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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: David Linthicum on Reality of Cloud, DevOps, and Industry Trends

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Rob Hirschfeld, CEO/Co-Founder of RackN speaks with David Linthicum, an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert and Sr VP at Cloud Technology Partners. Rob and David cover a variety of IT topics in this podcast including a Buck Rodgers quote from David.

TOPIC                                                             TIME

Introduction & Ask Podcaster                     0:00 – 3:20
Lack of Skillsets in IT                                    3:20 – 5:43
Accumulation of Technical Debt                5:43 – 10:57
DevOps and Automation                              10:57 – 14:08
CI and CD                                                        14:08 – 15:48
When Not Go CI and CD                              15:48 – 18:00
What to pay attention to in cloud?             18:00 – 20:17
How select right cloud tech?                       20:17 – 23:49
Hybrid is best of breed tech                        23:49 – 25:39
Are Containers the silver bullet?                25:39 – 29:14
Serverless vs Containers                             29:14 – 33:16
Kubernetes – Meso – Docker Opinion     33:16 – 36:04
Predictions and Trends                                36:04 – 37:10
Edge Computing                                           37:10 – 38:25
Wrap Up – where to find David L.             38:25 – END

 

 

Podcast Guest – David Linthicum @DavidLinthicum

Dave Linthicum is Sr. VP at Cloud Technology Partners, and an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal.

For the last 10 years, he has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing, including working with several cloud computing startups. His industry experience includes tenure as CTO and CEO of several successful software and cloud computing companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities, including University of Virginia and Arizona State University. He keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and has several well-read columns and blogs. Linthicum has authored 10 books, including the ground-breaking “Enterprise Application Integration” and “B2B Application Integration.” You can reach him at david@bluemountainlabs.com. Or follow him on Twitter. Or view his profile on LinkedIn.

Why IBM’s hybrid “no-single-way” is a good plan

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I got to spend a few days hearing IBM’s cloud plans at IBM Interconnect including a presentation, dinner and guest blogging.  Read below for links to that content.

As part of their CloudMinds group, we’re encouraged to look at the big picture of the conference and there’s a lot to take in. IBM has serious activity around machine learning, cognitive, serverless, functional languages, block chain, platform and infrastructure as a service. Frankly, that’s a confusing array of technologies.

Does this laundry list of technologies fit into a unified strategy? No, and that’s THE POINT.

Anyone who thinks they can predict a definitive right mix of technologies to solve customer problems is not paying attention to the pace of innovation. IBM is listening to their customers and hearing that needs are expanding not consolidating. In this type of market, limiting choice hurts customers.

That means that a hybrid strategy with overlapping offerings serves their customers interests.

IBM has the luxury and scale of being able to chase multiple technologies to find winners. Of course, there’s a danger of hanging on to losers too long too. So far, it looks like they are doing a good job of riding that sweet spot. Their agility here may be the only way that they can reasonably find a chink in Amazon’s cloud armour.

While the hybrid story is harder to tell, it’s the right one for this market.

Four Posts For Deeper Reading

The posts below cover a broad range of topics! Chris Ferris and I did some serious writing about collaboration and my DevOps/Hybrid post has been getting some attention. It’s all recommended reading so I’ve included some highlights.

#CloudMinds tackle the future of cognitive in Las Vegas huddle

Rob is part of the IBM CloudMinds group that meets occasionally to discuss rising cloud, infrastructure and technology challenges.

“Cognitive cannot and will not exist without trust. Humans will not trust cognitive unless we can show that our cognitive solutions understand them.”

How open communities can hurt, and help, interoperability

“The days of using open software passively from vendors are past, users need to have a voice and opinion about project governance. This post is a joint effort with Rob Hirschfeld, RackN, and Chris Ferris, IBM, based on their IBM Interconnect 2017 “Open Cloud Architecture: Think You Can Out-Innovate the Best of the Rest?” presentation.”

When DevOps and hybrid collide (2017 trend lines)

“We’ve clearly learned that DevOps automation pays back returns in agility and performance. Originally, small-batch, lean thinking was counter-intuitive. Now it’s time to make similar investments in hybrid automation so that we can leverage the most innovation available in IT today.”

Open Source Collaboration: The Power of No & Interoperability

“Users and operators can put significant pressure on project leaders and vendors to ensure that the platforms are interoperable. “