Will Amazon's new RTO policy reshape tech?

Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.SHOW: 859Want to go to All Things Open in Raleigh for FREE? (Oct 27th-29th)We are offering 5 Free passes, first come, first serve for the Cloudcast CommunityRegistration Link - www.eventbrite.com/e/916649672847/?discount=Cloudcastfree  Instructions:Click reg linkClick “Get Tickets”Choose ticket optionProceed with registration (discount will automatically be applied, cost will be $0)SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #859 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Persona webpageTech Crunch Article on PersonaTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a little bit about your background with a quick introduction please.Topic 2 - You cut your teeth at Square prior to Persona, what lessons did you learn there, and how did your experience there impact what you are doing at Persona?Topic 3 - We are, of course, seeing an uptick in personal fraud in both our personal and professional lives through identity theft and personal information leaking into the world. If someone has all the proper information, how do you identify this as a false identity?Topic 4 - How has AI impacted all of this? I would think with the power of GenAI tools, this industry has accelerated dramatically?Topic 5 - Do we have another arms race on our hands to identify and protect both our personal and professional lives from fraud?Topic 6 - Is Persona a 3rd party API similar in architecture to Stripe? If I’m an architect in an organization today and I want to get started, how would I do that?Topic 7 - If there was one thing you wanted people to understand about this, what would it be?Topic 8 - You have access to a lot of personal data, how is this data handled and secured?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

This past week, Amazon announced a new RTO policy that required 5 days a week in the office. What types of impacts could this have on tech workers and the tech industry? SHOW: 858SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #858 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  SHOW NOTES:Amazon announces new Manager/Employee Ratio and RTO policy for 2025IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIMEPeople have adapted their life to working from homePeople have adapted their families to working from homeDaily commutes seem like a poor use of resourcesIT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIMEBeing around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharingRTO is more difficult on certain employee (especially care-giving women)RTO is an effective way to reduce headcount without defined “layoffs”RTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workersFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO @ Eve) talks about bringing AI to the legal vertical and the intersection of AI/ML of increased efficiency for legal firms.SHOW: 857SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #857 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Eve HomepageTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I don’t think of legal. What are the most common use cases?Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about the tech behind the scenes. Do you use foundational models and then fine-tune them? Do you have your own custom models? What are your thoughts on the current state and future of models for specific industries or verticals?Topic 4 - Legal is a highly regulated space; how do your customers (law firms) think about data security and compliance? Tell everyone a bit about how all of this works.Topic 5 - Do your clients use RAG for custom information that needs to be brought into the models? How does all of that work for customer data?Topic 6 - When I think about legal, I think about two big areas. We covered compliance and the financial side of this, but what about the billing and financial side? How is ROI on legal AI calculated? Where and how does a legal AI help? Is this measured in hours saved, which translates into dollars saved?Topic 7 - Let’s close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyone’s jobs away. What are your thoughts on how this supplements vs. replace staff?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Back from some recent travel, we look at why it’s important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how global regions adopt technology. SHOW: 856SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #856 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO:  https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  SHOW NOTES:LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE USDiffusion of informationCurrency exchangeGovernment laws, embargoes, tariffsLanguage and timezone differencesLocal culture, norms, expectationsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.SHOW: 855SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #855 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNETCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Link to August 2024 news and articlesSubscribe to Cote's newsletter. SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intel’s struggles?Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if it’s offered to you.  FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

The future of search advertising, the future of chips, the future of open source, AI monetization and government regulation of tech are all uncertain. What does that mean for the future?SHOW: 854SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #854 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  SHOW NOTES:ARE CORE PILLARS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE?Google and antitrustIntel and chipsOpen source and licensingAI and monetizationGovernments and regulationFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform engineering and IaC.SHOW: 853CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:On The CUBE discussing VMware in April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wIClYI6bDQSoftware Development Times discussion Platform Engineering: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/analyst-view-whats-new-whats-now-and-whats-next-in-platform-engineering/Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into a broad set of topics today, give us a little bit about your background and what you focus on today.Topic 2 - The hyperscalers have grown quite large over the last decade, but as we came out of COVID, many of their customers were concerned about the cost of cloud. Are we seeing a new rationalization coming around cloud costs and accountability of costs? Topic 3 - We’ve all read the headlines regarding changes to VMware by Broadcom. Alternatives to VMware would be big decisions for many companies. As a neutral independent, how are you framing your thinking about the VMware ecosystem and the decisions being made about the future of virtualization? Topic 4 - Over the last decade, we’ve seen so many new technologies. To get value from them, they require more cross-functional collaboration. These days we tend to call that Platform Engineering. How well do you see the evolution of people and processes being adopted, and how much more needs to happen?Topic 5 - Behind the scenes of every transition over the past decade (Cloud, AI, Cloud-native) is the adoption of automation. This seems like a no-brainer, but actual adoption is lumpy across companies. What are some of the hard parts of automation that aren’t discussed enough? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

With so much rapid change happening around AI models, is there a framework for when to build models, train models, fine-tune models, use RAG or something else? Let’s explore…SHOW: 852SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #852 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Access Gartner cloud research come to life with the “The Future of Cloud in 2028: From Technology to Business Necessity,” webinar.Secure your seat for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 with our early bird savings of $400 off standard rates now.  Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud.  Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSHOW NOTES:What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?Fine-Tuning vs. RAGPredictive AI vs. Generative AIAndrew Ng (always worth a watch IMO) https://youtu.be/sal78ACtGTc?si=dCoKXb5o4KB2XSerHarrison Chase (LangChain) https://youtu.be/pBBe1pk8hf4?si=lAit69_pDeRKcBGqhttps://blog.langchain.dev/what-is-a-cognitive-architecture/https://thenewstack.io/lets-get-agentic-langchain-and-llamaindex-talk-ai-agents/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IYzyi86yYhttps://blog.langchain.dev/what-is-an-agent/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/autogen/https://www.crewai.com/ HOW SHOULD WE DECIDE WHICH AI MODEL TO USE FOR OUR APPLICATION?Build, buy, use open source, augment with your own data - so many decisionsHow often do you update models with new data? HOW DO WE BRING OUR COMPANY DATA / KNOWLEDGE TO OUR AI MODELS?Large Static Models - Predictive AILLMs + Slow-Changing Data - Align the ModelLLMs + Fast-Changing Data - RAGLLMs + Agent-Learned Data - Agentic AIFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Emrul Islam (Head of Platform Innovation @TwingateHQ) talks about the evolution of remote access, application security, and enabling DevOps teams to drive security transformation.  SHOW: 851SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #851 TranscriptCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:How Twingate WorksTwingate vs. VPNsArchitecting Network Connectivity for a Zero Trust FutureSolving the usability problem to unlock Zero Trust adoptionReddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/twingate/ Signup for Twingate for freeTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Topic 2 - To properly solve cloud access & security pain points, companies need a tool that works for IT, DevOps, & Security teamsWhat are the challenges when trying to secure cloud access today?What role do each of the stakeholders play in addressing these?How much can technology really help address these challenges?Topic 3 - How is Twingate architected differently to address these new challenges?How do existing systems work?What sort of architecture is required?Topic 4 - Why is it a struggle to get these teams aligned on the right solutionIs there a disconnect between competing requirements and security?Topic 5 - What is the opportunity for Devops teams to influence remote access and security architecture?Why automate security?How much can be automated?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Is the market shifting from evaluating software as an economic driver to re-evaluating the cost of software in the context of how AI can improve, augment or replace developers? SHOW: 850SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #850 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:AWS CEO says developers might stop coding soon (Business Insider)Amazon CEO highlights the impacts of co-pilots on code (Andy Jassy)I’m tired of fixing customer’s AI-generated codeThe New Kingmakers (Stephen O’Grady)Exploring Generative AI (Martin Fowler)The Death of the Junior DeveloperSalary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers (The New Stack)THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)The value of the developer exploded over the last decadeSoftware has reshaped most industries over the last decadeWE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERSCode assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenueDo we have developer “productivity” or “creativity”?Does AI have more impact on legacy code or new code?How does the role of Junior vs. Senior developer change?What happens to System Integrators? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod