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Cloud Out Loud Podcast
by Jon and Logan Gallagher
We talk about cloud computing, what's new, what to do, what not to do, and how to do it. We focus on the why and how of the cloud, why it's revolutionary, and how to adapt yourself or your organization to be part of this revolution.We cover Google Cloud and AWS pretty exclusively in the beginning, and hope to add Azure in our copious free time.
Episodes
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Open Source Reality Check
Send a text The dream of open source is freedom, speed, and shared progress—but the reality gets messy when it meets cloud-scale business and security. We explore how Docker kickstarted containers while Google’s Kubernetes turned them into an operational standard, and why that split shaped...
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Episode 36 - Open Source From Hackers to Kubernetes: How Open Source Evolved
Send a text Ever wonder how free software ended up running the world’s biggest clouds? We pull on a thread that starts with the hacker ethos—access, transparency, community—and follows it through OSCON memories, Docker’s breakout moment, and the quiet power shift that came with Kubernetes. From...
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Episode 35: AI Hype vs. Reality: Rethinking Build vs. Buy
Send a text In this episode, Jon and Logan explore whether generative AI fundamentally changes the build versus buy decision for businesses considering software solutions. They analyze recent claims about AI-powered cost savings and examine the underlying principles that should guide technology...
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Episode 34 - AI Still Needs Humans in the Loop
Send a text When identical prompts yield different outputs and a request for "a cat running across the screen" generates four cylinders and a bobbing balloon, the non-deterministic nature of generative AI becomes impossible to ignore. Despite the power of these sophisticated models, we discovered...
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Episode 33 - Creating an Animation Application using AI
Send a text In this episode we try out what we've speculated AI, particularly GenAI is good for: expanding the capabilities of engineers as they create new applications. This application uses Google's Cloud Run and Google Cloud Storage to get user's specification of an animation, create the...
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Episode 32 - Responsibility for Security in the Cloud
Send a text Courtesy of Corey Quinn's "Last Week in AWS" Newsletter # 389 Logan and Jon discovered a presentation from Sec-T by Chris Farris that does a great job describing the tension between the Cloud Providers and Customers when it comes to security. The presentation does a great job of...
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Episode 31 - An AI Manifesto
Send a text This episode reviews a manifesto written by Leopold Aschenbrenner, formerly of OpenAI, now a founder of an investment firm that is focused on AGI, Advanced General Intelligence. The manifesto is titled SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, The Decade Ahead. This episode's discussion sets up who...
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Episode 30 - The Challenges of Using LLM and Generative AI
Send a text As with all the discussions of AI, and particularly LLM's and Generative AI, this is a discussion of the challenges of getting it right, making it useful, and using these tools successfully in a business. Major Points: There are a large number of commercial and open-source models...
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Episode 29 - The Current State of AI: LLMs Becoming Commoditized
Send a text Summary We start off discussing the recent developments and timeline of generative AI models, particularly ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, Llama2, Gemini, and Claude. We covered the release of these models by companies like OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic, their performance benchmarks, and...
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Episode 28 - A Review of Where We Are
Send a text Unveiling the Future of Cloud and AI at Google Cloud Next Episode 28: Show Notes In this episode, we delve into the most recent big cloud conference, Google Cloud Next. We discuss what we saw, felt, and heard at this year's iconic Google Cloud Next and provide listeners with our…
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Episode 27 - Risks of Generative AI
Send a text Episode 27: Show Notes Welcome back to Cloud Out Loud as we continue our discussion on generative AI and machine learning. Today is all about exploring the risks of modern machine learning and how we can properly navigate them as a society. Jon and Logan walk us through the benefits…
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Episode 26 - Generative AI and Chat GPT
Send a text Generative AI and ChatGPT with Logan and Jon Episode 26: Show Notes Machine learning and AI are fast becoming integrated into our everyday lives. However, despite its rising popularity, there is still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding around the subject. In this episode, we...
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Episode 25 - The Best Cloud Environments for Machine Learning
Send a text Best Environment for Machine Learning Episode 25: Show Notes Lately, there’s been a lot of hype about AI. In today’s podcast, we too are going to chat about AI, and specifically the subset of artificial intelligence called machine learning. Instead of talking about the political,...
