👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to Episode 08 of "Tech Beats unplugged"

🌐🦘This time the episode cuts through the 𝗩𝗠𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗰𝗼𝗺 chaos and breaks down where Nutanix really fits in today’s virtualized/multicloud world. With the help of no other than Nutanix Guru Michael Webster all the way from News Zeeland

🎧 We’re so excited to share our latest tech Beats show with you🧡! Please share away 🤗

We hope you'll enjoy it!!!

Topics discussed:

1. (00:21) Introduction
2. (01:58) What's your story with Nutanix
3. (09:41) Hyper Converged Infrastructure. What's that?
4. (13:38) Understanding Nutanix.
5. (18:25) The VMware–Broadcom Chaos for customers
6. (26:00) Running VMware on Nutanix (and moving off)
7. (30:05) Nutanix hardware ... a Lego of Nodes
8. (36:20) Nutanix building blocks - What's Controller VM
9. (43:05) Nutanix 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗗 storage - how?
10. (52:04) Nutanix; from 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 company
11. (57:00) What is Nutanix MOAT going forward ?

Show Notes

• VMware customers face up to 1,500% price increase News⁠

• ⁠Nutanix How it works: ⁠⁠⁠Video

• Dutch court forces Broadcom to support VMware migration after 85% price hike: ⁠Networkworld⁠

• Nutanix Bible (nutanixbible.com)⁠

• ⁠AT&T sues broadcom over licensing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Forbes

• Nutanix AHV: ⁠Built-in Enterprise-Class Virtualization⁠

🎙About Michael Webster:

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠longwhiteclouds.com⁠

• LinkedIn: ⁠Steve Giguere⁠

• X(Twitter): @vcdxnz001

  
  

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👋🏼 Hey AI heads 🎙️
Join us for the very first Tech Beats Live 🔴, hosted by Kosseila—aka @CloudDude from @CloudThrill.

🎯 This chill & laid-back livestream will unpack LLM quantization 🔥:

• ✅ WHY it matters
• ✅ HOW it works
• ✅ Enterprise (vLLM) vs Consumer (@Ollama) trade-offs
• ✅ and WHERE it’s going next.

We’ll be joined by two incredible guest stars to talk Enterprise vs Consumer Quantz 🗣️:

🔷 Eldar Kurtić – bringing the enterprise perspective with vLLM.
🔷 Colin Kealty – aka Bartowski, creator of the top-downloaded GGUF quantized LLMs on Hugging Face.

🫵🏼 Come learn and have some fun 😎.

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬:

(00:00) Host Introduction
(04:07) Eldar Intro
(07:33) Bartowski Intro
(13:04) What’s Quantization!
(16:19) Why LLM Quantization Matters?
(20:39) Training vs Inference – “The New Deal”
(27:46) Biggest Misconception About Quantization
(33:22) Enterprise Quantization in Production (vLLM)
(48:48) Consumer LLMs & Quantization (Ollama, llama.cpp, GGUF) – “LLMs for the People”
(01:06:45) BitNet 1-Bit Quantization from Microsoft
(01:28:14) How Long It Takes to Quantize a Model (Llama-3 70B) – GGUF or lm-compressor
(01:34:23) What Is I-Matrix & Why People Confuse It with IQ Quantization?
(01:39:36) What’s LoRA & LoRA-Q?
(01:42:36) What Is Sparsity?
(01:47:42) What Is Distillation?
(01:52:34) Extreme Quantization (Unsloth) of Big Models (DeepSeek) at 2-bits 70 % Size Cut
(01:57:27) Will Future Models (Llama-5) Be Trained on FP4 Tensor Cores?
(02:02:15) The Future of LLMs on Edge Devices (Google AI Edge)
(02:08:00) How to Evaluate the Quality of a Quantized Model
(02:26:09) Hugging Face’s Role in the World of LLM/Quantization
(02:33:46) Hugging Face’s Role in the World of LLM/Quantization
(02:36:41) LocalLlama Sub-Reddit Down (Moderator Goes Bananas)
(02:40:11) Guests’ Hope for the Future of LLMs & AI in General

📖 Check out the quantization blog: https://bitly/LLMQuant

#AI #LLM #Quantization #TechBeatsLive #LocalLlama #vLLM #Ollama

👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to Episode 05 of "Tech Beats unplugged"

This time, we tried something completely crazy – we're letting the AI hosts take over! That's right 😎. We're flipping the script and giving the AI the mic to guide us through the fascinating world of local LLMs. but that's not all as this episode is actually inspired by my recent talk at Oracle Cloud World in Vegas. The topic? You guessed it: Local LLMs in the cloud.

🌟 We’re so excited to share our latest tech Beats show with you🧡!

We hope you'll enjoy it!!!

Topics discussed:

1. (00:00) Introduction
2. (01:00) Why OpenAI Might Not Be Your BFF?
3. (02:40) Local/Open LLMs to the Rescue!
4. (03:38) What's Quantization!
5. (04:30) Where to find these Open LLMs?
6. (05:02) Inference Engines (Ollama)!
7. (05:50) What's a modelfile!
8. (06:40) What about deploying local AI to the cloud?(OKE/managed kubernetes)
9. (07:30) From zero to cloud deployment Hero
10. (08:28) What's Next (LLM ethic benchmark)
11. (09:55) Outro.

