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Podcast – Erica Windisch on Observability of Serverless, Edge Computing, and Abstraction Boundaries

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Joining us this week is Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside AWS Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of severless applications.

Highlights

  • Intro of AWS Lambda and IOpipe
  • Discussion of Observability and Opaqueness of Serverless
  • Edge Computing Definition and Vision
  • End of Operating Systems and Abstraction Boundaries

Topic                                                                                Time (Minutes.Seconds)

Introduction                                                                    0.0 – 1.16
Vision of technology future                                         1.16 – 3.04 (Containers ~ Docker)
Complexity of initial experience with new tech       3.04 – 5.38 (Devs don’t go deep in OS)
Why Lambda?                                                                5.38 – 8.14 (Deploy functions)
What IOpipe does?                                                        8.14 – 10.54 (Observability for calls)
Lambda and Integration into IOpipe                          10.54 – 13.48 (Overhead)
Observability definition                                                 13.48 – 17.25
Opaque system with Lambda                                     17.25 – 21.13
Serverless framework still need tools to see inside   21.13 – 24.20 (Distributed Issues Day 1)
Edge computing definition                                           24.20 – 26.56 (Microprocessor in Everything)
Edge infrastructure vision                                            26.56 – 29.32 (TensorFlow example)
Portability of containers vs functions                         29.32 – 31.00 (Linux is Dying)
Abstraction boundaries                                                31.00 – 33.50 (Immutable Infra Panel)
Is Serverless the portability unit for abstraction?     33.50 – 39.46 (Amazon Greengrass)
Wrap Up                                                                          39.46 – END

 

Podcast Guest: Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe

Erica Windisch is the founder and CTO of IOpipe, a company that builds, connects, and scales code. She was previously a software and security engineer at Docker. Before joining Docker, worked as a principal engineer at Cloudscaling. Studied at Florida Institute of Technology.

 

Podcast: Justin Garrison on Cloud Native Infrastructure, Immutability, Observability and Much More

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In this week’s podcast, we speak with Justin Garrison, co-author of Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNI).

  • Behind scenes for O’Reilly book and choice of cover animal
  • Infrastructure and CNI approach
  • State and Immutability / Immutable VM
  • Terraform and Kubernetes
  • Observability
  • The Why of Immutability
  • Infrastructure as Software (Netflix)
  • Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps

Topic                                                               Time (Minutes.Seconds)

Introduction                                                     0.0 – 2.11
TechNative Podcast on writing book          2.11 – 2.45
Cover of Cloud Native book                         2.45 – 4.52 (Andean Condor)
Why is infrastructure a dead carcass?        4.52 – 5.38 (Shift and lift is not enough)
Describe your approach to infrastructure  5.38 – 8.40
Maintain state with immutability                  8.40 – 13.14 (Containers don’t mean cloud native)
Immutable VM                                                13.14 – 18.55
Terraform                                                         18.55 – 21.55
Kubernetes                                                      21.55 – 27.52 (Helm example)
Observability                                                   27.52 – 35.32 (Prometheus)
Immutability and Why                                   35.32 – 38.08 (Repository dependencies)
Infrastructure as Software                            38.08 – 40.33 (Chaos engineering)
Google SRE Book                                           40.33 – 44.11 (Build empathy vs everyone as dev)
Wrap Up                                                          44.11– END

 

Podcast Guest

Justin Garrison, co-author of Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNI)

Justin loves open source almost as much as he loves community. He is not a fan of buzz words but searches for the patterns and benefits behind technology trends. He frequently shares his findings and tries to disseminate knowledge through practical lessons and unique examples. He is an active member in many communities and constantly questions the status quo. He is relentless in trying to learn new things and giving back to the communities who have taught him so much.