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Matt Butcher (@technosophos, CEO at @FermyonTech) talks about the evolution of WASM, the relationship with Kubernetes, and managing Developer Experiences with platforms.
Fermyon (homepage)Fermyon Open SourceBuilding Apps with WebAssembly (Cloudcast Eps. 633)Kubernetes is (not) a cost optimization problem (InfoWeek)
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SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Itâs been a couple of years since the last time you were on. Great to have you back. For anyone that didnât listen to that show, or doesnât know you, give us a quick update on your background.
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Topic 2 - Letâs begin by talking about the Web Assembly community and the work around the open source project. Where does it stand today, what are the main focus areas?
Topic 3 - Fermyon delivers WASM as a PaaS platform and is focused on âserverlessâ delivery for applications. Youâve got a background in PaaS; what lessons have we learned about PaaS and whatâs changed over the years?
Topic 4 - A couple years ago, Web Assembly (WASM) was on the short-list of âHotâ topics at KubeCon, even though it just launched. Fast forward to 2024, and it feels like itâs hard to get visibility on anything that isnât called AI. How is WASM navigating the CNCF communities these days?
Topic 5 - WASM has an interesting relationship with Kubernetes. How do you think about the relationship? What do people get right, and what do they keep getting wrong?
Topic 6 - What are some of the interesting use-cases people are using WASM for thess days?
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As we look at the continued expansion of the CNCF Landscape and the end of Cloud 1.0 era, are there any trends or patterns that identify which technology or categories will succeed vs fail?
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Whatâs Stranger than AI? These new Job Titles (ZDNet)âOutliersâ book and the â10,000 Hours Ruleâ (Malcom Gladwell)CAN TECHNOLOGY OVERCOME OUR DESIRE TO NOT COLLABORATE?
Should technology cross functional areas? Can technology be successful when crossing functional areas?CAN CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SUCCEED?
Service MeshPaaS / Developer PortalsGitOpsFinOpsXX as codeFEEDBACK?
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Reid Robinson (@Reidoutloud_, Lead AI Product Manager @Zapier) talks about automation, application integrations and how to integrate AI in projects with Zapier
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Zapier AI homepageZapier integration with OpenAIZapier Central - AI Workspace to Teach AI Bots to work with AppsZapier Chatbots - Build AI ChatbotsZapier Canvas - Diagram AI Workflows
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Reid. Before we get started, tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Zapier.
Topic 2 - Lots of individuals and companies use Zapier for a wide variety of automated tasks and application integrations. Recently, the company has added a number of ways to integrate AI into those workflows. At a high-level, how did you go about thinking about adding AI into the platform?
Topic 3 - What are some of the most common AI usage-patterns and integrations that youâre seeing companies build around?
Topic 4 - As Zapier began to integrate with OpenAI (or any 3rd-party LLM), how did you think about it as a source of integration? What did you have to think about regarding filtering, security and hallucinations with ChatGPT?
Topic 5 - We often hear discussions about AI agents interacting with other AI agents to complete tasks, or evolve the outputs of multi-step, complex tasks. Is that an area where we might expect to see things like the new Zapier AI tools playing a role?
Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started building AI apps around these new integrations and tools?
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Letâs explore how todayâs early AI era is like the unicorn-filled, heavily VC-funded early 2020s. (Part 3 of 3)
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Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)Part 2: How Todayâs AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)THE EARLY 2020s were SHAPED by COVID and FREE CASH
VCs were pouring money into startups; âunicornsâ were a daily occurrenceMany assumed that âtodayâs normalâ would be the âforever normalâBusiness models were drowned out by technology fascinationDO CURRENT AI ECONOMICS AND FUNDING LEVELS MAKE SENSE?
VCs and cloud providers are funding infrastructure like itâs 1997-2000Business models around AI are still being sought outFunding valuations have no basis in anything real, at least not yetAre we near an AI (economic) crash, or at least deflation of the bubble?
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Solomon Hykes (@solomonstre, Co-Founder @Dagger_io) talks about the evolution of the container industry, fixing broken CI/CD systems, and modern DevOps.
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https://dagger.io/InfoQ Article on DaggerDaggar and GPTScript for AI (video)Tech Crunch ArticleSolomonâs first time on The Cloudcast - Episode #66Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Weâve spoken a number of times over the years and weâve been overdue to catch up. For the few listeners out there who might not be familiar, give everyone a quick intro and your background with Docker and containers prior to Dagger.
