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For the logged in users, because obviously those requests we can't cache, things will be slightly quicker. So for Adam, for Jerod, whoever is working on the admin, those things will be quicker. |
Another thing which I do know that we do - we do background processing on some of the S3 files, the logs and stuff like that... So expect those to be quicker. But I don't know by how much. I think we're using Oban for that, aren't we, Alex? |
**Alex Koutmos:** Yeah, we're using Oban. I think Oban was set up just to send out asynchronous emails. I don't know if there was any other work being done by Oban. But now that you mention those things, we probably should have metrics in place to capture those S3 processing jobs, see how long they take pre and post OT... |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Yeah, that's right. That's a really good one. That'll be a great one to add. Okay, I'm really looking forward to that. And if you've listened to this, you can watch it live. And if you haven't, that's okay; you'll see it on Twitter. We will post. Maybe we'll even do a scheduled livestream. Does that m... |
**Alex Koutmos:** Yeah, it works for me. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** \[44:06\] Okay. So no impromptu. We'll schedule it and we'll say "On this time, at this day, at this hour." Okay, I like that. That's a great idea, actually. So we'll have like at least a few days of heads up, and then you can listen to this, and then you can watch that, how we do it. Great. that make... |
So we're approaching the end, and I think we need to end on a high... Because it's Friday when we're recording this, it was a good week, and the weekend is just around the corner... So what do you have planned for this weekend, Alex? Anything fun? |
**Alex Koutmos:** This weekend... I think I have one thing I wanna do in PromEx, but then I'll be building a garden. So I'll be outdoors, using the table saw, and the miter saw, and the nailgun, and putting together some nice garden beds. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Okay, well that sounds amazing. You have to balance all the PromEx and all the Erlang/Elixir work somehow, right? |
**Alex Koutmos:** Oh, yeah. You need to find a healthy balance between open source work, the full-time job, and a little bit of fun for yourself. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Yeah, that's for sure. So building a garden - that sounds amazing. You must be either very good or very brave, I'm not sure which one. Either a great DIYer, or very brave, you'll figure it out. Which one is it? |
**Alex Koutmos:** I don't wanna be arrogant or anything, but I think I'm a decent DIYer. I also used to tinker around with cars quite a bit before I had a family... When it was okay to financially irresponsible and buy a $3,000 motor just because I felt like it. Nowadays you can't do that... \[laughter\] |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Okay, different times... Right? |
**Alex Koutmos:** Yeah, exactly. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Different world. |
**Alex Koutmos:** I could buy a motorcycle anytime I wanted to. I didn't have to worry about providing for my kiddos. I go with safe hobbies, like building garden beds or doing some woodworking. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Okay, that sounds great. So I hope the weather is going to be great, because for me, the weather has been rubbish for the whole week. Windy... I wouldn't say it's cold, but it's not nice; it's been raining all day every day, we had some downpours as well... So it hasn't been really great. And right no... |
**Alex Koutmos:** Well played, sir. Well played. I'll have to take some selfies. I usually stray from the selfies... \[laughs\] |
**Gerhard Lazu:** And videos. Those are very important, because if you don't take videos, someone else could be doing the work and you just take pictures. No... That would never happen, right? Only in movies. \[laughter\] |
**Alex Koutmos:** Never, never. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Alright, Alex. Well, it's been a pleasure to have you on the show. I really enjoyed this. I'm looking forward to doing what we said we will do. That's super exciting. Shipping Erlang 24 for Changelog.com - that'll be great. And which version of PromEx are we at now? Do you know which one is the latest... |
**Alex Koutmos:** I don't remember... I think 1.1.0 is the latest... And I think the Changelog is on 1.0.1. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Right. So not that far behind, but... |
**Alex Koutmos:** Yeah, we'll bump it up. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** That's great, okay. So we shipped that. That is exciting. Ship a garden in the meantime as well; maybe a barbecue. We'll see. This has been tremendous fun. Thank you, Alex. Looking forward to the next time. |
**Alex Koutmos:** Likewise, thank you. |
• Zac Smith discusses his absence from KubeCon 2022 in North America |
• He mentions his role as a busy executive at a Fortune 500 company and how it limits his attendance at conferences |
• Zac talks about the benefits of attending conferences, specifically the "hallway track" where he can meet people and get a sense of what's going on |
• He reminisces about his favorite conferences, including ARM Tech Conference and KubeCon |
• The conversation turns to Zac's transition from Packet to Equinix Metal, including his emotional attachment to Packet and the challenges of adapting to a larger company culture |
• Founding a company and dealing with the emotions involved |
• Rebranding Packet as Equinix Metal and the challenges that came with it |
• Why the speaker does what he does (being an entrepreneur) |
• Importance of diversity in technology innovation |
• Need for sustainable technology solutions to address climate change and reduce waste |
• Changing the business model around distribution of technology to a more circular economy |
• Introduction of a new operating model and sustainable business model |
• How Equinix Metal changed Zac Smith's "Why" compared to Packet |
• The advantages of being part of Equinix, including scale and interconnectivity |
• Comparison of Packet's IaaS approach with Equinix Metal's capabilities |
• Collaboration and innovation within the Equinix ecosystem |
• Equinix's focus on sustainability and environmental initiatives (ESG) |
• Zac Smith's passion for the industry and his vision for automating hardware interaction |
• Creating a comprehensive hardware compatibility list for the internet |
• Focus on providing fundamental primitives and enabling an ecosystem, rather than becoming an all-purpose platform |
• The importance of staying focused on core competencies and avoiding getting bogged down in secondary features or services |
• The challenge of cooling high-performance chips with dense transistors and increasing power consumption |
• The need for innovative solutions to address the "electricity problem" in data centers, including exposing reliable metrics to software developers |
• Challenges in mixed data centers with diverse technologies and limited ability to purpose-build infrastructure |
• Need for efficient cooling methods, such as liquid cooling, to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact |
• Opportunities to capture waste heat as energy or sell it back to the grid |
• Unsustainability of current evaporative cooling methods, which require millions of gallons of water per day |
• Importance of standardization in data center design, including mechanical form factors and rack configurations |
• Potential for Open 19, an open standard for mechanical form factor, to enable standardized data centers and reduce waste |
• Open 19 project with blind mate connector design for easy server installation |
• Reusable packaging to reduce waste and improve logistics |
• Standardization of physical infrastructure like containers for software |
• Multi-architecture support in data centers (Intel, AMD, ARM) |
• Equinix Metal's approach to supporting multiple architectures (ARM servers) |
• History of Cavium ThunderX and early adoption of ARM ecosystem |
• Importance of being agnostic on architecture and promoting competition in the market |
• The potential of ARM architecture in laptops and its impact on software development |
• The emergence of RISC-V as an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) and its possibilities for custom chips |
• The importance of sustainability in hardware and the need to create a circular economy |
• The role of regulatory impacts, customers, and business drivers in pushing sustainability forward |
• The potential for technology distribution to be solved through APIs and automated deployment |
• Hardware security and supply chain vulnerability |
• Zero-trust approach to hardware |
• Sustainable hardware and reduction of e-waste |
• Equinix Metal's expansion and focus on distribution capabilities |
• Business model shifts in the tech industry towards as-a-service models |
• Partnership between software companies, OEMs, and cloud providers |
• The importance of making a positive impact with technology in a sustainable way |
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