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Enhanced Spot Ocean Controller: The fastest and most efficient scaling for your K8s applications

Fast scaling is a pressing business need in many B2C industries like media distribution, streaming, and gaming. Spot by NetApp is proud to offer the fastest scaling on earth with its enhanced Ocean controller.

Ep. 20 Is AI the Future of Infrastructure Management? with Yonit Gruber Hazani

Cloud Control welcomes Yonit Gruber-Hazani, a customer engineer at Google focused on helping public sector organizations in Israel through digital transformation journeys with the cloud. Yonit shares her experience in technology, including her roles as a DevOps SRE team lead and open source contributor. She also discusses her time at Waze, where she managed their infrastructure of over ten thousand servers.

Adapting to change: Mitigating AWS's policy against selling discounted RIs on the Marketplace

In late 2023, AWS began informing customers that as of January 15, 2024, they would start enforcing their existing policy of not allowing discounted RIs to be sold on the RI Marketplace, according to AWS Service Terms 5.6.1.: “You may not resell an EC2 Reserved Instance that you purchased through a discount program.” This policy has been in place since at least 2014; however, AWS rarely enforced it.

Event-driven architecture: The future of fast, effective cluster autoscaling

The rapid dynamics of K8s require the ability to rapidly scale up infrastructure and then tear it down just as quickly when you’re done processing data. Any unnecessary bottleneck that you experience throughout this process can be stressful to the team managing your Kubernetes environments. Your autoscaler’s controller could result in such bottlenecks – unless it’s well-architected.

Ep. 19: Cloud Mapping with Simon Wardley

In this episode we are joined by Simon Wardley, a pioneer of Wardley Maps and strategic thinking. Join us as Simon looks back at his foundational days at Canonical, the shaping of Ubuntu’s cloud dominance, and his groundbreaking work on mapping techniques that aid in anticipating technological shifts. He explores the critical role of open source in cloud computing, the impact of serverless architectures, and the futuristic shift towards conversational programming and AI.

Uncover the secrets of dev- and org- friendly IDPs

Are you looking to enhance your organization's scalability journey? Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) can be a game-changer, especially when optimization is integrated into their design. By optimizing resource provisioning, utilization, and spend through automated workflows and guardrails, you can achieve more with your engineering time and budget. Join our roundtable discussion where we explore practical strategies for making optimization an integral part of your IDP.

Ep. 18: A CIOs Take on Cloud Evolution

Welcome backl! In this episode, we have a captivating discussion with Tim Crawford, a trusted advisor to C-Suite Technical leaders in various industries, ranging from startups to enterprises and higher education. Join us as we delve into the realm of Hybrid Cloud, exploring its significance and the evolving role of open source in business computing. We'll also shed light on the far-reaching implications of high-profile acquisitions and mergers within the tech industry. Get ready to gain valuable insights into the world of hybrid cloud and open source that will empower your business endeavors.

Spot Ocean: The easy button for Kubernetes version and patch management

As a recovering practitioner, one of the things I was always less than thrilled to do was patching. I dreaded having to run updates, ensure everything was configured correctly, and finding windows of time to reboot without knocking an application offline. Just like your cloud workloads — everything changes when it has to be done at scale. Kubernetes has always been built around the DevOps concepts of rapid development, delivery, and iteration.