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• Cloudfix Homepage

SHOW NOTES:

• AI’s $200B Question (Sequoia)
• 5 years and $15B later, a fiber venture fails (Global Crossing)
• Dot com bubble
• The history of Switch Data Centers
• Interest rates over the last 30 years
• The Cost of Cloud, A Trillion Dollar Paradox (a16z)
• VCs vs the Cloud (Eps.656)

BACK IN THE DOT COM DAYS, WE ASSUMED THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE INTERNET

• Let's remember how we transitioned from the late 1990s to the early 2000s
• VCs used to have a $50M "hardware tax" on investments
• Cloud and Low Interest Rates changed everything
• New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models

NOW WE ASSUME THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE AI (and GPUs)

• Interest rates have come back up to 2001 levels
• VCs are back to paying the "hardware tax", and aren't happy
• New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models
• Let's see if history repeats itself.

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SHOW NOTES:

• SnorkelAI (homepage)
• SnorkelAI on The Cloudcast #523

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke two years ago. A lot has changed so we thought it would be a great time to talk about updates. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with when we last spoke. We talked a lot about data scientists and how data labeling works for training LLM’s. For those that aren’t familiar, can you give everyone a quick intro to data labeling and why it is important for training?

Topic 3 - When we last spoke, LLM weren't as mainstream as they are today. How has this impacted how you think about AI/ML in general? What are the big challenges for LLM today that you see?

Topic 4 - Many organizations are trying “off the shelf” models but this may or may not be a good idea. On one side they don’t have to build a model but on the other they still have to fine tune it to their specific needs and use case. What are your recommendations for organizations to get started and be as effective as possible?

Topic 5 - In addition to organization specific models, are teams building purpose built models for specific functions (i.e. are they running multiple models each with a different task?) How does labeling and training come into play here?

Topic 6 - Another challenge I’m seeing is security and data privacy concerns. What do folks getting started need to be aware of to make sure company data is safe?

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SHOW NOTES:

• Troubles with Open Source Gig Economy (Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF)
• Open Source Needs Maintainers, How Do They Get Paid? (TNS)
• A New Way to Think about Open Source Sustainability (InfoWorld)

OPEN SOURCE HAS BECOME CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUSINESSES

• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Java are all mission-critical to businesses. 
• Cloud providers have disrupted the previous OSS models - operationalize vs. contributions
• How to pay contributors?
• How to avoid unpredictable changes to licensing?
• How to provide better transparency to customers and communities?

DO OSS PROJECT NEED MORE STRUCTURE TO SUCCEED OR SUSTAIN?

• Establish “types” of projects: Business, Community, Any - Years to Action
• Establish some timelines around various types of projects
• Patents have a timeline to explore - can there be OSS licenses that have timelines
• Government tax credits for paying OSS contributors
• Should governance foundations create forks at established times?
• Should groups like CNCF be more active in recruiting forks after a period of time?

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• Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple, Google and Spotify
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• Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the entire application lifecycle.  Learn more about Panoptica at panoptica.app

SHOW NOTES:

• Vanta (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. What made you join Vanta and did your experience at Dropbox factor into this decision?

Topic 2 - Our topic today is developer security and compliance. Let’s start by helping our listeners understand the problem. We hear all the time about developers wanting to go fast. Things like security and compliance can be an afterthought. Do you agree and is this the root of the problem or is it something else?

Topic 3 - Most organizations, especially smaller orgs or startups just getting going, they just want to get to MVP, what advice to you have for them in building security and compliance into their CI/CD pipelines so this becomes more programmatic?

Topic 4 - Security is certainly one angle, but probably just as important, if not more so is compliance. To make it slightly more difficult, compliance can mean many different things based on geography (SOC in US for instance). How do organizations staff for this and keep up with regulation changes? Or, maybe on the flip side, is this a common area where they are understaffed and need outside assistance?

Topic 5 - In security and compliance worlds there is often the concept of identification and discovery as one part, but remediation as the second part. Where and how does Vanta work with organizations to solve for both vectors?

Topic 6 - Automation, especially into CI/CD pipelines seems like a no-brainer here, but I would also add is this an area where AI/ML will come into play in the future?

Topic 7 - If folks want to dig in and learn more, how do you suggest they get started?

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• AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player. 
• Cloudfix Homepage
• CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
• ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend
• Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments
• Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.

SHOW NOTES:

• Fair Use doctrine 
• The legal issues presented by generative AI (MIT)
• Generative AI in Healthcare and Liability Risks
• Generative AI and Intellectual Property (Benedict Evans)
• Microsoft claims it'll pay if you get sued for IP infringements for using CoPilot
• Show educators would block AI usage for legal reasons (Matt Brown)

BREAK THE LAW NOW, AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS LATER?

• From ride-sharing to crypto to generative AI, the gray areas of the law or property ownership are at the center of the major digital transformations
• The open source community is debating what is proper licensing, and should licensing ever change?
• Are we at the beginning of LegalOps or LiabilityOps?

IS THE LIABILITY IN BUSINESS MODEL, IP, PRIVACY, FRAUD OR CORRUPTION

• What are companies liable for? Fair-use of data? AI Models? AI recommendations? AI actions? 
• What laws do cloud providers need to be concerned about? 
• What do customers need to be concerned about?
• What do systems-integrators need to be concerned about?

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