DevOps Accents: Recent Episodes
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'DevOps Accents', a bi-weekly mkdev podcast on everything around DevOps, Public Cloud and Cloud Native topics, with your hosts Pablo, Leo and Kirill.
In this episode, we dive deep into generative AI with Álvaro Sáez , creator of an AI tool Current Anima that transforms text prompts into 3D scenes. Álvaro explains how his technology works and what skills you need to have to build something like this and how difficult it is to build an AI startup in 2024.
- Alvaro's AI tool that generates 3D scenes from text prompts.
- The role of Unreal Engine in creating high-quality animations.
- The oversaturation of the AI market with fake solutions.
- Competing with AI giants like OpenAI.
- AI as a tool for enhancing, not replacing, creativity.
GenAI #generativeai #cloud #devops #unrealengine #podcast #mkdev #aimarket #aitools #entrepreneur #startup
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Show Notes:
Our guest, Álvaro Sáez His company HechicerIAFew example of Current Anima's outputs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IApac2mFmNw- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuKuzQlrgBsPodcast editing: Mila Jones, milajonesproduction@gmail.com
Cloud Cost Management has kind of taken over as the top concern for organizations. Pablo, Leo and Kirill come together to analyze the numbers from the Flexera State of the Cloud Report in episode 45 of DevOps Accents.
- 27% of Cloud waste, is that a lot?
- What is FinOps and what is its role?
- What are the reasons for the overspent increase?
- Are multi-cloud organizations on the rise?
- Disaster recovery.
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Show Notes:
2024 State of the Cloud Report
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Can the community influence the evolution of cloud technologies? What is its impact on personal and professional growth? Do we underestimate the value of networking and knowledge sharing? Johannes Koch, Senior Engineer at FICO and AWS DevTools Hero, joins Pablo, Leo and Kirill for this episode of DevOps Accents.
- AWS Heroes Program;
- Community work vs. Corporate work;
- The role of the community for juniors and for seniors;
- What is the relationship between big tech companies and influential seniors?
- Custom blueprints in CodeCatalyst;
- Avoiding GenAI hype.
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Show Notes
Our guest, Johannes Koch.
Things we’ve talked about:
- Projen
- CodeCatalyst Blueprints
- AWS Project Development Kit
- Deployment Pipeline Reference Architecture
- The state of CodeCatalyst in July 2024
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Our guest this week is Fabiano Beselga, Head of Technology at ada, music composer and YouTuber. He joins Leo, Pablo and Kirill for a discussion of his career path, work-life balance and product discovery.
- Fabiano’s path in platform engineering and in music;
- How to balance your work with your hobby and side-projects?
- Work-life balance around the world: Brazil vs. Germany vs. Spain;
- Creating tools for your side-projects;
- Continuous Discovery Habits;
- How to stay motivated and focused?
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Show Notes:
Connect with Fabiano on LinkedIn
And in the company he currently works for.
Explore Fabiano's work and music:
- YouTube
- Spotify
Check out his personal project that we were discussing, a tool to save and share presets for your music gear, Tonic Codes: https://www.tonic.codes
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Tune in for a conversation with Ara Pulido, Staff Developer Advocate at Datadog, and join Leo and Pablo for an exploration of what this job is and why it can be so essential for your company in episode 42 of DevOps Accents.
- Who is a Developer Advocate?
- What do they advocate for and why it’s not just marketing?
- How does successful developer advocacy program look like?
- How developer advocates influence product development through community feedback?
- How to understand that you need a developer advocate in your company?
- Is being a woman in tech more difficult?
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Show Notes:
- Connect with Ara Pulido on Linkedin.
- Connect with Ara on CNCF Slack.
- Check out an example of what Developer Advocates do at Datadog.
- Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that provides real-time insights into complex IT environments, helping organizations monitor infrastructure, applications, logs, and other data sources in a unified manner.
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Celebrate 10 years of Kubernetes with Pablo, Kirill and Leo and join us for a discussion of its history, impact and possible future.
- What was it like to experience the rise of Kubernetes?
- A big break for cloud and infra technologies 10 years ago;
- Where will Kubernetes be in another 10 years?
