What's one trade package that would be so bittersweet because it would hurt, but it would help the Ravens all at the same time. What do you think the biggest difference from last year and this year is with Ravens QB Lamar Jackson? These and many, many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. So YouTube Team Keep It Clean, what's going on is saying Raven here with another video, another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers and this of course is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answer in a video just like this. Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all, thank you for supporting all the different things we have been doing recently, especially the podcast, y'all been coming through on the podcast like crazy. So thank you, there will be more guests in the future and I just, we got a lot of plans for a lot of different stuff, but we're just going to have fun, we're going to have a lot of fun and just enjoy the ride, man. I appreciate y'all, thank you for supporting, just thank you, straight up, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and this is one of the ways that I say thank you to Team Keep It Clean by letting you be the ones that get to pick what we talk about for these videos because these are questions from subscribers. These aren't questions that I made up, these are questions from Team Keep It Clean. So let's get into it. Oh, and make sure you check out the description because the description got literally everything in there. But anyway, first question of this video came from my guy Dennis G. He said, what's up, Raven? What's up, Dennis? What's going on, man? He said, what's the big game on Monday night against the Chiefs coming up? Do you expect that after a streak of 14 consecutive regular season wins and increased self-confidence both of the players and the coaches will have a positive effect on the decision making? Love your channel and greetings from Germany. Hey, appreciate it, Dennis. Thank you, man. Oh, that is a question right there. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that because I know they mentioned it during the games and stuff, but I hadn't even thought about that after the game, that the Ravens have won 14 regular season games in a row. But last year at the same time, it's a cool little record to have or whatever, but this is a brand new season. Now I did see something on Twitter just a little while ago and it was saying that the Ravens, let me find it, the Ravens are under hardball in home primetime games. So there's home regular season games that happen in primetime. They are 14 and 1 since 2008. 14 and 1. Now they don't get many home primetime games, but when they do get them, they show out. And the NFL is usually like, you know what, man, these Ravens always win in primetime home games. So you know what, we ain't even gonna hardly give them any. But Ravens, they care business at home in primetime. But that's crazy. 14 and 1. So they've lost one and that one was to the Steelers. I wish I would have known that before I did my game prediction for this one. That may have changed my prediction. But anyway, regardless, I just think, I don't even think that the streak of 14 consecutive regular season games that they won and an increased self-confidence, both of the players and coaches will have a positive effect on their decision making. I just think them wanting to beat the Chiefs because you know, you know they want to beat the Chiefs. We know they want to beat the Chiefs because under little more, they still haven't done it. They still haven't done it. Not yet. They will eventually, but they still haven't done it yet. Can that eventually be this Monday? Well, decision making. If they're going to win this Monday, decision making is going to be a huge part of it. Because in the last Chiefs game, not even necessarily in the first one, but in the last Chiefs game, there was some bad decision making in that one. There was some pretty bad decision making in that one. And just the way that that game was just, the play calling, I wasn't a fan of the play calling much. They didn't start running the ball to the second half of the game. Them going for two on that open and drive touchdown, it was just, why? Why? I don't expect anybody to be perfect, a game calling, a game coaching and whatever would be perfect, but still, put your guys in a position to win. And Monday, I hope that they do that. Guys got to execute. Everybody got to do their job on Monday. Now, I know somebody mentioned in the comment section, they said, oh, this is the Raven Super Bowl right here. Well, no, it's not the Raven Super Bowl. Tampa will be the Raven Super Bowl, but this is a big game. This is a big game. Because this is a game that's going to just, the world is watching. The world is watching. Everybody's at home. It's Monday night football, prime time, and you at the crib. Oh, yeah, it's a shame that no fans could be there, but it's all good. The coaching, I mean, decision-making is going to be huge in this one, and hopefully it will have a positive effect, just, hopefully everything, hopefully just them wanting to win enough will have a positive effect on decision-making in this one. So I appreciate you, Dennis. Thank you, man. Next question came from my boy, RickyD1980. He said, what's up in Raven? I saw your latest video on the Chiefs and Ravens, but my question is why? You didn't mention Chiefs struggling against a rookie QB, LOL. You got Chiefs winning. We'll see about that. KK going for 150 yards, rushing, Ravens win by 10. You know, that's interesting, because I didn't take that into account when I did do my Ravens and Chiefs prediction video. Now, of course, every game is different. Every game is different. And with Justin Herbert, he did, he took them literally past the wire, shout out to be more, but he took them past the wire because it wasn't down to the wire. It was past it because they went to overtime. And Chiefs got that super long field goal by what, but I think that's his name. I forget what his name is, but they got that super long field goal and they ended up winning in overtime. But yeah, that rookie QB gave them everything that they could handle. Sound familiar? The Chiefs winning an overtime game against a rookie QB that they're playing for the first time and they win on a field goal in overtime. Does it sound familiar at all? Kind of does to me. But anyway, that is a good point. And I did see the Stat 2 that said the Chiefs combined in the first two games, they've missed 29 tackles. And the only team that's missed more than that is the Jets. And Jets are a mess. So Chiefs defense, they apparently got some issues tackling those ball carriers. Now, even though I did pick the Chiefs to win