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Leaving the Cloud
Send a text Leaving the Cloud Episode 24: Show Notes While our preference is always to use the cloud to address IT problems, today we look at a company that is doing the opposite. 37signals, the company behind the project management software Basecamp and the email system Hey, has decided to bring...
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Episode 23 - Getting into IT and Cloud Security
Send a text Demystifying the Security Career Path with Marsha Wilson Episode 23: Show Notes Today we welcome back popular guest Marsha Wilson from ScaleSec, as we unpack some of the particulars about what a career in security requires and can look like. Marsha's wealth of experience and insight…
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Episode 22 - The Effects of Rampant Immaturity in High Tech
Send a text Episode 22: Show Notes The past week in tech has been eventful, to say the least. FTX declared bankruptcy, Elon Musk is sowing chaos with his latest decisions at Twitter, and David Heinemeier Hansson published a post on his decision to move 37signals off of the cloud. In today’s...
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Episode 21 - Encouraging Women in Tech and InfoSec specifically
Send a text Women in IT, Cloud Security, and InfoSec with Marsha Wilson Episode 21: Show Notes Welcome back to another episode of Cloud Out Loud! Today we are joined, once again, by Marsha Wilson to discuss the presence of women in IT, cloud security, and InfoSec. Marsha is the CEO of ScaleSec…
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Episode 20 - How You Should Manage Security in the Enterprise from Marsha Wilson, CEO ScaleSec
Send a text Diminishing Risk, Increasing Profit, and Reducing Costs Through Security with Marsha Wilson of ScaleSec Episode 20: Show Notes Today we continue with Part 2 in our conversation with Marsha Wilson, CEO of ScaleSec. While the first episode covered Martha's advice to startups on how to...
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Episode 19 - How You should Manage Security When You're Starting Up from Marsha Wilson, CEO of ScaleSec
Send a text Startup Security Tips from ScaleSec Episode 19: Show Notes If you’re starting up a business in this day and age, cloud security should be your first priority from day one. Having basic security systems in place from the get-go can only have long-term benefits. Joining us today to talk...
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Episode 18 - The Cloudy Wisdom of Simon Wardley
Send a text Episode 18: Show Notes Recently we’ve seen some big dollar commitments from companies to facilitate their move towards cloud. While we are big fans of cloud and going serverless, there are some key issues with these types of public commitments (with huge sums of money behind them)…
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Episode 17 - Disaster
Send a text Disaster Episode 17: Show Notes We here in the Pacific Northwest have been experiencing a slow-moving disaster of enormous proportions. Namely, the heatwave that much of Europe has also recently been confronted with. Similarly, in the context of the cloud, there has also been a pretty...
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Episode 16 - How to not be sold Hybrid Cloud
Send a text Armoring Yourself Against Marketing Episode 16: Show Notes Welcome back to another episode of Cloud Out Loud! We are proud public cloud advocates and believe that the public cloud is going to be the ultimate platform for IT, computing, and AI for the foreseeable future. However, there...
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Episode 15 - Cost Control in the Cloud
Send a text Cost Control in the Cloud Episode 15: Show Notes Welcome back to Cloud Out Loud! As we record this at the start of July, there are lots of interesting doldrums occuring in all sectors of life. Particularly, the tech industry is being challenged. We are in the middle of a lot of...
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Episode 14 - The Cloud in Sports
Send a text Cloud in Sports Episode 14: Show Notes We often hear about various ways the Cloud is applied, but what about sport? In this episode, we focus on sports and the public Cloud, a subject that Logan has investigated in detail. More specifically, we chat about how the various sports…
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Episode 13 - Hivemapper: A Good Use of WEB3
Send a text Episode 13: Show Notes While we may have been negative about WEB3 on many occasions, today we are talking about a company implementing WEB3 technology in a way that truly seems to be a good idea. Hivemapper is a crowdsourced open source mapping platform. As the world’s first...
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Episode 12 - What is Lazy and Cheap?