Topic 2 - Dagger has been around for a few years, coming out of stealth in 2022. If I understand Dagger correctly, it is a declarative model to abstract away CI/CD pipelines. What problem are you trying to solve?
Topic 2a - Anytime you add an abstraction layer, you potentially add overhead and complexity. What are your thoughts on this?
Topic 3 - Letâs go back to containers quickly. How has Containers as an âindustryâ changed over the years? How does that relate to what you are trying to do with Dagger?
Topic 3a - What lessons learned from Docker and even back to dotCloud days do you want to bring forward with Dagger?
Topic 4 - What metrics are organizations using to measure the performance and success of Dagger implementations? Is it velocity (number of deployments)? Reduction in friction?
Topic 4a - I get the advantage on the Dev side of DevOps, whatâs in it for Ops?
Topic 5 - Dagger has three components, Dagger Engine, Dagger Cloud and Dagger SDK. Walk everyone through the offerings at a high level.
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The introduction of cloud computing brought about a significant change on how we use technology with our businesses. Letâs look at the historical parallels to todayâs AI for the Enterprise. (Part 2 of 3)
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Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)Part 2: How Todayâs AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)WHAT SHAPED THE EARLY 2010s?
2008 financial crash and less money available for technology (uncertainty)Increased frustration with corporate IT organizations (too much ânoâ)The possibilities of mobile computing and socially connected societies (abundance)EARLY CLOUD WAS ALL ABOUT BREAKING AWAY FROM CORPORATE IT
Itâs a new generation of computing, so the future winner is unknown.Many companies are trying to have centralized IT policies - one size fits allData governance and legal liability is driving corporate policies (education needed)Consumer AI is widely available and applicable to some job functionsExecutives are starting to talk about âAI Firstâ policiesCloud-native and Cloud-migrated were very different things, with different results
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Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, from @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from May 2024
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LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR MAY 2024 CLOUD NEWS
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Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - Is anyone going to talk about Cloud anymore? Trend 2 - Is AI a real conversation with Enterprise yet, or does AI need to go through a consumer period first? Trend 3 - Every large acquisition was deemed a âterrible mistakeâ within a few months, according to the press - (e.g. Hashicorp, VMware)Trend 4 - Is April to June the new âtrade show seasonâ, or will it just be âalways onâ in the new AI world?FEEDBACK?
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Letâs put todayâs AI era into some historic context by looking at the similarities and parallels to the explosion of the 1st wave of the consumer Internet. (Part 1 of 3)
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Building the Information Super Highway (pre-2000)Executives discuss the Information Super Highway2001 - A DotCom Bubble Odyssey (Cloudcast Eps.772)Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)Part 2: How Todayâs AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)WEâRE FASCINATED BY THE IDEA OF TECHNOLOGY CHANGING EVERYTHING
2000s era Internet was going to change everythingGenAI is predicted to change everythingMOST TECHNOLOGYâS SHIFT HAPPEN WITH CONSUMERS FIRST
GenAI still canât validate accuracy (e.g. hallucinations)GenAI is still extremely expensive to create, maintainGenAI still doesnât have a widely-adopted business modelShadow GenAI groups will emerge in the EnterprisePeople are still mostly thinking about GenAI as a way to offload things they donât want to do vs. improving their existing skillsFEEDBACK?
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Tim Crawford (@tcrawford, CIO Advisor at @AVOAcom) talks about the challenges of the modern CIO, managing stability vs. innovation, and understanding the business value of tech.
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AVOA WebsiteTimâs article on HashiCorp
SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Tim, welcome back to the show! Weâve been friends for years, and itâs great to get you on today! We will discuss everything at the top of CIOs' minds today. Why donât you give everyone a quick background on how you became known as the CIO Advisor?
Topic 2 - Before we go into trends over the last few years. Put everyone in a CIO mindset. What do they care about? How do they think about the intersection of technology and business? What keeps them up at night?
Topic 3 - Weâve heard many times CIOs have to balance two things: keeping the lights on (the boring side of the business that is often undifferentiated, and the innovative side that often moves the needle. A CIOâs job is to minimize the former and maximize the latter. Do you agree? How accurate is that statement?
