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Explore " paas" with insightful episodes like "Web Development Frameworks: Elixir and Phoenix vs. Ruby on Rails with Owen Bickford & Dan Ivovich", "Embedding lending and credit into the fintech value proposition, with Canopy CEO Matt Bivons", "Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success", "073 - From Rails to revenue, with Khash Sajadi (CEO & Co-founder @ Cloud 66)" and "EP629: What are the key trends and challenges in payments?" from podcasts like ""Elixir Wizards", "The Fintech Blueprint", "The Cloudcast", "Life on Mars - A podcast from MarsBased" and "IBS Intelligence Podcasts"" and more!
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Embedding lending and credit into the fintech value proposition, with Canopy CEO Matt Bivons
Lex chats with Matt Bivons, the founder and CEO of Canopy, a modern digital lending company. Bivons discusses his background in fintech and his journey from being a product designer to starting his own company. He explains the importance of designing products for others and how he identified a gap in the market for a lending infrastructure solution. Bivons also talks about the evolution of the digital lending sector and the role of infrastructure companies in enabling fintech innovation. He shares his vision for the future of Canopy and the opportunities in the commercial lending space.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Canopy's Website: https://bit.ly/3Fwvg3Y
Matt's LinkedIn profile: https://bit.ly/3QyIu6x
Topics: fintech, lending, API, Paas, credit, loan servicing, digital lending
Companies: Canopy, Earnest, GreenSky, Stripe, Kabbage, YC
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TIMESTAMPS
1’37”: From self-design to universal solutions: A founder's journey
7’01”: Fostering empathy in product design: Balancing personal and market problems
10’25”: Marketing strategies & cost of acquisition in fintech: Insights from Earnest and GreenSky
17’45”: Expanding horizons: Gaining experience and expertise at GreenSky
22’24”: From insight to action: Building Canopy from scratch
25’58”: Navigating the go-to-market challenge: Insights from Canopy's founding journey
31’25”: Canopy's current landscape: Scale, competencies, and customer base
34’20”: Shaping the future of digital lending: Market evolution and exciting prospects
40’02”: The channels used to connect with Matt & learn more about Canopy
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success
Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS.
SHOW: 765
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- Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2)
- Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it
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SHOW NOTES:
Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.
Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.
Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWS
Topic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?
Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?
Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’t
Topic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Twitter: @thecloudcastnet
073 - From Rails to revenue, with Khash Sajadi (CEO & Co-founder @ Cloud 66)
We embrace the nitty-gritty details of technology, discussing everything from the revival of Rails-based startups to the pros and cons of microservices and monoliths. What are the implications of measuring technical debt as a key performance indicator? How does the availability of talent influence our choices in technology? Khash provides intriguing insights into these questions and more. Not just that, we delve into the emergence of Go as a popular programming language and the impact of containerization and Kubernetes on the industry.
But it's not all tech-specs and jargon. Khash regales us with the humorous story of how a small mistake led to him winning the 'Donkey of the Week' award at his company. To top it off, we tackle the often overlooked complexities of pricing for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, underscoring the importance of predictability and feature distinction. So, buckle up for a roller coaster ride through the highs and lows, the successes and mistakes, the serious and the fun facets of the software industry.
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/
EP629: What are the key trends and challenges in payments?
Peter Larsson, Director, Practice Lead for Europe & Nordics, Volante Technologies
Volante Technologies’ cloud-native and API-ready payment solution VolPay topped IBSi’s Sales League Table 2023 in the Wholesale Payments Systems category. The solution unifies end-to-end processing of domestic and international payments. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Peter Larsson, Director, Practice Lead for Europe & Nordics, Volante Technologies about developments in payments and the process and progress of digital transformation.
Front End as a Service (FEaaS) in a Composable Technology Stack
There are many different types of businesses and products that are a service. You likely have heard of Software as a Service (SaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS).
But from the growth of composable and headless architecture, a new As-A-Service has been created - Front End as a Service (FEaaS). Since the front end is decoupled from the back end, this type of service allows developers to focus on the ways people interact with their sites and apps without constraints or blockers from the back end systems.
Joining this episode are Rachael Hibbert and Pierre Martin from Front-Commerce, where they discuss this emerging FEaaS space. They will explain many details on how to use this technology to build, test, and distribute engaging front end experiences faster, better, and cost-effectively.
Join the experts at Cloudinary and Front-Commerce for this engaging MX Matters episode, and learn how to construct your composable technology stack!
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DevOps, OSS Communities & WASM in the Public Cloud
Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout, Principal PM @Azure) & Ralph Squillace (@ralph_squillace, Principal PM @Azure) talk about DevOps, Public Cloud involvement with OSS communities, CNCF, WASM and OSS Communities.
