The Reasoning Show

Aaron and Brian talk with Tim Gerla (@tybstar, VP Product) and Dan Nurmi (@dannurmi, CTO) at @Anchore about their background as entrepreneurs, the challenges of container security, the challenges of CI/CD and security and how to avoid slowly down developers. Show Links: Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Anchore Homepage Topic 1 - Get an understanding of the team and their background Topic 2 - What customer challenge is Anchore attempting to solve? What are some of the scary security/container stories out there? Topic 2a - Let’s talk about awareness of this security challenge, especially amongst Dev teams vs. Ops teams. Topic 3 - Anchore was founded by people from Eucalyptus and Ansible, which were very popular open-source projects. Does Anchore have an open-source model as well? Topic 4 - How does Anchore fit into existing "container" systems and PaaS like Docker (or Docker Data Center), Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, etc.? Don't some of those systems already have security elements built in? Topic 5 - How does Anchore fit into some of the CI/CD systems, where developers could be adding random things into containers? Topic 6 - Topic 6 - How does the reporting and management framework fit into other existing security systems for the CISO? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk to Kendrick “Kenny” Coleman (@kendrickcoleman; Developer Advocate @EMCcode) about the basics of interacting with APIs. They also discuss how the millennial generation is changing the media industry and if/how The Cloudcast should change. Show Links: This show is sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Kenny’s Blog Kenny’s “Bourbon Pursuit” Podcast (@bourbonpursuit) EMC {code} Homepage Beginner’s Guide to REST and HTTP Learn how to use different REST APIs Swagger API Framework Topic 1 - What are you up to these days? Topic 2 - We need help. Everything is an API these days and we don’t speak API. What are the basics we need to understand and the tools we need? Topic 3 - Any good API tips and tricks for beginners? Topic 4 - You were recently at a conference that discussed how the millennial generation is changing the media industry. What is changing, what do we need to know and how do we need to change the podcast? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk to Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, Founder of @HashiCorp) about the lack of VC funding for an open source Death Star, customer interest in Microsoft Azure, the need for bigger/faster schedulers, developer patterns and Zero-Trust Datacenter. Show Links: This show is sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Hashicorp Homepage Hashicorp Adds Microsoft Azure Support Nomad 1,000,000 Container Challenge Topic 1 - It’s been a little over a year since you were last on the show. Things are changing really fast in the market. What are you seeing in the market? Topic 2 - Hashicorp recently made all of their tools Microsoft Azure compatible. Where are you seeing interest from your customers in Azure? Topic 3 - A few months ago, Docker showed that Swarm could support 30,000 containers. Cloud Foundry supposedly supports 25,000 containers. And then Nomad came out with 1M containers. Why does anyone need that many containers? Topic 4 - There is a lot of dogma in the market about “platforms”. Are we getting close to a big market shakeout or consolidation, or will the confusion continue for a while? Topic 5 - You always give us some perspective on a broader way to view application management. We don’t talk much about security on the show because we’re clueless, so give us some insight. FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja, Co-Host of The Geek-Whisperers) about the chaotic state of the IT industry, how much location impacts day-to-day work, and how people are making positive transitions in their work. Show Links: This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books The Geek Whisperers (podcast) PopUpTechTalks Topic 1 - Is the IT industry in a more chaotic state than it’s ever been? Public Cloud vs. IT vendors
 Open Source Software vs. IT vendors
 People openly looking for new jobs 
 IT customers being very confused about what to buy/use/trust
 Are we at the end of a 20yr cycle (Vendor-VAR-Customer-TechSwimLanes)? Topic 2 - What’s the pulse of your community? What are the most frequently asked questions (on-the-record and off-the-record)? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about location. 10 years ago, teleworking was all the rage. Now, it feels like we’re back to a Silicon-Valley-centric world. Topic 4 - What do you feel like a lot of people are focused on, which is actually a bad thing or a false hope? What are the good things that people are focused on? Topic 5 - What do you feel like a lot of people are focused on, which is actually a bad thing or a false hope? What are the good things that people are focused on? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk with Donnie Flood (@floodfx) and Larry Ogrodnek (@ogrodnek) about their podcast @EngineersCoffee, their experience at Bizo, and their fascination with serverless computing (or events-based computing) with “Will it Lambda?” Show Sponsors: This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Show Links: Engineers and Coffee Podcast Bizo sold to LinkedIn AWS Lambda Topic 1 - Officially you are both formerly with a company called Bizo. Can you give us some of your background and the types of things you’ve built? Topic 2 - We found your show because of a tweet about AWS Lambda, which we’re both really fascinated about lately. Did you start your show to talk about Lambda, or was that just coincidentally the first topic? Topic 3 - What about Lambda is interesting to you guys? Topic 4 - Help us understand the basics of Lambda. There’s lots of tutorials and books online, but it would be great to talk through some example that you have dealt with. Maybe you’re “Will it Lambda?” Concept. Topic 5 - We’re seeing all the large cloud providers offer an events-based (serverless) offering now - Google Functions, Azure Functions, IBM OpenWhisk. Some are making them open-source. What do you see as the big areas that need additional work? Do you see this taking off of being a niche? Topic 6 - We’re seeing all the large cloud providers offer an events-based (serverless) offering now - Google Functions, Azure Functions, IBM has a service in BlueMix. Some are making them open-source. What do you see as the big areas that need additional work? Do you see this taking off of being a niche? Topic 7 - On your show, Donnie has mentioned many times his affinity to using more and more AWS services - sort of this “eliminate all the unnecessary lifting, focus on going fast” mentality. How did that come about, and do you think it’s applicable to non-startup companies? Topic 8 - We've talked a lot about Lambda, but what other areas are you guys really interested in these days? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk with Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA; Director of Program Management @Microsoft) and Ryan O’Hara (Director Private Cloud Solutions @Microsoft) about how Microsoft is attempting to bring the Azure Cloud down into customer’s data centers. Show Links: This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Microsoft Azure Stack Homepage Microsoft Azure (Cloud) Homepage Corey’s Microsoft Blog Tuesday's with Corey - Video Series Topic 1 - You’ve both been at Microsoft for a good amount of time. Give us a little bit of your background and maybe some insight into how all these changes in Redmond are happening? Topic 2 - Give us the basics of Azure Stack and how it differs from previous Windows Server or Cloud Platform System “cloud” offerings. Topic 2a- Azure Stack has been in “preview” for a couple months now. What has been the customer feedback? What didn’t you expect? Topic 3 - We’ve done this show for 5+ years and one theme is constant - operating a cloud is very difficult. Does Azure Stack just deliver the software, or is there an operational element from the Azure Cloud included? Topic 4 - Linux is a thing at Microsoft now. How will Azure Stack handle both Windows and Linux workloads? Topic 5 - Azure Cloud has a very large set of services now. How should customers think about how much of that will make it into Azure Stack? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison; Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ BuildFax) about building a digital business, the challenges of platforms, and why he’s moving more applications to serverless computing. Show Links: This show sponsored byIntel Cloud For All Get a free bookfrom O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Joe’s Company - BuildFax Joe’s writings - The New Stack Why AWS isn’t Winning and it Poses Problems Joe’s Blog - InformationWeek Building Serverless Applications - Interop 2016 Serverless References: AWS Lambda
 IBM OpenWhisk
 Google Functions
 Serverless Code - Ryan Brown Serverless Framework (open source)
 WebTask
 StackHut Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your background. We like to have builders on the show, but you actually help real builders. Topic 2 - You’re giving a 4hr talk at Interop in May about “Building Serverless Applications”. Let’s start with the basics of Serverless - why does it exist, what problem does it fix? what is it, what does it do? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about some of the existing serverless “services” out there and how they work. What works, work needs to evolve, how do they work with other services? Topic 4 - Does software exist today to have these serverless capabilities on-premises, or is this just a public cloud capability today? Topic 5 - You mentioned in a Twitter thread earlier this week that there are multiple services that are “better than AWS Lambda today”. Can you elaborate on that a little bit? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk with Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) about emerging technology trends, how Enterprises around the world differ from the Bay Area, the organizational challenges of containers, and his CIO/CTO advice for large companies. Show Links: This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All Get a free book from O'Reilly media or use promo code PCBW for a discount on all books Keith's Podcast - The CTO Advisor Podcast Keith's Blog - The CTO Advisor Topic 1 - Let's talk about your background, community involvement, and in particular your recent move from Consultant to IT practitioner. Topic 2 - You stay up to date on most of the modern technologies, but also work in large Enterprise in the Midwest. How different is the Bay Area echo chamber from your view of the world? Topic 3 - Let's talk about containers and DevOps. How do you see that fitting into today's IT organizations? What has to change? What won't change? Topic 4 - We're seeing more "overlay" technologies in the market, from containers or SDN or aspects of security (we talked to Illumio on Eps.239). How do you see those working in silo'd IT environments? Who pays for them? Topic 5 - If you were a CIO, in an industry that's getting more competitive with a digital competitor, how would you start thinking about allocating resources, uplifting (or rehiring) skills, organizational culture, etc.? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk with Ryan Kroonenburg (@acloudguru and @KroonenburgRyan, AWS Cloud Architect) and Anthony Stanley (@IamStan, AWS Cloud Architect) from A Cloud Guru about their passion for teaching, how they created A Cloud Guru, the framework for achieving AWS certifications and some examples of learners that got a big bump in pay after completing the courses. This show is sponsored by Intel Cloud for All - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/cloud-for-all/cloud-for-all.html A Cloud Guru Homepage - https://acloud.guru/
 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - #1 Paying Certification - http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/generic.asp?pageid=3855
 Some insight into how A Cloud Guru is using AWS Lambda to build their architecture to scale and reduce costs: https://read.acloud.guru/why-serverless-with-aws-is-a-game-changer-3cb37e25f638#.hfb74n8ig
 https://read.acloud.guru/serverless-the-future-of-software-architecture-d4473ffed864#.gmgtxc920
 https://read.acloud.guru/serverless-user-interfaces-stealing-the-best-of-mobile-for-the-web-802e1e8a30cb#.jcxc8bxal Topic 1 - Before we get into what A Cloud Guru does, let’s talk about your backgrounds. Where have you been and what made you want to start this business? Topic 2 - Let’s talk about A Cloud Guru. What does the site offer and what can “learners” expect from the training courses? Topic 3 - Ryan mentioned in the introduction video that he trained 30,000 people on AWS last year (or the last couple years) and you expect to reach 100,000 this year. That obviously means a lot of people using this platform to guide them. Tell us about the early feedback and things people want you to add? Topic 3a - Every new business has a plan or a set of expectations. What has been the unexpected that you’ve seen and heard from the market? Topic 4 - There was a recent survey from Global Knowledge that AWS Certified Solutions Architect is now the #1 Paying Certification. You mentioned that only 2000 people have that certification today, which feels a lot like the Cisco CCIE in 1997. Any ideas how much demand there is for that level of AWS certification? Topic 5 - Obviously you’ll see a number of individuals taking the courses, but are you starting to see corporate update as well? Can companies buy bulk licenses from A Cloud Guru?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow

Aaron and Brian talk with Alan Cohen (@ascohen, Chief Commercial Officer @illumio) about disrupting long-held technology architectures, the challenge of deploying and operating new technologies, and how Illumio security is designed to work around multiple cloud environments. This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All The Cloudcast is an O'Reilly Media Partner, Request a free eBook or use code PCBW for a discount on all books Show Links: The Tailgating Security Podcast Illumio Adaptive Security Platform Adaptive User Security Topic 1 - Give us the 101 on Illumio - Who is the team, What do you build, What's the problem space. Let's talk about your background - Airespace, Nicira, some Advisory companies - you're sort of a "Serial Disrupter". Topic 2 - The last few weeks we've been talking about the operation challenges of all these cool new technologies (cloud, cloud-native, . Deployment problems, networking problems. Security is right up there at the top of the list of problems. Let's talk about how Illumio Adaptive Security Platform works. Topic 3 - Security is a little bit like a magician's conference. Lots of cool tricks, and then competitors start trying to disprove it. As a company that's only a couple years old, what's been your biggest surprise that customers have tried to de-mystify and just haven't been able to do? Topic 4 - This week Illumio made an announcement that seems to take this security model from the application-level to the user-level. What does this mean in the bigger picture of corporate security? Topic 5 - RSA is coming up in about a week, which is sort of the Super Bowl of Security. Besides the FBI/iPhone privacy stuff, what are the big issues that people should be paying attention to, especially if they are focused on the evolving parts of their business? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ reasoning dot showBluesky: @reasoningshow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @ReasoningShowInstagram: @reasoningshowTikTok: @reasoningshow