All Cloud, No Breaks: Recent Episodes
Ryan Hughes
Quick and informative episodes on the latest insights on the topics of Cloud, DevOps, & SRE… and the cultures they create at companies. Host, Ryan Hughes brings his 10+ years of direct public cloud experience at Fortune 100 enterprises and top Cloud providers; then teams up with industry leaders to deliver you useful and immediately applicable insights for your company’s digital transformation.
SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) is a key tenet of digital transformation if applied along with cloud, automation, and FinOps practices. In this episode, Jason Patterson, long-time developer advocate describes in detail how SRE practices can transform your enterprise from linear to exponential growth in terms of reliability, accountability, and individual talent.
In this episode, I'm excited to be joined by Matthew Keck, an industry leading Cloud product executive, as we discuss one of the hottest buzzwords in the industry today, Cloud-native. You’ll hear first hand technology stories and strategies on implementing a Cloud-native platform, but also wide ranging organizational, decision-making, and leadership trade-offs that you need to consider with a cloud-native approach.
Make sure you hang out for the “ALL CLOUD, MOVIE QUOTE OF THE WEEK” and, everyone’s favorite: "HOLD MY BEER moments in cloud history".
Cloud adoption by large enterprises has fundamentally changed many of technology's connections with the business; not limited just to simply "how much does it cost", but more interestedly, the value discussion of "speed" to the business. Joe Daly, FinOps professional, who has led Cost Optimization teams at two Fortune 100 organizations joins the podcast to offer his insights and tips on what appropriate cloud optimization looks like in practice.
It was an awesome opportunity to join AWS at their re:Invent conference to share my experiences from Nationwide’s Cloud transformation; including our challenges, enablers, and learning mechanisms.
The session that aired live back in January is now posted.
Take a listen if you want to hear about how we:
- Executed an "Executive Visioning" session to drive alignment
- Created a "flywheel" thru migrations & iterative innovation... resulting in enablement of disruptive innovation
- Implemented "Mob Programming" to upskill existing engineers (90%+ of our Cloud team is made up existing Nationwider's)
- All about Cloud Migration Parties too... RIP, thanks COVID (eye rollllllllll)
BONUS: Want an Easter egg? Tune in right around the 1 minute mark to see a side-by-side shot of what 3 years of leading a Tier 1 transformation program will do to you! AHHHHH
In this short episode, hear insights on how to determine the correct approach implementing a Service Catalog approach during your cloud journey.
Great conversation with Colin Delanbanque as a guest on the “Durable DevOps” podcast… we covered it all from work-from-home, to DevOps metrics, to implementing SRE’s as part of our cloud strategy.
Durable DevOps Podcast · Durable DevOps Podcast Ep.16 With Ryan Hughes From Nationwide
Using SRE practices and skills to increase the level of automation, resiliency, and overall effectiveness of applications in the cloud is an awesome way to administer a quick shot-in-the-arm in the 2nd year of cloud migrations. Kim joins me to talk about all the cool things they accomplished and some of the operational benefits of introducing SRE during cloud migration.
Ryan is joined by the always boisterous and sharp Matthew Keck to discuss some of the latest trends, features, and even some anti-patterns around the implementation of container platforms for large enterprises. We hit on why containers alone are not enough and discuss which of the surrounding ecosystem parts are truly in demand from developers. Also up for discussions is the state of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and where we think the industry might be heading next.