SHOW: 724
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- CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
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SHOW NOTES:
- Open Source on Azure
- Arrested DevOps Podcast
- DevOps Days
- Web Assembly, Docker, Containerd, and Kubernetes (YouTube)
- Microsoft Open Source
- Revive WG-LTS · Issue #7259 · kubernetes/community · GitHub
- Kubernetes 1.23: Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 Networking Reaches GA
- Develop serverless WebAssembly apps with Spin | Fermyon • Experience the next wave of cloud computing.
- GitHub - jpetazzo/container.training: Slides and code samples for training, tutorials, and workshops about Docker, containers, and Kubernetes.
- xkcd: Dependency
Topic 1 - Bridget, welcome back! It's been over 7 years since you were last on the show! Ralph, welcome to the show!
Topic 2 - Bridget, let’s talk about your journey. You were involved with Arrested DevOps Podcast & DevOps Days. Your career has changed a bit from the Developer Advocate path into the PM side. Tell us a little bit about that.
Topic 3 - For those that aren’t familiar, tell everyone about OSS @ Azure. How does Azure work with the Linux Foundation and the CNCF?
Topic 4 - Ralph, let’s talk about Web Assembly a bit. How did you get involved? How does Web Assembly fit into the bigger Azure architecture? How does it compare to Azure Functions?
Topic 5 - We last talked about WASM probably in the summer last year. Momentum appears to have picked up dramatically judging by interest at recent KubeCon events. From your perspective, how has the space evolved and changed in the last 12 months?
Topic 6 - How is Web Assembly different from the past promises of PaaS? What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases that have evolved?
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Twitter: @thecloudcastnet
The Week in Green Software: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS!
Horus Aged Ales & PAAS Easter Eggs
Get your dye ready for The Beer Hour this week! First up we'll speak with Horus Aged Ales founder Kyle Harrop about what it's like to work as a dual accountant-brewer, and what drew him to Oceanside, California. How is the trend towards taprooms changing the industry? And how does climate play a part in the success of a brewery?
Then we'll get ready for Easter with Lorin Borba, Director of Insights at Signature Brands, the company behind PAAS dyed Easter Eggs! Find out the fun history of this Easter tradition, and the inventive ways PAAS is eggsperimenting for the future. From volcano eggs to growing crystals, you'll be all set for Easter morning.
2023 Look Ahead for Developers
James Governor (@monkchips, Co-Founder @Redmonk) talks about Developer experience in 2023. Topics include trends, platforms, languages and culture.
SHOW: 700
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SHOW NOTES:
- Redmonk - The developer focused analyst firm (homepage)
- Redmonk Programming Language Rankings
- Monktoberfest - Developer Conference (Portland, ME)
Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You are a rockstar in the developer world, and maybe unknown in the infrastructure world. Tell us a little bit about your background.
Topic 2 - [Developers as a Whole] In 2023, do you think about developers any differently than you did in 2018 or 2021? Do you think about developers in terms of things they get done, or the types of work they do (front-end, back-end, mobile, data-science, etc.), or something else?
Topic 3 - [Trends] What are the big developer-centric trends that you are tracking or really have your interest? AI? Hosting services? Database services? WASM?
Topic 4 - [Platforms] Will we ever find that PaaS pot-of-golf at the end of the rainbow, or is the dream of platforms just a unicorn? Or do we have to realize that successful platforms are all micro-platforms?
Topic 5 - [Languages] Redmonk famously tracks development languages every six months. It feels like there are only two trends - what stays the same, and the language that is the new hotness. Do languages really matter?
Topic 6 - [Culture] Lots of people talk about changing a company’s culture to better serve the needs of developers. Do you have any examples of where that has worked, or best practices?
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Twitter: @thecloudcastnet
Flightcontrol in 2023 with Brandon Bayer
Summit NA Preview, and a Simple Guide to Picking a Cloud Vendor Sadin on Digital
The Big Themes:
- Summit NA: Community Summit North America, the largest independent gathering of the Microsoft business applications ecosystem, is taking place October 10 through 13th in Orlando, Florida, featuring 500+ sessions and 300+ speakers.
- How to compare cloud vendors: They have different revenue streams, distinct customer bases, and come in a wide range of sizes, but cloud vendors can best be understood in three dimensions, Wayne says: their layers, their origins, and their coverage.
- Advice for the cloud buyer: Know what you're buying. Know when you're buying it. Know why you're buying it. And take full advantage of what you bought.
The Big Quote: "Remember, digital transformation is driven by technology in two ways: what I can do with my technology, or what somebody else can do with their technology against me. That's what drives the digital transformation. And the cloud products are perfect for that."
This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.
Introduction and Kickoff of In the Clouds with AWS
This episode launches our podcast In the Clouds with AWS. Our future sessions we will cover topics, blogs, and support articles about AWS
"Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, customers across all industries."
