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Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box? Well, probably a lot more than where Apple, Spotify, and Dropbox run their stuff in - or out! - of the cloud, a topic we also discuss. Also, sheep-skin shoes are hot, too hot. Also, something about dtrace and zfs, I don’t know - just listen to it. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial. Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts, which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/ What even is a “Dropbox”? Now that we know they generated $1.1bn in revenue in CY2017 (with -10% op margins, translating to a loss of $111.7m and actual cash flow)…we should probably contemplate how they fit in. 451 estimates a valuation at $8bn+. More: “Dropbox has taken just over 10 years to go public since its founding in 2007, which we attribute to anxiety over its high private valuation, a sizable profitability gap, and the dour outlook often associated with the EFSS segment.” More from 451: “Its net loss ($111m) shrank by nearly half from 2016 – a faster pace than its topline growth. Its relative sales and marketing costs are lower than most of its peers. The vendor spent 28% of its revenue on sales and marketing – half the level of Box, a fellow FSS compatriot that's half the size as Dropbox." Man, think of the shit-per diem an travel policies for last year. E.g., who knew they were so widely used by normals?! 11m+ paying users, they says. (But, it’s 45 to 1 free to pay.) Do we think GDrive/G Suite is this big? I mean, it must be at least once you throw in Docs and GMail. Gartner’s 2016 estimates: “$1.3 billion in G Suite sales ranked a distant No. 2 behind Office’s $13.8 billion, according to 2016 data from Gartner.” Checks out. Tech Co.’s using Google Cloud Apple on Google for iCloud (but also AWS for the same), Spotify on Google, Dropbox on their own cloud (see Ben’s “turns out!” analysis). Does this matter for normals? “Dropbox is likely an outlier with its successful cloud data migration off AWS.” Wired’s write-up on the migration from 2016 Relevant to your interests Pants are sized wrong. DTrace going GPL-compatible Arrested DevOps talking with Andrew Shafer and Bryan Cantrill The ongoing nothingburger of blockchain-beyond-bitcoin: “The only mass-market use of blockchain technology right now is bitcoin, and you can certainly debate just how widespread a market that really is. Lots of people are interested in blockchain’s distributed ledger system as a potential way to cut out the middleman in transactions between manufacturers or retailers and their suppliers, but the number of people actually using blockchain technology for those types of services right now is quite small.” More: “The entire market for blockchain services in 2017 — and not necessarily cloud vendor-provided blockchain services — sits at $708 million, according to a report from WinterGreen Research cited by The Information. By comparison, Gartner said last September that it expects cloud services revenue will have reached $260.2 billion in 2017.” WinterGreen, sittin’ in hot tubs, smokin’ those L’s: “In that report, WinterGreen also predicts astounding growth of 757 percent in that blockchain market by 2024 to $60.7 billion, which is among the most dramatic forward-looking statements I’ve seen in a while.” The concept of the millennial is dead. Time to start complaining and belly-aching about how simpering and fucked up the current generation of The Kids are. Conferences, et. al. March 9th to 13th, SXSW - Brandon in Austin giving out stickers. Coté needs excuses to expense meals and drinks. March 22-23 - DevOps Talks Conference, Melbourne Matt speaking April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago. SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter. Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Recommendations Matt: Bose QuietComfort 20 headphones Brandon: Version Control. Coté: Starbuck’s Blonde roast; lo

This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices. Forget AWS vs. Azure, it’s WholeFoods vs. H-E-B that’s what will divide families! H-E-B buys Favor. Amazon extends 5% back Prime credit card benefits to Whole Foods purchases Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion Brandon interviews JJ on this weeks Software Defined Interviews. Make sure to subscribe Email us at [email protected] for free stickers. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial. Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts, which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/ Compliance, Monitoring, Mesh & Design, Oh my! Chef Software bids to automate compliance with new InSpec 2.0 release Networking ruins everything! History of Service Mesh. The RED Method: A New Approach to Monitoring Microservices A print button? Mmkay. Let's explore WHY you need me to add that xMatters snares $40 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing The Road To 400G Ethernet Is Paved With Bechtolsheim’s Intentions Conferences, et. al. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. DevOpsDays Jakarta - April 26-27 Matt will be there Derek Mazzone from KEXP ChefConf 2018 - May 22-25 in Chicago SxSW — Brandon in Austin giving out stickers SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter. Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Recommendations Matt: Oceanic by Greg Egan Brandon: How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story related Snap stock plummets after Kylie Jenner declares Snapchat dead Cover Art Credit

It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also discuss the odd trend of kubernetes now actually not being for mere mortals and then Coté complains about writing talk submissions for CFPs. Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion Software Defined Interviews interview with Nancy Gohring. Brandon has a JJ interview coming up, Feb 19th, 2018. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (and get a free Datadog T-shirt) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Yes, thank you, I’D LIKE A FREE T-SHIRT, SON! Check out this detailed example of monitoring RabbitMQ, and some recent Java stuff: APM & distributed tracing for Java applications. Do it on your own and get a free t-shirt! Kubernetes Korner Bluebox turned out well. Real A-Team over there. Jay@451 has some Heptio packaging and pricing: “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported configuration, unlimited tickets and up to 25 nodes; Professional, intended for organizations that are growing their deployments, with up to three supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 250 nodes; Enterprise, for large, mission-critical environments that covers up to five supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 750 nodes; and a Custom version, intended for the largest web-scale environments of more than 750 nodes. Pricing starts at $24,000 per year for the Starter tier.” Pivotal Container Services (PKS) is GA. Kubernetes is a bully? Oh, and also, you’re not supposed to be excited about kubernetes any more…? Bonus: Is DevOps still a thing? Coté is negative Matt Ray could probably write this abstract with more rainbow. See the other punch in the gut talks Coté has. Related to your interests AWS further deciding it doesn’t want health industry customers… Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform - “In a nutshell, Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform will aim to automate patching, tuning and even data integration across its portfolio. Oracle's return on investment pitch is that its autonomous platform frees up technology talent for higher-value tasks.” Related: Oracle Leaps Into the Costly Cloud Arms Race New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - "Digital is the new front door" for business - “For its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of $4.9 million for the same period last year. Revenue was $91.8 million for the third quarter, up 35% year-over-year.” Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics - Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked respondents to rate their orgs according to Gartner's 5 levels of maturity for data & analytics…. 60% of respondents…rated themselves in the lowest 3 levels.” Jenkins-Based CloudBees Acquires Codeship to Fill Out CI/CD Portfolio. Architect.io Newsletter is back! Brief Solarwinds buying Loggly analysis. Q&A: Snap book author on the app's challenges Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Barracuda Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, according to a new report XebiaLabs lands $100 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass The Enemy within Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches Apple intern reportedly leaked iPhone source code Uber quits GitHub for in-house code after 2016 data breach - didn’t have 2FA on, used AWS credentials. But, caught it in 24 hours. Conferences, et. al. Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. ChefConf 2018 - May 22-25 in Chicago SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter. Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Recommendations Matt: Crashing; Choir! Choir! Choir! David Byrne + NYC sing HEROES. Brandon: Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen. Coté: Apple Pencil plus GoodNotes - blow your mind, bruh!

Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews. There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ Also, if you’re interested in the Datadog write-ups on monitoring RabbitMQ and Java, check those out as well in addition getting a free t-shirt when you making your first dashboard by going to https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. We’ll see you next week! Conferences, et. al. Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter. Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! Stickers - write us in the contact form or email us, send name and address mailing address.

Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix healthcare. 75% of IT decision-makers believe “that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware,” @ripcitylyman & @alsadowski (@451Research). This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (and get a free Datadog T-shirt) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Yes, thank you, I’D LIKE A FREE T-SHIRT, SON! Check out this detailed example of monitoring RabbitMQ, and some recent Java stuff: APM & distributed tracing for Java applications. Do it on your own and get a free t-shirt! KublaiKash: RedHat Buys CoreOS Price of $250m - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.” $50m in funding, since 2015, but CoreOS was started in 2013. Matt Rosoff: “CoreOS has 130 employee…Docker, meanwhile, has raised more than $240 million.” 451 revenue estimates, July 2017, Jay Lyman: “CoreOS has about 120 employees [up from 75 reported in Sep 2016, “about 30 employees” in April 2015], and estimated annual revenue in the $15-20m range.” Sep 2016 customers: “CoreOS reports more than 1,000 paying customers across its products, with a solid group of CoreOS lightweight Linux clients and a growing number of Quay Enterprise and Tectonic customers.” Plus, Ibid.: “ The company says most revenue is coming from Amazon Web Services deployments, with some bare-metal, VMware and other deployments.” Good perspective on the big picture, from Al & Jay at 451: “Red Hat's efforts will likely be worthwhile because Kubernetes is more than just container management orchestration software and is actually a distributed application framework that is very well timed with enterprise adoption and use of multi and hybrid cloud infrastructures.” Product description from the same: “CoreOS Tectonic wraps services – such as automated operations, application services, governance, monitoring and portability – around the Kubernetes container management and orchestration software. Automated operations have been a key focus of the latest CoreOS Tectonic update, with capabilities such as automated patching, failover and high availability and automated cluster deployment included.” CoreOS describes itself: “CoreOS is the creator of CoreOS Tectonic, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that provides automated operations, enables portability across private and public cloud providers, and is based on open source software. It also offers CoreOS Quay, an enterprise-ready container registry. CoreOS is also well-known for helping to drive many of the open source innovations that are at the heart of containerized applications, including Kubernetes, where it is a leading contributor; Container Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution created and maintained by CoreOS that automates software updates and is streamlined for running containers; etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes; and rkt, an application container engine, donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that helped drive the current Open Container Initiative (OCI) standard.” Synergy Corner! All ‘bout that k8s: “Kubernetes is a leading container orchestration tool for organizations of all sizes, on its way to potentially becoming as ubiquitous as Linux….We are thrilled to continue this mission at Red Hat and work to accelerate bringing enterprise-grade containerized infrastructure and automated operations to customers.” But they also throw in that original mission: “our mission to make the internet more secure through automated operations.” 451: “Red Hat will continue to support CoreOS customers as it integrates Tectonic and other CoreOS technology into its own offerings, primarily OpenShift. Red Hat also indicates it will open-source the Tectonic software as it has with previously acquired technologies.” More on what Red Hat will do with it: “Red Hat intends to leverage the CoreOS Tectonic container stack to bolster and enhance OpenShift and RHEL capabilities. In particular, Red Hat says the deal will help it to improve security of container and cluster deployments, enable portability of container applications across hybrid cloud infrastructures and further drive ease of use and automation in its software.” Combined market-share. This is based off early, CNCF surveys and such, but it’s likely a fine wet

Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we talk through some issues to consider and strategy frameworks for thinking through the question. Plus, we talk about bi-modal IT as relates to dad jeans, metaphorically speaking. Amazon HQ2 The Problem With Courting Amazon, The Atlantic. Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle. Why your city should avoid Amazon HQ2. Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1. The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin. Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location. An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of. Tech ethics elsewhere Facebook hoopla - “Trump 2.0” vs. “Obama 2.0.” Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy. iPhone Addiction. “Owing” something to open source. Work-place culture, diversity. New Economy, Meet Old Continent Digital publishers want platforms to pay up The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought 'Need More Time'? Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a pretty good idea of quarterly earnings 3 years in advance Conferences, et. al. Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. SDT news & hype Keep up with the weekly newsletter. For example, a few issues back Coté went over some book recommendations based on what he read in 2017. Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. Buy some t-shirts! Stickers - write us in the contact form or email us, send name and address mailing address. Recommendations Brandon: All the Money in the World and Dark Money. Coté: Friendly Fire podcast.

This week, regular Software Defined Talk listeners get a free episode of our members only podcast. If you like this, sign-up to get access to these extra episodes, about every week. We do a deep reading and analysis of various types of tech content, marketing, and other ephemera from press releases, books, presentations, and white papers. Plus, as with this episode, we just talk about tech ideas and news in general, in the course of being a critic. DO IT NOW! BECOME A PATRON! GET MORE AWESOME CONTENT FROM US! Everyone’s freaking out about tech companies. What they mean by “tech companies,” of course is the combination of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and maybe Netflix. They (mostly) mean companies who are using tech to disrupt their industries (media, retail, entertainment) and using the business models of tech companies. The line is, to be sure, fuzzy, but these are not companies that make their money from selling hardware, software, or even IT services (like Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Pivotal, etc.). This week, we look at one write-up of this freaking out from The Economist. They also have a smaller version in their “Leaders” section. As always, there are much more extensive, detailed show notes available as well. If you’re not already a member, sign up sign up as a member for $5/month (or, if you’re cheap, $1) to get this episode and many others. Check it all out over at in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sdt. Also, join us in Slack to discuss this episode and whatever else you like to exegesize. You can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts and fill out the contact form with your mailing address if you’d like some free stickers!

Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves. Pre-roll SDT news & hype Canceled: Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. Keep up with the weekly newsletter. For example, a few issues back Coté went over some book recommendations based on what he read in 2017. Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. Buy some t-shirts! Stickers - write us in the contact form or email us, send name and address mailing address. Wemo IoT All the devices - plugs, dimmers, HomeKit bridge (HomeKit is kinda garbage). There’s plenty of IFTTT applets that do Wemo things, but…are they useful? Those chip problems - what would you use them for? What’s this mean? Another Y2K? The world didn’t seem to end, so are we good? The Register coverage, lots of gobbly-gook. TPM estimates cost to IT departments to deal with it. Suspicious stock sale, or maybe he just needed a new winter home. What are people doing with exploits? More IT spending in 2018, public cloud use growing 451 and IDC have some cloud forecast numbers out. Ent. software growth. Trad’l IT shrinking, but not too fast 451 days private cloud still the winner, but barely. 451 tracks by survey with plans to put workloads across the different types of infrastructure: PaaS in not included (see a recent round-up of PaaS market-sizings, tho), but for 2019: public cloud totals ~37% (or 46.3% if you included hosted), private cloud 53.6% IDC’s tracks hardware spend: Meanwhile, an analyst says Azure had a gain on AWS in Q4: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a year earlier, KeyBanc's Brent Bracelin and other analysts wrote in a note on Thursday. Microsoft Azure jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent, and Google's share increased from 10 percent to 12 percent, they said.” Also, more spending forecasts from Gartner: The move to SaaS continuing: “Organizations are expected to increase spending on enterprise application software in 2018, with more of the budget shifting to software as a service (SaaS). The growing availability of SaaS-based solutions is encouraging new adoption and spending across many subcategories, such as financial management systems (FMS), human capital management (HCM) and analytic applications.” Really, doesn’t that make the most sense for where to spend most of your priority? Clears out the under-brush. Perhaps there should be a split between “innovation” (customer IT) and “keep the lights on.” I often think bi-modal got lost in that distinction. Hey, that sounds like Big Data! ‘"Looking at some of the key areas driving spending over the next few years, Gartner forecasts $2.9 trillion in new business value opportunities attributable to AI by 2021, as well as the ability to recover 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity," said Mr. Lovelock. "That business value is attributable to using AI to, for example, drive efficiency gains, create insights that personalize the customer experience, entice engagement and commerce, and aid in expanding revenue-generating opportunities as part of new business models driven by the insights from data."’ 451’s surveys show more IT spending too: “fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That was the highest reading since 2007, and 13 basis points higher than the average survey response for the month of November for the previous five years” The exciting world of monitoringobservability With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service: “With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but has hit a patch of growth recently. As of September, we believe the company was on track to finish 2017 with roughly $10m in billings, up from mid-single digits in 2016. Founded in 2009 with a mission of offering a SaaS-based, easy-to-use logging product with helpful visualizations built using advanced analytics, Loggly had raised $47m in venture capital, including a $11.5m series D round in June 2016.” They estimate ~3,000 paying customers. Microsoft gets serious about monitoring, pulling together it’s different things Nancy at 451 reports: “Microsoft's vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to application architects looking to optimize their software; performance information and debugging capabilities for DevOps and ops pros; insight into KPIs for executives; and information about customer usage to product owners. Microsoft doesn't yet have a cohesive of

With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land from the CISO Exec Network joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security.Special Guest: Andy Land.

What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friends at Gartner as well. Plus, a smattering of infrastructure software news and recommendations. Pre-roll SDT news & hype If you're not a dude, please take the listener survey - we're all full-up on guys, need more ladies. Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. The newsletter now has two editions, one at the end of this week coming, fools! Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. Predictions Coté, of course, used to do these: the last one, for 2015, at 451; 2009 at RedMonk (boy, I sure was full of piss and vinegar back then); some nonsense from 2014; Coté: DevOps → SRE. Coté: I met someone who described themselves as a “chatbot developer” last week. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades. Ducy’s predictions. Return to monoliths. Survey of predictions from elsewhere Good God, man! - something about the role of AI in appdev. “AIOps” - please, kill me now. (To be fair, I think it down-shifts to ML pretty quick-like. Still) Gartner’s mode-salad: “Through 2020, n-tier bimodal workloads will encompass 50% of existing Mode 1 workloads and 80% of new Mode 2 workloads.” I think this means: “50% of old applications will be n-tier, and 80% of new apps will be n-tier,” where “n-tier” means not “client/server, hosted and peer-to-peer architectures.” Serverless, Gartner: “By 2020, 90% of serverless deployments will occur outside the purview of I&O organizations when supporting general-use patterns.” This decade in kubernetes, Gartner: “By 2020, more than 50% of enterprises will run mission-critical, containerized cloud-native applications in production, up from less than 5% today.” Gartner’s PaaS PDF, someone over there had an SEO-stroke: “Application leaders engaged in digital business transformation must master AI, event-driven design, serverless microservices, IoT and strategic integration to serve their business and customers well. Cloud platform innovation drives business leadership.” A good passage on why private PaaS is hard, from PaaS predictions piece: “These [positive, PaaS] capabilities benefit the organizations and are a positive IT development. But they do not alone amount to a cloud experience. Their challenge is typically organizational. A private cloud requires a division of the IT organization into provider and subscribers, and establishment of a strict separation between them via a cloud services portal and suitable cross-charging model. Without a strict adherence to the isolation of providers and subscribers, there cannot be standardization. The self-service is compromised and without resource use tracking, it is hard to achieve the efficiency of elastic autoscaling and elimination of shelf-ware. In most organizations, the leadership is not committed enough to the vision of private cloud to make the difficult and high-risk investment that can stand up to the right organizational framework, policies and practices. Therefore, these PaaS frameworks have justifed their existence mostly through their support of newer cloud-native development models such as DevOps, rather than cloudiness features.” Relevant to your interests Shameless Self Promotion: best digital transformation joke of the year. Tech M&A prioritization, rough overview from 451: Forrester Researcher: Containers, PaaS And Managed Private Cloud Will Drive Cloud Adoption Next Year And Beyond - "It’s a waiting game for a comprehensive management platform." IDC predicts that in 2018, annual IaaS/PaaS service spending (OpEx) will be equal to new on prem infrastructure spending (CapEx) - “They” say public cloud will over-take private cloud in 2019. Meanwhile: "In 2018, we expect 40% to 50% of business users to have moved their core collaboration and communications systems to cloud platforms. By 2021, more than 70% of businesses will be substantially provisioned with cloud office capabilities.” Last minute gift ideas Brandon: subscriptions like Spotify, NY Times - no one will do it though, no one wants to give this. Matt: experiences. Coté: cash for kids, trialling this year. Conferences, et. al. Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. Recommendations Matt: Sigur Rós live from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, other Pitchfork concerts Brandon: United States Postal Service. Coté: Coté’s DIY Home Office Trail Mix (pea-con pieces & raisons); stock CostCo bacon; the only way to suffer through reading a pile of predictions pieces is listening to Yacht Rock Vol. 1. Co-pilot for all the tedious times in life. (Cf. Vol. 2 and Vol. 3.)

We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer. There is no co-host shortage. Pre-roll SDT news & hype Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon KubeCon - that a thing? As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh - climb the stack! List of announcements, from The Register. “We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home. Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project Datadog survey. Heptio has DR in Azure - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…” Relevant to your interests You’re not doing agile - Coté’s Christmas bonus column. Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less. Related: receipts considered stupid - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature Planview buys LeanKit. Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first? Update on Dell financials: "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.” Conferences, et. al. It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left. Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th. Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. Recommendations Brandon: Long Shot, Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures, Ben Evans. Coté: finally got that AAdvantage Executive card. Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (still free!). Kubernetes Up and Running. Badass. Paper on ML indexing stuff. Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.

It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco. Pre-Roll SDT News SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away! No SSH JJ has stickers. Find him at KubeCon. We’ll be doing a live show, - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack. Upcoming SDT newsletter. SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News Change is really hard. There is not tech magic except clearing the decks of bullshit. And then you focus on the intractable, but valuable bullshit. It’s SpringOne Platform this week. PCF 2.0 - in addition to actual tech, renaming some things to to make brand-room for PKS. Serverless bundled in, but not GA yet. Integrations and such, even with IBM middleware. Also, use Google Cloud services. Windows Server 2016 use, most recent version - better integration with it. Also, a VMware NSX release, but Coté doesn’t know about that. Also, bunch of Spring stuff. Some kotlin support, reactive, etc. Things people use Spring for/with charts. More: Ron Miller at TechCrunch, Paul Krill on serverless, Rene Millman at Cloud Pro/IT Pro, Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE. AWS re:Invent, day 2 Daniel Bryant’s (InfoQ) overview of everything. Alexa for Business “Alexia! Fix multi-organization meeting scheduling!” Watson-lite? There’s a dangerous step infrastructure companies try to make into collab, often. It usually doesn’t work (cf. VMware Project Octopus circa 2011 and the related stuff) but, good luck storming the castle! AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices “He noted that at AWS, security will always be his group's number one investment area.” (well, for one, what’s “his group,” for second, I’m guessing they’ll always be spending more on hardware, real-estate, and electricity than the team of people coding group security.) Cloud9 IDE stuff: Also from Thomas Claburn at El Reg, interesting angle on cost: "Used eight hours a day, it would cost about $48.80 per month on a Linux m4.xlarge instance (4 vCPUs, 16GiB memory) or $5.62 on a less well provisioned t2.small instance. (1 vCPU, 2GiB memory).” “remote pair-programming features” This Week in Kubernetes PKS GA’ed from Pivotal. Kubernetes momeintum piece from George Leopold. EKS - it’s a trap! Says @cloud_opinion. # Misc. Economist tries explaining bitcoin. Economist says VR/AR is a not too hot, business-wise. VMware, still making a lot of money: 3rd quarter "revenue of US$1.98bn... Net profit came in at $443m, up from $319m" Mid-roll SolarWinds Ad This is the last run, so get in there now or you’ll miss your chance to check out SolarWinds Cloud…and get that snazy t-shirt. This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt, sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom. More: AppOptics: All Application and Infrastructure Monitoring in One Place Get a T-shirt from SolarWinds at: https://www.solarwinds.com/sdt Press release on all this. End-roll Conferences Coté’s junk: Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th. Live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018. Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays. Recommendations Brandon: HQ Trivia App Coté: Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diary.

There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals! Pre-Roll SDT News SDT got a new logo! SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away! You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack. US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers. We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack. Upcoming SDT newsletter. Misc. news before re:Invent coverage Changing of the guard at HPE. WeWork buys MeetUp. Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way. EFF write-up Stratechery & follow-up This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway. Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise. Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory. AWS re:Invent AWS Business Update Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year New AWS Services (100+ new total) Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?) AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?) Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?) came out of the VMware work i3.metal instance types c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type) EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking H1 - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances M5 - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisor Deep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal T2 Unlimited - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit system Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it! upstream K8s automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service Fargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed similar to Azure Container Instances apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!) So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up. FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor Glacier/S3 Select - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV & JSON) GuardDuty - continuous security monitoring & threat detection (lunches eaten?) IoT Analytics - MQTT processing, reporting & storage IoT Device Defender - reporting, alerting & mitigation of existing IoT fleets IoT Device Management - lifecycle, management & monitoring of IoT devices Kinesis Video Streams - video ingestion/processing service Media Services - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere. Neptune - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?) Rekognition Video - Rekognition now does video SageMaker - framework for building AI services Sumerian - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform? Systems Manager - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management tools Time Sync Service - AWS NTP Translate - Google & MS already have this Transcribe - speech recognition, we should use this! More: The New Stack, The Register. This kind of over-the-top analysis is kinda our thing. BACK OFF, MAN! AWS Strategy Update On Hybrid Cloud: “In the fullness of time — I don’t know if it’s five, 10 or 15 years out — relatively few companies will own their own data centers. Those that do will have a much smaller footprint. It will be a transition and it won’t happen overnight.” Link More: ‘Is Multi-Cloud Real?: “We certainly get asked about it a lot. Most enterprises, when they think about a plan for moving to the cloud, they think they will distribute workloads across a couple of cloud providers. But few actually make that decision because you have to standardize on lowest common denominator when you go multi-cloud. AWS is so far ahead and you don’t want to handicap developer teams. Asking developers to be fluent in multiple cloud platforms is a lot. And all the cloud providers have volume discounts. If you split workloads across multi-cloud, you’re diminishing those discounts. In practice, companies pick a predominate cloud provider for their workloads. And they may have a secondary cloud provider just in case they want to switch providers.’ AWS re:Invent Preview Review ✔SaaS lunches will be eaten? ✔Amazon Kubernetes Service? This Week in Kubernetes All about AWS th

With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo! Show Notes: VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways — with Google / VMware’s Diane Greene. Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies Bonus Links: Mesosphere, a San Francisco cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate. Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!) Stressed about serverless lock-in? Don't be Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, Sign up for a free trial of SolarWinds AppOptics by visiting www.solarwinds.com/sdt and get a free launch t-shirt, Listener Survey & More Get a SDT Laptop Sticker when your fill out the SDT audience survey Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack. Recommendations Matt Ray: Laughing for Days Brandon: Movie: American Made

With Coté stuck in the tail end of polishing up a new stump speech, we discuss the magic of creating the deck and the history of PowerPoint, based on a recently published article. After slides talk and some contemplation of using Rick and Morty references in (supposedly) professional talks, we discuss how impossible keeping everyone happy with product management decisions as a product gets older. We close out talking about the recent OpenStack Summit and Mirantis. This week’s exegesis OpenStack User Survey, probably. # Fuckin’ with PowerPoint, or, “these slides will compile, no matter what” David Byrne loves PowerPoint. History of PowerPoint, best $14m acquisition ever! Dive even deeper! Is Rick and Morty safe for slides? # 280 Characters of Bullshit(?) Pro. Con 1. Con 2. Con 3. # OpenStack Summit In Sydney. It’s Mirantis again! OpenStack Survey - Tasty Meats Paul # This week in Kubernetes We’re re-writing all of systems management. Serverless, what is it, exactly? # BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show # Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. # Mid-roll & Conferences Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray Coté’s junk: Innotech Microservices Conference, Austin, 11/16/2017. SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking. Matt’s on the Road! November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow November 14 - Perth MS Cloud Meetup # Recommendations Matt Ray: Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Brandon: Snag it Coté: Ritz Crackers, all the Courtney Barnett songs.

This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private.” This week’s exegesis The Corporate Podcast, plus EBC’ing - sign-up and listen! Last week we looked at The Lone Wolf Analyst, by way of Ben Thompson. This week in kubernetes Why did kubernetes win? (Nerds like to tinker, Google brand? Did the rest of us just need to buy more native advertising in The New Stack?) Cisco and Google Not really sure what this Cisco/Google thing is. What does Cisco bring to the table? “Cisco's HyperFlex platform that includes management tools to enforce security and other policies as applications and services are released with greater frequency.” Private cloud bundling of kubernetes, Istio, all the great cloud natives. "This is what we hear customers ask for," Diane Greene. Big picture: what’s Google’s goal here? Is it really as simple as “on-ramp?” Even bigger picture: how did it kubernetes win? IBM’s private cloud stack So, is the “Blue Mix” brand out the mix? IBM page: “Overview of IBM Cloud Private.” Another announcement overview. “Is built on the latest versions of Kubernetes and Docker” - what that mean? Jeffrey Burt: “IBM Cloud Private can run on a variety of infrastructures, including the vendor’s own mainframe and Power systems, its hyperconverged infrastructure that runs Nutanix software, and IBM Storage’s Spectrum Access solution. In addition, it can run on systems from Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco Systems and NetApp, and can be deployed by such VMware, Canonical and other OpenStack distributions as well as bare-metal systems. The private cloud platform also includes such developer services for data analytics as Db2, Db2 Warehouse, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, developer tools like Netcool, UrbanCode, and Cloud Brokerage and open-source management software such as Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and ElasticSearch.” Chris Mellor, The Register: All the great middleware now in (Docker) containers: “IBM has provided containerised versions of WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty, MQ, and DB2, plus Microservice Builder as software bundle components. For example, Cloud Private for Application Modernization provides Cloud Private capabilities plus WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, MQ Advanced, API Connect Professional, DB2 Direct Advanced and Urban Code Deploy.” Value-prop’in! “The standout aim is to help legacy apps transition to a more cloud-native style of construction and operation so that they can run inside a public cloud-like environment on-premises – private cloud – and connect to and/or be integrated with public clouds in some fashion. The destination in IBM's view, of the evolution of legacy apps is the hybrid cloud with private cloud as a stepping stone.” The white papers also mention “regulated industries” and the like. Goin’ for that enterprise cloud, hey, boy. Also: Coté’s highlights, brief coverage from Tom Krazit at GeekWire. An oral history of “bursting”: from 2010 to 2017. Congress now follows you Kind of a dick move to not send the CEOs. Holy Shit! “Revealing exactly what was smeared all over the internet during the 2016 elections would, we reckon, be like opening Pandora's box: it would allow citizens to join the dots between Kremlin-crafted lies, the gradual acceptance of those lies online, the discussion and even promotion of said lies on mainstream news networks, resulting in, presumably, dozens of clips of senators responding with indignation about made-up information. In short, everyone is going to look like a chump if it turns out everything argued over last year was based on nothing but Kremlin-devised myths and urban legends. Rumors, in other words, designed to destabilize American politics and perhaps install a preferred candidate in the White House.” Looks like my rep has been keeping up on Ben Thompson: ‘Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) asked: "Why should you be treated any differently to the press?" All three California outfits responded with a version of the fact that they are "platforms" and not publishers, that their content is user-created, and that they protect people's right to free speech and expression. Cornyn made it clear he was not persuaded. "They may be a distinction lost on most of us," he said.’ Speaking of…Ben nails the analysis: “Facebook served [an estimated] 276 million unique ads per quarter, and my entire point was the same as Kennedy’s: there is no way that Facebook could ever review every ad, much less investigate who is behind them, without completely ruining their revenue model.” ‘What this hearing highlighted, though, is the degree to which the position of Facebook in particular has become more tenuous. The fact of the matter is that Facebook (and Google) is more powerful than any entity we have seen before. Magnifying the problem is that, over the last year, Facebook has deci

Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’. This week’s exegesis We’ll be looking at The Four this week in the exegesis podcast. Coté is vacillating between upset and ¯_(ツ)_/¯ $1 Class-action settlements Got my Apple iBooks pay-day! It was $1.14. For $1.14, I don’t think any sort of crime was committed. Coffee costs triple that (double if you shop around). Sounds like a big waste of time and money. Did I ever tell you about that refund gift card from T-Mobile I got? For 3 cents? What the fuck I do with that? Soon we’ll all bow to kubernetes Docker adds in support, official web-page with burger and brief value-props, and over at The New Stack. Now we can all just start The Battle of Death by a Thousand Value-props. E.g., hittin’ up that security angle hard-core, talking about easily migrate-n-save for existing apps. Dave Bartoletti, Forrester: ‘said it's clear that Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. "There's too much mindshare around it," he said in a phone interview with The Register. "There are too many developers who just want this.”’…”Bartoletti said he expects vendors will try to move up the stack by providing security, integration, workflow, and managed services. He said Docker now will be free to focus on trying to be the best container platform for enterprises.” Looks like Bartoletti was the analyst sent around, he shows up in other coverage. Derrick Harris’s take: “The problem is that it’s difficult to make enterprise sales when users want open source at the lower layers and to pay (real money, at least) at layers they deem more strategic. If that’s Kubernetes, then Docker either needs to support it commercially, or let someone else take all the revenue from the orchestration layer up while Docker keeps on spending money to keep the free part of the puzzle chugging. By supporting Kubernetes as part of Docker Enterprise, it now can make the argument that nobody understands containers better than Docker does, and there’s now no real reason to not pay for its enterprise version.” MTA IN DA HIZ-OUSE! “We’ve seen 100 percent success rate for applications that meet our criteria across hundreds of Java and .NET applications. Customers are able to see these results in five days or less. “Johnston added that some customers are able to double the release frequency of their software and cut total cost of ownership by 50 percent.” Snoopy on that shit: “MetLife applied this modernization pattern in one day to their Java application. They were able to look across their portfolio and identify 600 other applications that fit this pattern, for a 66 percent savings on total cost of ownership. That nets out to millions of dollars at MetLife. They have over 6,000 applications they want to apply this to.” Meanwhile, earlier this month, more for the whale: “[Docker] has been putting together a $75 million funding round, which would bring the total amount of money raised by the company to $255 million.” IBM Wins the Cloud That revenue! Hopefully IBM figures it out. Tech people Coté’s Register column this month is on “the skills gap,” hiring in tech. Coincidently, there’s also a story on The Olds in tech. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Misc. Brandon’s favorite chart updated. Oracle says don’t do custom IT. One of the better recordings of Coté’s talk is up, from DevOpsDays Kansas City. Red Hat likely to be a $3bn company soon - 24 years in the making. Open source is hella hard. Ben on MongoDB S1: “This is the key to understanding SaaS companies: the first year is hugely negative because of sales costs, but future years are hugely profitable because the customer doesn’t go anywhere.” SaaS businesses are subscription businesses, profits in the out-years. This week in Azure Stack Dell has some info out on the SKUs and such. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Mid-roll & Conferences Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! Coté’s junk: Solarwinds THWACKcamp, all online Oct 18th and 19th. DevOps panel on Oct 19th, noon central. http://thwackcamp.com. All Day DevOps, Oct 24th - Coté is speaking, 2:45pm central. Fedscoop Digital Transformation Summit, in DC Oct 26th. Meetup the night before on EA & DevOps. SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking. Matt’s on the Road! October 25-26/27-28 DevOps Days Singapore/PowerShell Asia November 6-7 - AgileN

Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors - even Oracle! - have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also, Chef and Puppet have new suites of tools, Docker sets its sites clearly on reducing VMware costs, and there’s some new momentum stats on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Do people actually do the DEV-ops? DevOps sounds cool, but, SREs? See discussion over on Coté Show. Chef launches Habitat Builder SaaS Habitat Builder for the People Adam Jacob’s commentary James Governor’s take TNS coverage, plus, bold muscle-t choice! Celebrate it! We all succumbing to the cloud-native, even Oracle JavaEE off the Eclipse, to be more modular (again). Some deep kubernetes talk. Chef and Puppet and Pivotal and supporting kubernetes. CF Summit EU Round-up press release - mostly more on kubernetes in the Cloud Foundry world. Some Istio mentioning, adding legitimacy to that effort; see Istio discussion in episode #96. James “my flight got canceled” Governor coverage: “enterprises now account for more than 40% of Cloud Foundry’s membership” “Kubernetes too is seeing plenty of tyre kicking, but nowhere near the level of enterprise commitment [to Cloud Foundry] at this point.” “54% of Cloud Foundry target Amazon Web Services as a platform, that 40% of users are targeting VMware vSphere certainly [i]s” - I assume this is across all distros and OSS, which makes sense. In Pivotal land, it’s mostly on on-premises VMware, last I checked. Habitat and Cloud Foundry Programming Languages and Code Quality Large-scale overview of GitHub projects, their languages and their bug reports “The data indicates that functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggests that disallowing implicit type conversion is better than allowing it; that static typing is better than dynamic; and that managed memory usage is better than unmanaged. Further, that the defect proneness of languages in general is not associated with software domains.” Docker as a cost-cutter Their CEO says you can slash costs by 50%. Meg Whitman says it’s more like 40%. But partners make $7 off of every $1 of Docker spend - does that math work? Scenario: I used to pay $2 for VMware, now I pay $1 for Docker (50% reduction). But it costs me $7 to get there, giving me a one time payment of net $8, and, hopefully, just $1 a year after that? (Never mind opex vs. capex GAAP-crap.) So, then: after 4+ years I’ll start saving money? (with VMware, I would have paid $2/yr., so $8 total, and with Docker over that four year period I pay $8 first year, $1 next three years, so $11 total - hrmm..where’s Excel when you need it?) Follow-up from 2011: so, Docker really is about replacing VMware…? Overall, this interview with Docker’s CEO is good stuff for industry watchers. It didn’t occur to Coté that the former CEO of Concur would know, like, every single CFO and CEO at G2000 companies. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Microsoft Ignite News SQL Server 2017, Oracle migrations, AzureStack! Azure Snowball Data Box Meanwhile, Azure Stack is out now, as of Oct 4th (close enough to September, really). Security/Acquisitions SAP buys customer identity management firm Gigya for $350M Google acquires identity management company Bitium Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 31 Percent in 2016 Don’t get 100% excited, this just covers public cloud. Cf. “The Problem with PaaS Marketsizing.” Look who’s #3 (not Google) Coverage from TPM, including this chart: MongoDB Going Public IPO is gonna be webscale! ## HPE, migrate them workloads to cloud Interview with Meg Whitman. “We aim to be the largest infrastructure provider that Azure Stack runs on on-prem, and collectively we can sell that to our joint customers.” HPE's opening bid for cash repatriotization: 2.9% taxfee. Random Amazon Treasure Truck Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Mid-roll & Conferences The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! Coté’s junk: NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017. Solarwinds THWACKcamp, all online Oct 18th and 19th. DevOps panel on Oct 19th, noon central. http://thwackcamp.com. All Day DevOps, Oct 24th. Fedscoop Digital Transformation Summit, in DC Oct 26th. Meetup the night before on EA & DevOps. SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speakin

This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter. See the much more detailed notes on this piece. This week, the episode is free since we’ve been neglecting mainline Software Defined Talk. We hope you enjoy this sample. If you like this, sign up as a member for $5/month (or, if you’re cheap, $1) to get about 4 episodes like this a month. Check it all out over at in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sdt.

Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! Coté moderates a panel of speakers from the event. We discuss how widely DevOps is actually practiced, mentoring and filling the tech pipeline, security, and other topics, including Kansas City BBQ. The guests: @ChloeCondon, @wickett, @kantrn, and Julie Stark. Plus, of course, @cote. The audio quality is a little weird, so sorry about that.

The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubernetes news, as always, and some interesting acquisitions. Plus, a micro-iOS 11 review. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Write-up from Cindy Sridharan. This guy: “Thinking directionally, Monitoring is the passive collection of Metrics, logs, etc. about a system, while Observability is the active dissemination of information from the system. Looking at it another way, from the external ‘supervisor’ perspective, I monitor you, but you make yourself Observable.” So, yes: if developers actually make their code monitorable and manageable…easy street! It’s a good detailing of that important part of DevOps. Cloud Native Java has a good example with the default “observability” attributes for apps, and then an overview of Zipkin tracing. Weekly k8s News Heptio gets funding, now “has raised $33.5 million in funding to date.” I think we’ll cover this press release in a WP episode. Also, something called “StackPointCloud” now with the Istio. Mesosphere adding K8s support - “Guagenti also noted that he believes that Mesosphere is currently a leader in the container space, both in terms of the number of containers its users run in production and in terms of revenue (though the company sadly didn’t share any numbers).” "I think it’s fair to call Kubernetes the de facto standard for how enterprises will do container orchestration,” Derrick Harris. Is Kubernetes Repeating OpenStack’s Mistakes? - Boris throwing bombs Meanwhile, an abstract of a containers penetration study, from RedMonk: "Docker, is running at 71% across Fortune 100 companies. Kubernetes usage is running in some form at 54%, and Cloud Foundry usage is at 50%” This update from the Cloud Foundry Foundation is a little more, er, “responsible” in pointing out flaws. Instead it just says there’s lots of growth and tire-kicking: 2016/2017 y/y shows those evaluating containers went up from 31% to 42%, while “using” ticked up a tad from 22% to 25%, n=540. Oracle’s in the CNCF club! K8s on Oracle Linux, K8s for Oracle Public Cloud. “At this point, there really can’t be any doubt that Kubernetes is winning the container orchestration wars, given that virtually every major player is now backing the project, both financially and with code contributions.” James checks in on Red Hat. Acquisitions & more! Rackspace acquires Datapipe “The reason we’re buying them is that we want to extend our leadership in multi-cloud services,” Rackspace chief strategy officer Matt Bradley told me. “It’s a sign and signal that we’re going for it.” Bradley expects that the combined company will make Rackspace the largest private cloud player and the largest managed hosting service. Datadog acquires Logmatic.io to add log management to its cloud monitoring platform Puppet Acquires Distelli, known for their Kubernetes dashboard. Jay Lyman at 451. Sizing Puppet: “The company has grown to more than 500 employees, and has estimated annual revenue in the $100m range.” Coverage from Susan Hall: “What we haven’t had up to this point is all the requisite automation for moving infrastructure code and application code through any kind of automated delivery lifecycle” and now they gots that. https://thenewstack.io/puppet-will-extend-infrastructure-automation-capabilities-distelli-acquisition/ “In May, the company launched its Kubernetes dashboard K8S. It allows users to connect repositories, build images from source, then deploy them to that Kubernetes cluster. You can also set up automated pipelines to push images from one cluster to another, promote software from test/dev to prod, quickly roll back and do all this in the context of one or more Kubernetes clusters… The Kubernetes service is offered as a hosted service or in an on-prem version. It provides notifications through Slack.” Google pays $1.1 billion for HTC team and non-exclusive IP license Security Corner The Apple Effect? — Why BMW might get rid of car keys Don’t blame Apache — EQUIFAX OFFICIALLY HAS NO EXCUSE Is there anything to do here? Setup layers of credit cards? Require Touch ID (etc.) approval of all financial decisions and transactions in your “account”? Food & Safety like inspectors for security? Hackers respond to Face ID on the iPhone X iOS 11 Coté has been running the beta. It seems fine. There’s the usual Re-arrangement of how some gestures work that’s jarring at first, but after using it for awhile, you forget what they even are. The extra control center stuff is nice. The Files.app is interesting, but not too featuref

This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartoletti from June 23rd, 2017 ($499 MSRP). See Charlie’s blog post on the paper, too. Also, because we’re good boys, we added some bonus reading, a similar paper from Gartner. If you like this kind of thing, sign up as a Patreon for $1/month or more and you’ll get about one of these types of exegesis’s a week. See past episodes.

