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Review of the EdgeCongress event held October 24 - 25 in Austin, TX 2018.

Joining us this week is Rob Lalonde, VP & General Manager, Navops at Univa. About Univa Univa is the leading independent provider of software-defined computing infrastructure and workload orchestration solutions. Univa’s intelligent cluster management software increases efficiency while accelerating enterprise migration to hybrid clouds. We help hundreds of companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day.

Joining us this week is Dave Blakey, CEO and Co-Founder Snapt. About Snapt Snapt develops high-end solutions for application delivery. We provide load balancing, web acceleration, caching and security for critical services.

Rob Hirschfeld, CEO/Co-Founder of RackN and Greg Althaus, CTO/Co-Founder of RackN have a short discussion of the issue faced by DevOps and Operations teams finding time to investigate new technologies that could improve their day to day capabilities. In this discussion, time is more important than money.

Joining us this week is Antonio Pellegrino, Founder & CEO at Mutable. About Mutable Mutable helps software developers create scalable and fast web services by automating DevOps and providing edge technology all around the world.

Highlights 0 min 37 sec: Introduction of Guest 2 min 28 sec: High level description of the technology Cloud centralization is a problem; it needs to be decentralized Take over 100% or a partial amount of a machine added to the cloud network with special CoreOS based system 5 min 13 sec: Akash Network Donate your idle servers into an available system for usage in a cloud managed by Overclock Labs 2 Components – Blockchain for marketplace / Deployment platform 6 min 52 sec: How does marketplace work; who wants to use this network? Focus is on developers who want to use these systems #1 Reason – Cheaper than standard public clouds ; #2 Reason – Its distributed globally not at fixed known sites 10 min 26sec: Blockchain as decentralized ledger to avoid central store Join the infrastructure without a formal registration on a single database; only listening for bids not publishing what they offer History of the infrastructure is public for customers to evaluate 12 min 31 sec: How do I know where I am pushing my workloads? Can I trust the infrastructure provider? Issues arise with receiving workloads that are unknown to you 16 min 38 sec: What do I do to add a rack of servers into Akash network? What you need to do vs what you should do Management Server, Network Isolation, Monitoring Seasonal Load Model ~ Electric Grid Analogy 20 min 23 sec: Identify Geography and Latency to Customers? 21 min 23sec: What do I ensure I am not getting dropped or pulled into a bidding trap? Workload goes down it automates a bid elsewhere in the network Conditions can be set should you need a long running workload and it is terminated by the host Do you expect providers to monitor machines or do you as a service? 27 min 45 sec: Kubernetes Cluster across providers? Kubernetes Federation Why Kubernetes? Writing our own Kubernetes using Kubernetes 31 min 55 sec: Why not do this with Virtual Machines? Containers makes sense 32 min 40 sec: How long have you been working on this project? Why of the project? DISCO → Scheduler Decentralization is the key Can build a private infrastructure using their system 37 min 01 sec: Wrap-Up

Joining us this week is Syed Zaeem Hosain, CTO and Founder of Aeris from the KeyBanc Emerging Tech Summit. Aeris is a technology partner with a proven history of helping companies unlock the value of IoT. For more than a decade, we’ve powered critical projects for some of the most demanding customers of IoT services. Aeris strives to fundamentally improve businesses by dramatically reducing costs, accelerating time-to-market, and enabling new revenue streams. Built from the ground up for IoT and globally tested at scale, Aeris IoT Services are based on the broadest technology stack in the industry, spanning connectivity up to vertical solutions. As veterans of the industry, we know that implementing an IoT solution can be complex, and we pride ourselves on making it simpler.

Joining us this week is Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO of PencilDATA at KeyBank Emerging Tech Summit. About PencilDATA PencilDATA is a software-as-a-service startup embracing data governance allowing users to see and manipulate data easily. It achieves this with a blockchain ledger that accounts for all data activity, Highlights  0 min 48 sec: Introduction from Val Bercovici o Post – Blockchain in the Cloud by Rob Hirschfeld o Robotic Process Automation (RPA)  4 min 47 sec: What do you use Blockchain for? o Core to the value but is just an enabler  5 min 52 sec: Don't confused Blockchain with ICO/Crypto-currency o Blockchain rollouts in 2018 have paused ~ Gartner quote o HOMEWORK – Podcast with BlockChain Technology Partners o PencilDATA has built the S3 of Blockchains  10 min 08 sec: Blockchain Service or Acting on BC with distributed service? o Useful Zero Trust Solution o Autonomous Vehicle Taxi Service Use Case o Same workflow and processes needed for medical equipment  15 min 59 sec: Why Distributed Ledgers for these Use Cases? o Centralized authorities can be a single point of failure  19 min 51 sec: Data security issues around Veracity & Authentication o Data poison can train AI poorly o Explainable AI ~ Data Reproduce-ability; prove data is valid  25 min 54 sec: SalesForce Use Cases o Live on the SalesForce App Exchange o Launching at DreamForce 2018 with Customer References  27 min 18 sec: How PencilDATA provide value to SalesForce Customers? o SaaS Turnkey Solution that hides the behind the scenes work o Costs for Etherium usage  37 min 14 sec: Industrial IoT Use Case  37 min 31 sec: Wrap-Up

Joining us this week is Ash Young, Chief Evangelist of Cachengo and OPNFV Ambassador. Cachengo builds smart, predictive storage for machine learning. NOTE – We had a microphone problem that is solved at the 9 minute 19 second mark of the podcast. Start there if you find the clicking noise an issue

Highlights 1 min 55 sec: Define Cloud from a CloudOps perspective Business Model and an Operations Model 3 min 59 sec: Update from Google Next 2018 event Google is the “Engineer's Cloud” Google's approach vs Amazon approach in feature design/release 9 min 55 sec: Early Amazon ~ no easy button Amazon educated the market as industry leader 12 min04 sec: What is the state of Hybrid? Do we need it? Complexity of systems leads to private, public as well as multiple cloud providers Open source enabled workloads to run on various clouds even if the cloud was not designed to support a type of workload Google's strategy is around open source in the cloud 14 min 12 sec: IBM visibility in open source and cloud market Didn't build cloud services (e.g. open a ticket to remap a VLAN) 16 min 40 sec: OpenStack tied to compete on service components Couldn't compete without Product Managers to guide developers Missed last mile between technology and customer Didn't want to take on the operational aspects of the customer 19 min 31 sec: Is innovation driven from listening to customers vs developers doing what they think is best? OpenStack is seen as legacy as customers look for Cloud Native Infrastructure OpenStack vs Kubernetes install time significance 22 min 44 sec: Google announcement of GKE for on-premises infrastructure Not really On-premise; more like Platform9 for OpenStack GKE solve end user experience and operational challenges to deliver it 26 min 07 sec: Edge IT replaces what is On-Premises IT Bullish on the future with Edge computing 27 min 27 sec: Who delivers control plane for edge? Recommends Open Source in control plan 28 min 29 sec: Current tech hides the infrastructure problems Someone still has to deal with the physical hardware 30 min 53 sec: Commercial driver for rapid Edge adoption 32 min 20 sec: CloudOps building software / next generation of BSS or OSS for telco Meet the needs of the cloud provider for flexibility in generating services with the ability to change the service backend provider Amazon is the new Win32 38 min 07 sec: Can customers install their own software? Will people buy software anymore? Compare payment models from Salesforce and Slack Google allowing customers to run their technology themselves of allow Google to manage it for you 40 min 43 sec: Wrap-Up

Joining us this week is Jason Hoffman, CEO MobiledgeX, a startup “creating a global marketplace for organizations to deliver and drive the business of these edge enabled services and products.” Highlights Joyent – Cloud Computing’s Amiga Technology for You vs Technology for Customer How we Got Here and will Get to Edge Anchoring Edge into Current Needs Humans and Machines Integration – Computer Vision Software and Hardware Support and Aging Issues in House Mixed Reality solves Social issues of Smartphones Reality of Physics in Building the Edge ~ Battery Life is Killer App Network to Data Centric View Switch ~ Edge Data is the S3 of Cloud Lack of Understanding in Early Web Infrastructure vs Email Understanding Lack of Evolution in Hardware Provisioning - Evil Firmware Horrible Parenting Advice

VM Brasseur from Open Source Initiative along with Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector talk about the license announcement made by Redis Labs to add Common Clause (https://redislabs.com/community/licenses/) to some of their software. Also discussed is the limited success of the Open Core business model.

Joining us this week is VM (Vicky) Brasseur from Open Source Initiative. Highlights 1 min 20 sec: Types of Companies Supported Companies don’t know why they want to do open source 3 min 23 sec: Can’t Abandon Software into Community Communities don’t instantly form around your software 4 min 22 sec: Is Marketing “Evil” in Open Source Marketing has become associated with advertising which is invasive 5 min 19 sec: Define Marketing Discovering the needs of the market and build to support it Technologists don’t really understand marketing 6 min 17 sec: Issues of Marketing in Open Source What is your goal in using open source? 8 min 15 sec: Everyone has their own Goal in Open Source There is no bullet point list of how to do open source 9 min 29 sec: Issues of Accessing Projects and Support for Free Open source done a poor job of talking about value being provided People assume big projects are paid for by large companies so they take advantage 13 min 19 sec: Difficult to Tell New User’s End State as Communities Invest in Helping them Learn the Technology Some communities set the bar too high for user participation Open source does a bad job in documentation typically 17 min 9 sec: What about CI/CD Systems? Not a significant issue today in open source for contributors 19 min 21 sec: How help People Build Empathy for Users and Maintainers and Impact when Corporations are involved 21 min 29 sec: How Communities Manage Competitive Companies Working Together Foundations play a key role in managing these issues Open source is not corporate! The vast majority of open source is not corporate based Is there less concern for the tiny project’s vs the large corporate projects? Substantial lack of awareness of this in user community 25 min 04 sec: Price to a Community when a Customer Pulls out and Uses Corporate Version of Solution? Should companies pay for open source software they grab from community? Many ways to contribute other than money 27 min 56 sec: Business Continuity Issues in Open Source Free and open source software needs to be part of business continuity plans Vendor software solutions are equally risky as open source solutions 30 min 36 sec: Define Copyleft 4 Freedoms of Copyleft from Richard Stallman Can never change the license of Copyleft software 32 min 43 sec: Open Core Model Analogy of a restaurant with more tables than it can serve Proprietary products with open source APIs / SDKs

Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus discuss their recent experiences with customers in truly understanding what provisioning is and what it is not. They even compare where the word provision comes from.

Joining us this week is Mathew Lodge, SVP of Products & Marketing of Anaconda. Highlights • 2 min 57 sec: What does Anaconda do? o Help data scientists be productive & enterprise AI / Data Science • 3 min 36 sec: How do you interact with Anaconda? o About 2.5 million downloads a month of Anaconda Distribution o Install binary packages for data science to Python • 5 min 55 sec: Who are data scientists? o Data wrangling and understanding • 9 min 12 sec: Data Science as a verb o Understand how to turn data into actionable insight • 10 min 47 sec: How learn to use the tools? Community! o Community around Anaconda open source to share packages, etc • 13 min 26 sec: How does Anaconda change as AI/Machine Learning improve? o Python is standard language with R close behind for data science • 14 min 58 sec: Reproducibility in results o 16 min 01 sec: Model training issue? • 17 min 16 sec: Parking lot on Sam Charrington’s AI Bias Podcasts o TWiML & AI - https://twimlai.com/ • 17 min 43 sec: Training models for limited sets of data for reliability in Edge o Answer by example of Google ImageNet o 20 min 14 sec: Optimizations to reduce processing requirements  Hey Siri example on how iPhone works o 22 min 03 sec: Do models improve over time? Transfer learning • 22 min 30 sec: Accelerative Learning in AI o Fashion example of layering learning o Issues around lack of data for training • 26 min 01 sec: Portability of models via Anaconda • 26 min 48 sec: Cloud Native Model of AI (no longer 2004) o Moved on from Java and distributed computing to Kubernetes o 29 min 05 sec: Giving up data locality (Hadoop) & specialized hardware? o 32 min 42 sec: Cloud model gives private and public options • 34 min 23 sec: How Anaconda play into the Cloud Native data science model? o Data scientists interested in data problems not cloud architecture o Data science as a Service o Kubernetes & Docker installed for you by Anaconda • 38 min 05 sec: WRAP UP o Anaconda Con Videos

Joining us this week is Yves Boudreau from Ericsson for his 2nd Podcast appearance (1st Podcast). Highlights • Edge as an accelerant not having to wait until Edge is built completely • Opportunity Cost using Edge as is; no time to wait • Be Specific when Requesting Services • Internet and Networks are Not Unlimited Pipes • Interesting Use Cases for Edge – Augmented Reality, Drone, Cars, Batteries o Jason Hoffman Podcast for Batteries • Cost savings of where the data processing is done • Open Source software communities at the Edge

Joining us this week is Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder and CEO, Rafay Systems. Highlights • Building an application deployment platform as close to the Edge as possible • Supporting containers, microservices (move latency sensitive parts of app to Edge) and availability of infrastructure • Definition of Edge to Rafay Systems • Issues of massive amount of data at the Edge to be handled – Use Cases • Will Edge suffer from device specific infrastructure needs? • Application bottlenecks and impact of cloud locations and end user • Placement control of services is still an open issue based on user requirements • IT infrastructure and ownership and performance issues (IT vs Operation Teams) • Cloud and Edge are not competitive; they work together to offer applications best fit

Stephen Spector and Rob Hirschfeld offer commentary on the recent news about a Donkey in Egypt painted to be a Zebra at the local zoo. From this we have created the Donkey - Zebra concept of IT solutions, marketing and sales. Also add in a short discussion on a recent post that Google Cloud has an advantage in the marketplace because of open source; quick hint ~ we don't buy it.

Joining us this week is Richard Primeaux, Head of Product and Strategy, Hangar Technology. Highlights • Cars are the wrong choice for autonomous vehicles – test out on autonomous drones for infrastructure projects (e.g. new buildings, cell towers, …) • Mission plans delivered to drone for execution as a robot • What is a robot? Difficult – Dangerous – High Degree of Repeatability – Dull Tasks • Robot is controlled from program that is run independent of a controller • 4-D visual insights delivered to customers • Robotics as a System ~ requires a great deal of components for success; not just electronics • What an Edge infrastructure will look like to support these robots • GPS accuracy is not enough for flying robotics • Supporting external influences that happen in real time • Building multi-vendor edges coordinating data • Discussion on how car automation can learn from drone automation

Joining us this week is Mike D. Kail, previously the CTO of Cybric and Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure. Highlights • RANT Cast on Cybersecurity Regulations from Governments o Security is Important but NOT a Priority • Culture around Security is Lacking • Time for Security Tech to Include UI Testing and Consider User Experience • Confusing on Not-Working Security Settings and Profit Motives o Security thru Transparency • Accountability of Provider in Turning off Security based on Requests • Definition on Distributed Ledgers / Blockchain & Scalability Challenges • Promise of Blockchain and Good Application for It / Digital Identity • Zero Trust Security Overview • Equifax Example and Regulations

Joining us this week is James Ferguson, Director of Cloud Consulting, JBC Labs. Highlights • Overview of JBC Labs’ Jump Box Central Kubernetes Solution • State of Kubernetes Today • Concept of Kubernetes as an Application Platform • Functions as a Service • Service Mesh and Kubernetes

In this recap, Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector look back over the past year and 50 L8istSh9y podcasts. The discussion highlights the main themes of Edge Computing, DevOps and SRE, Open Source, and our new start into Blockchain. Follow our new Podcast blog athttps://medium.com/@l8istsh9y.

Joining us this week is Scott Lowe, Staff Field Engineer at Heptio recorded at Interop ITX 2018. Scott is well known for his impact on virtualization and VMware, follow him at his weblog and podcast called The Full Stack Journey. Highlights • Coming new to container space and view of infrastructure within the stack • Why he chose Heptio and its transition up the stack away from virtualization • Heptio strategy? Open source based • Commercial strategy to support open source in Kubernetes • Monetization of open source projects challenges • Building applications to run on “standard” Kubernetes

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector review the newly released State of the Edge Report https://www.stateoftheedge.com). The report does require your email address to obtain and we basically go through the major content in the report and offer our thoughts.

Joining us this week is the team from Blockchain Technology Partners: Duncan-Johnston-Watt, Kevin O’Donnell, and Mike Zaccardo live from GlueCon 2018 in Colorado. Blockchain Technology Partners is an Edinburgh-based technology startup: • Mission – to radically simplify the enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies • Goal - to reduce the cost and complexity of doing business through decentralization while ensuring trust, transparency and accountability in a distributed world • Focus – providing a production-ready blockchain platform and partnering with businesses to deliver blockchain-based solutions Highlights • Who is Blockchain Technology Partners and Company Objectives • What is Blockchain: Distributed Transaction Log and Consensus • Decentralization of Ledgers and Centralization Weakness (Bitcoin e.g) • Use Cases for Blockchain • Publication Components of Blockchain; its Middle-Ware • Trusted Authorities and Broker Replacement (Shipping e.g.) • Edge Computing and Blockchain Examples • Data Responsibility and Local Blockchains • Blockchain Technology Partners Open Source Model and Technology

Joining us this week is Simon Crosby, CTO at SWIM.AI. Simon discusses the architecture for Edge and its differences from existing cloud infrastructure and how the SWIM.AI solution meets the needs for Edge services. Highlights • Challenges in Edge • Data is Complete Disruption in Current Models • Don’t Train in Cloud for Edge; Instead Learn on Fly • All About Data – Apps can’t be Written for Data Specifically • Example of Sensor Model at Traffic Light in Self-Learning Model • Digital Twin Concept & Actor Model • SWIM.AI Innovation ~ always as though its local • Independent Management of Latency and Resource Utilization • Write the Program from the Data • Example of Manufacturer with Millions of RFID Tags • Limitations of Having People Involved in Everything

Joining us this week is Matt Trifiro, CMO of Vapor.io. Matt offers insight into how Edge infrastructure and 5G will be deployed to meet the increased demand for low latency, high data distributed technology. Highlights • Edge is a place: the last mile network • Jitter at the Edge (Jitter definition) • Data sovereignty and location • Apps for Edge have are not similar to existing apps for communication processes • Edge as multi-vendor data sharing environment • Real estate problem – solved by Akamai • Vision of schedulers on keeping apps running vs keeping apps fast • Cloud providers will extend into the Edge • Augmented reality discussion of video and latency (Digital Twin) • Importance of 5G to Edge and commercial impact • Real estate is key in Edge computing • Building and Managing Edge infrastructure • What does Vapor do?

Joining us this week is Rich Miller, CEO and Managing Director of Telematica, Inc. Highlights • GitHub and Microsoft Discussion ~ Why is GitHub so Valuable? • Evolution of Open Source and its Commercial Aspects • Monetization of Open Source Depends on Services for Success • Container Management and Marketplace for Innovation • ISV Ecosystem ~ All About Big Money and the New Tech Investment Thesis • Multi-Platforms / Multi-CSP Change the Nature of Innovation from the Independents • Edge Computing will Disrupt the Locus of Opportunities • The Edge Marketplace and Cloud Platform Marketplace Must Appear Unified to Developers • Edge Infrastructure Multi-Tenancy and Development Challenges • Distributed Ledger at Edge is the Killer Edge App • How will Cloud, Blockchain and Edge be Driven toward Integration in the Future? Email Example

Joining us this week is Chris Short, Senior DevOps Advocate, SJ Technologies. Chris is also a CNCF Ambassador managing an excellent newsletter, DevOps’ish. Highlights • Site Reliability Engineering & DevOps relationship & philosophy • SRE details in budgets, toil, and security • Pipeline infrastructure, configuration management, and immutability • Cultural aspects of DevOps • Why Kubernetes? Ecosystems? Build for Kubernetes apps • SaaS vs Licensing models (answer to all things software)

Joining us this week is Aaron Delp, Director of Technical Solutions, Cohesity. Aaron and Brian Gracely manage the well-known podcast, The Cloudcast, with over 340 podcasts. Highlights • Data returns to the data center in data transformation • Best of breed world and impact of refresh cycles on hardware and software • Data in the edge and hardware processors at the edge • Latency issues for long haul data center(s) storage & Metadata about location • Fragmented market coming for multi-vendor IoT processing? • Is open source a good model for vendors? Issue on monetization of open source o Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore • Commercial drivers impact on open source sustainability • Community vs Ecosystem

Joining us this week is Jordan Rinke, Principal Software Engineer, Walmart Labs. Jordan offers his views on various technologies and open source projects as it relates to the scale and connectivity issues faced by Walmart. Highlights • Technical Gaps in Kubernetes Technologies and Installer Issues • Tooling and Orchestration Focus for Kubernetes and Other Tools • Core OS Model for Bootstrapping Kubernetes • Discussion on Immutability: Middle Ground for Jordan • Edge Computing – Emerging markets lead to disconnected edge sites • Data location challenges in edge and cloud services • Skills issues for medium sized clusters

