The Cloudcast

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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . 

  • 35 minutes 9 seconds
    13 Tech Communication Tips after the Election

    While there will be plenty of evaluation of how the 2024 US elections played out, we take a look at 13 tips that we can learn from the campaigns that can be used for tech communications.

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    CAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?

    1. It’s very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known name
    2. It’s more difficult to prove “what if” (future) vs. something that already happened
    3. Figure out messaging velocity and variability (change the story vs. stick to the story)
    4. Plans tend to defeat a lack of plans (or vagueness)
    5. Fear is as powerful a motivator as hope/joy/possibilities
    6. Complex topics (eg. democracy, DevOps) are difficult for people to understand, if they aren’t well defined.
    7. People tend to make decision with their wallet, based on their current situation
    8. Are you speaking to a niche audience, or a large audience? 
    9. If your competition defines you, you need to reframe it quickly
    10. If your competition finds a liability, you need to address it quickly
    11. Sometimes small things can be the center of the discussion
    12. Know where your audience is getting their information from (traditional vs. modern channels)
    13. Are you trying to get people to align on an issue, or a set of virtues (align to a group)?


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    10 November 2024, 6:00 am
  • 44 minutes 58 seconds
    Cloud News of the Month - October 2024

    Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.


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    SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

    • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
    • The AI Innovation Continues 

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    6 November 2024, 6:00 am
  • 32 minutes 12 seconds
    Improving Developer Productivity with AI Coding Assistants

    Keri Olson (@ksolson20, VP AI for Code at @IBM) talks about coding assistants across the software development lifecycle, the future of agents, and domain-specific assistants.

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    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on where you focus your time at IBM these days?

    Topic 2 - Developer code assistants have become one of the most popular areas of GenAI usage. At a high level, how mature are the technologies that augment developers today?

    Topic 3 - Software development has an entire lifecycle (Generate, Complete, Explain, Test, Transform, Document). It’s easy for developers to just plug in a service, but is that often the most effective way to start using GenAI in the software development lifecycle?

    Topic 4 - Software developers are notoriously picky about what tools they use and how they use them. GenAI doesn’t “guarantee” outputs. Are there concerns that if different developers or groups use different coding assistants, that it could create more challenges than it helps?

    Topic 5 - What is a holistic way to think about code assistants? How much should be actively engaged with developers, how much should be behind the scenes, how much will be automated or agentic in the future?

    Topic 6 - In the past, we essentially had “real developers” (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for “citizen developers” on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadn’t identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)

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    30 October 2024, 5:00 am
  • 27 minutes 42 seconds
    The Most Audacious Sales Pitch Ever

    When you’re asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So let’s just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 years. Seems simple enough. 

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    THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)

    • Biology and Health
    • Neuroscience and Mind
    • Economic Development and Poverty
    • Peace and Governance
    • Work and meaning

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    26 October 2024, 5:00 am
  • 33 minutes 55 seconds
    A Modern Approach to App Modernization

    Edward Hieatt (@edwardhieatt, Chief Customer Officer @mech_orchard) talks about the challenges of app modernization, leveraging AI, and the process to succeed from legacy to modern.

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    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on Mechanical Orchard.

    Topic 2 - Many of the MO team come from Pivotal (especially Pivotal Labs), as well as being involved with the Agile Manifesto, Extreme Programming, etc. How did the mission of the company get focus on modernizing existing applications?

    Topic 3 - Modernization projects have traditionally been really costly, with a low success rate. Why is now the right time to focus on this area?

    Topic 4 - I’m really interested in how MO technology works. It seems like a variation of a digital twin, mixed with some AI capabilities. Give us the big picture of how this is a different approach to modernization.

    Topic 5 - How much culture/process change is needed with MO to be successful?

    Topic 6 - What do the stages of success look like with your approach to application modernization?

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    23 October 2024, 5:00 am
  • 29 minutes 37 seconds
    More Keynote Presentation Tips

    After several months of travel and giving keynote at multiple events, Brian gives some new tips for building keynotes, capturing audience attention, managing regional differences and avoiding mistakes.


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    THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

    • Different types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)
    • Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, Mixed
    • Different types of keynote context - New, Updates, 
    • Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/Panels
    • Other considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions. 

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    20 October 2024, 5:00 am
  • 28 minutes 35 seconds
    Data Lakehouses & Apache Iceberg

    Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.

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    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

    Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we talked about Data Lakehouses, can you give us a little bit of background on this space, and what the most recent dynamics are around these technologies.

    Topic 3 - What are the typical integrations with a Data Lakehouse? How are users/developers typically interacting with Data Lakehouse technologies? [The marketplace for Iceberg catalogs like Nessie and Polaris]

    Topic 4 - How does an open data format like Apache Iceberg fit into the bigger picture of data lakehouses, or large scale stores of data?

    Topic 5 - How does Dremio enable Iceberg? How does Dremio sit in the intersection of Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh and Data Virtualization trends all of which come from the same fundamental problem, the growing scale of data use cases.

    Topic 6 -  We’ve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applications

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    16 October 2024, 5:00 am
  • 33 minutes 43 seconds
    Will the real AI breakthrough come from Big AI?

    Are we sure that the next big thing in AI is going to come from OpenAI, or even one of the big cloud providers with $Billions to spend? History tells us that it might come from someone smaller. 

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    WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?

    • Internet infrastructure (router) came from Cisco
    • Web Browser / Web Server came from Netscape
    • Mainstream Linux came from Red Hat
    • Social Media came from Twitter, Facebook
    • Cloud came from Amazon
    • Smart Phone came from Apple
    • AI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) 
    • What’s Similar? What’s Different?
    • Funding, Founders, Market Competitors


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    13 October 2024, 5:00 am
  • 33 minutes 31 seconds
    Influence Marketing in Emerging Tech

    Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical products and marketing and the evolution of marketing to reach an increasingly technical audience including the rise of influence marketing.
     
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    SHOW NOTES:

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

    Topic 2 -
    Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and start

    Topic 3 -
    Is there a new blueprint being created for how to have conversations about new technologies, or helping people find useful information? [new media | influencers]

    Topic 4 -
    Give us a sense of how crowded the markets are today, and why it’s so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.

    Topic 5 -
    Let’s talk about how projects get paid for - priorities, awareness, etc.

    Topic 6 - 
    What does good and bad look like these days?

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    9 October 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 23 minutes 2 seconds
    5 AI Trends to Keep an Eye on

    The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024. 

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    5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

    1. Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?
    2. Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all models
    3. Does OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?
    4. Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?
    5. What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot? 
    6. What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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    6 October 2024, 5:00 am
  • 44 minutes 11 seconds
    Cloud News of the Month - September 2024

    Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.

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    SHOW TRANSCRIPT:
    The Cloudcast #861 Transcript

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    SHOW NOTES:

    SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

    • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
    • The AI Innovation Continues 
    • Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California’s AI Act gets a veto)
    • Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on 
    • Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?

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    2 October 2024, 5:00 am
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