Topic 4 - Iâll follow that up with a real-world example many organizations might be facing, one weâve discussed on the show in the past. Weâll discuss VMware on one end of the stable, the keep the lights on model, and AI on the other end as an innovative technology that could differentiate. Letâs talk about VMware firstâŠ
Topic 4b - Now the other end of the spectrum, AI. Have we reached peak AI washing and craziness? Is the trough of disillusionment coming? How should a CIO think about it?
Topic 5 - Letâs talk about economics over the last few years. Zero-interest money has gone away for VCs and startups and we are seeing some big changes on the vendor side. How does this impact the people you talk to?
Topic 6 - Last topic, you were there and talked about Hashicorp when they rang the bell last week and then were bought 24 hours later. What was that like as someone who was there?
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When you see the headline â<ex-employee> says <company> AI strategy is in chaosâ, what does it really mean? Is any companyâs AI strategy NOT in chaos at this point?
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Ex-Google says Google's AI strategy is in chaos (Decoder)The Transformer Paper from Google (foundation of GenAI)NVIDIA coverage on Stratechery (Ben Thompson)DBRX LLM from DatabricksArtic LLM from SnowflakeOpenElm LLM from AppleOpenAI and Apple sign deal, Apple still wants a Google optionIBM and Red Hat bring Open Source to AI with InstructLabWE OVERESTIMATE IN 1YR, AND UNDERESTIMATE IN 10YRS
âMost people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.â - Bill GatesDOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE THEIR AI STRATEGY FIGURED OUT?
NVIDIAGoogleOpenAIMicrosoft / Azure / GitHubAmazon / AWSMetaAppleIBM / Red HatOracleSnowflakeDatabricksVCsStartupsFEEDBACK?
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Jonas Rosland (@jonasrosland, Head of Open Source Community @CIQ) talks about using AI tools to accelerate building and communications in Open Source Software (OSS) communities. We also discuss the differences between Community Roles and Dev Rel.
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Jonasâ session abstract from All Things Open (ATO) 2023Session slides and description of the talkHit Save! - Video Game Preservation OrganizationCIQ Enterprise Linux PlatformTopic 1 - Good Afternoon Jonas! Give everyone a quick background on your time building open-source communities and a bit about your foundation. Weâll dig into both areas today.
Topic 2 - We caught up at All Things Open last fall. You gave a fascinating talk on using AI tools to accelerate the building of OSS communities. Give everyone the backstory on how that topic and presentation came to be.
Topic 3 - This may be a dumb question, but DevRel is (still) all the rage. What is the difference between the approach to building OSS communities and the straight-up DevRel teams? How is success tracked in each? Are there solid metrics, or is it âfuzzyâ?
Topic 4 - Sadly, as far as I can tell, the session wasnât recorded. But, for me, the big takeaway was how much dabbling you were doing with the tools and your good and bad experiences. I learned a lot from a practical aspect. But, the AI industry and tools are moving so fast. Whatâs in your toolbox today and why?
Topic 5 - What are some of the gaps in the tools today? Whatâs missing?
Topic 6 - Letâs talk about your side gig. You were part of the founding team and are exec director of a video game preservation society, Hit Save! How did that come to be? What does that entail?
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After just three years, AWS is making another change at the top of the leadership org-chart. What lessons can we learn from leadership transitions and what might come next?
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Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcementâThereâs no AI without the cloudâ, says AWS CEO (Decoder podcast)Six things to know about the new AWS CEO, Matt GarminAWS HAS NEW LEADERSHIP. WHY NOW?
Adam Selipsky is out, Matt Garmin is in. What does it mean?Why is AWS making the change now?WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM SELIPSKYâS 3 YEARS AS AWS CEO
Probably donât take the job immediately after someone is the Nick Saban of techDonât be the complete opposite of the previous boss (wings guy vs. wine guy)[Andy on X] Lead Amazon, married and father of two kids, big sports/music/film fan, experienced buffalo wings eater. Go Kraken!
[Adam on X] Husband & dad. Water skier/tennis player. Fan of Seahawks & Sounders. CEO at #AWS.
