The Reasoning Show

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...

The Kubernetes Developer Experience?

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kubernetes won the container wars and continues to grow in use across many industries. But how did something that was about Cloud-native Applications ...

Data Observability

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Hu (@kevinzenghu, Co-Founder | CEO at @Metaplane) talks about the concepts behind Data Observability and the unique challenges for Data Engineer...

DevOps, what's in a name?

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DevOps is defined as, “Everything you do to overcome the friction created by silos … All the rest is plain engineering” Why is it so difficult t...

Cloud Cost Intelligence

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Peterson (@silvexis, Founder/CTO/CISO @CloudZeroInc) talks about how Cloud Cost Mgmt has matured, the importance of business context for cloud co...

Lessons Learned from Shadow IT

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shadow IT and start-ups were the original users of public cloud, over a decade ago. But as public cloud has become a multi-billion dollar business, le...

Understanding & Managing Committed Cloud Spend

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Banks (@elchefe, Principal Cloud Economist @duckbillgroup) talks about how public cloud providers are offering committed spend programs, and ways ...

The Parallel Lives of Kubernetes and Serverless

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our industry is fascinated with the origin stories of founders and the end of technology trends. In between, we seem fine with learning curves and tec...

Building Cloud Services from Software

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Preeti Somal (@psomal, EVP Engineering @Hashicorp) talks about the evolution of Hashicorp Cloud Platform, creating cloud services from software projec...

After the Great Resignation

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the “Great Resignation” rolls along, many people are facing the prospect of a new role or a new company. What are some tips to be successful in...

2022 Look Ahead to SuperClouds

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) talks about the emerging trends of powerful application ser...

Cloudcast Demos

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re looking for some listener feedback on a new idea to help make it easier to learn about new technologies, and bring more new ideas into The Clo...

2022 Look Ahead to web3

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Castiglione (@castig, Co-Founder One Month, Adjunct Professor @Columbia_Biz) talks about the fundamental concepts behind web3 (crypto, blockchai...

If Remote Becomes the New Normal

16 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since the pandemic started, remote work is trending up. Whether or not this becomes the new normal or just a more common option, let’s look at ...

2022 Look Ahead, Developer Careers

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shawn Wang (@swyx, Head of Developer Experience @Temporalio) talks about the breadth of developer skills needed, how developers learn new technologies...

The People Episode

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we kick off 2022, it’s important to remember that behind all the interesting technology is people. And those people have been living under extrao...

2022 Look Ahead, VC Funding

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Venture Partner @crane_vc) talks about the modern state of Tech VC investing, the changing pace of investment horizons, portfol...

2021 Year-End Reading Lists

26 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As we wrap up 2021 and have some down time, here’s a list of things we’re reading to try and make sense of the big changes happening in cloud comp...

2021 in Review, 2022 Predictions

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.SHOW: 577CLOUD NEWS O...

Dealing with Technology Failure

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Computers break. Software has bugs. Cloud services fail. And yet we don’t deal with failures very well. Why don’t we have better Plan B’s, for b...

Tools for the Business Engineer

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gil Hoffer (@gilhoffer, Co-Founder / CTO @salto_io) talks about the challenges of managing and integrating SaaS applications, the blurring line betwee...

Thoughts on Cloud Outages

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

AWS had an outage in a region and many people responded. What did we learn about outages, responses, and dealing with cloud services going forward? S...

Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2021

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We review the new strategic directions of AWS under CEO Adam Selipsky, as well as major announcements from AWS re:Invent 2021. SHOW: 573CLOUD NEWS OF...

Lessons learned from Dell-VMware

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2015, Dell acquired EMC and VMware for a record-setting $67B. In 2021, Dell spun out VMware as an independent company. What lessons were learned? ...

See How Your Code Works

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shanea Leven (@ShaneaLeven, Founder/CEO @CodeSeeio) talks about enabling development teams to better understand the complexities and interdependencies...

Old Man Yells at the Metaverse

28 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You’ve been hearing about Web3 and metaverse and crypto, and everything is changing. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? Let’s yell at the me...

The Evolution of Serverless Databases

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Walker (@jaymce, Principal Product Evangelist at @CockroachDB) talks about how serverless has moved from compute to backing data services, and foc...

Being a Technical Product Marketer

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many people ask us about technical product marketing - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This wee...

