The Reasoning Show

SHOW: 400DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on engineering career opportunities. Then Brian talks with Nick Weaver (@lynxbat, Engineering Leader) about transitioning from customer to vendor, from junior to senior engineers, and the realities of Digital Transformation. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Digital Ocean HomepageGet Started Now and Get a free $50 Credit on Digital OceanGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Nick’s previous appearance on The Cloudcast - Eps 4, 33, 38, 172, 212Nick’s Blogs The Sustainable Leader (formerly Nickapedia)SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it’s been way too long. What are you up to these days?Topic 2 - We wanted to bring you back on because you’ve gone through quite a few transitions as an engineer, from infrastructure to cloud to vendor-side to customer-side. Can you share some of the ways that you were able to make transitions, and how you overcame concerns about some of the big leaps?Topic 3 - Some projects are a success (EMCworld Labs), often wildly successful. How did you deal with success, and then how did you deal with the ongoing maintenance once the shininess wore off? Topic 4 - Some projects are less successful (vCloudAir). How did you personally handle some of the problems, and how did you grow from it?Topic 5 - You’re in an engineering leadership role now (and have been for the last few years). How has that changed your perspective, and what are some of the lessons you’ve learned?Topic 6 - Can you quickly tell the stories of all the Nick Weavers? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCastFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 399DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on following the money in cloud computing. Then Brian talks with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist @ Duckbill Group) about the economic realities of being all-in on the public cloud.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Digital Ocean HomepageGet Started Now and Get a free $50 Credit on Digital OceanSnowflake HomepageGet started with Snowflake at snowflake.com/cloudcastGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Corey on Eps.307 of The CloudcastLast Week in AWS (Newsletter)Screaming in the Cloud (podcast) - 2nd rate Cloud podcast, never listen to this!SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve become a multi-media star since your last appeared (newsletter, podcasting, stand-up comedy, co-hosting theCUBE, live blogger, etc.). Topic 2 - In case you haven’t noticed, revenues in the public cloud have grown quite a bit in the last few years. And not a day goes by without some web company announcing their monthly AWS spend. Walk us through the world of an organization that is a reasonably heavy spender in the public cloud. Are there steak dinners and rounds of golf still involved? Topic 3 - We hear about long-term contracts being negotiated with public cloud providers. How do these negotiations go, and where are customer’s leverage points?Topic 4 - What are the typical stages of Cloud Adoption and Cloud Grief? Excitement - bypass IT, everything seems cheapCuriosity - so many new services to explore and useConfusion - so many services, they don’t all fit on the dashboard, where are the neglected services running?Fear - the bills come in and they are more than we expectedTopic 5 - Do you find that legacy IT is actually brought along on the journey to large-scale public cloud usage? If so, what is the transition process for people/groups used to CAPEX and Hardware and ELAs and Data Centers? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCastFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 398DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian kick off "Four for Four Hundred" by discussing the massive evolutions of the industry over the last 8 years. Then Brian talks with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison, Co-Founder/CTO at Branch Insurance) about the next generation of serverless technologies to help develop applications, focusing only on creating business value, communicating this new approach to engineers, and leveraging technology to take on big markets. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Snowflake HomepageGet started with Snowflake at snowflake.com/cloudcastDigital Ocean HomepageGet Started Now and Get a free $100 Credit on Digital OceanGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Joe on Eps.242 - Understanding Serverless ApplicationsBranch Insurance Joe Emison's Blog SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been way too long. Tell us about your new company and some of the things you’ve been working on.Topic 2 - The last time you were on it was the earlier days of serverless. Since then, you’d stayed active around serverless, but have been vocal about how the space has evolved. Where has your experience taken you over the past couple of years? Topic 3 - You talk (and write) a lot about only focusing on building business value. That’s a hard concept for some technologists to grasp, as they always believe there is some amount of technical debt to own. How do you communicate your perspective on this to people? Topic 4 - The last time you were on, we talked about thick clients and Netlify and some things that were new to us. What are some of the tools/services you really like these days? Topic 5 - You’re trying to re-establish the home and auto insurance bundling business. There are big names in this space. How does your technology philosophy allow a small startup to compete against very well established (and funded companies)?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCastFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 397DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matthew Creager (@matt_creager, Co-Founder & VP Developer Relations @manifoldco) about the challenges of cloud silos, connecting apps to multiple cloud services, the importance of collaboration beyond just coding, and how Manifold makes it simpler to integrate apps to align to business needs. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Digital Ocean HomepageGet Started Now and Get a free $100 Credit on Digital OceanSnowflake HomepageGet started with Snowflake at snowflake.com/cloudcastGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Red Hat launches OpenShift 4 - Enterprise KubernetesMicrosoft and Red Hat launch Azure Red Hat OpenShift managed serviceSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Manifold Homepage - Find, organize and connect the best cloud servicesSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background prior to Manifold, and what motivated you to focus on this new model of application development and integration.  