- Alternatives to Kubernetes;
- How big is the impact of Kubernetes for the industry?
- Kuberenetes issues;
- AI hype bubble.
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Let’s talk about cloud gaming possibilities of today and remember Google Stadia. Our guest this time is David Wynn, Principal Solution Architect from Edge Delta. Join him, Leo and Pablo for a discussion of the problems cloud gaming faces now and the possible future for this experience.
- The transformation of the game industry to the cloud, did it work?
- What went wrong with Google Stadia?
- Cloud gaming: Technical challenges vs. Marketing challenges;
- Console gaming vs. PC gaming vs. Cloud gaming;
- Why isn’t cloud gaming taking over?
- What will the gaming hardware landscape look like in 10 years?
Our guest, David Wynn.
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You all know what Observability is. But what do you know about the complexities of collecting telemetry data from mobile apps and devices, and how to do it with OpenTelemetry? That's the topic for Episode 39 of our #DevOpsAccents podcast with Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace, the only user-focused, mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry. By providing actionable insights across DevOps and mobile teams, Embrace highlights the true impact of issues on user experience, not just on server performance. We discuss how this can be achieved with OpenTelemetry, if at all possible, and what are the main obstacles to achieving comprehensive observability for mobile applications.
Also in this episode:
- Importance of observability in complex IT environments
- Challenges and differences in mobile observability
- Impact of complexity on Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)
- The importance of Production Data in Mobile Observability
- Optimizing data collection and standardization for cost-effective Observability
- Impact of integration on Mobile Development
- The future of Observability
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Show Notes:
- Previous episode of DA on Observability with Dotan Horovitz from logz.io
- Their observability trends we touched on in this episode
- Open Telemetry we've been talking about
- Our guest, Hanson Ho
- The company he is working for, Embrace
- Their open source SDKs you can play with for Android and iOS/Apple SDK
- Become a part of the Open Telemetry community and join CNCF Slack for Open Telemetry channels here
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Why is Google becoming a summary tool? Should you glue your cheese? What future does local AI on device bring? As soon as Kirill has left the building for a week, Pablo and Leo talk AI for 40 minutes: GPT-4o, Gemini and Microsoft Build conference.
- mkdev events this summer;
- How fun is it to talk to AI that can emote in its voice?
- What will happen to Google Search?
- Who is the loser here, the user or Google itself?
- Microsoft’s new hardware for AI on device;
- What to expect from Microsoft Recall?
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- Pablo’s video on Google’s future;
- Microsoft Build conference;
- ICO investigates Microsoft over Recall feature.
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Will the VMware acquisition affect your company? Is there a problem with Stack Overflow partnering with OpenAI? Join Leo, Pablo and Kirill in a discussion of all the recent DevOps, Cloud and AI controversies.
- What’s the deal with Broadcom acquisition of VMware?
- What do Google and AWS think about it?
- What’s up with Stack Overflow partnering with OpenAI?
- The power of community vs. the power of a company;
- What is a healthy relationship with content you produce for another platform?
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- Paul’s new AI article;
- Pablo about VMware acquisition;
- A press release on the situation;
- Stack Overflow and OpenAI.
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What are the consequences of Google fixating on Gemini? When is it ok to fire thousands of people? How stupid are non-competes? Join Pablo, Leo and Kirill for another discussion on “DevOps Accents”.
- Why there are not that many new features for GCP?
- What are Google goals with AI?
- What happens when you fire your Python team?
- Why is Spotify losing money?
- Should your janitor sign a non-compete?
- Is net neutrality a universally positive thing?
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How do you navigate your professional news flow? Should you automate that one lady who sells you bread and beer? Can Kirill replace himself with AI? And does size matter in LLMs? Leo, Pablo and Kirill are together again for another chat.
- mknews and balancing our news selection process;
- Did Amazon fail with their automatic shops?
- Are there parts of life better left alone without automation?
- Is Kirill human?
- A new LLM from Apple;
- LLMs and context size.
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What is the place of DevOps and Cloud in Health Tech, and what is the future of the Health Tech itself? What are the biggest challenges it faces and what could be the solutions? Sergiej Soft, Head of Tech at Caspar Health is here with us today to discuss the many perturbations of healthcare digitalization.