Reviewing Microsoft Insight & GitHub Universe

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In October and November, Microsoft hosted the GitHub Universe and Ignite 2021 conferences, focused on Developers and Cloud Computing. We review the im...

Lessons from Hashicorp S1

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hashicorp has been on The Cloudcast more than any other company. As they prepare for their upcoming IPO, we look back at what makes them successful vs...

SD-WAN, SASE and the new Virtual Edge

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Rockwell (Global Head of Solutions @Megaport) talks about the evolution of Cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, SASE, and how Megaport is helping companie...

How to Become a Product Manager

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many people ask us about technical product management - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This we...

Networking the Hybrid Cloud

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Davey (Sr. Product Manager, Cloud & SDN @JuniperNetworks) talks about the evolution of SDN networking for Kubernetes, cross-cluster and cross...

Developer Platforms aren't Repeatable

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While developers are the new kingmakers, it’s rare that any two companies will use the same systems, the same platforms, or the same models to enabl...

Real-life Digital Transformation in Banking

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Meyer (EVP & CIO Consumer Technology at Truist Bank) talks about the 2yr transformation of Truist Bank (SunTrust and BB&T), managing multi...

Embrace Your Inner Maker

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many tech workers are struggling with the repetitive effects of the COVID pandemic (work from home, constant video calls, longer hours, etc.). But the...

WebAssembly and wasmCloud

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Hoffman (@KevinHoffman, CTO at @Cosmonic_com, wasmCloud creator) talks about WebAssembly and wasmCloud, and how this new development paradigm ca...

Technical Debt isn't Free

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While many computing systems mirror systems in nature, one aspect that doesn’t is technical debt. The majority of spending is maintaining the existi...

A New Distributed Cloud Architecture

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Seelig (@j_seelig, Co-Founder/CEO of Ridge) talks about building the distributed cloud, remotely managing cloud resources, and the evolution ...

Innovator's Dilemma Part 2

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts.  S...

Evolutions in Security Monitoring

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Huxlee Barbee (@huxley_barbee, Head Security Prod Mktg @DataDogHQ) talks about the challenging odds of preventing security attacks, managing configura...

Innovator's Dilemma Part 1

03 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts.  S...

The State of Cloud Security

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Stella (@joshstella, Founder/CEO of @FugueHQ) talks about the differences between cloud security and data center security, the value businesses p...

Developing New Habits in COVID

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

COVID has changed the world over the past two years. But how many of the technology changes we’ve made will remain, and which ones may revert back t...

Managing Tech Burnout

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Cucchi  (VP of Product @PagerDuty) talks about the challenges of increased hours, more frequent incident responses and overall tech burnout a...

The Evolution of MongoDB

19 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The transition of @MongoDB from an open source project to commercially successful public company to cloud provider has been an interesting transition....

Remotely Managing All The Things

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ev Kontsevoy (@kontsevoy, Cofounder/CEO @GoTeleport) talks about the state of the art in remote management, especially for Kubernetes environments, an...

Cloud Jobs - Stay, Leave or Quit

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There’s been quite a bit of debate recently on whether or not to stay in a role, look around for something new, or just quit tech all together. What...

Backing Up into the Cloud

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David Hill (@davidhill_co, Product Strategy, Office CTO) and Sam Nicholls (Public Cloud Principle) @Veeam talk about the evolution of managing data in...

Clouds, Chaos and Change

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The next 12-18 months are going to be all about changes, chaos and a three-ring circus between the major cloud providers. The status quo is likely goi...

We’ve All Become The Cloudcast

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian discuss how the on-going pandemic is creating a permanent habit of working remotely, and the challenges of trying to learn technology ...

What does Security even mean anymore

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Security has been in the news quite a bit lately, both for failures and funding. But does security even matter anymore?  Nobody knows. SHOW: 544CLOU...

Hiring a VP of Engineering

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Warner (@jasoncwarner, MD @redpointvc), a veteran of GitHub, Heroku and Canonical, talks about the process and challenges of hiring a VP of Engi...

The End of the Cloud Honeymoon

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud Computing has been around for more than a decade. It has generated tremendous growth and reshaped the tech industry. But is the “Cloud Honeymo...

Making Front-End Development Simpler

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg, CEO at @vercel) talks about simplifying life for front-end developers, the Next.js JavaScript framework, and the balance bet...

Looking for a new Cloud job

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This time of year, many people in the tech industry look to change jobs. What are some tips and tricks if you’re looking for roles in Cloud Computin...

