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Scaling infrastructure exposes all of the weaknesses in your processes.
Scaling shouldn’t just be adding more people. The real solution is building standardized and repeatable processes that eliminate manual processes, site-to-site inconsistencies, and configuration drift.
Read more on scaling infrastructure here: rackn.com/blog/why-scaling-infrastructure-is-hard
What’s been the biggest challenge in scaling infrastructure for your team?
Scaling infrastructure exposes all of the weaknesses in your processes.
Scaling shouldn’t just be adding more people. The real solution is building standardized and repeatable processes that eliminate manual processes, site-to-site inconsistencies, and configuration drift.
Read more on scaling infrastructure here: rackn.com/blog/why-scaling-infrastructure-is-hard
What’s been the biggest challenge in scaling infrastructure for your team?
![Can we build Open Source ecosystems (K8s+) [Cloud 2030 March 18 2021]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CVFoDIqxgyQ/mqdefault.jpg "Can we build Open Source ecosystems (K8s+) [Cloud 2030 March 18 2021]
Love or question Open Source? Its important to understand peoples concerns about it. This general open source discussion turned into a Kubernetes discussion but was really about building ecosystems and solving business problems. The group was skeptical about whether Kubernetes (or OSS in general) was doing that.
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![Cloud2030 Weekly Discussion [Aug20]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CbBYwlIoWrE/mqdefault.jpg "Cloud2030 Weekly Discussion [Aug20]
Topic was around organization, audience and planning for the Cloud2030 community and congress/summit.
Notes & Transcript https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GkODKDboKr3ysAT49ea3902LVnQDxDnLe-tgn_dlhI
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![Trust is the foundation of Cloud [Hot Take Feb 11 2021]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cn-45DhsHQI/mqdefault.jpg "Trust is the foundation of Cloud [Hot Take Feb 11 2021]
If we dont trust the service providers then what happens to the cloud ecosystems? In this episode, the Cloud2030 team really got into what will cause transformation of the industry at a broad scale, what the triggers were, what the motivations are, and and sort of why it would happen.
And we did it talking about things like Bitcoin and trust and security and economics. So it was really well rounded discussion. And the punchline is that we think government changes, economic changes. geopolitical issues, are potentially big disruptors in this case, and hard to predict. And potentially other hardware innovations or things that the cost people lose faith or confidence in the way things are, could cause very rapid change.
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![Defending against Complexity with IaC [Gluecon 2022]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dk4MDDQQC1I/mqdefault.jpg "Defending against Complexity with IaC [Gluecon 2022]
UPDATED AUDIO VERSION: https://youtu.be/2q0iYnyyzcE
Complex systems can be made strongly defensible without compromising the ability to adapt and update them. In this short presentation, we discuss how to build resilient infrastructure using 3D printing vs injection molding as the key analogy for infrastructure as code (IaC)
Presented by Rob Hirschfeld at Gluecon 2022
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![Intersection of AI and Security [Cloud 2030 Dec 17 2020]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E5bVzJ37nTg/mqdefault.jpg "Intersection of AI and Security [Cloud 2030 Dec 17 2020]
Cloud2030 Team discusses how/if AI can improve infrastructure security.
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