Host: Jon Spallone
Co-Host: Andy Whiteside
Episode 11: How a Technology Revolution Could Impact Payment Providers
Episode #47: Geese aren't the only things migrating in the cloud, but we're more secure at least
One thing Mike and Ken have talked about at length at conferences, in board rooms, and in team chats is migrating workloads to the cloud security. Join them as they discuss the migrating patterns, how they vary between your favorite cloud service providers, and just where security fits into the whole mess. From on prem, refactoring, lift and shifted, native cloud workloads, or just someone else's computer, we have enough buzzwords to knock your socks off this time around
Managing Microservices
Maxim Fateev (@mfateev, Co-Founder/CEO of @temporalio) talks about building modern applications, rethinking microservices, and orchestrating business logic.
SHOW: 637
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SHOW NOTES:
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to start Temporal.io.
Topic 2 - There are lots of approaches to building (or running) modern applications - from Low-Code to Serverless to PaaS. Some are more focused on building apps and others on running apps. Where do you see various approaches today having struggles?
Topic 3 - What is the Temporal philosophy on making it easier to build/run modern applications?
Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the concept of Temporal workflows. Who interacts with a workflow (developer, DevOps teams, etc.), and how much influence does it have on both application design and deployment?
Topic 5 - What are some of the things that happen to an application using Temporal that don’t happen with some of the other tools/frameworks focused on microservices?
Topic 6 - Does Temporal help “modernize” existing applications, or is it primarily focused on new applications?
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Twitter: @thecloudcastnet
RCN #16 - Cloud Native Transformations
Each week, Eric Gregory, Sr. Technical Writer, and Nick Chase, Director of Technical Marketing & Developer Relations, break down the interesting & impactful stories from across the cloud native technology landscape. Nick wasn't able to make it this week, but Eric is joined by special guest host John Jainschigg! John is the Director of Open Source Initiatives at Mirantis, and one of the most technically knowledgable members of our team. Eric & John discuss two major organizations transitioning to cloud native models, a new vulnerability in the NGINX Ingress Controller, the impact of machine learning on both 5G security & astronomy, and much more!
This weeks topics include:
- Security firm Lightspin discovers NGINX Ingress Controller vulnerability
- FedEx quantifies the "digital transformation"
- Gov.UK PaaS sunsetted in favor of public clouds & Kubernetes
- BIG public cloud news: AWS surpassed by Azure as #1 cloud provider
- Machine learning's impact on 5G & Edge
- Webb Space Telescope images & AI
- Island paradise ponders tax-free, "digital nomad" visa
As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).
Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).
Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!
Building Apps with WebAssembly
Matt Butcher (@technosophos, Co-Founder/CEO @fermyontech) talks about building the next-generation PaaS platform around WebAssembly.
SHOW: 633
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SHOW SPONSORS:
- 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.
- Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident.
- Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response. Try free for 30 days. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt.
SHOW NOTES:
- Fermyon (homepage)
- Fermyon launches WebAssembly PaaS platform (June 2022)
- Fermyon Open Source
- Finicky Whiskers (WebAssembly game)
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as well as the team as Ferymon, as you all have some experience building application platforms.
Topic 2 - Before we get into Fermyon, let’s talk about WebAssembly. What is it, and how does it connect to your previous world of being heavily involved in containers and Kubernetes?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what it means to be a WebAssembly PaaS. We’ve seen PaaS platforms in the past (Deis, Heroku, dotCloud, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, etc.). What do developers need to do, and what does the platform take care of?
Topic 4 - Walk us through the Spin project and what it delivers? Can it be compared/contrasted to a container experience, or something else developers are familiar with?
Topic 5 - What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases where WebAssembly is a good fit and delivers unique value today?
Topic 6 - How are people able to engage with Fermyon today?
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Twitter: @thecloudcastnet
Peter and the Magic Egg
🐰 It’s 1983, and despite replacing our entire body with robot parts, we still can’t plow faster than a rapidly growing magic forest baby. Join us as we get things rolling with the mascots of Paas Easter egg coloring kits in a secret hit piece on landlords disguised as a wacky Easter story. On the way, we’ll meet the ever-looming shadow of the Easter Bunny and teach animals to talk by giving them clothes.
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🎙 Guests:
Sammy Hain (@SammyHain).
Chad Young (The Horror Movie BBQ, TPIF: Thank Pod It’s Funny, @horrormoviebbq).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
2. Patton Oswalt on Paas and its short-lived competitors.
3. This special was written by Rankin/Bass legend Romeo Muller, with songs composed by Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles.
4. Charles Woolf (Terrence) in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
5. The origin of a farmer’s “South 40” and the Homestead Act of 1862.
6. Paas replaced their mascot characters. The only original one left is Feathers — if that’s even the same Feathers.
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:
Paas Easter Egg Coloring Kit, 1984.
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🎤 And Now, These Messages:
Holidays After Dark, exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays.
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“Peter and the Magic Egg” © 1983 RLR Associates, Ltd. / Romeo Productions, Inc.
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.