The Hot Aisle – Reality of Growth at Scale w/ Greg Warden of DigitalOcean – Episode 70

Greg Warden (@usmile1) VP of Engineering at DigitalOcean (@DigialOcean) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about delivering a reliable massively scalable service. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Greg and the team at DigitalOcean are managing the complexities of being one of the largest hyperscalers in the world – while continuously adding new features that offer to remove complexity from their customers’ lives. We’re going to dig into how they work to continuously software define their infrastructure as they pave new roads with their technology.  What do a16z and the hot aisle have in common? Besides wildly successful podcasts – we also both know that if you invest some time in this episode we guarantee you’ll see amazing returns.

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The Hot Aisle – You Code It, You Ship It, You Own It! w/ Tim Armandpour of Pager Duty – Episode 69

Tim Armandpour (@TimArmandpour) Senior Vice President for Pager Duty (@PagerDuty) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about instrumenting companies’ digital operations signals across their entire stack and how they are helping provide situational and contextual awareness to customers for their alerts and events.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Pager Duty’s digital operations management platform and how they are helping mobilize and orchestrate groups of people to solve problems together, better.  Bad code bad code… whatcha gunna do?  Whatcha gunna do when we alert on you…

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The Hot Aisle – Data Hungry with Purpose featuring Chris Knoch of Big Squid – Episode 68

Chris Knoch (@cknoch) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Big Squid (@Big_Squid) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about improving the signal to noise ratio on your data and how they’re impacting the world of predictive analytics.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down predictive analytics for executive decision makers and what Big Squid is offering to help wrangle, munge, and otherwise visualize your data in meaningful ways.  Whether you like it fried or grilled, make sure you get a taste of this giant calamari.

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The Hot Aisle – Random is Not the Opposite of Sequential with Brian Carmody – Episode 67

Brian Carmody (@initzero) CTO for Infinidat (@infinidat) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about seeing thru the fog and where long term technology trends are headed. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Infinidat intends to be the answer for yet unsolved storage problems, the real truth about random and sequential, Kryder’s law, and how disk drives continue to play an essential part in cloud storage. You may wanna lie down for this one, because we’re about to get all existential up in here about exabytes.

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The Hot Aisle – The Mean Time To Dopamine on Kubo with Justin Erenkrantz – Episode 66

Justin Erenkrantz (@jerenkrantz) Head of Compute Architecture for Bloomberg (@TechAtBloomberg) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the delicate balancing act between developers and operations, and how to achieve the best velicoty, flexibility, and their desired outcomes. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how modular architectures and decoupling components benefits organizations, what permissionless development is all about, and so much more.  Get your medium format camera out and take a picture, because there’s only one “day 1” in this game – and nobody needs pics of your infinite number of “day 2’s”!




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The Hot Aisle – How to be the Apex Predator of Analytics w/ Guy Churchward & Phu Hoang – Episode 65

This week we are joined by two guests from DataTorrent (@DataTorrent) – Guy Churchward (@GuyChurchward) President & CEO and Phu Hoang, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer.  They joined us on The Hot Aisle to talk about Real Time Streaming Platforms and analytics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how batch data processing is crossing over to real time processing, and how application and data architectures are enabling big data and analytics. Don’t forget:  if your analytics moves slower than the business…you lose!

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The Hot Aisle – Opportunity Cost of Public Cloud with Josh Gwyther – Episode 64

Josh Gwyther (@joshuagwyther) Google Cloud Platform Agent of Innovation for Google (@google) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about hyperscale public clouds and how GCP’s technology is keenly positioned to support their customer’s line of business applications. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the cost and opportunity cost of public cloud, the strategic initiatives Google Cloud Platforms is driving, and how data nerds and financial nerds alike are flocking to public clouds for these operational outcomes! Dust off your old Econ 101 book, because it’s about to get all OpEx up in here, up in here.

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