- Where do you draw the line defining DevOps?
- Health data in the age of cloud;
- What stops us from healthcare data standardization?
- How sensitive can healthcare data really be?
- Centralization vs. Decentralization: what is the way forward for Health Tech?
Our guest, Sergiej Soft:
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Learn more about what Sergiej does professionally.
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Connect with Sergiej on Linkedin.
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Subscribe to his personal podcast where he discusses business and AI with founder ans tech leaders.
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Don't miss the episode with Kirill (co-founder of mkdev) for deeper dive into cloud evolution.
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What are the definitions of the Internet of Things? How do you make a lock without a physical key? What are smart cities? How do you optimize your digital lock? Florian Merz, Head of Product and Engineering at KIWI, is here with us to discuss all of that and more.
- What is the Internet of Things (IoT) and why is this term to broad to be actually useful?
- How do digital locks work and how do older people cope with such technology?
- How important is reliability in IoT for home security and how do you test for it?
- Are cloud providers solutions useful in this industry?
- What kinds of open source tools, stacks and protocols are there for people interested in IoT?
- What will the future of IoT look like for the next 10-15 years?
Our guest, Florian Merz.
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Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss Platform Engineering with Jean-Francois Landreau and also talk about “Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization”, a book he contributed to.
- The relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering;
- Writing tech books and having them stay relevant;
- The future of automation and the amount of work in Platform Engineering;
- The problems of standardization in Platform Engineering.
Our guest, Jean-Francois Landreau.Meet Jean at CI/CDay in Paris this April: https://www.cicday.comListen to Jean's talks at Devoxx Athens 2024: https://devoxx.gr
Check out the book by Gregor Hohpe he contributed to.
Show Notes:
- AWS Copilot CLI.
- Platform Engineering on DevOps Accents.
- Observability and Monitoring on DevOps Accents.
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The evolution of DevOps is inevitable and we have long lived in a paradigm where Platform Engineering is no longer the Next Big Thing, but a necessity. We decided to talk to our friend Sergiu Petean from Allianz Direct and CNCF, who is very advanced in both theory and practice, and shared with us his observations on what Platform Engineering is today and how it changes depending on the type and size of the organisation. In this episode:
- What is platform engineering?
- What's the difference between a DevOps engineer 10 years ago and a platform engineer today?
- How do you make infrastructre for a big company with very different verticals?
- Why would you rebuild a platform from scratch?
- What are the solutions for smaller companies?
Follow Sergiu Petean on LinkedIn to keep updated on most valuable insights: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteanusergiu/Follow CNCF to learn more from Sergiu's community efforts: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/01/official-kickoff-of-the-cncf-end-user-technical-advisory-board-tab/Make sure to visit KubeCon and engage us there: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo, and Kirill discuss Twitter's changes, Apple's Vision Pro impact, VR's future role, and tech dependency.
- Episode Celebration: 30th episode and 4K YouTube milestone.
- Twitter Changes: How is Twitter's evolving ecosystem impacting users?
- Apple Vision Pro: What will be the impact and public reaction to its release?
- Tech Advancements: How are technological advancements affecting society?
- VR in Society: What role will VR play in our future?
- Tech Dependency: Are we becoming too dependent on technology?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo and Kirill are all about cloud costs, the main topic of mkdev content in January.
- Availability zone fees are annoying;
- What's scammy and what is clear about cloud closts?
- Are there people whose job it is to track cloud expences?
- Why aren't cost analysis features turned on by default?
- Is all of this common knowledge?
- When do companies decide to optimize their cloud costs?
- Do you need to worry about background jobs?
- How to educate yourself on cloud costs?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Filip Verloy, a Field CTO at Rubrik
- The need for data management systems is increasing;
- What's Ruby and how can generative AI be used for data security?
- How Rubrik's AI was trained;
- What should we protect more in the age of AI?
- AI in detecting malicious intent;
- What is Double Extortion Ransomware?
- The flipside of digital transformation;
- There is no silver bullet when it comes to cybersecurity.