Send a text Episode 12: Show Notes Lazy and cheap is the tagline of many programmers and often interpreted in a negative context. Being lazy and cheap has to do with streamlining operations and cutting costs, which are the goals of many organizations and companies. Many people are now beginning…
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Episode 11 - How to Take the Cloud Certification Tests
Send a text Cloud certification tests can be incredibly stressful to take and are a big investment for companies. They require a tremendous amount of time, money, and expertise to create, and need to be updated regularly. While the majority of tests used to be done on-site, the COVID 19 pandemic...
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Episode 10 - Protecting Your Assets from Cyber Attacks
Send a text Protecting Your Assets From Cyber Attacks Episode 10: Show Notes The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a heightened paranoia about cyber attacks, prompting the Department of Homeland Security to release a warning that we should be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity....
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Episode 9 - The GiveSendGo Leak
Send a text The GiveSendGo Data Leak Episode 09: Show Notes As you are probably aware, earlier this year, a convoy of truckers was making the news for protesting COVID mandates and vaccinations in Canada. Part of the convoy was raising money through GoFundMe to support these protests. After they...
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Episode 8 - The Coinbase Super Bowl Ad
Send a text Coinbase Super Bowl Ad Episode 08: Show Notes In today’s show, we talk about the “diminished user experience” Coinbase experienced after their Super Bowl ad and what can be learned from it. At the recent Super Bowl, Coinbase aired an advert that depicted a QR code floating on a screen...
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Episode 7 - Blockchain in the Cloud
Send a text Many of the conversations surrounding blockchain focus on the disruptive potential of decentralization. However, at the same time, many of the biggest cloud providers are either planning to offer blockchain-based services in the near future or already have them rolled out. This…
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Episode 6 - DynamoDB at 10 yers old, and the beginning of Cloud 2.0
Send a text Episode 06: Show Notes DynamoDB is a product that signaled the beginning of the cloud-specific technology revolution; Cloud 2.0, in other words. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that can scale from small workloads to millions of transactions all while maintaining single-digit...
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Episode 5 - Announcements from AWS, Is this really serverless
Send a text This week we pivot our focus from Google Cloud to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their annual reinvent. We take a closer look at Amazon’s serverless offerings and how it measures up against other existing services. Tuning in you’ll hear us break down our internal definition of…
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Episode 4 - Noone Puts Code in the Background (in Cloud Functions)
Send a text Episode 04: Show Notes This week we talk about the 5th on the series of blog entries from the Developers and Practitioners big: Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 5: How to run background processes correctly in Python. This post identifies problems where python code calls standard...
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Episode 3 - Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep
Send a text Don't make promises you can't keep - Using Node.ja promises correctly in Google Cloud functions Episode 03: Show Notes (Recorded November 18, 2021) Today Jon and Logan discuss the recent Google Cloud blog “Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 4: How to handle Promises correctly in your...
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Episode 2 - Avoiding Being Dumb
Send a text Avoiding Being Dumb Episode 2: Show Notes (Recorded November 4, 2021) Welcome to episode two of the Cloud Out Loud Podcast! Today, Jon and Logan discuss a couple of blog posts; one from Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and creator of the Last Week in AWS...
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Episode 1 - Reviewing What Not to do with Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Run
Send a text Reviewing What Not to do with Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Run Episode 1: Show Notes. (Recorded October 28, 2021) Welcome to the very first installment of Cloud Out Loud! For our first show, we catch up on some recent news, including our thoughts on Facebook’s ambitious plans for...
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Episode 0 - Who are we?
Send a text What To Expect From This Podcast with Logan and Jon Gallagher Episode 0: Show Notes. (Re-Recorded January 6, 2022) Welcome to the very first episode of Cloud Out Loud, a podcast hosted by Jon and Logan Gallagher that reviews cloud computing trends from the lens of humans and culture....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We talk about cloud computing, what's new, what to do, what not to do, and how to do it. We focus on the why and how of the cloud, why it's revolutionary, and how to adapt yourself or your organization to be part of this revolution.We cover Google Cloud and AWS pretty exclusively in the beginning, and hope to add Azure in our copious free time.
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We talk about cloud computing, what's new, what to do, what not to do, and how to do it. We focus on the why and how of the cloud, why it's revolutionary, and how to adapt yourself or your organization to be part of this revolution.We cover Google Cloud and AWS pretty exclusively in the beginning,...
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