Tech Beats Unplugged

By: Cloud Dude
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  • Welcome to Tech Beats Unplugged, the podcast where we dive into the dynamic world of technology, open source, cloud innovation, devops, Tech economics, and much more. Join us as we bring together experts, thought leaders, and innovators from diverse tech arenas and leading tech vendors. Here, we believe in creating a safe space where guests can freely share their opinions, insights, and experiences without any strings attached. It's a platform dedicated to unlocking knowledge, fostering meaningful discussions, and exploring the latest trends that shape the tech industry. Time to Tune in !
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Episodes
  • Ep05: "Deploy Local LLMs 𝐢𝐧 the Cloud (𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲)"

    Ep05: "Deploy Local LLMs 𝐢𝐧 the Cloud (𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲)"
    Sep 24 2024

    👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to Episode 05 of "Tech Beats unplugged"

    This time, we tried something completely crazy – we're letting the AI hosts take over! That's right 😎. We're flipping the script and giving the AI the mic to guide us through the fascinating world of local LLMs. but that's not all as this episode is actually inspired by my recent talk at Oracle Cloud World in Vegas. The topic? You guessed it: Local LLMs in the cloud.

    🌟 We’re so excited to share our latest tech Beats show with you🧡!

    We hope you'll enjoy it!!!

    Topics discussed:

    1. (00:00) Introduction
    2. (01:00) Why OpenAI Might Not Be Your BFF?
    3. (02:40) Local/Open LLMs to the Rescue!
    4. (03:38) What's Quantization!
    5. (04:30) Where to find these Open LLMs?
    6. (05:02) Inference Engines (Ollama)!
    7. (05:50) What's a modelfile!
    8. (06:40) What about deploying local AI to the cloud?(OKE/managed kubernetes)
    9. (07:30) From zero to cloud deployment Hero
    10. (08:28) What's Next (LLM ethic benchmark)
    11. (09:55) Outro.

    Show Notes

    • My local LLM GitRepo: Ollama_lab
    • Helm leaderboard for model safety: Sandford Helm model leaderboard
    • My talks in Oracle cloud world 2024: OCW2024LLM
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    11 mins
  • Ep04: "Networking in the Cloud Part 1" (with Jose Moreno)

    Ep04: "Networking in the Cloud Part 1" (with Jose Moreno)
    Apr 17 2024

    👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to Episode 04 of "Tech Beats unplugged"

    This time, we dared to tackle the big, yet exciting topic which is "𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝", and to help us with this challenge we summoned our expert and networking GURU "Jose Moreno" all the way from Munich Germany.

    As an Azure Principal Engineer at Microsoft, he comes to share his knowledge and demystify all those mysterious networking concepts, answering questions you never dared to ask in the universe of SDN and cloud networking😀( SDWAN, Hub&Spoke, migrations, Cloud lies, you name it).

    🌟 We’re so excited to share our latest tech Beats show with you🧡!

    We hope you'll enjoy it!!!

    Topics discussed:

    1. (00:00) Introduction
    2. (04:00) How did you enter IT and the networking world ?
    3. (06:14) What has really changed for network admins since Cisco golden years ?
    4. (09:30) Core differentiators between on-prem and Cloud/SDN paradigm?
    5. (15:29) IPV6 Doom day: Why are we so stuck with IPV6 adoption?
    6. (21:58) What lab tools can students use to prep for cloud networking exams?
    7. (28:30) What the heck is BGP & OSPF and are they still used in the cloud?
    8. (38:09) Your cloud subnet constructs is fake😱😱???
    9. (46:50) Difference between WAN & SDWAN, how it integrates with the cloud ?
    10. (50:52) Hub & Spoke Versus Virtual WAN pros and cons?
    11. (56:54) Biggest networking challenge stories when moving to the cloud ?
    12. (1:00:43) I'm a small shop CTO moving Hybrid, help me out! #BestPractices ?
    13. (1:05:41) What's the hype around IPSEC tunnels over Direct connect?
    14. (1:12:9) Your most helpful contributions to the cloud networking community ?


    Show Notes

    • IPV6 & IPV4: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠two-internets-both-flakey by Avery Pennarun⁠
    • your cloud subnet constructs is fake: ⁠new-cloud-security-thinking(podcast)⁠
    • Roggers BGP outage: ⁠Summary⁠
    • ⁠BGP: ⁠BGP School for cloud people(podcast)⁠
    • VPN Aviatrix insane mode: Article

    Jose Moreno:

    • ⁠⁠⁠linkedin⁠
    • ⁠Blog⁠
    • ⁠Azure review checklists⁠⁠
    • ⁠⁠Github: erjosito/azure-networking-lab ⁠⁠
    • ⁠Microsoft Azure What The Heck k8 project⁠
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Ep03: "Journey into Tech with Kelsey Hightower (Uncut version) 🌠

    Ep03: "Journey into Tech with Kelsey Hightower (Uncut version) 🌠
    Nov 28 2023
    👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to Episode 03 of "Tech Beats unplugged" This time, we have been incredibly honored and fortunate to host one of the most prolific speakers, storyteller, and thought leader of his generation. He was kind enough to bless us with his presence for an exclusive interview filled with priceless wisdom and life hacks💡. Beyond his groundbreaking contributions to Kubernetes, Cloud Native and Open-Source software, he's been one the most influential figures in the tech industry over the past decade. Today, despite his retirement, he continues to inspire engineers across the world to build smarter, scalable, and highly usable systems🌟. We’re so excited to share our privileged exchange with the one and only, Kelsey HighTower🧡! We hope you'll enjoy it!!! Topics discussed: (00:00) Introduction(02:06) Day 0: Kelsey's early life up to his tech introduction Fun facts, boyhood in Long BeachEarly hustles in Atlanta First gig in Tech (08:20) (14:40) If we had a dinner with 3 of your best friends and Asked them to describe you, What would we learn 🦸‍♂️ ? The past lives of Kelsey in the show business The impact of minimalism (25:40) What did it take on a hindsight: Skills, talent, hard work, luck or all of them? The revolution of the Open source mindsetCan do attitude, increase the luck surfaceThe most powerful language: "Human language" (32:30) The CNCF landscape: How did we get there? Limitless options; Is it a good or bad thing (37:50) Monolith vs Microservices debate: is it still a thing today? Stack Overflow & Prime Video examples (48:40) Platform engineering vs DevOps! What's that all about ? (53:38) At what time serverless stops making sense? Beyond cost and process length. (57:56) One day Kubernetes will die, what does life after K8 look like? (01:05:42) What the heck is service mesh/istio and is eBPF is here to replace it? keeping up with side cars vs ambient mesh and cilium. (01:14:16) Dev consumerism, are we in a disposable Dev language era? I'm a junior dev, should I pick the weekly hype or stick to my guns? (too many frameworks, APIs, runtimes). (01:23:32) How to distinguish Right Abstraction from the Bloat Abstraction? (1:27:20) Something called Empathetic engineering? Your experience back at google improving usability. (1:34:31) Tips for when you're obsessed with exciting new ideas but fail miserably to convey its potential to the higher ups? (1:44:30) Startup CTOs conundrum- should we keep it simple (monolith/managed) or go all-in shiny framework? (1:52:00) The state of the Black Community in Silicon Valley (2:05:07) Career wisdom for Youngbloods (2:11:50) Surprise Quiz😀: What Kind of Kelsey are you (Hip Hop version 🎵) Show Notes Monolithic success stories: (⁠Stack Overflow⁠ - ⁠PrimeVideo⁠)⁠⁠Kubecon Keynote: Reflection Kelsey.H⁠⁠The future of K8s, is that it has to go away(GitHub ReadMe) ⁠ Crunchbase news: ⁠⁠Black Founders continue to not be funded in Silicon Valley⁠⁠Total VC funding in the US raised by black founders(1.2%) ⁠⁠Black Employees at top tech companies (5%)⁠
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    2 hrs and 36 mins
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