Our guest
- Connect with Filip via his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verloy/
- Rubrik, a data management and security company: https://www.rubrik.com
Things we've talked about
- What does it mean to be a Field CTO? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-field-cto-anyway-filip-verloy
- What is Double Extortion Ransomware? https://www.rubrik.com/insights/rubrik-ransomware-vs-cyber-extortion
- 23andMe Data Breach: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill are wrapping up 2023, discussing the biggest news, trends and breakthroughs of the year.
- 2023 for mkdev;
- AI reaching the wide audience it has now;
- Job markets in the age of AI;
- 2024 and AR;
- Elon Musk (of course);
- Generative AI in design;
- Human cognition and what's to come.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to David Sandilands, Principal Solutions Architect at Puppet.
- What was the role of Puppet before and what is it now?
- How many companies use Kubernetes?
- The effect of inertia in technologies for bigger companies;
- How much time does it take to scale up?
- On prem vs. On cloud: cost effectiveness;
- Will VMs ever go away?
- Puppet and AI?
- What do companies ask for when they ask for AI?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Dotan Horovits, a developer advocate from logz.io
- What is developer advocacy and developer evangelism and why it's not marketing?
- Observability and Monitoring: how important are they in the Pipeline today?
- How did it work before and why is it a separate thing at all?
- Who should interpret the data that this tooling collects?
- Why is it so expensive to have Observability?
- Should each individual developer monitor their own data?
Our guest, Dotan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits
- personal blog, https://horovits.medium.com
- professional blog, https://logz.io/author/dotan-horovits
- Dotan's podcast, OpenObservability Talks, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability
Interesting articles:
- Expensive metrics and the high cardinality problem, https://logz.io/blog/expensive-metrics-monitoring-data
- FinOps Observability, https://www.apmdigest.com/observability-into-your-finops-taking-distributed-tracing-beyond-monitoring
- Monitoring Kubernetes Cost and OpenCost project, https://logz.io/blog/finops-observability-monitoring-kubernetes-cost
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk about the rising demand for AI and what it takes to have experience with it.
- Can you have many years of experience with LLMs?
- What's the difference between LLMs and Machine Learning of today and Machine Learning of yesterday?
- How do LLMs even work?
- Is it viable for a company to train its model from scratch?
- How to fine tune an LLM for the needs of your company?
- Does the AI you need have to be an LLM?
- How did AI change the hiring landscape?
- What is considered to have experience with AI?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to Marcello De Polli, a staff engineer at BetterDoc.
- Marcello's journey from Brazil to Europe;
- South America vs. Europe: Crime rate;
- Local services and startups in Brazil;
- You Should Think Global;
- Cultural differences and application marketing;
- Starting new companies with your own money;
- Entrepreneurship vs. Working for a company;
- Life/Work balance in Europe.
Our guest, Marcello De Polli, a staff engineer at BetterDoc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelodepolli
BetterDoc: https://www.betterdoc.org
Brex, a large international financial company originated in Brazil, founded in 2017: https://www.brex.com
Livedub, one of the first startups Marcello co-founded, an app for the bands for remote practice and rehearsal: https://livedub.app
Skore, now acquired by UOL EdTech, a digital learning platform co-founded by Marcello: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goskore
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Darko Fabijan, CTO and co-founder of Semaphore, a CI/CD tool for high-performance engineering teams.
- How was Semaphore created?
- How do you go from consulting to supporting a technical tool?
- Why do we still need to convince people that CI/CD is a necessity?
- What is Semaphore's customer base?
- What is CI and what is CD?
- Feedback Loop in DevOps;
- Canary deployment;
- What is the future of CI/CD pipeline?
Semaphore: https://semaphoreci.com
What is Feedback Loop in DevOps in context of CI/CD: https://www.getclockwise.com/blog/devops-feedback-loops
What is canary deployment: https://semaphoreci.com/blog/what-is-canary-deployment
Spinnaker: https://spinnaker.io
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss our recent conference experience in London and slightly pit GCP and AWS against each other.
- "Google Cloud Run & Databases" Webinar;
- Is there something like AWS Proxy in GCP?
- What do GCP and AWS do better than the other?
