Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. SHOW: 769CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtSHOW NOTES:AtomicJar homepageTestcontainers CloudTestcontainers.com LinkTestcontainers on Twitter/XTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create AtomicJarTopic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. We hear more and more about shifting everything left. In this case we are talking about potentially shifting testing left. What problem are we trying to solve and everything comes at a cost, what are the tradeoffs?Topic 3 - We hear all the time that adoption of changes to a development practice is part culture and part technology. What is the hook that gets folks interested in investing time and resources into better testing practices?Topic 4 - Are the tests integrated into the code? How seamless is this into existing CI/CD pipelines or an organization's DevOps practice on average?Topic 5 - From a business perspective, how are the advantages typically measured? More deployments, less defects, etcTopic 6 - Let’s talk about the OSS project Testcontainers a bit. What is it? How did it come about? How are folks using this concept of throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, and web browsers, for instance. Is this all in Docker containers?Topic 7 - There’s also testing in the cloud with a SaaS service (Testcontiners Cloud). What is the origin story behind this and how are folks using it today? Is this a replacement for say Docker Desktop?Topic 8 - For those out there that are interested? How would they get started?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Your favorite product just announced something new and you’re upset. Why didn’t they tell you about it ahead of time? Why didn’t they ask for your feedback? How does a launch work?SHOW: 768CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itSHOW NOTES:WHY DID THEY ANNOUNCE IT NOW? What is being announced? How impactful is the announcement? (private, public markets, partnerships)How strategic is the announcement?Why didn’t they give anybody a heads-up?WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND THE SCENES? WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS & ALTERNATIVES?Who (or what groups) are involved with an announcement? Who is trusted and not trusted? What rules or guidelines are in place?How does the media involvement work? What if you leak it ahead of time to gauge feedback and reactions?What if you screw it up? Can you walk it back or change it? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud. SHOW: 767CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBECloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Panoptica (homepage)Outshift by Cisco (Emerging Technologies)Panoptica - Open Clarity (open source projects)Tim Miller (LinkedIn)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days at Outshift by Cisco. Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the security challenges that come with modern applications and cloud environments.  Topic 3 - The classic challenges of security have always been too many tools, not enough people, lots of misconfigurations, tons of red on the dashboard. Are there new approaches that are trying to address these challenges?Topic 4 - Talk to us about this concept of “Attack Path Analysis”. What is it? What is it trying to accomplish that we didn’t/couldn’t do before?Topic 5 - How does Panoptica address many of these challenges? How does it integrate with the many areas of the entire picture, from IaC to CI/CD to Observability?Topic 6 - What are some differences that DevOps teams might experience by using Attack Path Analysis? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules. SHOW: 766CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTINGCommutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less importantVC funding is slowing down, people are more focused on results vs. “new”AI is a regular part of the conversation, but how much is too much?WHAT WILL CLOUDCAST 2.0 LOOK LIKE? Moving to three shows a week: Sunday Perspective, Tuesday Umbrellas & Sunnies, Thursday On The HorizonCloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the MonthBring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionalityBring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & BrianBetter balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do TodayDo you want us to do Video?Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS.SHOW: 765CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.appCode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20SHOW NOTES:Acorn Labs (homepage)Meet Acorn - A Cloud Platform for EveryoneTopic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWSTopic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’tTopic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

As Docker talks about their successes and failures after 10 years, what lessons can be learned by open source companies, projects and foundations over the past decade.SHOW: 764CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendReduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.appDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Docker at 10 - Three Things we got Right, Three Things we got Wrong (TNS)Lessons Learned from Docker (Eps.505 - 2021)Lessons Learned from OpenShift (Eps. 489 - 2021)If Kubernetes is Boring, what’s next? (Eps.509 - 2021)IT’S HARD TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREESDocker was the transition between OpenStack (bad foundation) and Kubernetes (CNCF)Was Docker a Community or a Cult? How did Leadership work?Docker was stuck between VMware and DevelopersWHAT HAS THE INDUSTRY LEARNED FROM THE DOCKER DAYS?Customers and communities are very hesitant to adopt another single-vendor offeringCould Docker have succeeded as a “free” implementation?As much as DevOps and PlatformEngineering are happening, it’s tough to have an “in between” technology (used by both Infra and AppDev)It’s OK to adapt your monetization model, but it’s not OK to not have oneOpen source can’t be the driving force of a business. It’s not a charity. If somebody offers you $3B, maybe consider taking it….FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Joe Curley (VP/GM Software & Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (@arungupta, VP/GM Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosystems.SHOW: 763CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBEReduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app20% off KubeCon in person (corporate use only): KCNA23CC20SHOW NOTES:Intel Open EcosystemsLike Water for Fish: Intel’s Elemental Support for DevelopersAnnouncing the Unified Acceleration (UXL) FoundationOur kid’s graduating from college!Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Joe and Arun, give everyone a brief background please.Topic 2 - For many of our listeners, they may not equate Intel with Software and Open Source. Can you give everyone some background on how the intersection of Intel and Open Ecosystems came to be and your involvement today? What’s in it for developersTopic 3 - How does Open Source Software fit into Intel’s broader software strategyTopic 4 - What are the trends you are seeing in OSS and how does that impact Intel? How does that impact organizations today?Topic 5 - What kind of investments does Intel make into Open Source and Open Tools? There is Intel’s oneAPI for instance… Topic 6 - Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere, how does AI fit into Intel’s hardware and software vision and strategy?Topic 7 - Any final closing thoughts on the future and what to expect from Intel in the future?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the next few years? SHOW: 762CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.appDatadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:The Software Paradox (Stephen O’Grady - Redmonk) GitHub CoPilot hits $100M ARRUnity CEO steps down after pricing changesFree or Free is Often Complicated (Eps.738)The Future of Software? (Eps.740)Cloud and Software Economics (Eps.744)Will LLMs replace OSS software licenses?  (Joseph Jacks)ARE THERE ANY VALID SOFTWARE BUSINESS MODELS LEFT?Software business models keep running into road blocksVC funding is slowing down, and interest rates are risingCan OSS as marketing survive? WILL THE NEXT GENERATION PAY FOR SOFTWARE, IN ANY WAY? SaaS seems to work, if you can survive the burn rate to capture customers.Is SaaS too expensive? Will variations emerge?Any changing models (free to fee, open core, etc.) disenfranchise the usersOSS is getting less fundingGaming is tied to engines and app storesWill AI open up new business models? New licensing models?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Anish Bishen (Chief Data Architect @Sliide), Jay Rawal (Head of DevOps @Sliide), Ieva Jonaityte (TAM @DoIT) talk about scaling infrastructure and data services at a rapidly growing startup, with FinOps enabled.  SHOW: 761CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"All Things Open 2023 is making 5 free passes + a 20% discount available to the Cloudcast community! More than 150 speakers and 175 sessions will be featured in downtown Raleigh October 15-17.Free Pass (auto-applied until they are gone!)Once the free pass have been claimed, use this link for 20% off!SHOW SPONSORS:Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.appCode Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through itFind "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and SpotifyKeep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBESHOW NOTES:Sliide HomepageDoIT HomepageTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and your focus areas today. Topic 2 - Sliide delivers a platform that allows Carriers and OEMs to deliver unique digital experiences to customers. Tell us about the architecture behind the platform and some of the bigger challenges you have in delivering those services at scale.Topic 3 - When delivering services for mobile, there are tons of variables involved (user-experience, bandwidth management, backend data collection, analytics, etc.). What do you think about the tradeoffs in terms of costs vs. experience?Topic 4 - DId you look at the cost optimizations as a one-time project, or is a FInOps focus now part of your on-going planning and operations? How does that function work with the rest of the platform team?Topic 5 - You’ve been working with the DoIT team to help optimize the platform and overall costs. How did you decide to work with DoIT to augment your team, and what were some of the core areas you focused on? Topic 6 - What lessons learned would you pass along to other platform teams? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

With many companies doing annual reviews this time of year, we go through some guidance, tips and tricks and strategies for navigating reviews with your manager, and reviews with your teams. SHOW: 760CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:HOW TO MANAGE THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEARThe annual review is a year-long project, but most people only focus on the 3-4 weeks around it.It’s about what you do, but it’s also about what you do that’s visible beyond your team.Know how your company measures success and structures rewards/promotions/recognition.THE GOOD, BAD AND THE UGLY OF THE ANNUAL REVIEWHR controls the process, and your manager generally doesn’t want to deal with it.Most companies allocate a strict budget, which is top-down. Most companies grade on a broad bell curve; most people end up in the middle. It’s good to understand concepts like grade levels and mid-points of compensation.“Pay transparency” is probably not what you think.Some (not all) bosses aren’t thinking about your career, so you need to own itPromotions usually take a few cycles to happen. Ask around to understand that process. For example, don’t expect the startup CEO to give you the best advice for your career, their interests may diverge from yours, asking more experience people how they do X may result in outdated advice.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet