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Guest: Niraj Tolia, CEO and Co-Founder, Kasten.io Niraj’s Post on VMworld 2019: Highlights from VMworld 2019 <https://blog.kasten.io/posts/vmworld-2019-san-francisco-highlights/> Rob’s Post on Bare Metal and VM Performance Post : Yes – VM + Containers can be faster than Bare Metal <https://rackn.com/2019/08/26/vm-faster-than-metal/

Joining the podcast this week is 3 Calsoft experts in the cloud, networking, telecom and edge space: Pavan Gupta, Software Architect, Calsoft Kiran Divekar, Software Architect, Calsoft Umang Rajvanshi, Principal Marketing Analyst, Calsoft As mentioned in the podcast, get their recent ebook: A Deep-drive On Kubernetes For Edge : https://calsoftinc.com/resources/ebooks/a-deep-dive-on-kubernetes-for-edge/

Joining us this week is Niraj Tolia, Co-Founder and CEO, Kasten. He talks about his company's focus on the cloud-native ecosystem and how Kasten is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run stateful applications on Kubernetes. In particular, they have developed a unique application-centric approach to help operations teams with their backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and cross-cluster and cross-cloud mobility requirements. Before starting Kasten, Niraj was the Senior Director of Software Engineering at EMC/Maginatics and was responsible for the CloudBoost family of data protection products. Prior to EMC’s acquisition of Maginatics, he was a founding member of the Maginatics team and played multiple roles within the company including VP of Engineering, Chief Architect, and Staff Engineer. Niraj received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where, as a part of the Parallel Data Lab, he worked on distributed storage systems. He also received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Rob Hirschfeld talks about the new open source Digital Rebar 4 release with its new features and flipped open source release changes.

Joining us this week is Doug Beardsley, Director of Engineering at Kadena (https://kadena.io/). Upcoming Events: The founders of Kadena Will Martino and Stuart Popejoy, along with our Head of Growth, Ben Jessel, will be speaking at World Blockchain Forum NYC on September 27-28, 2019. Doug Beardsley, Director of Engineering, Kadena Doug is Kadena's Director of Engineering, contributing 15 years of professional software experience to the role. He spent six years working in the defense industry where he built large scale radar tracking and data fusion systems from the ground up. Doug has been writing Haskell professionally since 2010, with projects in finance, data visualization, and analytics covering both frontend and backend web development. He is the author of the Snap web framework and maintains a number of open source Haskell libraries. Doug is also active in the Haskell and functional programming communities as a co-organizer of the New York Haskell Meetup and the Compose Conference. About Kadena Kadena is creating a hybrid public and permissioned blockchain with a safe and easy-to-use smart contract language. Kadena is fast, secure and simple—and we’re in use today by Fortune 500 clients in finance, healthcare and insurance. Our partners include USCF, a $3 billion dollar ETP fund that leads in alternative investments. Chainweb, Kadena's scalable Proof of Work blockchain, is launching at the end of 2019.

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector discuss the recent trend of having "the best" team and a recent twitter discussion on 10x engineers.

Joining the podcast this week is Adam Kranitz from CloudCheckr. Adam is a New York-based marketing communications director focused on enterprise SaaS and media technology brands. As head of social media marketing at one of the largest media technology companies in the world, Avid Technology, he built the global storytelling platform AvidBlogs.com and helped to launch the film, video, audio, and music creation software used by the biggest names in entertainment. Prior to that, Adam co-founded BrandingStrategyInsider.com, the global thought leader in brand strategy and brand education. Today, Adam runs communications at CloudCheckr—the most comprehensive Cloud Management Platform (CMP) for finance, security, and compliance teams—leading brand strategy, events marketing, creative services, analyst relations, public relations, community, and social media programs.

Joining us today is Mike D Kail with fantastic thoughts on Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, and Edge. Mike D Kail- CTO, Everest.Org and Former CIO, Yahoo and VP, Netflix Currently Everest’s CTO, responsible for the technical implementation of the scalable identity and payment solution platform. Recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter”, Mike was the former CIO/SVP of Infrastructure of Yahoo!. He also served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix.

Joining us this week is Matt Caufield, Co-Founder and CEO Oort.io. Matt is currently co-founder & CEO at Oort, an early-stage startup focused on the intersection of Cybersecurity and Edge Computing. Previously he led the award-winning Boston Center of Excellence team at Cisco, taking new product ideas from concept to production through a customer co-development pipeline. He studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Cornell University with a concentration in distributed systems and networking.

Ravikanth Chaganti offers his thoughts on Infrastructure as a Service and how data centers are operated.

Joining us this week is Sam Nagar, Co-Founder and CEO Pixeom. He provides insight into the history of his company and how they are already deployed in sizable production environments. About Pixeom Pixeom is a five year-old company that’s changing the way enterprise manages cloud resources. Pixeom is the market leader in this emerging category based on revenue, number of deployments and number of experts within the company. Pixeom’s enterprise software platform delivers all the power of the cloud with the speed of on-premise edge computing.

Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Director Technical Marketing at Turbonomic. He joins a discussion talking about Rob Hirschfeld’s recent post on The New Stack, The Optimal Kubernetes Cluster Size? Let’s Look at the Data (https://thenewstack.io/the-optimal-kubernetes-cluster-size-lets-look-at-the-data/)

Co-Hosts Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen discuss the latest news in the open source industry including the impact of AWS on open source databases and the recent news around MapR and other big data vendors.

Joining us this week is Avi Press, Software Engineer at Fraction and creator of the open source Toodles project. This podcast comes from a recent post by Avi on Medium, “A Failed Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project.” https://medium.com/swlh/a-failed-effort-to-get-paid-for-an-open-source-project-bd7fa4658a1e About Toodles Toodles scrapes your entire repository for TODO entries and organizes them so you can manage your project directly from the code. View, filter, sort, and edit your TODO's with an easy to use web application. When you make changes via toodles, the edits will be applied directly the TODO entries in your code. When you're done, commit and push your changes to share them with your team!

Simon Crosby, CTO and Co-Founder of Swim.ai provides an in-depth overview of the newly available technology with plenty of examples demonstrating the substantial gains in edge cloud application processing vs existing cloud applications.

Rob Hirschfeld and Mark Thiele give their Open Infrastructure Talk from the recent event in Denver in this podcast. Slides for the podcast are available at https://speakerdeck.com/zehicle/edge-dont-touch-that. A video of the talk is at https://youtu.be/KvqN8x1bDCw.

Chetan Vinkatesh, CEO and Co-Founder of Macrometa provides deep technical insight into their soon to be launched Global Edge Fabric development platform. For more information go to https://www.macrometa.co/product.

Joining us this week is Ben Silverman, Chief Cloud Officer, Cincinnati Bell Technology Services. Highlights • Ben Silverman Background • Experience at Denver Open Infrastructure Summit o PTG Separation • Free Software does not mean Free Support • Vendors in Attendance: Significant Downsizing of Companies • Installer Wars and Airship • Ironic Push & MaaS Alliance • Developers Portability and Languages • Cross Community Compatibility • Only Tools are OpenStack • Final Event Thoughts

Joining us this week is Olivier Avaro, Founder & CEO Blacknut. About Blacknut Blacknut aims to fundamentally change the video game industry by creating a service where users can access a vast catalog of curated games, play without limit across all devices, and no longer have the need for dedicated hardware, all for a simple subscription. Using the latest cloud computing technology, Blacknut digitizes video games, delivering them through the cloud directly to smart devices such as televisions, tablets, and phones or through devices like set-top boxes and dongles. Highlights: • Working at a Gaming Company • Game Streaming and Experience • Elimination of H/W Limitations for Modern Games • Delivery of Game from Cloud vs Edge • More than 50% of 5G traffic expected to be Gaming • Edge/Cloud Infrastructure Requirements • Virtualized Game Platform • Challenges in Building the Blacknut Platform

Discussion on the newly released "Data at the Edge" report from The State of the Edge community at https://www.stateoftheedge.com/

Joining us this week is Mark Thiele, Director Engineering Edge Computing, Ericsson and Host of IDCA Podcast. Highlights: • Monopolies in IT • Restrictions in Innovation as everyone has same Cloud tools • Monopolies are not Good for Customers • Edge Push from Public Clouds • Learning from Edge Research • Will Edge Save us from Cloud Monopolies? • Telcos at Edge

Joining us this week is Patrick Pushor, Director of Sales and Field Engineering, Clear Blockchain Technologies. Highlights: • Patrick’s Background in Cloud Computing (Public) • Why join Blockchain Startup? • Practical Blockchain Applications • Evolution Change in Commerce • Hype of Blockchain – e.g. Crypto Currency • Trusted Interactions – Prevent Fraud • Meeting Market Needs for Enterprise • SaaS Model vs Enterprise In-House Sale

Joining us this week is Adam Toll, Founder of Haste. About Haste Haste is a network optimizer for video games, reducing lag, packet loss, and jitter to improve your gaming experience. Highlights: • Adam History in pre-CDN technologies, streaming music, and gaming lag issues • How Solve Lag Issues over Network • Quality of Service and Multi-Path • Challenges w/ Cached Content and Real-Time Content • Edge Management with Network Unpredictability Time Tracking • 0 min 50 sec: Introduction of Guest o Background on Satellite Communication in Early Days Leading to CDN o Early Streaming Music Technology Startup o Angel Investing Period • 8 min 8 sec: How to Fix Lag Issues? o Early Web and Rich Media Challenges ~ Content Distribution Networks o Haste Focused on Real-Time w/ User Generated Content that is Dynamic o Overlay Network Architecture ~ Spend Bandwidth to Achieve Performance • 13 min 14 sec: Quality of Service and Multi-Path o Anticipatory Gaming – Action Timestamps o Duplicating Traffic on 4 Separate Paths o 3 Layers: Infrastructure, Suite of Software Defined Networking Tools, & Software on Gaming Machine Locally Installed  Caching Not Involved • 21 min 24 sec: Challenges of Out-Of-Date CDNs o Critical Issues  Game Software Updates (Required) – Traditional CDN  Active Game Play Stream – Haste Manages w/ EDGE GRAVITY by Ericsson o Local Haste Service – Monitor Streams to Ensure Fastest Access to Various Game Servers  Ensure Awareness of Various Game Servers Availability • 28 min 52 sec: How Shape Edge Infrastructure Based on Network Unpredictability o Path Diversity is Significant o Improve ISP Delivery of Gaming Services by Adding Haste in ISP Networks o Dynamic Allocation of Gaming Services based on Player Location and Network Features • 39 min 23 sec: Wrap-Up

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector talk about the Software industry and how SaaS and other trends are killing the traditional software solution based on installation and management in your own data centers. This is our 100th Podcast for L8istSh9y!

Highlights: • Open Source Project Health in QA and Quality • Escaping the Open Source Discrimination Cycle • Money in Open Source for Sustainability • Learning Patterns in Open Source • Crises in Open Source for Sustaining Projects • Open Source Foundations Need to Own Sustaining Engineering

Recap of the 2019 GDC event in San Francisco, CA last week. Our guests are Alan Evans, Sr Director Strategy, EDGE GRAVITY and Chetan Venkatesh, CEO, Marcometa. Discussion includes thoughts on the Google Stadia announcement, Cloud Native development for gaming, and our thoughts on Genvid who we all agreed had standout technology.

Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist, Turbonomic. Highlights: • Discoposse Podcast • Discussion on Luke Kaines Article • Open Source Impact on IT Ops and Purchasing • Money Drives Operational Alignment • Sales as Organizational Improvements Time Stamp • 0 min 6 sec: Introduction of Guest • 1 min 19 sec: Discoposse Podcast o History of Podcast o Canada – Brewers Retail • 6 min 07 sec: Luke Kaines Article, My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales o Like Watching a Netflix Story Heading to an Unexpected Ending o Starts with Hard Lessons Learned – how not to do things  Who are you building the product for? User or Purchaser  Still early in our industry on how to build a product that doesn’t require enterprise sales o When is sales enterprise? How to define that? o You succeed on your ability to manage relationships of warring departments at the prospect’s company; it’s not the product that you are selling • 13 min 16 sec: Examples of Politics impacting sales o RackN and Internal Champions o Open Source allows customers to bypass their sales departments: dangers of this happening o Tour de France of IT Operations o Justify the cost of the product vs. value or the product • 21 min 05 sec: People take things seriously when money is being spent o Free consulting never gets used o Open source has less perceived value since its free but it’s not really free o Personal investment vs team investment in solution  Disagreements add value to organizations  Silos vs Cross-Silo Communications • 31 min 08 sec: How sell product communicating value to multiple groups via internal champions o Having to use software purchased already to get value o Have to pay for software, even free software  Even open source software has commercial support that cost money o Always about building a team and communication • 40 min 25 sec: Wrap-Up

Joining us this week is Tricia Howard, Client Manager, Optiv for a special RANTCAST on Security. About Optiv Optiv Security is a security solutions integrator that enables clients to reduce risk by taking a strategic approach to cybersecurity. Align your security program to achieve specific business outcomes with our full suite of service capabilities, from strategy to technology—and everything in between. Highlights: • Security Rant • Data Privacy and Rights / Data Security • Companies and Storage/Security of Personal Data • Data is a Currency • Securing Systems and Data Leakage • Password Re-Use and Lack of Re-Use Impact on Vendors / SIM Hacking • Monopoly Power of Big Tech Companies & Gov’t Regulation • Dark Web – What is it? • Identity on Internet • Perimeter Security

Joining us this week is Sastry Malladi, CTO, FogHorn. About FogHorn FogHorn is a leading developer of edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications. FogHorn and Lightning are trademarks of FogHorn Systems. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Highlights: • FogHorn Data Aggregation Technology for Devices • Edge is Constrained • Containers are Standard • IoT Standard Environment • Autonomy at the Edge • Edge Architecture Tradeoffs • Machine Learning

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector discuss a recent interaction Rob had with a senior IT executive who claimed a team of perfect employees and if anyone made a mistake they would be fired. Really? It's time for a Rob rant in response to this management approach.

Joining us this week is Sriram Subramanian, Founder and Principal Analyst, CloudDon. About Cloud Don Sriram Subramanian is an independent analyst catalyzing modern enterprise IT Transformations. His primary area of coverage is how cloud computing/ container technology based services are impacting modern enterprise IT. His representative clients include vendors such as Red Hat, Microsoft, HPE, and end users in retail, fin tech and healthcare. Service Mesh Event (18 min 45 sec) Service Mesh Day : March 28 – 29, 2019 Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco Highlights: • Thoughts on late 2018 AWS ReInvent and KubeCon (Software vs SaaS) • Vendor Lock-In Hype • Service Mesh • Edge Computing Highlights • 0 min 16 sec: Introduction of Guest • 1 min 33 sec: Impressions from AWS ReInvent and KubeCon 2018 o Software vs SaaS • 9 min 00 sec: Services Spun up Inside Kubernetes vs Vendor Lock-in o Over Hype of Vendor Lock-In? • 12 min 38 sec: Service Mesh o Why do I need Service Mesh on Kubernetes? o Enable Cloud-Native Paradigms o Kubernetes is not the Answer to Everything • 20 min 35 sec: Data Center Environment and Edge Computing o Is Kubernetes assumed for Edge? o LF Edge Announcement Podcast o Federation • 30 min 21 sec: Wrap-Up

Joining us this week is Daniel Lizio-Katzen, CEO Galactic Fog. About Galactic Fog was founded in 2014 by veteran engineers with the goal of streamlining application development. As engineers, we have spent years designing, building and deploying applications for both startups and large enterprises. At Galactic Fog, one of our goals is to provide a platform for us to contribute back to the developer community by open-sourcing many of our foundational components. Galactic Fog’s core mission is to provide the systems that enable the design, development and cross-cloud operation of cloud-native apps through the use of enterprise grade function-as-a-service (FaaS) and container-as-a-service (CaaS) technologies. These apps should be resilient and declaratively integrated into any complex environment or configuration. Highlights: • Function as a Service and Events • Operational Experience • Next Generation API Gateways • DevOps and Enterprises • Kubernetes as an Enterprise Platform • Edge is part of Galactic Fog

Joining us this week is Jim Clark, Chief Architect and Founder of Atomist. About Atomist Our goal is to remove every last bit of unnecessary work that gets between you and shipping great software. We created Atomist in 2015 with the goal of transforming how software is developed and delivered. We believe that developers should have tools to take care of the individual stages of that flow, and very importantly, a way to integrate, streamline, and automate the overall flow from code to ship. We started Atomist to build that platform for developers. Highlights: • What and How of Atomist Technology • Delivery as a Workflow Issues • Automated Code Updates ~ e.g. Code Analysis • Software Delivery Machine

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector discuss two recent news articles on the failures of business models. CNBC - https://cnb.cx/2DvySUw Tim O'Reilly - https://qz.com/1540608/

Joining us this week is Jeff Kim, CEO of Kmesh.io. About Kmesh KMesh.io sells software that transforms your centralized data into distributed data, which operates over multiple clouds, countries and edges as a single global namespace. Customers configure their business rules / data orchestration policies through the Kmesh portal and easily deploy their data over any cloud (production data on prem, backup data on AWS, AI/ML data on Google, IoT data on the Edge etc.) Highlights: • Kubernetes Challenges for Stateful Data • Managing Stateful Data across Multiple Edge Devices • How Kmesh works with Luster ~ New Global Data Models • Kubernetes Limitations with Storage

Joining us this week is Arpit Joshipura, general manager, The Linux Foundation. About LF Edge LF Edge is a new umbrella organization that aims to establish open, interoperable frameworks for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. Launched in January 2019, LF Edge is comprised of existing Linux Foundation projects Akraino Edge Stack, EdgeX Foundry, and Open Glossary of Edge Computing, as well as the new Project EVE from ZEDEA and Home Edge Project from Samsung Electronics. Highlights: • LF Edge Introduction • Collaboration b/w LF Edge and other Open Source Communities • Specific Projects in LF Edge at Launch • Difference b/w LF Foundation and OpenStack Foundation • Engaging with the LF Foundation • Telco Involvement

Joining us this week is Eric Fouarge, CTO at Root Level Technology. About Root Level Root Level Technology is a cloud strategy partner. We are the seamless extension of your development and programming teams. We provide a concierge-style support experience for every client, no matter the size. We are an agile shop at the core, with a focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. We are the hold your hand, wake us up at midnight, 5-star, real deal support clients have always wanted. Highlights: • Discussion on Tools for Cloud Native • Business Needs and Microservices • Issues with New, Rapidly Developing Tools • Impact of Cloud Native on Operations/Development • Severless Alternatives to Lamda, etc

Joining us this week is Lee Atchison, Sr. Director of Strategic Architecture, New Relic. Author of Architecting for Scale on O’Reilly (link is not a tracked URL) and recent speaker at AWS ReInvent ’19 – Cloud Computing in an Edge World. About New Relic New Relic gives you deep performance analytics for every part of your software environment. You can easily view and analyze massive amounts of data, and gain actionable insights in real-time. For your apps. For your users. For your business. Highlights: • Impact of Edge on DevOps (People / Process / Tools) • No DevOps Shortcuts for Edge • Scaling Issues b/w Cloud and Edge • Application Updates at the Edge • Environment Awareness

Joining us this week is Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer, OpenStack Foundation. About OpenStack Foundation The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally, across a community of 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of practice, including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container infrastructure. Highlights: • Status of OpenStack from OpenStack Summit Berlin • State of Open Source from Licensing and Sustainability Perspective • History of Big Tent and Learnings for New Direction Moving Forward • Running OpenStack Foundation and Open Source Challenges • Multiple Open Source Projects working Together • Open Infrastructure Projects The Open Infrastructure Summit that Mark mentioned will be held in Denver, Colorado from April 29-May 1. Registration is currently open.

