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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Serverless | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . Also available, the "Cloudcast Basics" podcast (@cloudcastbasics), for anyone new to Cloud Computing.

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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Serverless | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . Also available, the "Cloudcast Basics" podcast (@cloudcastbasics), for anyone new to Cloud Computing.

    What if the CNCF was private equity?

    What if the CNCF was private equity?

    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 governance and more like private equity?
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    Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before August 30th)WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers insteadSHOW NOTES:
    CNCF LandscapeCNCF Trail MapWHY DOESN’T THE CNCF RECOMMEND A CLOUD-NATIVE STACK? 
    Originally the CNCF was just trying to get projects to use them for governance. Many people wanted them to “define” a cloud-native stack. Defining a stack would have held back their business model - accepting projects and adding sponsorsHOW MANY PROJECTS WOULD GET “CNCF APPROVED” IF THEY TOOK A PRIVATE EQUITY APPROACH?
    CNCF currently has 184 projects, up 4x over the last 4 years. 14% graduates, 20% incubating, 62% sandbox Does the CNCF suffer from the “Big Tent” problem that caused so many issues with OpenStack? KubeCon keynotes are just a list of projects giving status updates - they could be an email. How many projects should the CNCF sponsor? How many categories should remain?How would a private equity group apply metrics to CNCF projects? FEEDBACK?
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    • 22 min
    Integration and Observability of 3rd Party APIs

    Integration and Observability of 3rd Party APIs

    Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643, CEO/Founder of @lunardevapi) talks about integrating, controlling, and observability into 3rd party APIs and services. We discuss the trade-offs of integrating a 3rd party API and how it impacts simplicity and potential loss of insight.
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    CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:
    Lunar.dev (homepage)Lunar.dev blogLunar.dev on TechCrunchTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.
    Topic 2 - Controlling 3rd party APIs is increasingly becoming an issue for many organizations. As the world gets built on APIs, consumption of another company's APIs to ingest services is critical. But, this leads to all sorts of control and potentially cost issues. Please give everyone an introduction to the problem.
    Topic 3 - Does this mean 3rd Party APIs are a tradeoff? Yes, you might be able to integrate APIs for a payment system for instance quickly, or maybe the latest AI SaaS service, but in doing so won’t an organization potentially lose oversight? Where do most organizations run into problems first? This reminds me of the early days of cloud and people leaving instances running and then getting huge bills and not knowing until it was too late. Is this similar?
    Topic 4 - We’ve seen a lot of products and companies tackling the issue of internal company APIs, but not 3rd party APIs. Once an organization determines they have a problem, maybe an observability problem, perhaps a cost problem, maybe a compliance issue, etc. how would they get started gaining API observability and control in their org? 
    Topic 5 - Is this a solution that sits in traffic flow? Does this potentially introduce latency? Is this almost like a WAF for 3rd party APIs? What kinds of policies or restrictions can be put in place?
    Topic 6 - What are some of the most common use cases you’ve seen and how do you solve them? What business decisions have to be made if they decide to restrict access in some way?
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    • 28 min
    The End of the Free Tiers

    The End of the Free Tiers

    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 away in one way or another. 
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    Linkerd changes publishing model of imagesPlanetScale discontinues Free Tier (“Hobby”) of serviceWHY DID THE FREE TIER(S) EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE?
    Why do free tiers exist? Marketing awareness, experimentation, Why is talking about making money, or profitability considered taboo?Why do we reconcile the love of employees and the hatred of paying for software?WHAT ARE THE TRADE-OFFS WHEN THE FREE TIER GOES AWAY?
    Are free tiers and free open source software the same thing?Are “wants” and “value” the same thing? What should be free in the software world? Should end-users want the backers of a project or company to be successful?Will VCs continue to back companies that have free tiers, or companies that spend on marketing, or is the game needing new (undefined) rules? FEEDBACK?
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    • 24 min
    Cloud News of the Month - February 2024

    Cloud News of the Month - February 2024

    Welcome to the "second monthly" Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest tech stories and five trends from February 2024.
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    CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:
    LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR FEB 2024 CLOUD NEWS HERESegments Covered in the Show:
    Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues - Speed RoundTrend 1 - Microsoft is branching out from just OpenAI as a partner, as they shouldTrend 2 - Selling Customer Data for AI training is Suddenly a Revenue Stream (and a source for lawsuits if it isn’t)Trend 3 - Chips are cool again - Everyone wants to go after NVIDIA, including NVIDIATrend 4 - Google has more downs than ups - Will AI eat the search business?Trend 5 - Hugging Face leads OSS alternative AI but also has bad actorsFEEDBACK?
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    • 48 min
    Anatomy of a Side Hustle

    Anatomy of a Side Hustle

    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 it, and some mistakes to avoid. 
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    SO YOU WANT TO MAKE MORE MONEY?
    When do you decide to make more money? Is anyone willing to give you money? Is it profitable money?HOW MUCH MORE ARE YOU WILLING TO WORK?
    Why are you doing this? What’s the goal? Is there a goal? Are you doing this with anyone else? Are you aligned? Always aligned? Are you willing to put in the hours? Does anyone else care about your hours?How much are you willing to invest in order to learn?Are you OK with failing?Do you understand how people make money in your niche?How will you address conflicts of interest? Where do those come from? Do they matter?FEEDBACK?
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    • 31 min
    Observability and Visualizing Data with Grafana

    Observability and Visualizing Data with Grafana

    Ronald McCollum (@RonaldMcCollam, Solutions Engineering @GrafanaLabs) talks about updates in the observability space and learning more about Grafana and data visualization.
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    Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to date with Enterprise Tech with theCUBELearn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from SHOW NOTES:
    Grafana (homepage)Getting Started with Grafana Book by RonaldTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

    Topic 2 - We last talked about Grafana back in 2019 and 2020. Observability continues to be a hot topic, how are you seeing the open-source community and open-source tools evolve in this space?

    Topic 3 - We always hear about Grafana as a visualization tool. Grafana AND something (Grafana and Prometheus, Grafana and (insert logging/observability tool here). Is that still a fair assessment? Where does Grafana fit in a modern cloud-native observability stack these days?

    Topic 4 - When you are speaking to folks out there, where does the data visualization story resonate the most in the organization, and does it become at times political and cultural (meaning cultural changes need to happen)? There can be an ROI/Business case to be made; developers integrations that will need to happen, SRE operations changes, etc. How do you get something that likely spans many different parts of the organization on board?

    Topic 5 - Anytime I think about observability I think in two stages. Identification of the problem and resolution of the problem. Some tools address one or the other, and some attempt to do both. Where does Grafana fit on this continuum?

    Topic 6 - I have to ask the AI question. How has AI changed or in your opinion will change observability and visualization in the near future?

    Topic 7 - You’ve literally written the book on Grafana so this is a softball question. For those who are interested, how would you recommend they get started with Grafana

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