this one. And like I said in the video, I hope that I'm wrong. Like I said in the video, it could obviously go either way. Like I said in the video, I want the Ravens to win. But I just, this game could go, it could go all kinds of ways, man. It could go all kinds of ways. Some people thinking that it's going to be a blowout. Because the Chiefs play the Texans, the offense hasn't been all that. And they also play the Chargers, who the offense hasn't been all that either. Now they do have some nice receivers over there and you've got Mike Williams, you've got Kenan Allen. I'm not sure how they did in that game because I didn't get to watch the whole thing. I only got to watch the very end. But Ravens, yeah, they got just as much a chance as anybody. They got just as much of a chance to win as a Chiefs too. But yeah, Chiefs, a lot of Chiefs fans have told me that defense has been struggling a bit. It's been a little rough over there. So, I mean, we'll see. We'll see. And Lamar, he said, yeah, why didn't you mention them struggling against a rookie QB? And Lamar, of course, he's no rookie. This is his third year in NFL, second year starting from jump. And he's obviously done a lot. And this is a big game.  He may not want to say it publicly, but you know, he think like, oh, money, night football.  I'm so tired of getting compared to this dude. Let's show him. Let's show him the differences. So it's going to be a fun game. It should be a great game. And hopefully Ravens do everything that they can and end up being successful in coming that on top. Next question came from my guy, Garrett H. He said, hello, engraving. Hello. He said, I hope you and your family are doing well. Appreciate it, man. Two questions. Number one, do you have any concerns about the long term of the defensive line? Um, well, if you mean long term, like years, I don't think we can really say that. But long term, like I'm thinking you really mean this season. Run defense. No, I just in pass rush. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah, I do. Um, I just, we got so much strength, but they just, I don't know. We just got to see, man. I don't, from, from what I've seen so far, I would definitely have concerns with the pass rush, but it is still early. So I'm hoping that that's what the case is. I'm hoping that it's like, okay, maybe we just need a little bit of time in the jail and just get accustomed to each other. I'm hoping that that's it.  Maybe that's been the missing piece to the pass rush. I don't know, man, but whatever it is, they, we need something. And then he said, number two, after watching the first two games and shows that Jude on isn't worth resigning. Here's why we have the monstars Campbell and Wolf, uh, don't forget about big baby Brandon Williams. And then he said with Bowser and big baby, however, uh, Jude on has barely gotten to the quarterback. I'm not a huge fan of Jude on. So that's probably why I'm so critical. Um, yeah, well, Jude on is, it's been, it's been a quiet start. It's been a quiet start, but hey, let's, let's give it time and hope that it picks up. This is a, this is a perfect chance for Jude on to earn a lot of money to, to start earning a lot of money because he's going to get paid. Um, I don't think the Ravens are going to end up resigning him. Not because he's some bad player that they couldn't use, but I just think the, with all the money in the contracts that they got coming up, I just think is Jude on is going to be going somewhere else. And it was funny, the wording that he used, um, in one of the press conferences, and I forgot exactly what he said, but it was something that he said when he was speaking about, um, Lamar Jackson, I think.  It sounds, that's what it sounded like to me. Um, I forgot what the, I forgot the exact wording that he used though. Um, but anyway, I just, I, like I said, I just think, I don't think they're going to end up resigning him. I think he's going to be one of the people that they don't end up keeping, um, just cause they, they got a lot. Like it is, if they did keep them, it'd be possible, of course, but it's, they got a lot of money to go around. They got a lot of contracts to give out. And then with the, uh, with the salary cap possibly going down next season, that makes it eat that much harder. So anyway, and he said, um, oh, also your vids are what gets me through the day during these boy, during these boy online classes. I keep up the good work and go Ravens. Appreciate it, Garrett. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. But anyway, with Jude on, like I said, let's, let's give it some time and see what happens though. Let's see what happened. But like I said, this, this could be a very, very, this could be a time. This could be a game where Jude on could make a lot of money playing on money. Not every, like, like I said, literally everybody's watching. This is chiefs in Ravens, man. This was a team that last year that a lot of people thought were going to the Superbowl and it's a team that last year actually did go to the Superbowl and win it. These are two quarterbacks that everybody's always talking about. They are becoming the face of the NFL. So, hey, must see TV and this, this is a chance for a lot of guys coming up on contracts for them to make some money. Next question came from a guy, Raven Pratt. He said, what's going on in Graven? Hope everything is well with you in the family. Thank you, man. You said, I have a question for you about Sunday game against the Texans. I see that our defense has some trouble with Ms. Tackles and get into the quarterback. We did our thing Sunday against Houston, but we could have done a better job. We got KC Monday night. What do we have to improve to get a victory over KC? Keep doing your thing with the podcast and the live stream. Thank you, Raven Pratt. I appreciate that, man. To be KC Raven just got to play that game. They got score touchdowns, score touchdowns and just really wrap up. Because the thing with KC, like I said, I didn't get to watch the game last week against the Chargers, only the very, very end. But the thing that I saw from the Texans against the Chiefs that really, and it was the first game of the season. So it could have been jitters. It could have been just not being in a normal routine or whatever. But one of the biggest things that I saw was people not wrapping up. They weren't wrapping up in case he was getting so much yards after the catch. And that's so dangerous because everybody on that team is fast. Everybody. So if you don't wrap one of those guys up and they get yards after the catch, they could easily get an extra 15, 20 yards, man, just based off of their speed alone. So that's one of the biggest things that Ravens have to do. Like I said, Ravens got to score touchdowns and they like they they got to score touchdowns. If you're trying to have one of these defense of field, go field, go field, go field, go game. No, no, because I expect them to be able to contain the Chiefs but not stop the Chiefs. Chiefs going to score some points. They're going to score some points. I mean, hopefully they don't score any points.  I wouldn't mind that at all. But they most likely going to score some points. So and just stop the big place, stop the big place and like we all know, they got to get out to Patrick Mahomes early to early. Don't let him get in the red. You got to get half to him like from jump from the beginning. You need to mess up his his QB clock, the clock on his head. You need to mess it up, make him think that he has less time than he does. So pass rush is so important that they go hand in hand with the second. There is oh, they got to be ready, man. They got to be ready and coaching as far as coaching.  Don't try to be Mr. Big Shot. Just play a game, man. Play a game. Treat it like treat it like a big moment, but not too big of a moment. Just just go do your thing, man. And don't get too pretty. Next question came from my guy, Ma. He said, yo, what's up in gravy, man? Hey, you've been so on point between the podcast and the YouTube content, bro. I ain't been eating ESPN Sports Center or none of that. Get all the inside schools straight from team. Keep it clean. Free, I appreciate you, man. Thank you for listening and watching. So I thank you for that, man. He said, LOL, seriously though, man, much respect for being an example out here of how you can lead a conversation about sports without cursing or hating on anybody. Hey, that's special, man. That's really special to me, man. That's very special to me because that's very important to me. And just very important to everything that we do on here. Like team keeping clean. It's team keeping clean. So I seriously appreciate that, man. Seriously. And even with, yeah, without cursing, without hating on anybody, too, because it's no sense in hating on anybody, man. It ain't no sense that what does hating on anybody accomplish for anybody? Nothing. So that's why I ain't no point in doing that, man. He said, so my question is, how do you compare the playing styles of Kyla Murray and Lamar Jackson? Like, do you think Kyla Murray can start to have the success Lamar has had as far as a potential MVP or winning his division? Well, I definitely think that. And one of the biggest reasons I think that Kyla Murray has a potential to possibly win an MVP and win his division is because of the way that, because of what's around him, because of the weapons that they put around him. Like, they really got this guy taken care of, man. They really got him taken care of. You got Larry Fitzgerald. You got De'Andre Hopkins the best receiver in the game. You got Kirk, you got weapons, man. You have legitimate weapons. So with that being said, they put him in such a good position where he ain't got no choice but to succeed. He got no choice. No choice. Like, you got receivers with some of the best hands in the league, man. Larry Fitzgerald, he don't drop the ball. De'Andre Hopkins, he don't hardly drop the ball. Like, those dudes, they are legitimate past catchers. And, man, they got this dude set up right, man. So, yes, he can definitely have some success, man, because of what's the situation that the Cardinals put him in. And he said, do you think Lamar will be highly successful in the Cliff Kingsbury air race system where everything is shotgun and spread out? Or do you think Kyla will thrive more in Greg Roman's power run past option style offense? Ooh, I think both of them could succeed in either one. Reason being is because with Kyla Murray, the way he's able to take up, like, he's so quick, man. And he's so small, he's like low to the ground, but he's so fast, man. When he runs, it's, it's, that's it. He literally takes off like that. And so in the Greg Roman offense, oh, yeah, he'll be able to eat. He'll be able to eat. And he can make people miss, too. Ooh, he'll be able to eat. And Lamar in the Cliff Kingsbury offense, with that, with that air raid, with them spreading it out, he's, I mean, he's in shotgun and pistol all the time anyway. But so that he would already be comfortable doing that. But then with that spread offense, that's Lamar all day from his rookie year. And I mean, from college too, but from his rookie, that playoff game, they doing a read-off and read-off. RPO, RPO, RPO is not working all game. Then all of a sudden they spread it out. Boom, what happens? Offense wakes up, Lamar wakes up. We score touchdowns. So it's, both of them will be able to succeed in either system, man. And then he said, I'm just curious, what your perspective is on this, just because now with another potential polarizing dual threat quarterback coming up in the ranks, people might stop doubting Lamar or doubting how sustainable that style of play is with more teams going to this type of prospect to run their offense. That's a good point. It's still gonna be those people that just wanna still hold on to that whole sustainable thing. Now you didn't know how people are. They just don't wanna let go. They just don't wanna be like, you know what? That's my bad. I was wrong. My apologies, I was wrong. I said it wouldn't last. I said he wasn't sustainable. I said he's gonna get hurt. My apologies, I was wrong. A lot of people don't like doing that, but it is what it is. So anyway, hope this wasn't too long, man. Keep up the good work. You're doing much better than a lot of these big TV anchors. Much respect. I don't know about that part, but. Now I appreciate it Amar. Thank you a lot for that, man. Whoa, my God. Crab cakes 52. Wow, that's been a little minute, man. How you doing? You know what's up in Graven? I always love the up to date content on Ravens in the entire league. Appreciate it, man. He said, this is my first question, although I watch all the time. Real quick, tell me what you think about the Ravens putting together a package that includes a pick, a third, a third round pick, and Gus Edwards for Josh Allen from Jacksonville. Ooh, yeah. He said, I believe he's still on his rookie deal and that's not expensive. Yes, he is. This is what, ain't this his second year? I'm pretty sure that this is his second year, man. Let me just see. Josh Allen, Jag Wars. I'm pretty sure this is his second year.  Check him out, man. Let me see. He was drafted. Yep, 2019. So yeah, this is his second year. And he said, I think we need another pass rush despite our need for another corner. Hopefully we can plug in Jimmy and he can stay healthy because Avery out there looking like a prime suspect for butter. Ooh, yikes. Let me know what your thoughts, blessings to you and the fam. Appreciate it, man. That would be nice. It would be like a bittersweet thing because bitter because we'd be getting rid of Gus Edwards and Gus Edwards is the closer, man. He's the closer. Like somebody, I think it was my guy, Tori from Be More. I think he called Gus Edwards the finisher because that's exactly what he's been doing. So it'll be bitter on that part. It'd be like, oh man, Gus Edwards gone. That's our finisher. That's our closer. But then it would be the sweet part would be that we would get Josh Allen a young, hungry, just nice pass rusher, man. Young guy on his rookie deal, only in the second year of his rookie deal. So we would have the second, third, fourth year and the fifth year option. So it wouldn't be no rush to sign him long term because he's already taken care of. He's still on that rookie deal. Now I don't see Jacksonville doing that, but it would be, like I said, a bittersweet thing if that deal happened. Next question came from my boy shadow Badger Cat. He said, would you rather have Lidaria Sweb or Jimmy Smith on your team? Well, given that Lidaria Sweb retired, it'll probably be him. Now, hmm, wow. So I am assuming both healthy, maybe both in the primes. Lidaria Sweb with Jimmy Smith. Let's tell y'all Lidaria, he used to be my favorite player. But if I gotta go prime, I gotta go with Jimmy Smith. I gotta go with Jimmy Smith. They're both healthy too. Cause that's something that they both struggle with throughout their careers was injuries. But I gotta go, I gotta go with Jimmy Smith. The frame, the side, just the physicality, that part, that's the biggest part, the physicality. Cause he can, he could rock with any receiver. He could rock with any receiver.  You put Calvin Johnson out there. Hey, Jimmy taking care of business. You put AJ Green out there. Now, Jimmy's gonna have some struggles, but Jimmy's still gonna make some plays too now. Cause AJ Green is signed about AJ Green, where he would just always go off against the Ravens, whether it's Jimmy Smith with the shocky brown big yikes. Anyway, we ain't gotta get into all that. But I'm going Jimmy Smith just simply because of how physical he was, his size, and just, he, yeah, I'm gonna go Jimmy Smith. Lidaria Sweb, like, I wouldn't be mad at having a prime Lidaria Sweb too now. But yeah, Jimmy Smith, just because of how physical he was, he got that overwebby. Next question came from my boy Travis D. He said, what's going on family? Hope all is well, everything is good. He said, after watching the first couple of weeks of the Ravens games, I noticed the difference in Lamar. Last year, Lamar was smiling and happy a lot, doing his dance moves, air guns, and all that. He still is happy, I believe, but I see a lot more seriousness in him. He seems to really be focused and locked in. It's like he really isn't looking past anyone and worrying about being one and no every week. What do you think? Have you seen a difference? And yeah, I guess we have seen a bit of a difference. And he has been still smiling, like you said, but I do think that is a big part of it. I think that he knows as well as the rest of the Ravens, like, look, we're still gonna have fun. We're gonna have fun, but let's really take care of business and let's really take care of business throughout and we can't let up on anybody. We cannot let up on any single team. And like he said at the Pro Bowl, him and Earl Thomas, you gotta treat every game like it's a Super Bowl, every single one. It gots to have that importance because you can't overlook anybody. You can't look past anybody.  They got caught slipping in the playoffs and they ain't trying to let that happen again. So I do see a bit of a difference. I see it in just more so personality and a little bit in the game too. A little bit in the game too. There's a lot of times where he just really tries to make the throws and he has been making the throws all across the field, but even when he's had an opportunity to run, he would still, not every time, but he'll still try to make some throws. So with Lamar, yeah, he just seems to be just hungry, man. It seems like he may just be hungrier than ever and he just wants it. I think that's what the biggest difference in him right now is, is that he just really wants it. Next question came from my boy RickyD1980. He said, do you think JK Dobbins should start on week three against Kansas City? Maybe not even start, but just get a good amount of carries. Cause, I mean, Mark Ingram is still the starter and JK, it's just like they spread that ball out so much. It's like Ravens do technically have a starter, Mark Ingram, but I mean, everybody is going to get their share of carries. They spread that ball around. So I wouldn't mind if he started, but I mean, him not starting, it's not a big deal cause he definitely gonna get his touches too. But I think they should really go with, oh, I don't know what that was. I guess the eyelash was on my face or something. Oh, maybe a piece of land. I don't know. But anyway, they should go with the hot hand. Really try to feed their running backs, man. Really try to feed like, look at what David Johnson did. I'm not sure how charges they did in the running game, but feed them running backs and yeah, try to keep the chiefs off the field. And at the same time, scoring points. I mean, scoring touchdowns and getting points. I guess scoring points still makes sense. But yeah, that's what they got to do. So whether J.K. Dobbin starts or not, I don't think it's a big deal. As long as he does get a piece of the pocket.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re-invent 2018.  Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of AWS re-invent here at the Venetian in Las Vegas. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, John Furrier. We're joined by Clement Pang. He is the co-founder of Wavefront by VMware. Welcome. Thank you so much. Great to have you on the show. So I want you to tell our viewers a little bit about Wavefront. You were just purchased by VMware in May. Right. What do you do? What is Wavefront all about? Sure, we're actually purchased last year in May by VMware, yeah. So we are an operational analytics company, so monitoring, I think, is you could say what we do. And the way that I always introduce Wavefront is kind of a untold secret of Silicon Valley.  And if you really want to look at, you know, what do the companies in the valley really use, right? I'm talking about companies such as Workday, Box, Groupon, Intuit, DoorDash, Lyft. You know, they're all companies that are customers of Wavefront today. So they've obviously looked at all the tools that are available on the market on the show floor, and they've, you know, decided to be with Wavefront. And they were with us before the acquisition, and they're still with us today. So yeah. They're the scale-up guys. They have large-scale, large-system- Container infrastructure running clouds, hybrid clouds. Some of them are still on-prem data centers, and so we just gobble up all that data. We're a platform. We're not really opinionated about how you get the data. We call them hardcore DevOps. Yes, hardcore DevOps is the right term. Pushing the envelope, a lot of new stuff. That's right. Building their own innovation.  All right, so VMware, they're very acquisitive on technology, very technology buyers. That's right, yeah. Take a minute to explain the tech under the covers. What's going on? Sure, sure. So Wavefront is an at-scale time series database with an analytics engine on top of it. So we have actually since expanded beyond just time series data. It could be distributed histograms. It could be tracing. It includes, you know, things like events. So anything that you could gather up from your operation stack and application metrics, business metrics, we'll take that data. Again, I just said we are unopininated. So any data that you have, like sometimes it could be from a script or it could be from your serverless functions, we'll take that data, we'll store it, we'll render it and visualize it. And of course, you don't have people looking at charts all day long. We'll alert you if something bad is going on.  Talk about it. You who is Switzerland. Yeah, yeah. Basically I think that's the reason why VMware is very interested is because we work with AWS, work with Azure, work with GCP and soon to be like Ali Cloud and IBM, right? So. Talk about why time series data is now more important. We've had this conversation with smart. That's right, yeah. We saw the new announcement by Amazon. Right, yes, that's right. So, because if you're doing real time, time matters. Yeah. And super important, why is it important now? Why are people coming to the realization as the early adopters, the pioneers? That's right, that's right. I think, you know, I used to work at Google and I think Google very early on realized that time series is a way to kind of understand complex systems, especially if you have ephemeral workloads. And so I think what companies have realized is that logs is just very voluminous, it's very difficult to wield, right? And then traditional APM products, they tend to just show you what they are, they want to show you, like what are the important pain points that you should be monitoring. And with Wayfront, it's just a tool that understand time series data. And if you think about it, most of the data that you gather out of your operational environment is time series data. You know, CPU, memory, network, right? How many people logging in? How many errors? How many people are signing up? You know, we certainly have our customer-like lift. You know, how many people are getting rise? How many credit cards are off?  And that's kind of the dimension that you want to be monitoring on, not on the individual like, okay, this base, your network, even though we monitor those, of course. Yeah. You know, Clement, I got to talk to you about this important point because, you know, we've been covering real time. We've been covering IoT. We've been doing a ton of stuff around looking at the importance of data and having data be addressable in real time. That's right. And the database is part of the problem. That's right. And also the overall architecture of the holistic operating environment. That's right. So to have an actual understanding of time series is one. That's right. So then you got to actually operationalize it. That's right, yeah. Talk about how customers are implementing and getting value out of time series data and how they differentiate that with, you know, data lakes that they might spin up that has all this addup data in it. Some might not be valuable. Yeah, yeah. All this is like all now coming together. How do people do that? Right, right. So I think that there are a couple of dimensions to this. So scalability is a big piece. So you have to be able to take in enormous amount of data, understand data lakes can do that. It has to be real time. So our latency from ingestion to materialization on a chart is under a second, right?   Or else, you know, you don't know what's going on with your new service that you just launched. So real time is super important. And then it's analytics, right? So it's not, you can't, you can see all the data in real time. But if it's like millions of times you was coming in, you know, it's like the matrix, right? You need to have some way to actually gather some insights out of that data. So I think that that's what we are really good at. You know, a couple of years ago, we were doing an open compute summit that Facebook puts on. He mentioned you worked at Google. So obviously, he's talking about the cutting edge tech companies. There's so much data going on at scale. You need AI. You got to have machines do some processing. You can't have this manual process or even scripts. You got to have machines take care of it. Talk about the at scale component because as the tsunami of data continues to grow, Amazon's going to satellite you with Lockheed Martin. That's going to light up edge computing. Autonomous vehicles, petabytes coming into the cloud. Time series matters. How do people start thinking about machine learning and AI? What do you guys do? Post acquisition, I would say. We really double down on looking at AI and machine learning in our system. Because we don't down sample any of the data that we collect, we have actually the raw data coming in from weather sensors, from machines, from infrastructure, from cloud. And we just is able to learn on that because we understand incidents. We understand anomalies. So we could take all of that data and crunch it through different kinds of algorithms and figures out maybe we could just have the computer look at the incoming time series data and tell you if it's anomalous. The holy grail for VMware I think is to have a self-driving data center. And what that means is you have systems that understand, well yesterday there's a reinforcement learning announcement by Amazon. Like how do we actually apply those techniques so that we have the observability piece and then we have some way to effect change against the environment. And then we figure out just let the computer just do it. I love this topic. You should come into our studio and follow out that we do a deep dive on this because there's so many implications to the data. Because if you have real-time data, you got to have the streaming data come in. You got to make sense of it. The old networking days, they call it differentiated services. You got to differentiate on the data because machine learning, the data's good, it works great. The data sucks, machine learning doesn't go well. So talk about that dynamic of managing the data so you don't have to do all this cleaning. How do people get that data verified? How do they set up the machine learning? Sure, it still requires clean data.  So, but the ability for us, for machine learning in general to understand anything kind of in a high dimensional space is for it to figure out what are the signals from a lot of the noise, right? A human may require it to be reduced in dimensionality so that they could understand a single line, a single chart that they could actually have insights out of. Machines can technically look at hundreds, even tens of thousands of series and figures out, okay, these are the two that are the signals and these are the knobs that I could turn that could affect those signals. So, I think with machine learning, it actually helps with just the voluminous nature of the data that we're gathering and figuring out what is the signal from the noise, yeah. It's a hard problem. So talk about the two functionalities you guys just launched. What's the news, what are you doing here at AWS? Yeah, so the most exciting thing that we launched is our distributed tracing offering. We call it three dimensional microservice observability. So we're the only platform that marry metrics, histograms, and distributed tracing in a single platform offering. So it's certainly at scale, as I said, it's reliable, it has all the analytical capabilities on top of it, but we basically give you a way for you to quickly dive down into a problem, realize what the root cause is, and to actually see the actual request at its context, whether it's troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance optimization. So it's a single shop kind of experience. You put in our SDK, it goes ahead and figures out, you're running Java, you're running Jersey, or Drop Wizard, or Spring Boot, and then it figures out, okay, these are the key metrics you should be looking at. If there are any violations, we show you the actual request, including multiple services that are involved in that request, and just give you a out of the box turn key way to understand at scale microservice deployments, where are the pain points, where is the latency coming from, where are the errors coming from. So that's kind of our first offering that we're launching, same pricing model, all that. So how are companies going to use this? What kind of business problems is the solving? Yeah, so as the world transitions to a deployment architecture that mostly consists of microservices, it's no longer a monolithic app, it's no longer an NTR application. There are a lot of different heterogeneous languages, frameworks are involved, or even AWS, right, cloud services, SaaS services are involved, and you just have to have some way to understand what is going on, right? The classic example I have is, you could even trace things like an actual order how it goes through the entire pipeline. Someone placed the orders a couple days later, there's someone who the orders actually get shipped and it gets delivered. That's technically a trace, right? It could be that, you could send that trace to us, but you want to understand like, so what are the different pieces that was involved? It could be code, or it could be like a vendor, it could be like even a human process, right? All of that is a distributed tracing atom, and you could actually send it to Wavefront and we just help you stitch that picture together so you can understand what's really going on, yeah. What's next for you guys? Now you're part of VMware. That's right, yeah. What's the investment area? What are you guys looking at, building? Yeah. What's the next horizon? Right, right, right. So I think obviously the distributed tracing, we still have a lot to work on and just to help teams figure out what do they want to see kind of instantly from the data that we've gathered. Again, we just have gathered data for so long, for so many years, and at the full resolution. So what can we, what insights can develop out of it? And then as I said, we're working on AI and ML, so that's kind of the second launch offering that we have here where people have been telling us like, okay, it's great to have all the analytics, but if I don't have any statistical background or anything like that, can you just tell me, like, I have a chart, a whole bunch of lines, tell me just what I should be focusing on. So that's what we call the AI Genie, and so you just apply, call the Genie, I guess. And then you would basically just have the chart show you what is going wrong and the machines that are going wrong or maybe a particular service that's going wrong, a particular KPI that's in violation, and you could just go there and figure out what's- Get the Genie out of the bottom, that's the goal. So final question before we go, what's it like working for VMware, startup, culture, you raise a lot of money, billionaires so, crunch-based reports? That's right. VMware's cutting edge, they're partnering with Amazon. That's right. Big turnaround there. What's it like there? It's a, well, it's a very large company, obviously, but they're obviously, as with everything, there's always some good points and bad points. I'll focus on the good. So the good thing are, you know, there's just a lot of people, very smart people at VMware, they worked on the problem of virtualization, which was, you know, as a computer scientist, I just thought like, that's just so hard, right? How do you run it like the Matrix, right? It's kind of like, and so a lot of very smart people there, a lot of the stuff that we are actually launching includes like components that were built inside VMware based on their expertise over the years, and we're just able to, you know, pull, it's just a, as I said, a lot of fun toys, and how do we connect all of that together and just do an even better job than what we could have been as we were independent. Congratulations on the acquisition. VMware's got the radio event we covered. You were there. You had a lot of engineers, a lot of great scientists. So congratulations. Let me get to see you. Great. Thanks so much for coming on. Thank you so much, Rebecca. I'm Rebecca Knight for John Furrier. We will have more from AWS re-invent coming up in just a little bit.


Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one. Yeah, we gonna talk I gotta ask you about the elephant in the room. There you go There's a big gigantic yellow And it's called the gatekeeper list and I keep it I'm on this thread where people keep they talk about this gatekeeper list in a way And I know that we're blessed today to get it revealed on boss talk 101 what a boss is talk and I'm just happy to Be affiliated with the guy who's who pretty much has his fingers all in he is hey man that guy Big D the mogul. Hey for sure man. Hey, I never knew this list was gonna become as I kind of guess it's become man. It's been crazy Definitely the gatekeeper word of course I created but Me and tell you blue South the Terran Dallas global Always always saw the everyone from say cheese drop a artist list or drop a chop Producers list or something like that highlighting those who up front But I was like damn it be dope to drop a list to highlight those who people don't know and in a whole goal for it was to Give artists a chance to see people who they make and tap into People always been wondering what's the definition of a gatekeeper according to this list a gatekeeper is a person who had a power to platform Connection slash influence to help our artists get to the next level It's not the mean that these people can make or break our artists only people that can break our artists is the people People got to like your music People got a gravitate to it But if you able to tap in with these people these people may have either the access to funds or access to People whether it's platform or influence connection to help you get to the next level so That's the for people who asked for the definition of gatekeeper list. That's what it is many. Yeah, man I got the 2022 gatekeeper list and how often do you come out with this once a year every time around in March every year Every year and I love it because people are so just shook up by it I love it and not only your list for all these lists to be coming out Yeah, it's always yours because you hold you don't do but this one and it's impactful man Man, I appreciate it even though it be a lot of people threaten to drop their own gatekeeper How many other gatekeeper gatekeeper list now that's the king's only one Yeah, I mean Let's get to it. All right, so we're gonna start from the 17 people on this list. Okay, why 17 or not 20? Why 16? Alright, so here we go. We got a dark skin the plug Push dark skin on here number 17. He the world star connect everybody, you know pretty much anybody who get on the world star Go through dark skin. Okay number 16 new to the well dark skin is new to the list as well New to the list my god be hops People don't know be hobs be hobs is in charging like the talent and the platforms at South by Southwest No, so this is somebody in your back corner, you tell my be coming official artists at South by Southwest This is a guy you want to tap in the network with getting your corner You got my guy big homie P out of San Antonio.   He's got his hands in the game Number 12, I got Kevin from vertical, you know vertical is one of the biggest DJ platforms out here that bring a bunch of DJs together and let artists come near and promote and connect with all the DJs Core DJs, I think I saw Tony Neil there and everything so Number 11, I know this is a cuss word in y'all store. Well, I got Charleston white on here Definitely in the last year whether you hate him or you love him Charleston white has built a name for himself. We all benefited from his his you know saying his aura He's built platform help build platforms. He's built his own platforms I see him take other people along with them and make connections.  Do you know? Bubba man, everybody anybody is anybody that's an artist that come in the city go straight to bubble Can't take no one away from him and more than like more than anything South by Southwest show was rocking He had one of the biggest showcases out there everybody who was somebody was in that showcase if they weren't performing It was just showing up to be there Jay money is on there. I'm gonna speed up a little bit. No, no, no, no keep going on the tempo. You go I like this. So and Jay money out on that Terry kind of he explained that a little bit He pushed I'm not gonna say push Jay money definitely decided to be on this list Definitely a gatekeeper in the game His influence is heavy He's behind a lot of artists getting signed. So he for sure had to be on the list Course trap boy Freddie, you know, they need a king of oak cliff He he stepped outside sign a young lady from Memphis doing this thing Number six my god smooth Vega Smooth Vega is probably that's my superpower. If you ask me how majority of my interviews fell in my lap You know saying smooth Vega. Hey, you want this interview for wrestling to whatever it's Man, you talking about a guy who works behind the scene getting shows booking in charge of booking some of the most the major acts that come here He even called me sometimes like a Def jam trying to put this artist here What you think should we book the show with this artist or Def jam? We got this makes her here They wanted the interview artist you want to go here. I'm like, yeah, so Vega There's definitely a jewel in his backyard that we want to give our Support to flowers who for sure five baby, you know nothing Baby been a goat He connected with everybody in the industry anybody that's anybody, you know, baby he there and then I love what he's doing with the hub Wow, they you know saying with him and radio Raheem got going on over there I think that's a dope look where it brings a lot of people here. I mean, I seen ice or vessel over there. I've seen What's my It's a lot of people come through there. Give me tripping number four just says name radio Raheem Shout out radio Raheem.  Probably should have been on here alone time ago Hands and everything definitely a boss. His infrastructure is crazy The hub what he does over there Working with artists like Jay Oliver producer who got a lot of placements with Rick Ross Rihanna, etc Man radio Raheem really put batteries and people back and make things happen. Of course, my god rain water You know people I know a lot of people again look at rain water is one else nefarious characters, man But rain water if you know You may have to kind of pay attention to why he's doing what he's doing But if you're gonna do whatever he committed so to he do it hard and he do it Efficiently and he gonna make sure it get done now. You may have to make sure your ends is covered But rain water gonna make sure the job get done. He gonna make sure he get paid So but rain water, let's look at some of the things he did You know saying you got three artists on You know, so of course him I mean his connection Bobby billions did his thing the outside song is crazy But if all is true rain water had his hand in getting them signed Empire same with down down number seven He's done a great job at turning himself up Sauce Walker, you know saying number are we on right now to number two sauce Walker sauce Walker? You know saying his whole