Joining us this week is Sarbjeet Johal, Principal Advisor, The Batchery. About The Batchery Founded in 2015, The Batchery is an Berkeley-based global incubator for seed stage entrepreneurs ready to take their startup to the next level. We are a community of veteran investors and advisers ready to provide you with ideas, insights, and networks. Our partnerships with law firms, technology providers, and other startup services means that you start building your company the minute you join us. Highlights: • Latest in Data Centers and Hybrid Clouds • Amazon Announcement on Outpost and ReInvent Thoughts • Design Approaches of Cloud and Future Technology

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector, your L8istSh9y Podcast Team, wrap up 2018 with some overall thoughts of the past year of Podcasts and a quick preview of 2019 content and planning.

Joining us this week is Pavan Gupta, Software Architect and Kiran Divekar, Software Architect from Calsoft. About Calsoft Founded in 1998, Calsoft provides end-to-end product development, quality assurance, product sustenance, and solution engineering services to assist customers in achieving their product development and business goals. Our deep domain knowledge across various verticals helps customers create exceptional products and get them to market on time and within budget. Calsoft’s deep technical expertise has led to the creation of several proprietary accelerators which are a huge hit among customers. Our niche skillset and intuitive engagement models are geared to meet the ever-evolving business needs of our customers. Highlights: • NFV Overview and Importance in Telecom • NFV Usage and Use Cases • Edge Service Delivery

Joining us this week is Daniel Bartholomew, CTO and Founder of Section. About Section Section offers a developer-centric, multi-purpose Edge PaaS solution that empowers web application engineers to run any workload, anywhere. Built to give developers the flexibility and control that they need, Section’s edge platform is infrastructure agnostic (cloud, on-premise, self-hosted), edge workload agnostic (caching, HTTP optimization, IoT, big data), and has changed the dynamics of traditional CDN and cloud. Highlights: • Background of Section from CDN to Edge • How Section works • Developer Issues in Building for Edge Scale

Joining us this week is Chris Steffen, Cloud and Edge Security Guru. Follow him at @CloudSecChris and on his blog, The Security Beard. Highlights: • Latest Update on Cloud Security • Core Challenges to Edge Security • Shared Data at the Edge Issues

Joining us this week is Michael DeHaan from Vespene.io, a modern, streamlined build and self-service automation platform. Highlights: • Vespene Introduction ~ only 3 month old project • Open Source Licensing ~ is there a crisis? • How best to run an Open Source Project

Joining us this week is Janakiram MSV, founder and principal analyst at Janakiram & Associates. Highlights: • Three Flavors of Edge with Focus on Device Edge • Who Builds Edge? Cloud Providers, Telcos, … • Is Kubernetes the Management Foundation for Edge?

Rob Hirschfeld was not able to attend the OpenStack Summit Berlin this November and present his talk on Edge Infrastructure. Instead, Rob has recorded his key messages about Edge Infrastructure focused on automation, limited access, and unskilled physical management.

Joining us this week is Dean Bubley, founder and director at Disruptive Analysis, an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm. Highlights: • Challenges of Power Requirements for Edge (Giga-Watts vs Milli-Watts) • Single Vendor vs Shared Data at the Edge • Shipping Container Takeover of All Things This podcast is based on a recent article by Dean on NETMANIAS, Network-based Edge-Computing: Overhyped & Underpowered?

Highlights: • Develop on Docker Deploy on Kubernetes • Edge IT Infrastructure Use Cases and Kubernetes • Kubernetes as a Platform and Future Enhancements • Rancher OS Discussion

Discussion on the recent announcement that IBM is planning to acquire Red Hat.