I'm sure there are many people in the same boat, but I don't know that there could be the forum you imagine, not with our current cloud landscape. You're building a CDN, Netflix's video CDN is different from Akamai's is different from Fastly's is different from yours, internally and externally.
More mainstream; AWS engineers don't know GCP's architecture don't know Azure engineers' needs. And just right there are 7 different dialects of "cloud".
There's tons of interest, but much of the knowledge is covered behind corporate NDAs/employe and getting people aligned on terminology and technologies is hard because so much is hidden behind NDAs. The current solution is either to work for a big company where there's rigorous internal discussion or go to tech conference after-parties and hope to meet the right people at the right time/place on the Ballmer curve to have a productive discussion.
There's tons of interest, but much of the knowledge is covered behind corporate NDAs/employe and getting people aligned on terminology and technologies is hard because so much is hidden behind NDAs. The current solution is either to work for a big company where there's rigorous internal discussion or go to tech conference after-parties and hope to meet the right people at the right time/place on the Ballmer curve to have a productive discussion.