Day Two Cloud 185: Grappling With Cloud Strategies With Tim Banks

Today on Day Two Cloud we engage in strategic thinking about cloud, workload repatriation, costs and spending, DevOps and Kubernetes, and more with guest Tim Banks. Tim is a Lead Developer Advocate at Dell Technologies and has done stints at AWS, Equinix, and the Duckbill Group. Besides being a techie, Tim Banks is also a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion and world-ranked competitor in his class. We discuss: * The realities of cloud repatriation and where repatraited workloads might end up * Whether we’ve updated our tooling to support cloud ops outside of public cloud * Whether Kubernetes is a piece of that tooling puzzle * What cloud changes mean for the people building and operating software * DevOps vs. Platform Engineering * What cloud looks like in 2023 and where it might be heading * How to counter an armbar (Just kidding, that’s for a different podcast) * More Show Links: developer.dell.com @elchefe – Tim Banks on Twitter Transcript: [00:00:09.930] – Ned Welcome to Day Two Cloud, and today we have a special guest on it’s, tim Banks. He’s a lead developer advocate at Dell Technologies and he’s also a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu master. Top ranked in the world. It was pretty interesting conversation, and I really appreciate that he led with that. Ethan yeah, that was fun. [00:00:30.480] – Ethan So if you get lost in the jiu jitsu, conversation only last three minutes or so, but it was super interesting. And it leads in very nicely to the overarching theme of this discussion, which was strategy. We have a lot of thinking we do about cloud and cloud strategy, whether you should be bringing workloads back on premises and if you do, what that looks like and how it impacts finances and all of that. It was all too short of a podcast. Ned I feel like we could have gone another hour or two with Tim. He had so many insights. [00:01:00.930] – Ned Yeah, but the main takeaway for me was really just, like, strategic thinking and having a plan and understanding the larger context in picture. So enjoy this conversation with Tim Banks, lead developer advocate at Dell Technologies. Tim Banks. Welcome to day two. Cloud. Super pumped that you could join us. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and your history in tech? Because I know you’ve worked for many interesting companies like AWS, Equinix and the Duckbill Group, and I’m certain that’s given you a unique perspective in the industry. [00:01:36.750] – Tim Yeah, it has. But I’ll start off with some people ask me, Tell me about yourself, and a lot of people will lead off about being, like, a tech nerd or something like that. I will not do that. I am the five time consecutive and reigning Pan American Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion in my division. I am the two time American national winner and a three time winner of the silver medal in Brazilian jujitsu in my division, as well as holding an international ranking of number two in the world. [00:02:07.270] – Ethan Now, Jiu Jitsu has come up in a few different podcasts. I’ve listened to different folks that have engaged in that. I’m trying to remember who and when I’ve heard that before. But it’s not karate and it’s not several other disciplines. Can you give us the what’s the quick compartmentalization of jiujitsu as a practice? [00:02:22.740] – Tim So there are folks who have T shirts that I love that call it Mexican Ground Karate, and it’s not exactly true. Brazilian jiu jitsu is a grappling martial art based on throws l...