The Opportunity for Data at the Edge

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby, CTO @Swim) talks about how to understand the new business models and application uses of data capture and analytics at the...

The Cost of App Modernization

08 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There’s lots of talk about application migration and modernization, often in the context of digital transformation. But what all is involved in an a...

Application Modernization and Migration

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Labocki (@jameslabocki, Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt @RedHat) talks about Application Modernization and Migrations, the Konveyor OSS community, and mov...

The Surge in Tech VC Funding

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

VC investment has been skyrocketing lately, but why? Let’s discuss some of the trends that are driving bigger investments in today’s startups.  S...

Digging into GitOps

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Christian Hernandez (Sr.Principal Tech Mktg Mgr @RedHat) talks about how GitOps works, it's relationship with DevOps, how it's implemented, ...

The Boss Says We're an Innovation Company Now

25 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your leadership states that you’re no longer in an <xyz> company, but instead you’re now an innovation company. How will that transition pla...

Identity Management for Developers

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Pritchard (@indiapeloale, VP of Product  & DevEcosystem @Okta) talks developer concerns with authentication and identity, and how to manage ...

Comparing Public and Private Cloud Costs

18 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Comparing cloud costs between different environments can be complicated. Let’s look at the different factors that should be considered when comparin...

State of Containers in the Public Cloud

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Gerstenhaber (@mikezvi, Sr.Director Prod Mgmt @Datadog) talks about the public cloud container usage, the evolution of Kubernetes adoption, ap...

The Transformation of Microsoft

11 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Since Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, the transformation of Microsoft has been incredible. Let’s explore how he evolved the company from many prev...

Teach the Geeks to Speak

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Thompson (@teachthegeek, Teach the Geek) talks about educating geeks and engineers in all fields of STEM about how to become a better communicato...

GitHub CoPilot, AWS Infinidash and the New Hotness

04 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Let’s explore if our audience can tell the difference. SHOW: 528SHOW SPONSORS...

Low Code meets Professional Developers

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sanjiva Weerawarana (@sanjiva, CEO of @wso2) talks about the intersection of low-code and business applications, the Ballerina language, and the WSO2 ...

Listener Mailbag Questions

27 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We get a lot of questions from our audience each week, so we thought that it would be useful to answer some listener questions that aren’t easily an...

Mid-Year Cloud Hot Takes

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon Whichard (@@bwhichard) joins us to talk about the @awscloud leadership transition, the future of @VMware, developer preferences, the return of...

Improving the Adoption Rate of New Tech

20 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A common question we often hear is, “How to improve our adoption rate of new technology?” SHOW: 524SHOW SPONSORS:Choreo: A simultaneous low-code ...

Automated Data Labeling for AI Apps

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Ratner (@ajratner, Co-Founder/CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about Snorkel’s evolution from Stanford AI Labs, the challenges of labeling data for AI mod...

Tips for Identifying Tech Trends

13 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For more than 10 years we’re interviewed the people that changed the tech world. What are some tips and tricks to identify which trends emerge, surv...

Building Private 5G Networks

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Parsons (Practice Director, Network and Integrated Security, Insight Enterprises) talks about advances in edge computing, connections to edge usin...

Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management

06 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While there are scenarios where public cloud is much less expensive than data centers, there are times when it’s much more expensive. Is repatriatio...

No Code vs. Low Code

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Hoberman (@GaryHoberman, Founder / CEO of @Unqork) talks about No Code vs. Low Code, Bringing No Code into the Enterprise, and evolving industry ...

The State of Serverless

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn, Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless application...

Build More Features or More Services

23 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The tradeoff between building more features on existing platforms vs. building more new individual services is always a complex decision. Let’s look...

Serverless Trends within AWS

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Julian Wood (@julian_wood, Sr. Developer Advocate @AWSCloud) talks about the evolution of serverless from niche to mainstream applications, and how th...

Technology never has an off-season

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Technology never stops evolving. But people needs breaks to recharge, re-evaluate and re-establish goals. So how can we balance the two? SHOW: 515SHO...

ksqlDB Database for Streaming Events

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Drogalis (@MichaelDrogalis, Product Manager @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of Kafka, the challenges of data management with event-dr...

Lessons learned...Mother's Day Edition

09 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of International Mother's Day, we focus today's show on the lessons learned from moms, and how they can impact and influence your l...