Topic 2 - I know one truth about developers, that they prefer things to be simple or taken care of for them. Beyond that, I’m not sure of any absolute truths. It seems like Manifold is somewhere near the intersection of Low-Code and PaaS and Integration Services (API Gateways or Middleware) and CI/CD. Beyond simplicity, how do you describe what Manifold does? Topic 2a - What is the interaction between the Manifold services and Prefab.cloud services? Topic 3 - I really like the idea of shared projects and shared billing. How much do you find that overlapping or re-inventing slows down developers? Topic 4 - Can you help us understand the business model or community model? Topic 5 - Can you share any examples of how Manifold has helped companies and teams accelerate their application development models?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCastFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 396DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Renaud Boutet (@boutetren, VP Product Management @datadoghq) about logging, monitoring, observability, and the challenges of balancing the collection of the right data with the costs of all the data.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Snowflake HomepageGet started with Snowflake at snowflake.com/cloudcastDigital Ocean HomepageGet Started Now and Get a free $100 Credit on Digital OceanGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:A Cloud Guru raises $33M in funding to expand courses and labsMicrosoft Azure adds VMware CloudVMware Cloud on Dell SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about some of your background prior to joining Datadog, and about your focus areas today. Topic 2 - Let’s start with some conceptual buckets - how do you sort out the differences when people say “monitoring” vs. “logging” vs. “observability”? Topic 3 - Logging has the inherent tradeoff between the desire to “log everything” and the limitation of costs to log (and retain everything). What are some of the trends to potentially make this tradeoff more manageable?Topic 4 - At some point, the tradeoff between sending logs, filtering logs, storing logs all boils down to a financial trade-off of immediate costs vs potential costs associated with failure. How do you see those conversations playing out in real life? Any suggestions on a framework for doing those types of analysis? Topic 5 - What role do you see AI playing in the future of Logging/Observability? It seems like that needs to become the next big step if the industry solves the challenges of logging/storage more and more. FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCastFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 395DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Dr. Steve Herrod (@herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst @gcvp) about the transition from CTO to VC, the role of AI and Security in today’s startups, the impact the public cloud has on his evaluations, and tips for selecting the right companies and leaders.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:MongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB serviceVisit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admin tasks that you’d rather not spend time on, like security, high availability, data recovery, monitoring, and elastic scaling. Try MongoDB Atlas today!Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Ford partners with Amazon to build cloud services for connected carsFord invests $500M in Rivian; companies plan electric vehicleElectric truck start-up Rivian announces $700 million investment round led by AmazonApple spends more than $30 million on Amazon's cloud every month, making it one of the biggest AWS customersTinder’s move to KubernetesSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Steve’s Bio at General Catalyst Steve Herrod on Episode 161SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s now been 6 years since your transition from VMware to the VC world. What are some of the lessons you’ve learned?Topic 2 - When you were a CTO, you were building a comprehensive portfolio. How does that perspective change when you’re looking at a broad range of portfolio companies? Topic 3 - Your companies tend to skew towards cybersecurity, where AI is going to play a significant role. How do you think about them from a technology perspective, and how much does the cloud’s resources for data modeling help or challenge them?Topic 4 - What’s your perspective on the role of open source software for enabling your companies?Topic 5 - Given your background, how much do you get involved in growing the engineering talent at your portfolio companies?Topic 6 - Any tips for potential startups wanting to pitch high-level VCs?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter:FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 394DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Evan Kaplan (@evankaplan, CEO of InfluxData) about why companies choose time-series databases, commons use-cases, how time-series patterns align to changing business goals, and how to translate business demands to developer capabilities. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtMongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB serviceVisit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admin tasks that you’d rather not spend time on, like security, high availability, data recovery, monitoring, and elastic scaling. Try MongoDB Atlas today!Get 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:GCP partners with Open-Source CompaniesPentagon narrows JEDI Cloud contract down to AWS and AzureSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:InfluxData Homepage The InfluxData TICK Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor)InfluxData closes $60M Round of Funding (Feb 2019)SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been the CEO of InfluxData for a few years, but please share with the audience your background and how you came to lead InfluxData.Topic 2 - For many decades, most data-centric applications were built around Relational Databases (SQL Databases). These days, application patterns and use-cases have expanded significantly. How do time-series databases fit into these new trends?Topic 3 - With all the new patterns emerging, there are both business reasons and technical reasons for choosing the right platform. How do you find the business-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice? How do you find the technical-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice?Topic 4 - Every company that’s involved with the commercialization of open source projects is trying to figure out the best way to manage a portfolio between OSS, software offerings and cloud offerings. How does InfluxData think about that mix, and what are you seeing in terms of customer-demand trends? Topic 5 - Getting developer momentum and mass around a set of patterns is critical. How does InfluxData think about enabling developers, and what are some of things you’ve done to accelerate their success and consistent learning? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcastFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 393DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matt Oswalt (@mierdin, NRE @JuniperNetworks) and Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad, Product Marketing Manager @JuniperNetworks) about how networking has adapted to DevOps and SRE, internally marketing the evolution to teams, and how NRE Labs are helping network engineers get up to speed. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:MongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB serviceVisit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admin tasks that you’d rather not spend time on, like security, high availability, data recovery, monitoring, and elastic scaling. Try MongoDB Atlas today!Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Google announces Hybrid Cloud platform - "Anthos"SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Keeping It Classless (Matt Oswalt’s Blog)Network Reliability Engineer (NRE)What is DevNetOps? NRE Learning “Antidote” Derick’s “Network Interrupted” blog on Packet PushersMatt Oswalt on The Cloudcast (Eps. 285) - “Automation, Devops and Reddit”SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Derick and welcome back Matt. Tell us about your background and some of the things you’re working on now at Juniper.Topic 2 -  We talked a couple weeks ago with Gustavo Franco from Google about SRE, you guys have been working on something you’re calling “NRE”. Tell us about the NRE concept and how this fits into the world of Networking and DevOps.Topic 3 - Networking hasn’t been a very static thing in a long time (DHCP, WiFi access, VPNs), but now we also have applications joining and changing on a regular basis (CI/CD pipelines, containers, etc.). So how is that world changing the demands on “DevNetOps”? Topic 4 - What are you guys working on to tangibly move people forward in this space? Are there any resources or projects they should be aware of?Topic 5 - When you’re a foundational technology, such as networking or storage, it can be tough to adapt rapid DevOps type activities or culture. How much of NRE or DevNetOps is tooling (automation, controllers) and how much is culture changes? Topic 6 - Change is always a journey. What are some of the steps that you’re seeing people take towards NRE or DevNetOps, and maybe what are some oFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 392DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Uma Chingunde (@the_umac, Engineering Manager at @Stripe) about engineering career paths as an IC or Manager, how managers can be effective mentors, job rotations, and how diversity is an opportunity for every team. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtMongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB serviceVisit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admin tasks that you’d rather not spend time on, like security, high availability, data recovery, monitoring, and elastic scaling. Try MongoDB Atlas today!Get 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:Microsoft announces Azure Stack HCIChef announces fully open-source softwareAqua Security announces $62M funding roundThe Rise of Progressive Delivery for Systems ResilienceWe Looked at 101 Startup CEO Salaries – Here’s What We FoundWhy Today's Business Schools Teach Yesterday's ExpertiseSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Uma Chingunde’s Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/336620Navigating the Mid-Career Plateau (Uma’s Velocity Talk)Stripe Homepage - Online payment processing for internet businessesSHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, as well as some of the things you’re working on these days at Stripe. Topic 2 -  We’ve discussed the career mindset of people more on the sales/marketing side of companies, but you’re beginning to look at this within engineering teams. Let’s start with the framework of how you think about that for yourself and then for people within your team. Topic 3 - What are traditional vs non traditional IC and manager paths you can explore?Topic 4 - How do you think about the engineer vs manager track? Does it always have to be these two options, or are you seeing other paths, maybe more senior options as an IC?Topic 5 - What are some variations on the above for underrepresented groups?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

SHOW: 391DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Gustavo Franco (@stratus, Customer Reliability Engineer at Google) about real-world experience as SRE/SRE Manager and CRE Manager, a discussion about how to measure SRE success, as well as how to onboard the SRE/CRE concepts and processes to new teams. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:MongoDB Atlas - Automated cloud MongoDB serviceVisit mongodb.com/cloudcast to learn more. MongoDB Atlas handles all the costly database operations and admin tasks that you’d rather not spend time on, like security, high availability, data recovery, monitoring, and elastic scaling. Try MongoDB Atlas today!Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:The Continuous Delivery Foundation was announced by the Linux FoundationKubernetes v1.14 released - Adds Windows Container supportGoogle introduces Cloud-based (streaming) Gaming Service called StadiaUPS To Send Nurses For In-Home VaccinationsSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Gustavo's Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/150125“Scaling SRE, the Journey from 1 to Many Teams” (Gustavo’s talk at Velocity) DevOps and SRETuning up SLIs SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and some of the things you work on today as it relates to SRE and CRE teams. Topic 2 - Let's talk about what SRE is intended to do, and maybe how it differs (or is the same) from existing teams that might be labeled "Ops" or "DevOps". Maybe we can also talk about some of the types of skills that highlight what SRE does.Topic 3 - What are some of the ways to avoid an SRE (or CRE) team just becoming the band-aid team to fix all the things that developers don't want to put into code because they are under deadlines (security, bug fixed, scalability, etc.)?Topic 4 - We're hearing more about these terms "AIOps" and "ChaosEngineering". How much can SRE/CRE teams augment applications through tools that either bring deeper insight (e.g. AIOps) or create scenarios that developers can't eFEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow