The time to help our nation innovate is NOW!
Nicolas M. Chaillan
Founder of Ask Sage, Bringing Generative AI to Gov | Former U.S. Air Force and Space Force Chief Software Officer (CSO) | Pilot
1. What are YOU doing so our kids have a fighting chance at winning against China 20 years from now?
For those who tend to forget that Memorial Day isn't about YOU and your "barbecue" and "long weekend" but about commemorating all Americans who have fought and died our nation's wars, time to WAKE UP.
Take a pause tomorrow and ensure you thank our veterans. Many are treated poorly, quite a disgrace for such an amazing nation.
I would also like to thank our current warfighters for fighting for our nation's future.
Finally, for those who have been drinking the Chinese-led Woke Cool-aid, please make sure to take a step back and realize that while America isn't perfect, it is much better than any other country on earth. Go travel and see for yourself before opening your mouth.
Stop focusing on the bad, start leading the way and showing that religion, race and color do NOT matter, they should not even be a factor for any decision whatsoever.
John F. Kennedy said: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can for your country"
What are YOU doing to ensure our kids have a chance at winning against China 20 years from now, please start helping TODAY.
Whether you're in software innovation, space, cybersecurity, data science, Machine Learning etc., we NEED your talent in the United States Department of Defense, not TOMORROW.
Time is running out.
Invest in yourself, learn every day, if you're looking for some good content, check out our YouTube channel here.
2. Broadcom To Acquire VMware For $69 Billion
VMWare is a significant partner of the Department of Defense. I've been vocal regarding the dangerous impact of vendor lock-in, particularly with the consumption of Pivotal services such as the Tanzu Application Service. We must always ensure that we understand the impact of our acquisition decisions. Being abstracted in 2022+ is a must. You may think you're moving faster, but you're not, the tech debt and vendor lock will catch up with you faster than you think. We've seen it after the death of Pivotal Cloud Foundry now that the world is moving to Kubernetes.
One of the largest tech deals in M&A history was announced last week. Chipmaker Broadcom entered into an agreement to acquire VMware (NYSE:VMW) for $69 billion in a cash or stock deal, which includes $8 billion of VMware's net debt, that will be assumed by Broadcom. VMware was spun off from Dell Technologies (DELL) on November 1, 2021. VMware was founded in the year 1998 and later acquired by EMC in January 2004 and eventually ended up with Dell after EMC was acquired by Dell in a massive $67 billion deal in 2016.
Chipmaker Broadcom entered into an agreement to acquire VMware for $69 billion in a cash or stock deal.
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware will be reviewed by either the FTC or the DOJ, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and multiple international regulatory agencies.
3. When YOU finally understand what Service Mesh is
Are you finally moving to microservice and are you struggling to decouple your teams so they can release at their own pace of relevance?
If so, look no further and check out our video on why a Service Mesh is a must to streamline your software delivery and remove your coordination’s bottlenecks!
Service Meshes like #Istio, uses #Envoy to inject it as a sidecar container thanks to #Kubernetes.
Service Meshes bring tremendous capabilities such as:
- API Management, service discovery, authentication…
- Dynamic request routing for A/B testing, gradual rollouts, canary releases, resilience, observability, retries, circuit breakers and fault injection
- Layer 7 Load balancing
- Zero Trust thanks to mTLS tunnel injection with East/West Traffic Whitelisting, access control and ABAC
- mTLS encryption by default, key management, etc…
4. When YOU finally understand what GitOps is
So you want to move at the pace of relevance, enable your teams to instantiate your applications, DevSecOps Platform and even your entire Infrastructure with a push-button deployment?
Finally understand the 5 principles of GitOps, its various benefits and implementations with products like Harness with Argo CD and Weaveworks with Flux.
Your Git repo becomes your source of truth, your crown jewel.
The "Infrastructure as Code" concept is a critical DevSecOps ingredient to ensure that production environments do not drift from development/testing environments.
Changes should only be made in source code and redeployed by the CI/CD pipeline.
- No drift between environments, whether classified/disconnected/Cloud/on-premise,
- Immutable,
- Replicable,
- Automated,
- No human in production environments: reduces attack surface (disable SSH etc.), insider threat and configuration drifts,
Based on Infrastructure as Code concepts, GitOps makes Git the single source of truth of the desired state of your Infrastructure, Platform and Applications.
5. Opportunity: Federal Account Executive for Tetrate (founders of Istio!)
A gold mine! The Service Mesh market is a GOLD MINE, particularly the Federal Government's vertical!
And to all my Account Executive/Sales leaders in my network, it is your LUCKY DAY!
Tetrate is hiring their Federal Account Executive. With #Istio and #Envoy taking over the entire world (I know this first hand thanks to my countless interactions with CIOs across governments, telcos, banking, healthcare..), it is an incredible opportunity.
If you've watched my latest video on YouTube on Service Mesh, you know why every organization on the planet will need to use it, ASAP, if they want to be able to compete and move at the pace of relevance.
6. Opportunity: Security Compass is hiring a Global VP, Channel Sales
Are you great at building bridges and win-win partnerships?
If so, stop everything you're doing and take a look at this new opportunity to become the Global VP, Channel Sales for security and compliance leader, Security Compass!
7. Popular Python and PHP libraries hijacked to steal AWS keys
Supply chain and SBOM are more important now than ever.
This is the latest of a string of attacks targeting source code injection into popular libraries.
Leveraging a Service Mesh and Zero Trust would prevent the exfiltration of data as it would have to be whitelisted to egress the network.
Runtime seems to be the most likely place to detect those as it is doubtful we can scan/review all open source libraries out there, particularly for malicious code.
8. In the Nic of Time upcoming episodes (https://youtube.com/nicolaschaillan):
Join us Tuesday May 31st at 1PM ET with Co-Founder and CTO, Sanjay Nagaraj of Traceable AI to talk the move from monolith to #microservices and API security.
We will dig into the challenges around #API Discovery and how APIs are changing in this modern #DevSecOps world.
We will talk about the concept of Shift Left, Protect Right when it comes to API security and the tie back to DevSecOps and CI/CD.
Finally, Sanjay will share how he took two 2-member startups to large distributed teams!
This will be a lot of fun, don't miss it!
9. Have you missed our last In the Nic of Time Episode with Prakash Sethuraman, CISO of CloudBees.
This was our best episode yet! You definitely want to listen to it if you've missed it!
10. Have you have missed our last videos?
- When YOU finally understand what Zero Trust is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZL41vrSeo
- Time to end the DoD Valley of Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8mVDgIGp3Q
- SpaceX vs F-35: DevSecOps, the Gamechanger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZkmJiFIv8U
- When YOU finally understand what Kubernetes is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pu4ceK_bc
- Why Kubernetes is a MUST even if you think it is overkill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POaxgJFliWo
Thanks for continuing to fight to make our nation stronger so our kids have a fighting chance at winning against China 20 years from now!
IT Specialist at United States Air Force
2yIt’s hard to innovate when leadership only cares about buzz words or they are completely clueless. I recently had an individual ask me how often I go TDY to Amazon data centers to set up our cloud servers
Machine Learning
2yThe more I learn about computers the less secure I think they are most of the US governments computers have been hacked and leaked including classified personel personal information, the contractors aren't secure, and employees selling data is a third problem. It's a leaky faucet and public libraries being hijacked etc as you said. As my friend told me," Washington is being ruled by the elderly who doesn't take cybersecurity seriously." Coldfusion is not secure their websites aren't secure I am just learning how to tokenize and encrypt databases it's a lengthy process.
Sales Engineer/Solutions Architect/Semi-Retired (Business/High-Tech/Cyber)
2yAny thoughts on how the United States needs to start doing more chip fabrication in North America?
CEO at UKnightedXP | Consultant | Life Coach | Product Manager | Entrepreneur | DoD Acquisitions | Army Veteran | Agriculture
2yNicolas M. Chaillan let's discuss this sooner than later.