233: Replicator Isn’t a Real Product Because it isn’t Spelled with a K

Episode 233 November 02, 2023 00:34:17
233: Replicator Isn’t a Real Product Because it isn’t Spelled with a K
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233: Replicator Isn’t a Real Product Because it isn’t Spelled with a K

Nov 02 2023 | 00:34:17

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Hosted By

Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

Welcome to The Cloud Pod - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are here to fill you in on all the latest and greatest happenings in the cloud, including news about your SSL & TLS certificates, MSK Replicator, and the Azure Incubations Team. Did you know about them? Neither did we! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

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General News this Week:

AWS

01:20  Rotate Your SSL/TLS Certificates Now – Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora Expire in 2024 01:45 Justin- “I definitely went for the 100 years to fake because I never want to do this again… This is not for the faint of heart, if you're not familiar with how your database apps work, and do proceed with caution.” 05:48 Justin- “Well, so the 40 year one is a 2048 bit RSA certificate. The 100 year one is an RSA 4096 or an ECC 384 compiled. So it's pretty high level encryption on both of those CAs. And the fun thing about that is if you do choose the 100 year certificate and you have like a T3 class system, all of a sudden now you're processing a lot of stuff to calculate the cipher. So you may have some use cases where you don't want to use the 100 year certificate because it does require some more CPU to process.” 07:07 Introducing Amazon MSK Replicator – Fully Managed Replication across MSK Clusters in Same or Different AWS Regions 09:04 Ryan - “Most of the mirror maker stuff is actually trying to handle the translation between going to multiple clusters on the app side. So I wonder if the MSK version is a complete abstraction where you're calling the same sort of global endpoint.”

GCP

09:42  Windows Server 2012 is Welcome on Google Cloud, Even After End of Support 10:29 Justin - “And then Google then also pointed out that you can easily upgrade to Windows 2016 by either deploying a new instance or doing an upgrade in place, which don't do an upgrade in place of Windows ever. So, appreciate this article for nothing. Thank you, Google.” 11:06 Ryan - “ I feel like this is a blog announcement for them just not removing this from the image library, right? Because someone complained when they did, and they're like, but I purchased extended support.”

Azure

1:46 The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud 13:10 Ryan - “ This is a funny reaction to shift left, right? Like it's, it's one of those things that we've put a lot of systems in place to empower development and people around their own systems, and then it's sort of like, oh, and now what, you know, I have to be an expert in everything? And it doesn't scale. And so now this is sort of the, I think the platform engineering and all the developer sort of dashboards we're seeing is sort of a response to that, which is like, how do we all play nice in the same pool?” 14:09 Justin - “It's just sort of funny because when it was an ops problem, no one cared. But when it became a dev issue, all of a sudden they all started coding solutions.”

Oracle

18:22 Oracle unveils Java development extension for Visual Studio Code 13:10 Justin - “So first you get that license on there, and then this plugin notifies the lawyers at Oracle that you installed Java. And then they call your company, and they say, hey, Ryan and your team just installed Java, and now you owe us a million dollars. That's perfect. So if you don't already have your licensing, don't use this.”

Much like my sanity, my observability cost are spiraling into depression

23:21 Survey Sees Observability Costs Spiraling Out of Control   24:02 Justin  - “And I agree. Observability tools are expensive, but they should add value to your business by making it easier to detect issues, easier to troubleshoot, reduce your MTTR and MTTF. And so those are the metrics you should be tracking to justify why you're spending all this money.” 29:58 Matthew - “I mean, I remember I was talking with one company, they were like, yeah, we figured that our observability platform should be anywhere from 10 to 20% of our cloud costs per month. And I was like, that feels high. But you know, it probably realistically isn't, you know, it's a cost. You need to make sure you're using it. And I feel like most people don't use that cost.”

Closing

And that is the week in the cloud! We would like to thank our sponsors Foghorn Consulting. Check out our website, the home of the Cloud Pod where you can join our newsletter, slack team, send feedback or ask questions at theCloud Pod.net or tweet at us with hashtag #theCloud Pod

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