Season 2 of Cloud Unplugged is here! In the inaugural episode, Joel chats to Emil Sayegh, CEO of Ntirety, about the big blockers to cloud adoption. In this day and age, why isn’t everyone moving to cloud? What’s stopping them?To keep the conversation going, join our Slack community, follow along on Twitter and connect with Emil on Twitter or LinkedIn.

This week, Joel is out and Jon is in! He catches up with a fellow Appvia colleague, Chris Nesbitt-Smith, to talk about all things big data in cloud. It's as confusing as it is big ... so buckle up. To keep the conversation going, join our Slack community. 

Joel and Carlos go WAY back. And, would you believe that Carlos has moved from a Kubernetes hater to full-blown evangelist? Dig into his story and how he advises, and aims, to make production fun again. To keep the conversation going, join our Slack community. 

We're back with another interview episode! This week, host Joel caught up with Eric Santelices to chat about his windy and interesting journey to cloud. To keep the conversation going, join our Slack community. 

We're rounding out the 2-part series 'all about the app'. Check out Pt. 1 for the foundations:  Best practices around agile and lean methodologies and how to get your source code management correct. Pt.2 is all about, now that you've actually started building components and are delivering them into your cloud environment, how do you iterate on those quickly? And how do you move them through your application environments,  without falling victim to additional baggage? To keep the conversation going, join our Slack community. 

In this episode, hosts Joel and Jon take a step back from routine to share opinions and ask each other questions about a handful of hot-topic issues in the Cloud universe. Here's what's on their mind this week. To keep the conversation going, join our Slack community. 

We've already talked through how to build your team, get your processes and terminology straight, and how to structure cloud accounts. Now, we've arrived at application development. This is 'all about the app' and there's a lot to unpack, so we're splitting this mega-topic into a few chunks over the next few episodes. Stay tuned!

In this bonus episode, co-host Joel  Parks sits down with his former colleague and fellow cloud expert Alicia Davis to chat through her experiences with cloud adoption, and proceed to cover a lot of ground on a host of other thoughts and topics that came to mind.  

What does cloud native really mean, anyways?  The answer will help you massively in your journey to cloud. 

The realities, benefits and drawbacks of a hybrid cloud, multi-cloud or single cloud approach.