
Terraform Usage Patterns (Gitops, IaC, Templates)
Cloud provisioning is very difficult when you go beyond simple provisioning and start thinking about how to to stitch together infrastructure in a repeatable way! Specifically, today's episode is a d...
27 Aug 202148min

Building our IT Talent Pipeline
In this episode, we question the IT talent pipeline. We really work through boot camps and how we are building talent and skills for the generation of IT workers. We ask some key questions like: Ar...
27 Aug 202147min

Is Open Source Working?
Is open source driving innovation? And Is it a necessary component of Right to Repair and ownership? Are there commercial drivers where people want those open capabilities? We transition into a dee...
20 Aug 202152min

Challenges of API Design
Good APIs are hard to design! Making them long lasting and scalable is even harder. We discussed two aspects of API design. First, making about Event Bus for system integration and then RackN CTO, ...
13 Aug 20211h 8min

Edge Control Planes
Building an edge control plane is challenging! It's not clear even what is currently available. As always, data, data pipelines, data orchestration, and data choreography are all influential for edg...
13 Aug 202157min

Nextgen Servers? IPU & SmartNICs
IPUs, intelligent processing units, are also known as smart NICs, side cars, or supervisory computers. A well known example is Amazon's Nitro. We discuss the impacts of these supervisory processors, ...
6 Aug 202151min

Software Right to Repair? Is that OSS?
The "right to repair" is a really thorny and political issue! We talked a lot about John Deere, Apple and Tesla not letting people fix the products they've bought from those companies. We have a lot o...
31 Jul 202158min

Will Cloud Economics disrupt Hyperscalers?
How can cloud economics of hyperscalar clouds be used to ended or limit their control? We discussed the state of the cloud ecosystem with a focus on where its going to go. After a full, rich, and dy...
25 Jul 20211h 6min




