conglomerate I mean, I even seem to fool artists that he signed out from Japan over here to the States kicking it The guy energy is unmatched his reaches unmatched the way he pour into his artist his empire He built you can't can't argue with that. And of course number one test is the gatekeeper 2022 definitely get a flowers to his Carl Crawford Texas finally got a 15 on a record label that a lot of people can kind of look to that mainstream You know I'm saying for sure we put him number one on the list and I know everybody looking like What happened to say cheese? What happened to Jay Prince? And so what we decided to do this year is gonna hand put them in a gatekeeper hall of fame It's not even fair to keep putting them on the list every year. So we retire them. We retire them It just what they've done. It's been unmatched Unprecedented they've been pioneers. They created a lane. That's unmatched. So it's like hey It's not even fair to keep throwing the Prince family and say cheese into this mix Let's go here honor them and put them in a gatekeeper hall of fame So you created a hall of fame So I just need to know the criteria for this hall of fame You have to be on the gatekeeper list for how many years well It's only the third year the gatekeeper list, but I think years and then you can cross over I mean, you know for for as far as the people it's not nearly necessarily a criteria per se But when you try to put say cheese and Jay Prince on the list, they just such a so far in a league of they own It's not even close Man, so it's just like that conversation is kind of dead. What why even put them on there, man I definitely man. I just like I said, he just killed it on the interview say cheese Shout out Sean cotton man. That boy there. He supported boss tall came through man did a great interview Probably one of the best ones we've had Definitely all year, you know, I'm saying so I mean he went off and he basically He I'm not show poised to on just just having all around good attitude and and just knowing how to move man in the city Man, he talked about different things in the music industry man That we wouldn't know if it wasn't for him just explaining some of the things that happen behind the scenes man So you man. Hey man, I love the gatekeeper list man. So what about the pearl man? I'm looking for my t-shirt man. You say they coming. I think so, man I'd be worried about doing so much other stuff, man Then you know, I might have to get it over to y'all to get it distributed


Were other names considered for you, Constraker? Oh yeah, the naming process is quite an exercise, so we go through lots of time to get the name. Will the ride close early due to fireworks? If the fireworks continue to be in this area, they're not necessarily close. We're still waiting for that. Is construction ahead or behind at the current moment? Construction's on, it's good. What happens in the tunnel when there is a down bore? Well, obviously the tunnel is open on both ends, so the rain will come in. So rain finds its way to the bottom here, we've got a pump pit at the other end, and the pump will drain the water out of the tunnel. Have there been any challenges so far? Yeah, in any construction project there are challenges, so building inside a pond in an active floodway is a challenge. But we also had the ice storm, we got wet back in May, or in April, and then the wind storm in May, those were two challenges we had to deal with. I'm not even sure what that was as predicted. When did planning for a dive poster start for Wonderland? We started in 2013, maybe 2012. It was quite some time ago. It was before Skyrider was removed. Okay, makes sense. And when is construction slated to be completed? Final completion will be sometime in April. We're going to have a firm deal on that, but it will be for the public opening, obviously. Is there going to be any special effects in the tunnel? Nothing that I want to talk about today. Okay. What was Wonderland looking for when approaching BNM for Yukon Stryker? What were their requirements or asks it must have? Well, we wanted to have the tunnel, obviously, and we wanted to integrate it with more techs. We wanted to have a loop, and we wanted to have something that was thrilling, something that had never been done before. So, four inversions, and the height, and the length. I think it'll be a good ride. Is there anything unique about Yukon Stryker's trains that we don't know about? I don't think so. I think they're basically the same as our regular trains. What's it like working with BNM? Because we know the part works with BNM quite a bit. Yeah, they're great. They're a very reputable manufacturer and supplier of their equipment. So we enjoy working with them. Best yet? Or any further insight on the midway and entrance for Yukon Stryker? Best is a subjective term, and it's different for every person, right? So we're planning it to be appropriate, fitted into the infrastructure. So we want the area to manage. I don't think we'll do any surprises, but it'll be what people expect. Alright, so any insight on what the station will look like? The station will be themed to Frontier Canada, Cold Rush of 1890. Anything we don't know about Yukon Stryker? It's hard to know what you already know, or what you don't know. That's a tough question to answer. Is there anything that maybe hasn't been announced yet for Yukon Stryker and the POVs and stuff? You know, there's a few other things that we're going to add that we'll leave as a surprise. But yeah, that'll come later. They're not going to be substantial. They'll be minor. Footings for the tallest? So the design is eight meters, obviously, when we do our quarrying in the earth. Soil conditions, and if the soil conditions don't meet our needs, I'm going to have to go a little deeper. Any insight on Frontier Canada and what we maybe can expect? Frontier Canada has been a phased bill over the years, and that phased approach will continue even beyond Yukon Stryker. So it'll just be more of the same. The theme of this ride and the surrounding area will continue to be in that vein. It'll be a multi-year. When did planning for Frontier Canada start? That planning started in 1980 before Wonderland. I don't know if you'll find that it was one of the first attractions for Frontier Canada. Frontier Canada was planning to have other attractions, but that didn't happen. And now we're back into Frontier Canada planning. Or continuation of Frontier Canada. The Whitewater Canyon is part of it. Temple of Arles is part of it. Plong Commune is starting timbers. Plong Lumberjack, Canyon Trader, questions are part of that. So when did Stryker Canada decide to revisit the concept? I guess it was with some timbers. I think it was with some timbers. 2017.