34 episodes

Welcome to The Cloud Unplugged Podcast, hosted by Jon Shanks (CEO) and Jay Keshur (COO). The two co-founded software company Appvia, have backgrounds in engineering and platform development, with years of experience using Kubernetes. Here they take a light-hearted look at cloud engineering under the lens of platform teams. Discussing how developers, platform engineers, and businesses can leverage cloud-native software development practices successfully.

Cloud Unplugged Jon Shanks, Jay Keshur

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    • 5.0 • 23 Ratings

Welcome to The Cloud Unplugged Podcast, hosted by Jon Shanks (CEO) and Jay Keshur (COO). The two co-founded software company Appvia, have backgrounds in engineering and platform development, with years of experience using Kubernetes. Here they take a light-hearted look at cloud engineering under the lens of platform teams. Discussing how developers, platform engineers, and businesses can leverage cloud-native software development practices successfully.

    Episode 34 | Product vs. Program, what's the difference and do you really need them?

    Episode 34 | Product vs. Program, what's the difference and do you really need them?

    Jon and Jay sit down to discuss what a program is, what a product is and what the difference between the two is. Are they company-specific and completely unrelated, or, are they reliant on each other? This light-hearted episode covers the ins and outs of products and programs.

    • 34 min
    Episode 33 | The importance of consistency in cloud infrastructure: Cloud Landing Zones

    Episode 33 | The importance of consistency in cloud infrastructure: Cloud Landing Zones

    Jon and Jay sit down to discuss the importance of consistency when structuring cloud setups.

    • 27 min
    Episode 32 | Rafe Colburn, Depop (owned by Etsy). Pitfalls of measuring engineering productivity.

    Episode 32 | Rafe Colburn, Depop (owned by Etsy). Pitfalls of measuring engineering productivity.

    Jon and Rafe sit down to discuss how things changed for Depop, after the Etsy acquisition, what the CPTO role comprises and when makes sense for an organisation to have one. They also cover how to avoid the pitfalls of measuring engineering productivity.

    • 51 min
    Episode 31 | Dean Bryen, CTO of Cloud UBS maintaining innovation with new technologies

    Episode 31 | Dean Bryen, CTO of Cloud UBS maintaining innovation with new technologies

    Dean and Jon discuss Cloud adoption and the trials and tribulations of implementing new technologies while maintaining best practices and not hindering innovation!

    Dean Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanbryen/

    • 59 min
    Episode 30 | Idriss Selhoum, Marks & Spencer's cloud adoption journey

    Episode 30 | Idriss Selhoum, Marks & Spencer's cloud adoption journey

    Jon and Idriss sit down to discuss Marks and Spencer's cloud adoption journey, from hosting on-prem to Microsoft Azure. Landing zones and developer self-service were critical to the transformation and modernisation of Marks and Spencer's datacentre exit.

    • 42 min
    Episode 29 | David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals & Ruby on Rails. Rent vs buy: do cloud providers really save companies money?

    Episode 29 | David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals & Ruby on Rails. Rent vs buy: do cloud providers really save companies money?

    David Heinemeier Hansson, is a Danish programmer, entrepreneur, and author, best known as the creator of web development framework, Ruby on Rails. Co-founder and CTO at Basecamp, a web-based project management tool, David is also recognised for his strong opinions on software development, business practices, and digital privacy. A vocal advocate for sustainable work practices, he has co-authored several books, including "Rework" and "Remote: Office Not Required", challenging traditional notions of the workplace.

    In this episode of Cloud Unplugged, David shares his opinion on cloud hosting vs. on-prem, or, as he describes it, rent vs buy.


    David Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b18221/

    • 40 min

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Interesting and insigthful!

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Really interesting insights into cloud engineering - learnt a lot!

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