Joining us this week is Christine Yen, Co-founder at Honeycomb coming from a recording at SRECon Americas in March 2018 at Santa Clara Convention Center Hyatt. Highlights • Understanding of what developer tools are today • Observability vs Monitoring • Instrumenting Apps for Diagnostics to help Developers do More • Tool to build not just better engineers but teams as well to support customers • Brief history of Honeycomb and where it came from (Parse and Facebook) • How debug containers that are most likely gone by time problem arises? • AI / Machine Learning – can it really help today? • 2nd Wave of DevOps • Impact of listening to users at a startup – people problems vs technology

Joining us this week is Chetan Venkatesh, CEO/President of Macrometa, a stealth startup. Chetan is actively engaged in the data issues for edge computing and provides insight into the reality of edge computing and its changes in application development and delivery. Highlights • Overview of Edge Computing and Chetan’s 3 Edges • Internet of things, gateways and data aggregation • Can Telcos compete against cloud providers? • How apps handle massive scale? Developer’s support? Distributed architecture? • Multi-tenancy impact on edge infrastructure? • Re-think where data resides to support user location • What is possible with IoT is unknown • What are the first movers in the edge computing space?

Joining us this week is Baruch Sadogursky, Head of Developer Relations at JFrog. Baruch is an industry veteran in management of complex software and is a fantastic event speaker; I highly recommend attending his sessions at a future event. Short promotion for JFrog Swamp Up (May 16 – 18, 2018) Highlights • Short overview of JFrog and its relationship to CI/CD pipelines • Discussion of immutability (shifting left) in deployment paradigms • Metadata and the impact of scale (Toyota Manufacturing Model) • How can I update software components with confidence? • Distributed programming and impact of edge computing

Joining us this week is Mark Imbriaco, Global CTO DevOps, Pivotal. Mark’s view of ops and open source from a platform perspective as it relates to SRE offers listeners a high-level approach to these concepts that is not often heard. Highlights • Site Reliability Engineering – Introduction and Advanced Discussion • Edge Computing from Platform View • Open Source Projects vs Products and Sustainability • Monetization of Open Source Matters

Joining us this week is John Willis, VP DevOps and Digital Practices, SJ Technologies known for many things including being at the initial DevOps meeting in Europe, co-founder of the DevOpsDays events, and the DevOps Café podcast. Highlights • Introduction to the Phoenix Project and the new audio Beyond the Phoenix Project • Docker discussion and the issues around its success based on the ecosystem success • Docker vs operation split for two different audiences • Issue of sustaining open source technology and lack of financing to support this • Revenue arc vs viral adoption for open source model • Three reasons to choose open source model for software

Joining us this week is Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside AWS Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of severless applications. Highlights • Intro of AWS Lambda and IOpipe • Discussion of Observability and Opaqueness of Serverless • Edge Computing Definition and Vision • End of Operating Systems and Abstraction Boundaries

In this week’s podcast, we speak with Justin Garrison, co-author of Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNI). • Behind scenes for O’Reilly book and choice of cover animal • Infrastructure and CNI approach • State and Immutability / Immutable VM • Terraform and Kubernetes • Observability • The Why of Immutability • Infrastructure as Software (Netflix) • Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps

Joining us this week is Dave Nielsen, Head of Ecosystem Programs at Redis Labs. Dave provides background on the Redis project and discusses ideas for using Redis in edge devices. Highlights • Background of Redis project and Redis Labs • Redis and Edge Computing • Where is the Edge? • Raspberry Pi for edge devices? It’s about management • Wasteland of IT management at the edge

Joining us this week is Oliver Gould, CTO Buoyant who provides a service mesh abstraction view to micro-services and Kubernetes. Oliver and Rob also take a look at how applications are managed at the edge and highlights the future roadmap for Conduit. Highlights • Defining microservices and Kubernetes from Buoyant viewpoint • Service mesh abstractions at a request level (load balance, get, put, …) • Conduit overview – client-side load balancing • Service mesh tool comparisons • Edge Computing discussion from service mesh view

Joining us this week is Yadin Porter de León (@porterdeleon), IT Community at Druva as well as from the Level Up Project and host of the Tech Village podcast. Highlights " Open Source Communities and the People " Relationship of Corporations in Open Source and Community " Users of Open Source care about Community? " Community's should FOCUS and not overlap to adjacencies

In this week's podcast, we speak with Kong Yang, Head Geek at SolarWinds. He also hosts the Wide World of Tech podcast. Key topics discussed in the podcast: " State of cloud computing ~ entering its golden age " IT & business units coming together to deal with shadow IT responsibly " Building technology on services with no control over them " CI/CD model " Operators skills and time available " Human aspect

Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Director Technical Marketing/Evangelist at Turbonomic and podcaster/evangelist at Discoposse.com. Highlights " RANT on Cloud Terminology w/ new terms "DevOpsishFullStackishness" & "Woke IT" " Open Source communities, vendors, and value of users " Edge Computing - Definition, Turbonomic Role in Cloud/Edge " Edge and Cloud are Hybrid - Embrace multiple paradigms including legacy " Discussion of Go language and RackN usage

In this week's podcast, we speak with Nic Jackson, Developer Advocate, HashiCorp (@sheriffjackson). Nic provides insight into the product and development philosophy of HashiCorp and how it impacts their products and open source components. The last section of the podcast on product feature limitations and how companies go too far is very interesting. " HashiCorp Overview and Design Philosophy of their Solutions " Company vs Community Open Source Comparison in Terraform " Abstractions and Portability Failings " Product Features and Doing Too Much

In this week's podcast, we speak with Gina Rosenthal (Minks), Product Marketing Manager, VMware and experienced sys-admin/operator. She also hosts the Wide World of Tech podcast. " Cloud debate on virtualization and hypervisors as requirement " What makes Ops so hard? " Technical Communities for Day 2 Ops " Community Support for Vendors and Open Source " Is DevOps different than 5 years ago? " Devs and Operators Communication and Working Together

In this week's podcast, we speak with Paul Teich, Principal Analyst, Tirias Research. Paul offered his insight into several key industry trends as well as the recent Spectre and Meltdown discoveries. * Spectre and Meltdown - Will this drive additional security focus? * Augmented Reality and AI is the holy grail of Edge and Cloud * Capabilities of 5G and its impact over next 10 years * Why is Hyper Converged Infrastructure popular?

Coming direct from Cambodia is a rare podcast with Jim Plamondon, the creator of how software platforms were built at Microsoft via APIs and developer evangelism. In this podcast, he talks about the early history of developer evangelism at Apple and Microsoft, the current state of open source, and the upcoming competitive industry coming from China and its roots in the third world. Highlights * Soviet Agriculture and Technology Market Comparison * Why NeXT and Apple Failed with Software Industry but iPhone Succeeded * China Industry Takeover is Coming: Product Price Points Books referenced in the podcast: * Game of X v.1: Xbox (Volume 1) by Rusel DeMaria * Game of X v.2: The Long Road to Xbox (Volume 2) by Rusel DeMaria Note - If you are easily offended by language please consider skipping this podcast

In this week's podcast, we speak with Tim Crawford from AVOA who is ranked as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Chief Technology Officers (#4) and Top 100 Cloud Expert and Influencer. He focuses on several interesting topics: * CIO selection of new technology for enterprise * Challenges for Enterprise to patch and upgrade software/hardware * Edge Computing - what it is, CIO thinking * Vendor Landscape * Open Source for CIOs - when to use and why Podcast Participants: Tim Crawford on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcrawford Stephen Spector on Twitter: www.twitter.com/spectorID Rob Hirschfeld on Twitter: www.twitter.com/zehicle Subscribe to L8istSh9y: SoundCloud : www.l8istSh9y.com iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/l8ist-sh9y-podcast/id1276764266?mt=2 Stitcher : http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=165143&refid=stpr Podcast.com : http://www.podcasts.com/l8ist-sh9y-podcast-80

In this week’s podcast, we speak with Dave McCrory, VP of Engineering for Machine Learning at GE Digital. He focuses on several interesting topics: • Data Gravity Overview • Data “Training” – Monetization – Application Usage in Edge • Multi-Tenancy in Edge?

In this week’s podcast, we speak with Stephen O’Donnell, Senior Analyst for Global Hive and author of What Every CIO Wants. He focuses on several interesting topics: • Building Massively Scalable Datacenters • What is the Edge? Complete 25 Use Case Definition • Enterprise Datacenters Move to Edge • Layering Solutions on Edge Services