Episode #99: You already have a Multi-Cloud Strategy with Rob Sutter
Show notes and transcript:
https://www.serverlesschats.com/99
On this episode, Jeremy chats with Rob Sutter about how bottom up adoption by developers has led to the proliferation of "cloud" inside most companies, the role third-party tooling plays in winning developer loyalty, and how the API economy inevitably leads to components distributed across cloud providers.
This episode sponsored by CBT Nuggets: https://www.cbtnuggets.com/
Timestamps:
00:00 - Opening Credits
00:31 - Introduction
00:39 - About Rob Sutter and Fauna
01:56 - Rob’s thoughts on the idea of the “multicloud”
04:36 - The idea of a “bottom-up” approach to developing and its marketing possibilities for companies building services
07:30 - Security for enterprises with cloud services
09:50 - What developers need to be aware of to ensure security and optimal performance when choosing the services their enterprise needs
12:35 - The issues with building customized tools, and the ways the tools services provide can easily be maintained and seamlessly transitioned
14:53 - The potential benefits and pitfalls of combining services and tools
17:53 - The benefits of the compatibility of a “family” of services
22:51 - Rob’s experience on the dev advocate team for SAM
25:49 - Thank you to our sponsor, CBT Nuggets
27:12 - The question of the necessity of developers understanding the structure of templates; do developers still need CloudFormation
30:15 - The value for enterprises in understanding exactly what is put in the cloud
34:52 - The importance of assembly languages for drift detection, etc.
36:50 - The idea of that nearly anything developers want to build is available now via an API
39:08 - The practice of utilizing the expertise already baked into services rather than building custom
41:14 - How Fauna works to administer large, multi-region databases
44:08 - Interesting problems for developers to solve: large-scope projects vs. small local projects
49:52 - Solving the challenge of data on the edge
53:19 - The reasons why developers might take on the complexity of building or modifying services that already scale and provide full functionality
57:23 - The Calvin paper summary
1:00:34 - Wrap up
1:01:36 - End credits