. Companies aren’t changing the world right now. And all this boring is OK. Sometimes being pragmat...

Building Machine Learning Apps

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.   SH...

Did we get Digital Transformation wrong?

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what ...

Kubernetes Cost Optimization

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.SHOW: 6...

When the Smart Guys get it Wrong

11 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing crac...

Istio Ambient Mesh

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new...

The Labor Day Show

04 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Each year we celebrate labor with a day of no labor. Throughout our careers, labor means different things to different people. What does this Labor Da...

Real-Time Data Cloud

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role...

Cost Justification of Software

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can you justify what you spend on software? On DevOps activities? Like actually put a number on it, not just explain that it’s needed to solve the d...

The State of Serverless 2022

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends. SHOW: 645CLOUD ...

Queryable Data Encryption

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kenneth White (@kennwhite, Security Principal @MongoDB) talks about the causes of internal breaches, querying encrypted data vs encryption-at-rest, an...

Zero Config VPNs

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maya Kaczorowski (@MayaKaczorowski, Product @Tailscale) talks about the new world of remote systems access, zero-config VPNs, and why everyone loves u...

Is Software Still Eating the World?

14 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last decade, software ate the world.  So what are the byproducts of all that eating, and is there anything left on the table? SHOW: 642CLOU...

Follow the Cloud Money

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Novet (@jordannovet, Technology Reporter @CNBC) talks about how to analyze earnings from the big clouds, Microsoft’s position as the #2 cloud...

Mentoring and Being a Mentor

07 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As much as we talk about tech, our industry is people-centric. Knowing how to find a mentor, or eventually becoming a mentor is an important skill to ...

Multi-Cloud Control Plane for Apps

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Niall Dalton (@0x01dea, Co-Founder @seaplane_io) talks about simplifying the deployment of complex application and improving Day 2 operations.SHOW: 63...

The DevRel Dilemma

31 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since Developers became the New Kingmakers, DevRel has become a subsection of our industry. But what does it do, and is it helping Devs? SHOW: 6...

Managing Microservices

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maxim Fateev (@mfateev, Co-Founder/CEO of @temporalio) talks about building modern applications, rethinking microservices, and orchestrating business ...

Kubernetes Cost Management

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Webb Brown (@webb_brown, Co-Founder/CEO @kubecost) talks about the evolution of Kubecost, and better management of Kubernetes costs. SHOW: 636CLOUD N...

Testing Kubernetes Applications

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Ahrens (@kahrens_atl, Co-Founder @Speedscaleai) talks about the challenges of testing applications in Kubernetes environments.  SHOW: 635CLOUD NE...

IoT, IIoT and Managing Edge Data

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gilmore (@BrianMGilmore, Director IoT/Emerging Technology @InfluxDB) talks about Edge and Industrial Edge Computing, as well as application and ...

Building Apps with WebAssembly

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Butcher (@technosophos, Co-Founder/CEO @fermyontech) talks about building the next-generation PaaS platform around WebAssembly. SHOW: 633CLOUD N...

Perspective on Competition in Tech

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Competition in technology has many levels - from individuals to groups to companies to technologies. We dig into how competition impacts in multiple d...

Secure Cloud Migrations

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Woodworth (Solutions Strategist @Aviatrix) talks about the evolution of Cloud migrations, security best practices, and how to organize for migra...

A 2022 Mid-Year Cloud Update

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the big stories, trends and transactions in the cloud in th...

What VMware might look like under Broadcom

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, CEO/Co-Host of @theCube) talks about the VMware acquisition by Broadcom and the potential future of the combined organizati...

2022 State of Cloud

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kent Bennett (Venture Capitalist @bessemervp) talks about the 2022 State of Cloud report, the evolution of the SaaS business model, new monetization m...

How Things will Change in a Tech Downturn

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been 13 years since the last economic downturn impacted the tech industry. Many people don’t remember those days, or we’re part of it. Here...

Observability for Machine Learning

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alessya Visnjic (CEO, WhyLabs) talks about MLOps, the concept of ML Observability and why AI models can fail. Alyessa talks about the differences betw...

Visualizing the Cloud

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Priyanka Vergadia (@pvergadia, Staff Developer Advocate @GoogleCloud) talks about how to use creative visualization to convey complex cloud topics.SHO...

Shared Responsibilities for Cloud Providers

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Miles Ward (@milesward, CTO @SADA) talks about managing the transition to public cloud, customer vs. provider responsibilities, and how to best levera...

Finding or Becoming a Mentor

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During uncertain times, many people seek the help of a mentor. On today’s show, we look at how to find a mentor, and how to consider being a mentor....