- AWS vs. GCP: permissions and organisation;
- The city of London vs. other great cities of Earth;
- devopsdays London vs. Munich and Amsterdam;
- How Hard is it for technical specialists to give public talks?
- What's up with open space talks?
- IT stereotypes.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Kirill discuss news from the world of TypeScipt and the history of microchip wars.
- Hotwire and Turbo leaving TypeScipt behind;
- The over the top reaction from the community;
- Who feels threatened by this change?
- Semiconductors history;
- ARM architecture family;
- TSMC and the insane number of chips they produce;
- What problems does the semiconductors industry face?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo and Kirill talk to our first ever guest, Paul Larsen, a Data Scientist!
- How did Paul meet Kirill?
- From Data Science to DevOps: is it worth it?
- MLOps: what's that about?
- How does this work from the DevOps side?
- LLM excitement;
- Productivity factors in medium and big data;
- Small enterprise vs. a large project: what are the differences?
- Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Show Notes:
- Our guest, Paul Larsen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-larsen
- Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2015/file/86df7dcfd896fcaf2674f757a2463eba-Paper.pdf
- DevOpsDays London Program: https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-london/program
- Prefect workflow orchestration platform: https://www.prefect.io
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss HashiCorp adopting Business Source License.
- The business of HashiCorp;
- What is competitive offering?
- Is this change fair for the open source community?
- Will terraform be forked?
- Look what happened to CentOS!
- RedHat and Linux vs. Hashicorp and Terraform: what's the difference?
- Google vs. Amazon reaction;
- Who's happy with this decision?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Kirill talk about the Environmental Impact of Cloud Computing and CO2 Emissions.
- How does cloud computing contribute to global CO2 emissions?
- What's the real impact of data centers on the environment, and is it growing?
- Are cloud providers' CO2 reports trustworthy, or just a "box-ticking" exercise?
- How do personal choices like flying vs. taking the train relate to cloud emissions?
- Can Harry Potter's flying train solve our travel emissions problem? (Just kidding!)
- What can companies and individuals do to reduce their carbon footprint in the cloud?
- Is guilt over environmental choices misplaced, and who's really responsible?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk about KCD Munich 2023, the community built around Kubernetes and some recent mkdev updates.
- No beer at KCD Munich!
- The polarized politics and the world of DevOps;
- Why would you have Kubernetes-specific conferences in the first place?
- Should you go to a conference to find a job?
- Pablo's latest video: What's new in Terraform?
- Automated social media feeds and advertisement reasons behind them.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss how and why 37signals, the company behind Basecamp and Hey, successfully left the cloud.
- Majestic Monolith;
- Spend less money and increase performance: what more do you need?
- How to make people believe in your unpoplular idea?
- The Boss vs. the Owner: who makes the tech decision?
- Focus on what you want to achieve, not on the technology to use;
- You might not need to know how to run a cable...
- But you might need to know the basics of networking;
- How did scaling change with Cloud?
- Can the same person maintain cloud infrastructure and on prem infrastructure?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss the latest conference we've sponsored and the conference experience in general.
- devopsdays Amsterdam 2023: conference impressions;
- Stamp collecting! (it's relevant, we promise);
- Porto vs. Amsterdam: the food, the space, the Beer Unlimited;
- Who visits the conferences anyway?
- The business side vs. the community;
- Why bigger companies choose to attend?
- GitHub vs. GitLab.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss the dynamics between users, companies, 3rd party apps and prices for the use of different APIs.
- devopsdays Amsterdam 2023: what talks are we interested in?
- Reddit going quiet: what's that about?
- Companies and paywalls for APIs;
- Are free APIs still a thing?
- What can users do when they are not happy?
- Mastodon and Twitter: you can't just move people;
- Nonprofits like Wikipedia;
- Docker and money.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo use Kirill's absence on vacation to talk once again about the consequences of AI boom we're observing.
- Buzz words: does ChatGPT steal our jobs?
- A history lesson and adaptation to new technologies;
- Everyone On the Internet Is an Expert On Tomatoes!
- Hey, remember books?
- New Adobe generative tool;
- Meta's library for identifying objects;
- Will our work environment change very soon?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill talk about security and everything around it.
- Compatibility of open source and cyber security — can openess and security co-exist?