[Andy Jassy] Iâve always had a lot of respect for Adam, and we met several times to discuss the possibility of coming back to lead AWS. In those conversations, we agreed that if he accepted the role, heâd likely do it for a few years, and that one of the things heâd focus on during that time was helping prepare the next generation of leadership.[Andy Jassy] Matt has an unusually strong set of skills and experiences for his new role. Heâs very customer focused, a terrific product leader, inventive, a clever problem-solver, right a lot, has high standards and a meaningful bias for action. Realize when your job is to lead and inspire vs. producing the weekly reportThe post-ZIRP CEO of AWS2021 - $62B, , 2022 - $80B, 2023 - $90B, 2024 - $100+BLost key peopleBehind on GenAI vs. other cloudsâWartime CEOâ vs. âPeacetime CEOâFEEDBACK?
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Mark Collier (@sparkycollier, COO @openInfradev) talks about the advantages of open source AI and the intersection of OSS and AI transparency, safety, and potential regulations.
See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developer
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Markâs Talk at ATOEU AI Act PassesHow Tech Giants Cut Corners Harvest DataThe EU Guide Act - A Guide for DevelopersOpenInfra FoundationTopic 1 - Our topic for today is AI Safety and Regulation. I saw our guest speak at All Things Open here in Raleigh late last year and he is also a Cloudcast alumnus having been on the show previously talking about OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation. Weâd like to welcome Mark Collier (Chief Operating Officer @ OpenInfra Foundation) for this discussion. Mark, welcome to the show.
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Topic 2 - Thereâs a lot of news today about AI safety and regulation. The industry also seems to be caught up in an AI arms race of who has the bigger model, faster model, etc. OpenAI have become the early category leader but they might have started with good intentions, but, contrary to their name, they arenât open⊠at all. One message in your talk is how open-source software will prevent the coming of the âAI overlordsâ. Tell everyone a bit of what you mean by this. What is the problem we are facing and many may not even realize it.
Topic 3 - I donât want to call you old (I think we are about the same age), but youâve seen some things. Youâve also been around OSS and foundations for a bit now. How can open source solve the problem?
Topic 4 - We hear a lot about AI regulation, but this seems to be a moving target. What is both the current and future state of AI regulation? In my opinion, we havenât seen a lot of successful regulations to date. We saw recently the EU pass an AI Act. Is this the first of many? The start of a trend?
Topic 5 - Letâs talk about the âday jobâ. Whatâs new with OpenInfra Foundation these days?
Topic 6 - OpenStack releases are still going strong and youâve even run out of letters on OpenStack releases and have rolled around on the alphabet and are back to C. This is the 29th release of OpenStack. Whatâs the news for the Caracal release?
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Happy Mothers Day! And letâs explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI.
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InstructLab Project (github homepage)LAB: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots (research paper)Granite LLMs (IBM research - Hugging Face)7b-base model7b-lab modelInstructLab: What is contributing to AI LLM models was easy? (Redmonk)HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMS
Call you mom, be good to your wife, and be a role model for the young girls in your lifeOPEN SOURCE MEETS AI
The big AI question: 1 model, or many models?2023 was the year of model diversity, and the beginnings of âopenâ models (Llama 2, Mistral, etc.)Can we make it easier to contribute to an open model?Can we create communities around models?Can we reduce the costs of expensive parts of AI? How can businesses bring their knowledge to a model, without security concerns about their data? (options like RAG (retrieval augmented generation) exist)FEEDBACK?
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Malte Ubl (@cramforce, CTO @Vercel) talks about Front-End web development and clouds, how AI impacts front-end infrastructure, and impacts to the business.
Vercel (homepage)Elevate your frontend with AIV0.dev
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SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Our topic for today is front-end development and front-end clouds, and weâll also explore AI-generated front ends. Our guest is Malte Ubl, CTO at Vercel. Malte, welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background on your time at Vercel and Google Search.
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Topic 2 - Letâs start at the start. We hear all the time about front-end developers and back-end developers. What is your definition of a front-end and, more specifically, a front-end cloud?
Topic 3 - What are the most common use cases you see today? What problem are you solving when you talk to organizations?
Topic 4 - How much of a front-end is typically integrated with 3rd party services, and how much is build your own?
Topic 5 - Where does AI fit into this from a developer's perspective? Are we to the point where we can develop a front-end from a prompt?
Topic 6 - Letâs talk about the business side of this. Do companies typically have a âfront-end problemâ? If so, what does it look like, and how do they know?
