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Episode #10:

Do Datacenter Compliance Rules Belong In The Cloud?

In this episode, do old school compliance rules from the data center have any business in the new school cloud? Is compliance in the cloud really like some version of Die Hard or Mission Impossible? Making it hard for Tom Cruise, hanging by a thread, to steal your data? Rahul invites Steven Woodward, CEO of Cloud Perspectives, to debate the growing friction between physical and non-physical security and compliance rules.

Episode #9:

I Don’t Give A Lift And Shift

In this episode, we are moving stacks. That’s right, bouncing, leaving the data center behind for a new life in the cloud. The only problem? You have to choose between two approaches. Do you wanna lift and shift (sounds very Schwarzenegger)? Or do you wanna go fully cloud native (sounds very… Marianne Williamson)? Rahul and David Mee, Principal Consultant, Carbonite, debate the merits of building a skyscraper on top of a log cabin.

Episode #8:

Betrayed & Squeezed: Is AWS Eating Your Open Source Software?

In this episode: conflict, controversy, subterfuge, secrecy. Most people we approached didn’t even want to speak on the record. What we want to know is: is AWS eating up the open source landscape? And, if so, is that a good or bad thing? Rahul, Hilary, and guest Matt Asay debate whether AWS is poaching or playing fair when it comes to open-source software from partners.

Episode #7:

High Availability vs Disaster Recovery: Fight!

High availability is an expectation in business today — and Rahul shudders to think about what parents (and kids) would do if Disney Plus or Youtube went down for 15 minutes. Joking aside, it’s the cloud: so why all the focus on old, complex disaster recovery solutions?

In this episode, it’s High Availability vs. Disaster Recovery, and it’s Rahul vs. Eamonn O’Neill, a disaster recovery expert and Co-Founder and CTO of Lemongrass. This episode won’t be a disaster, but it is highly available on all podcast apps.

Episode #6:

Serverless Is Here To Stay: Sorry, Corey Quinn

Rahul is getting pretty tired of people chirping about the unfulfilled promises of serverless. So he invited Jeremy Daly, host of the Serverless Chats podcast to set the record straight: “Corey is wrong,” says Rahul. Serverless is not going anywhere. It’s a journey, not an end goal. Tune in to hear the vibrant debate around just how far we’ve come from manual server management — and just how far we still have to go.

Episode #5:

To Code Or Not To Code? Just Cloud API Instead!

Rahul says code no longer matters because it has such a short half-life. He is obsessed with cloud APIs instead. Says they are fully managed, more efficient and cheaper and they can help you get from a million lines of code down to 10 thousand per app. So Rahul invited Alex Hudson, CTO for hire, on the show to debate “to code or not to code.” That is this episode’s question.

Bonus Episode

Werner Vogels’ re:Invent Keynote Pulled us Into his Matrix Vision of The Future (Live from Las Vegas with StackHawk)

After Dr. Werner Vogels’ incredible re:Invent keynote where he talked about 3D design, data-informed simulation work and simplifying how to build, we got our podcast hosts Hilary and Rahul inviting Dan Hopkins, VP of Engineering at Stackhawk, to review on the Werner Matrix and wrap our coverage of this year’s conference.

Bonus Episode

Why Swami Sivasubramanian’s Data & Machine Learning Keynote so heavy on data, and so short on ML and AI at re:Invent (Live from Las Vegas with Inawisdom)

Tuesday’s keynote from Swami Sivasubramanian - AWS VP of Data & Machine Learning, leaned much more into the “data” part than the “machine learning” part of his role.

Bonus Episode

Adam Selipsky’s Re:Invent Keynote Left Us Wanting More (Live from Las Vegas, with the Finops Foundation)

Great explorers through history defined the theme of Adam Selipsky’s re:Invent Keynote this morning. But what caught Rahul and Hilary’s attention wasn’t what was being said, but what didn’t get explored on stage. Along with special guests J.R. Storment and Joe Daly from FinOps Foundation, they unpack Selipsky’s announcements, and dive into what they wish they’d also heard. Let us know what you think at podcast@cloudfix.com.

Bonus Episode

Our AWS Re:Invent Conference lookahead with AMD’s Brad Smith, Live from Las Vegas

The Cloudfix Team is on prem at AWS’s massive re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, and we’re bringing you along with us throughout the week. We start by with Rahul’s best predictions for what we can expect will be unveiled this week, and connect with AMD’s Brad Smith.

Episode #4:

Stop Hugging Those Servers!

In this episode, the timely topic of real estate. What kind of a home do you want for your data, your stack, your instances? Where should you house your architecture? In a nice bare metal colo rack bungalow? Or maybe something a little more “penthouse fabulous” — something up in the… public cloud? Rahul makes the case to stop hugging servers altogether and go all-in on AWS, and pushback ensues when Chase Cunningham talks serious security and compliance.

Microservices? Or Macro Disaster?

Are microservices a macro disaster waiting to happen? Is the CNCF Landscape the Etsy of web development? Rahul has a serious thing against Kubernetes. Says it’s like playing tech whack-a-mole. So we went out and found a K8s superstar to defend the DIY open source platform’s honor. Carlisia Thompson joins to debate Rahul on dev culture, problem solving and vendor flexibility.

Episode #2:

Commitment Issues: The Case Against Multicloud

Rahul and Hilary get into one of the great battles in the cloud: commitment issues. When it comes to your choice of cloud vendor, are you more Tinder or Match.com? Do you want to choose one vendor for life, or prefer to play the field with multicloud? Head of Developer Media at Google Cloud, Forrest Brazeal foresees the inevitable rise of multicloud while Rahul sticks to his single vendor, all-AWS guns.

Storage Wars: Database Edition

Rahul declared our old show boring, and in this episode he fixes that. Join Rahul as he welcomes new co-host Hilary Doyle, declares Moore’s Law dead as a doorknob, and enjoys a heated (but friendly) debate about NoSQL, Postgres, and the future of distributed and relational DB’s in the cloud. Today’s guest: Postgres expert Ed Boyajian, CEO of Enterprise DB.