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Episode 51: Size of Cloud Bill: Not About Number of Customers, but Number of Engineers You've Hired
Years ago, if you wanted to launch an Internet company or Web application, you had to own necessary hardware. Now, the economics have changed drastically with the ease...
Episode 50: If You Lose Data, Your Company is Having a Very Bad Day
If you use MongoDB, then you may be feeling ecstatic right now. Why? Amazon Web Services (AWS) just released DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility. Users who switch fr...
Episode 49: Open Source Software: Slipping Beneath the Surface of Awareness
Does operating system (OS) choice even matter anymore to most people? Especially with the emergence of serverless and containers? Debian may not see its name up in lig...
Episode 48: Nobody Gets Rid of Anything, Including Data
Companies can find working in the Cloud quite complicated. However, it’s a lot easier than it used to be, especially when trying to comply with regulations. That’s bec...
Episode 47: Racing the Clouds
More and more enterprises and on-prem applications are moving to the Cloud. Therefore, flexibility, agility, time-to-market, and cost effectiveness need to be created ...
Episode 46: Don't Be Afraid of the Bold Ask
If you’re looking for older services at AWS, there really aren’t any. For example, Simple Storage Service (S3) has been with us since the beginning. It was the first p...
Episode 45: Everybody Needs Backup and Recovery
Do you have to deal with data protection? Do you usually mess it up? Some people think data protection architecture is broken and requires too many dependencies. By th...
Episode 44: Disagree In Commits Console Recorder for AWS
Do you have some spare time? Can you figure out an easier way to do something? Then, why not build some software?! Today, we’re talking to Ian Mckay of Kablamo, an Am...
Episode 43: Here’s a Document on How to Best Deal with My Foibles
A Manager README is a document designed to establish clarity between a manager and those who report to them. These documents are especially useful for onboarding conte...
Episode 42: SCREAMING WITH CHAOSSEARCH: A reInvent reTrospective
Would you like access to unlimited retention of your data within your Amazon S3, which costs far less than online storage on disc? Well, the next time you’re at re:Inv...
Episode 41: Open Source is Not a Business Model
Have you ever had high expectations about a new software product? Did you think it was going to be spectacular? Instead, did it become less about solving a problem for...
Episode 40: Wave of Innovation Breaking Ahead of the Bow of the Ship that is Amazon
You can't make money selling to developers! The bottleneck of getting business requirements and creating business value used to mean waiting for the next waterfall rel...
Episode 39: Give 10 Bad Talks All in a Row and Then Get Fired
Do you like to hear yourself talk? Especially while on a stage and in front of a lot of people? How do you come up with ideas to talk about? What process do you use to...
Episode 38: Must be Willing to Defeat the JSON Heretics
Do you understand how tabs work? How spaces work? Are you willing to defeat the JSON heretics? Most people understand the power of the serverless paradigm, but need h...
Episode 37: Hiring in the Cloud “I assume CrowdStrike makes drones”
What’s hiring in the world of Cloud like? What are companies looking for in possible employees? What kind of career trajectory should applicants display? Today, we’re ...
Episode 36: I'm Not Here to Correct Your English, Just Cloud Bills
Do you enjoy watching sports? Wear your favorite team or player’s jersey? Are you a fan who has shopped at Fanatics on the Cloud? Today, we’re talking to Johnny Sheel...
Episode 35: Metered Pricing: Everyone Hates That! Charge Based on Value
Did you know that you can now run Lambda functions for 15 minutes, instead of dealing with 5-minute timeouts? Although customers will probably never need that much tim...
Episode 34: Slack and the Safety Dance of Chaos Engineering
In the early days, angry nerd corners on the Internet viewed Slack and some of its predecessors as, “Oh, it’s just IRC. Now, you pay someone for it.” Many fell into th...
Episode 33: The Worst Manager I Ever Had Spoke Only In Metaphor
If you’ve been doing DevOps for the past 10-20 years, things have really changed in the industry. There’s no longer large pools of help desk support. People aren’t cli...
Episode 32: Lambda School: A New Approach to “Hire Ed”
Are you interested in computer science? How would you like to go to school for free and learn what you need to in just a few months? Then, check out Lambda School! Tod...
Episode 31: Hey Sam, wake up. It’s 3am, and time to solve a murder mystery!
Have you ever been on-call duty as an IT person or otherwise? Woken up at 3 a.m. to solve a problem? Did you have to go through log files or look at a dashboard to fig...
Episode 30: How to Compete with Amazon
Trying to figure out if Amazon Web Services (AWS) is right for you? Use the “quadrant of doom” to determine your answer. When designing a Cloud architecture, there are...
Episode 29: Future of Serverless: A Toy that will Evolve and Offer Flexibility
Are you a blogger? Engineer? Web guru? What do you do? If you ask Yan Cui that question, be prepared for several different answers. Today, we’re talking to Yan, who i...
Episode 28: Serverless as a Consulting Cash Register (now accepting Bitcoin!)
Is your company thinking about adopting serverless and running with it? Is there a profitable opportunity hidden in it? Ready to go on that journey? Today, we’re talk...
Episode 27: What it Took for Google to Make Changes: Outages and Mean Tweets
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) turned off a customer that it thought was doing something out of bounds. This led to an Internet outrage, and GCP tried to explain itself a...
Episode 26: I’m not a data scientist, but I work for an AI/ML startup building on Serverless Containers
Do you deal with a lot of data? Do you need to analyze and interpret data? Veritone’s platform is designed to ingest audio, video, and other data through batch process...
Episode 25: Kubernetes is Named After the Greek God of Spending Money on Cloud Services
Google builds platforms for developers and strives to make them happy. There's a team at Google that wakes up every day to make sure developers have great outcomes wit...
Episode 24: Serverless Observability via the bill is terrible
What is serverless? What do people want it to be? Serverless is when you write your software, deploy it to a Cloud vendor that will scale and run it, and you receive a...
Episode 23: Most Likely to be Misunderstood: The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism
It is easy to pick apart the general premise of Cloud agnosticism being a myth. What about reasonable use cases? Well, generally, when you have a workload that you wan...
Episode 22: The Chaos Engineering experiment that is us-east-1
Trying to convince a company to embrace the theory and idea of Chaos Engineering is an uphill battle. When a site keeps breaking, Gremlin’s plan involves breaking thin...
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