Replay - Multi-Cloud is the Future with Tobi Knaup
On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we’re revisiting our conversation with Tobi Knaup, the current VP & General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix. At the time this first aired, Tobi was the co-founder and CTO of D2iQ before the company was acquired by Nutanix. In this blast from the past, Corey and Tobi discuss why Mesosphere rebranded as D2iQ and why the Kubernetes community deserves the credit for the widespread adoption of the container orchestration platform. Many people assume Kubernetes is all they need, but that’s a mistake, and Tobi explains what other tools they end up having to use. We’ll also hear why Tobi thinks that multi-cloud is the future (it is the title of the episode after all).
Show Highlights
(0:00) Intro
(0:28) The Duckbill Group sponsor read
(1:01) Memosphere rebranding to D2iQ
(4:34) The strength of the Kubernetes community
(7:43) Is open-source a bad business model?
(10:19) Why you need more than just Kubernetes
(13:13) The Duckbill Group sponsor read
(13:55) Is multi-cloud the best practice?
(17:31) Creating a consistent experience between two providers
(19:05) Tobi’s background story
(24:24) Memories of the days of physical data centers
(28:00) How long will Kubernetes be relevant
(30:18) Where you can find more from Tobi
About Tobi Knaup
Tobi Knaup is the VP & General Manager of Cloud Native at Nunatix. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CTO of D2iQ Kubernetes Platform before Nutanix acquired the company. Knaup is an experienced software engineer focusing on large scale systems and machine learning. Tobi’s research work is on Internet-scale sentiment analysis using online knowledge, linguistic analysis, and machine learning. Outside of his tech work, he enjoys making cocktails and has collected his favorite recipes on his cocktail website.
Links
Tobi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/superguenter
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasknaup/
Personal site: https://tobi.knaup.me/
Original Episode
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/multi-cloud-is-the-future-with-tobi-knaup/
Sponsor
The Duckbill Group: duckbillgroup.com
Multi-Cloud is the Future with Tobi Knaup
About Tobi Knaup
Tobi Knaup is a Co-Founder & the Chief Technology Officer of D2iQ. Knaup is an experienced software engineer focusing on large scale systems and machine learning. Previously, he helped scale Airbnb to millions of users worldwide as technical lead. Tobi’s research work is on Internet-scale sentiment analysis using online knowledge, linguistic analysis, and machine learning. Tobi also co-founded his first company at the age of 15.
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Links Referenced
Twitter Username: superguenter
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasknaup/
Personal site: https://tobi.knaup.me/
Company site: https://d2iq.com/
a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
What happens when monolithic architectures are broken down into containers and microservices (or when things are broken down into smaller units, not just in infrastructure but perhaps even in company structure too)? From building more dynamic websites to monitoring the enterprise cloud to elastically scaling applications, where are developers in the enterprise going now and next?
This episode of the a16z Podcast, based on a panel by and for developers recorded at the a16z Summit in November 2017 and moderated by general partner Martin Casado, features Matt Billmann, CEO and co-founder of Netlify; Florian Leibert, CEO and co-founder of Mesophere; and Karthik Rau, CEO and co-founder of SignalFX.
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20VC: Why You Should Not Always Listen To Your Investors, The Pros and Cons of Strategic Investors & How To Approach Operational Efficiency with Scaling with Florian Leibert, Founder & CEO @ Mesosphere
Florian Leibert is the Founder & CEO @ Mesosphere, the most flexible platform for containerized, data-intensive applications. They are trusted by some of the world's leading companies from Yelp to Yammer to Verizon and have raised over $120m in VC funding from the likes of a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla, Data Collective and then incumbents such as Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. Prior to founding Mesosphere, Florian spent time with Twitter and Airbnb, both as a tech lead and if that was not enough, Florian also has a stellar angel portfolio including the likes of Away, Cockroach Labs, Drift and Buoyant.
In Today's Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Florian came to found Mesosphere? What were the big takeaways for him from his more formative years at Twitter and Airbnb?
2.) Why does Florian believe that sometimes "you should not listen to your investors"? What is the right way to communicate this disagreement to them? What supporting evidence is required to substantiate your thoughts? What method would Florian prefer to receive such feedback?
3.) What are the biggest benefits of having strategics such as Microsoft and Hewlett Packard on the cap table? What are some potential drawbacks? What advice would Florian give to founders contemplating taking strategic investment? When is the right time for these staretgics to insert themselves?
4.) With the scaling of Mesosphere, how have Florian's thoughts and approach to sales execution changed? What have been the core struggles? Why does Florian think it is imperative to build the sales team slowly?
5.) At what point does Florian think that operational efficiency must be front and centre for founders scaling their companies? What has Florian found to be the most challenging personally in achieving such operational efficiency?
Items Mentioned In Today's Show:
Florian's Fave Book: Alchemist: A Fable about Following Your Dream
Florian's Fave Blog: Seeking Alpha
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Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS (Interview)
Tobi Knaup, co-founder & CTO of Mesosphere joined the show to talk about the datacenter operating system, and all the open source around it.
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Show Notes:
Tobi Knaup (@superguenter) on Twitter
Tobi Knaup (@guenter) on GitHub
The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System
CoreOS is Linux for Massive Server Deployments
mesos/chronos
Kubernetes by Google
Mesosphere
Caffe | Deep Learning Framework
Marc Andreessen
Prometheus
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!