CyberSecurity, Economics and Policy in 2022

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Grotto (@grottoandrew, Researcher @StanfordCyber) and Steve Weber (Professor Cal Berkeley I-School) talk about the big picture intersection of Cy...

Enabling the Enterprise Financial Data Cloud

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cory Albert (Global Head of Cloud Strategy, Bloomberg Enterprise Data) talks about delivering cloud services to the financial services industry, new c...

Scalable, Serverless Database Platforms

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Lambert (@isamlambert, CEO @PlanetScaledata) talks about building a cloud-native SQL database from first principles, and how to eliminate the thin...

Managing Thru Economic Donwturns

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we wade into global economic uncertainty, let's look at what we can learn from previous (2001, 2008) economic downturns and how they impacted ...

Running a Large-Scale SaaS Platform

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Danny Fields (CTO/EVP @Avalara) talks about operating large SaaS environments, customizations for customer demands, and transitioning from traditional...

Logging Governance and Sensitive Data

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pranay Kamat (Prod Mgmt @datadoghq) talks about the challenges is protecting sensitive data, internal vs. external attacks, evolution of DLP, the role...

Simplifying Cloud for Developers

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Raman Sharma (@rasharm_, VP Product & Programs Marketing @DigitalOcean) talks about the evolution of Digital Ocean, the right tools for developers...

Explaining Technical Topics - Service Mesh

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this new series, we’ll look at ways to explain complex technical topics. This week we’re looking at Service Mesh. SHOW: 615CLOUD NEWS OF THE W...

Cloud Marketplaces

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Jahnke (CEO of @Tackleio) talks about the rise of Cloud Marketplaces, the evolution of B2B purchasing for cloud products, and the relationship be...

SLOs for Everyone

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

No Brian (Gracely) for a Sunday Perspective this week. We have Brian Singer (@brian_singer, CPO @nobl9inc) talking about Service Level Objectives (SLO...

CI/CD Monitoring and Flaky Testing

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos, Director of Product @datadoghq) talks about monitoring and measuring CI/CD environments, “shift left” for security an...

Explaining Twitter to a 5yr old

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Could you explain Twitter to a 5yr old? Some things are just difficult to explain, and this week we look at the challenges of trying to explain comple...

DataCenter-as-a-Service

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ian McClarty (President @PhoenixNAP) talks about the evolution of the CoLocation and DataCenter-as-a-Service market, cloud repatriation, how software ...

Transitioning from Engineering to Product

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Transitioning from a technical role to a “less” technical role can be scary. Let’s look at how you might evaluate a change, and some tips to suc...

Database Caching as a Service

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Hagan (@ben_hagan, Founder/CEO @polyScaleAI) talks about the challenges of database performance, distributed data and applications, and how cachin...

The Unexpected Pace of Technology Adoption

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Every week we talk about new technologies and new trends. But studies show us that new technology adoption tends to be very slow, especially at high l...

Multi-Cloud Networking

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

William Collins (@@WCollins502, Principal Cloud Architect @AlkiraNet) talks about how to seamlessly build multi-cloud networks for any applications.SH...

How DevOps is like Microsoft Excel

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DevOps mashes together two things, Dev and Ops. But in reality, it includes much more than that. But who owns DevOps? Does anyone use all of DevOps? A...

Automating Decisions, Processes and ML without Code

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Loren Goodman (CTO @InRule) talks about the intersection of AI/ML, DevOps, and Low Code/NoCode and making complex decisions using automation.SHOW: 604...

Did DevOps Ruin Everything?

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Making changes to applications has always been difficult. DevOps and Microservices introduced new techniques to simplify that, but also introduced new...

Developing Multi-Cloud Skills

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal, Head of Content @GoogleCloud) talks about the realities of multi-cloud (intended and accidental), how to adapt skill...

Doing What Didn't Seem Possible

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are transitional moments, often many, in your career when you just don’t think you can make the change. This week we look at the thought proce...

Automating Crypto for Everyone

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse Proudman (Makara, Co-Founder & CEO) talks about how he moved from infrastructure into the world of crypto. He gives advice on learning and h...

Technology and Teams Going in Different Directions

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re at an interesting crossroads. Technology is becoming more distributed, and yet the teams managing it are having to become more integrated. For...

Managing the Business Impact of Data Quality

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Elliot Shmukler (@eshmu, Co-Founder/CEO @anomalo_hq) and Jeremy Stanley (@jeremystan, Co-Founder/CTO) talk about how data integrity and changes can im...

A Perspective on Fast Change and Slow Change

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes change happens fast, and sometimes change happens over a long period of time. Today’s show tries to put a few things in perspective around...

Security Access as Code

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Prendergast (@auxome, CEO strongDM) talks about security access as code, the latest security trends including Zero Trust and taking a modern appro...