Tech Field Day

Can You Duplicate the CSPs Server Architecture On-Premises?

[Originally published on LinkedIn 21 June 2024] When you rent compute capacity from a cloud service provider (CSP), you can simply instantiate a virtual machine (VM) using pre-built configurations. Typically, you can choose from general purpose, storage-optimized, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, or accelerator-optimized families of virtual machines. For example, with Google, the C4 instance of virtual machines […]

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Is Google Cloud the right solution for your Modern Infrastructure?

[Originally published on LinkedIn 13 June 2024] Jeff Welsch, Product Management Leadership, Google Cloud presented to Cloud Field Day 20 on Google’s Modern Infrastructure Cloud. Modern enterprise workloads are changing. You can break down workloads into three categories: To support this, Google is rearchitecting and disaggregating the traditional server. Google has developed the Titanium offload

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Morpheus Data: Platform Thinking for Infrastructure Teams

[Originally published on LinkedIn 12 June 2024] Brad Parks, CPO/GTM Morpheus Data | Hybrid-Cloud Management Platform sets the stage for this afternoon’s Cloud Field Day 20 session. For Global 2000 firms, IT is complex and is only getting worse as app teams accelerate and specialize. As an example, a global biopharma organization has apps running

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Is AI the Spark That Ignites a New Networking Revolution?

Originally published on LinkedIn 12 June 2024 That’s the question that Mansour Karam, cofounder of Apstra and current Juniper GVP Products AI Clusters & Data Center, set out to answer at day one of Cloud Field Day 20. Monsour set two AI pillars for Juniper: AI for Networking Apstra AI for networking is provided through

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As Application Developers, Why Should We Monitor the Internet?

[Originally published on LinkedIn 30 May 2024 Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint talks to us about internet performance monitoring (IPM) at AppDev Field Day 1. Publicly facing internet applications are part of an extraordinarily complex “internet stack”. Starting at the top of the stack, we have: Why do you need to understand your internet stack?

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Optimizing Observability with Mezmo

[Originally published on LinkedIn 29 May 2024 Tucker Callaway, Mezmo‘s CEO, presents about observability and telemetry data at AppDev Tech Field Day 1. Mezmo has been solving observability problems since 2015 and its core principles are to help organizations use telemetry data to understand, optimize, and respond. Mezmo views itself as a data platform rather

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Google Cloud & Cloud Run: Helping Developers Build Faster?

[Originally published on LinkedIn 29 May 2024] Google Cloud‘s Yunong Xiao presented Cloud Run at AppDev Field Day 1, and the stated Cloud Run value proposition hits all the developer hot buttons: Cloud Run’s abstraction layer is a containerized application. Upload your container to the environment, and Cloud Run takes care of the entire infrastructure.

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