- What do you do when you find a vulnerability in software?
- How easy is it to be a hacker nowadays?
- The dangers of security of things: hack a car, hack a plane;
- Who tracks security issues in a company?
- How do you know if you're watched or tracked?
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- cloud costs automation.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill talk about Open Source and how companies make profit around it.
- Is Tekton still relevant?
- Why one company would make two similar products instead of investing in one?
- Is the idea of Open Source a little bit dodgy?
- Who makes money from Terraform and how?
- Building commercial projects on top of Open Source;
- Are you allowed to contribute to Open Source as a company employe?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill talk about the weirdness of selling a product that will need upgrades and support and why we usually don't get things that last forever.
- Scientific approach in choosing technologies;
- Do companies have our best interest in mind releasing new versions of their products?
- CAPITALISM!
- Products backwards compatibility;
- Products longevity: the AWS way vs. the Google way;
- Selling big complicated solutions and the demand for simple ones.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo and Pablo miss their friend Kirill and talk about the rapid growth of AI technology we found ourselves in.
- Pablo's talk-to-GPT project;
- Why Pablo's tool is not Alexa;
- When new technology seems like magic;
- Who are the tech leaders who take control?
- How did an open-source project achieve more than all the tech giants?
- How much will the way we learn things change?
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill talk about all the ways companies choose technologies for their projects, from thoughtful choices to CEOs making spontaneous decisions on the train to work.
- What the heck is Service Weaver?
- The Oscars carpet color change (what? yes!)
- and also the award itself;
- Movie special effects: hardware vs. cloud;
- Why companies choose the technologies they choose?
- Expenses and Spotify payment example;
- The spread of microservices.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill talk about reasons why Uber moved to Cloud and the problems with international privacy legislation.
- How much do you pay for services you use?
- Open Telekom Cloud, a cloud you're required to use in Germany;
- Uber & Cloud;
- User data privacy issues between EU and US;
- A business selling privacy disclaimer pop-ups to other businesses.
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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill are talking about remote work.
- How the landscape of remote work has changed in recent years?
- How not to slack off work when working from home?
- Office work and the importance of human connection;
- TAXES;
- Work and mental health.
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In this episode of the DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill are talking about ChatGPT and AI.
- That those tool mean for creators, for professionals, for Google and for all of us in general,
- Should Google be afraid of Microsoft and ChatGPT?
- How did Pablo and Kirill use ChatGPT for their day to day DevOps work?
- Will our brains be able to detect AI-generated content?
Check out an episode of our series Making a Product, dedicated to creating a logo for a product with an AI: https://mkdev.me/library/making-a-product-transcripto
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In this episode of the DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill are wrapping up the 2022:
- How the hosts are going to celebrate Christmas and New Year - why Pablo needs to eat a lot of grapes, and why Leo might be eating burned paper
- What's cloud gaming, and why is it so impressive?
- Why being Google is not enough to enter a new market
- How Netflix and social media can revitalize artists career
- What's possible to achieve within 5 years using skyscraper as an example
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In this episode of the DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill are going to talk about what the cloud is all about:
- Why do companies move to the cloud and do they leave the cloud;
- The many options between running your own DC and using one of the main cloud providers;
- The choice between using the cloud right, or avoiding the vendor lock-in and paying enormous bills;
- And many other related topics!
Apologies for the sound quality: Pablo and Kirill had to record outside due to travelling, not too far away from the construction works, plus Kirill didn't manage to properly set up his microphone. Thanks to our editor Mila Jones for making a miracle and editing the sound in a way that it's still possible to enjoy it!
Mentioned articles:
- https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0
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In this first episode, we will talk about DevOps Porto 2022 conference, why we went there, how IT is these days after the pandemic, and many more things.
Talks mentioned in the podcast:
- https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/manuel-pais
- https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/mark-schwartz
- https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/philipp-krenn2
- https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/rinor-maloku
Full program and conference info: https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/welcome/
Our video highlights from podcast and conference: https://youtu.be/kmGNB8Lv1oI
Full recording of Kirill's talk: https://youtu.be/6D7clPr-1jw
We hope you enjoy it!