Show Notes

• My local LLM GitRepo: Ollama_lab

• Helm leaderboard for model safety: Sandford Helm model leaderboard
• My talks in Oracle cloud world 2024: OCW2024LLM

👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to Episode 04 of "Tech Beats unplugged"

This time, we dared to tackle the big, yet exciting topic which is "𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝", and to help us with this challenge we summoned our expert and networking GURU "Jose Moreno" all the way from Munich Germany.

As an Azure Principal Engineer at Microsoft, he comes to share his knowledge and demystify all those mysterious networking concepts, answering questions you never dared to ask in the universe of SDN and cloud networking😀( SDWAN, Hub&Spoke, migrations, Cloud lies, you name it).

🌟 We’re so excited to share our latest tech Beats show with you🧡!

We hope you'll enjoy it!!!

Topics discussed:

1. (00:00) Introduction
2. (04:00) How did you enter IT and the networking world ?
3. (06:14) What has really changed for network admins since Cisco golden years ?
4. (09:30) Core differentiators between on-prem and Cloud/SDN paradigm?
5. (15:29) IPV6 Doom day: Why are we so stuck with IPV6 adoption?
6. (21:58) What lab tools can students use to prep for cloud networking exams?
7. (28:30) What the heck is BGP & OSPF and are they still used in the cloud?
8. (38:09) Your cloud subnet constructs is fake😱😱???
9. (46:50) Difference between WAN & SDWAN, how it integrates with the cloud ?
10. (50:52) Hub & Spoke Versus Virtual WAN pros and cons?
11. (56:54) Biggest networking challenge stories when moving to the cloud ?
12. (1:00:43) I'm a small shop CTO moving Hybrid, help me out! #BestPractices ?
13. (1:05:41) What's the hype around IPSEC tunnels over Direct connect?
14. (1:12:9) Your most helpful contributions to the cloud networking community ?

Show Notes

• IPV6 & IPV4: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠two-internets-both-flakey by Avery Pennarun⁠
• your cloud subnet constructs is fake: ⁠new-cloud-security-thinking(podcast)⁠
• Roggers BGP outage: ⁠Summary⁠
• ⁠BGP: ⁠BGP School for cloud people(podcast)⁠
• VPN Aviatrix insane mode: Article

Jose Moreno:

• ⁠⁠⁠linkedin⁠
• ⁠Blog⁠
• ⁠Azure review checklists⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠Github: erjosito/azure-networking-lab ⁠⁠
• ⁠Microsoft Azure What The Heck k8 project⁠

👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to Episode 02 of "Tech Beats unplugged" After part 1 where we covered the Fundamentals of Linux distributions ,The RHEL DownStream/UpStream story ,who were the Freeloaders, Redhat's shenanigans behind the whole Open Source drama.

This time , we'll explore how, the open source community, and rebuilders are coping with Redhat's decision to close their source.. And what it means for the future of enterprise Linux?

To help us close this final part of this Open Source debate , we brought back our guest is Erik Benner, the VP of Enterprise Transformation at Mythics to explain how the community and the rebuilders are fighting back this hostile Era to ensure the continuity and freedom of the enterprise linux ecosystem for all its users .

Topics discussed:

1. (00:00) Introduction
2. (1:32) What are Rebuilders Workarounds
3. • Rocky's Use of UBI or per per use Cloud instances
   • Alma Linux Use of Binary-compatible (ABI)
   • Is amazon linux really a EL distro?
   • Can RedHat block CIQ (Rocky) from accessing UBI
4. (11:20) Hot take:Is Oracle the new Batman of Open source linux🦸‍♂️ ?
5. (15:25) What's so special about UEK and what makes it a serious RHEL contender distro of the future?
6. • Is it compatible with RHEL, how different is it ?
   • Unique features of Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) .
   • Is amazon linux really a EL distro?
   • Can RedHat block CIQ (Rocky) from accessing UBI
7. (33:52) Should I sell my kidney for Oracle Linux support?
8. • How does Oracle support compare with RedHat's
   • What do I get for my money in terms of offering?
   • License Cost compare for servers/ansible tower/etc
9. (42:53) Candid Predictions for the Future of EL
10. • Discuss the potential direction of community in response to these changes.
    • Justice league: Rocky, Oracle Linux, Alma, Suse & others.
11. (50:25) Erik's Key advice to junior folks interested to join the FORCE of Linux

Show Notes

Although OPEN LA announcements we're already known by the public we decided to keep the chronology of events in our talk because it was recorded 2 days after it happened.

Links:

• Alma going a different route than full parity(Application binary Interface compatible)
• Rocky linux will keep providing bug-for-bug rebuilds
• AlmaLinux "Red Hat source changes won’t kill our RHEL-compatible distro
• Comparing Amazon Linux 2 and AL2023
• Erik's blog ⁠⁠centos-and-the-bomb-that-ibm-red-hat-dropped⁠⁠

Open Enterprise Linux Association (OELA):

• CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
• "No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome 😘🤟🏻"