Year of the Crawfish Recap and 2018 Predictions for Bare Metal, Virtualization, Edge and Serverless

Welcome to the final L8istSh9y Podcast for 2017 with a recap of Rob Hirschfeld’s predictions for 2017 (2016 Infrastructure Revolt makes 2017 the “year of the IT Escape Clause”) as well as a look ahead into 2018. Key topics covered in the podcast: Hybrid is Reality; How do I Cope with it? Site Reliability Engineering; People are Just Doing it Bare Metal to Immutable Images Virtualization Decline with Bare Metal Growth 2018 is not the Year of Serverless Edge Computing Still Not Ready for Prime Time OpenStack Foundation as Open Infrastructure Group