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What are the key characteristics and red flags with todayâs leaders in the tech industry? How to identify the leadership skills, the team building skills, and the execution skills.
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WHERE ARE THE LEADERS IN THEIR CAREERS?
Are they a 1st time manager?Have they managed distributed teams? Managed multiple teams?Have they managed a P&L? Have they had significant success in the past? What was their role?LEADERSHIP SKILLS, TEAM BUILDING, EXECUTION AND RED FLAGS
Are you joining an established âteamâ or group thatâs worked together before?Is the leader repeating a previous success, in a similar or different domain?What motivates the leader? What is their view on competition?What are the leaderâs best skills? Do they recognize this? Does the leader augment their skills with the team around them? Do they recognize this?Does your personality mesh with the team youâre joining, or are you expecting to be a change agent?FEEDBACK?
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Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024
LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR APRIL 2024 CLOUD NEWS
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TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024
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Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues - Speed RoundTrend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcementsTrend 2 - Weâre starting to see some (early) reality set in with AITrend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMware and AI discussionsFEEDBACK?
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Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isnât a business model. Letâs talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting.
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Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog)âfigure out how to play nice with competitionâ (Twitter)The will never be another Red Hat - Economics of OSS (a16z)OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODEL
There are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainersFREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONES
Red Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributorsYellow flags: Foundation owns copyrightâThereâs the business side and thereâs the hippie side of OSSââI have endless ambitionsââI didnât build a forever entityââWhen is the rug pull going to happen?âIf a company takes VC funding, is open source anything more than a marketing vehicle?âDocker figured it out and now they are doing like $100Mâ. Did they? When is OSS personal, and when is it a company?Will there never be another Red Hat, or just not another Linux?How much is too much when determining if a company should give things away for free?FEEDBACK?
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John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more.
Inference.ai (homepage)TechCrunch postSiliconAngle post on ChatGPU
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SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Our topic for today is sizing and IaaS hosting for AI/ML. Weâve covered a lot of basics lately, today weâre going to dig deeper. There is a surprising amount of depth to AI sizing, and it isnât just speeds and feeds of GPUs. Weâd like to welcome John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) for this discussion. John, welcome to the show
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Topic 2 - Letâs start with sizing, Iâve talked to a lot of customers recently with my day job, and it is amazing how deep AI/ML sizing can go. First, you have to size for training/fine-tuning differently than you would for the inference stage. Second, some just think, pick the biggest GPUs you can afford and go. How should your customers approach this? (GPUâs, software dependencies, etc.)
Topic 2a - Follow-up question what are the business side, what are the business parameters that need to be considered? (budget, cost efficiency, latency/response time, timeline, etc.)
Topic 3 - The whole process can be overwhelming and as we mentioned, some organizations may not think of everything. You recently announced a chatbot to help with this exact process, ChatGPU. Tell everyone a bit about that and how it came to be.
Topic 4 - This is almost like a match-making service, correct? Everyone wants an H100, but not everyone needs or can afford an H100.
Topic 5 - How does GPU availability play into all of this? NVIDIA is sold out for something like 2 years at this point; how is that sustainable? Does everything need to run on a âFerrari classâ NVIDIA GPU?
Topic 6 - Whatâs next in the IaaS for AI/ML space? What does a next-generation data center for AI/ML look like? Will the Industry move away from GPUs to reduce dependence on NVIDIA?
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For some strange reason, âmaintenanceâ has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated?
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AWS increased the price of longer-running EKS clusters by 6xBroadcom changes VMware licensing from perpetual to subscriptionBroadcom offers security patches to perpetual license customersIncreasing the Kubernetes support window to 1 yearDiscovering the XZ backdoor (Oxide and Friends, podcast)IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?
Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)The costs of maintenance are real and opportunityMaintenance often goes unappreciated and unseenNaming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos EngineeringTECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCE
Should we encourage a lack of maintenance vs. innovation as a priority?Should we encourage active maintenance with lower hard costs?Is there a way to put respect on maintenance? (e.g. OSS maintainers)Do we undervalue maintenance (e.g. Backup/Recovery, DisasterRecovery, etc.)?What maintenance best practices do you use? What are the good and bad of them?FEEDBACK?
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