It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal Container Service (PKS). We discuss both, including a meandering overview of what PKS is and some theory about what enterprises actually want with all that VMware in public cloud. Also, the tragic story of airline and hotel upgrades, like pearls to tired business travelers. Misc. Australia is bigger than France. Checks out. Coté got the SSSS TSA search. What fun! Now you can buy kubernetes from Dell VMware/Pivotal/Google make a kubo distro. Uses BOSH, NSX, and kubo to setup clusters. Will run on vSphere and Google Cloud, promises to work with other Google Cloud services, be continuously updated to be compatible with GCE containers. Also, VMware storage services and comparability with VMware systems management tools. El Reg coverage, and also from The New Stack. TPM: “The private PKS stack will use vSAN for storage, vRealize Automation for orchestration and governance, vCloud Director for provisioning, and vRealize Operations for monitoring. (So, in theory, one could run the PKS stack on the AWS cloud slices that VMware has partnered with Amazon to create, effectively creating a clone of GKE to run on AWS bare metal iron. . . .)” More laundry listing of the parts from Google, that is, Google Cloud services you can use in a PKS environment: BigQuery, Bigtable, Spanner, Storage, SQL, Pub/Sub, Vision API, Speech API, Natural Language API, Translate API. A list of capabilities from Cornelia’s(?) talk, and what BOSH does (and, thus, does in k8 management). Use it for: “PKS™ is ideal for workloads like Spark and ElasticSearch, and when you need access to infrastructure primitives. Further, use PKS for apps that require specific co-location of container instances, and for those that need multiple port binds.” The Pod affinity thing here is for when you want to run multiple things grouped together, like with Spark, Elastic Search, etc. where you the different things go together. More value-props’ing: i.e., kubernetes on it’s own is hard. As Ramji points out, PKS means you’ll get a consistent, standardized kubernetes/container technology across the Dell Technologies portfolio. Watters lays it out. Positioning: guidance seems to be that PKS is mostly for large organizations, “enterprises.” PKS to GA in 2017Q4, pricing then too. Diagram here:. Some vendor exec story-time here, and Pivotal blog post. So, you can run PCF and PKS side-by-side. See longer explanation from Chad Sakac: “historically, [Dell Technologies’] point of view on the container/cluster manager abstraction ecosystem wasn’t clear” See also this pro'er diagram. Lots of emphasize on a unified, compatible approach/GTM: “We now have a Cloud Native/Digital Transformation stack where there is a SINGLE target we are furiously running towards now as VMware, Pivotal, and Dell EMC – no mis-alignment, no differences in PoV. “ Market context: You may recall Coté’s summary of the CoreOS commissioned 451 survey, which linked to a 2016(?) Gartner survey where 18% of respondents had containers in production, with 4% being “significant production” That CoreOS/451 survey had a very important footnote: the survey respondents were already running containers already. It was more about which container orchestration platforms they liked. It was hard to do conclusive ranking of container orchestrators since people were using multiple ones. But, if you lump together CoreOS’s kubernetes distro with generic kubernetes, kubernetes wins out over Docker Swarm, 49% vs. 36%. Meanwhile: “By 2020, 50%+ of global enterprises will be running containerized applications in production, up from <20% today.” RedMonk’s “developers are the kingmakers” theory, more. SDDC on VMware Run the VMware stack on AWS, out of beta: “For the IT and software development sectors, the deal means that VMware mainstays such as all its software-defined data center ware—vCenter, NSX, vSphere, VSAN and others—will run on AWS instead of VMware's own cloud.” Pricing? ”The three-year contract costs $109,366 per host, which would save about 50% compared to the on-demand hourly billing rate, according to VMware. Another program can cut costs by up 25% based on their on-premises VMware product licenses, as long as those on-premises products remain active…. There are separate charges for IP and data transfers, as the standard AWS egress fees still apply. Each host has 2 CPUs, 36 cores, 72 hyper-threads, 512 GiB RAM and local flash storage.” - ”the estimated total cost of ownership for VMware Cloud on AWS is up to $0.09 per VM per hour, according to VMware” More pricing info from TPM: “The base on demand price for this server is $8.3681 per hour, which works out to around $6,109 per month.” Cloud-context, from Derrick Harris: “Look at the companies’ most-recent fiscal years—2016—during which VMware grew about 9 percen

Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewardship: how will “open source” like this work in a mature market? We also discuss the trend of private equity buying tech firms and GitHib’s write-up of building their own platform with kubernetes and series of small bash scripts. Traveling to China Coté is a terrible work-trip tourist. AA 263, DFW to PEK, seat 19K. Exit row seat is good, but the front part of the airplane looked good too (rows 8 to 13?). Pack some breakfast tacos. This VPN situation is a mess, rather, I didn’t prepare correctly. Sometimes Cloak works, sometimes it doesn’t. LTE seems better than hotel wifi, but the speeds are high. Amazon Whole Foods update All done on Monday, August 28th. See NY Times article as well. John Mackey interview. Cheaper private label (I think they were top three or five sold in US). Return items in Amazon lockers. Cheaper groceries is cool, but for us, the interesting/instructive things to watch will be how Whole Foods goes full on digital transformation (or, even more eyebrow raising, does not!). Will they move everything to AWS? true Omni-channel and digital madness. Alexa: ”You look fat in that t-shirt, Michael, would you like me to order you some organic kale smoothies from Whole Foods?” Also, the potential for a culture clash seems high. As a side-effect, expect grocers to be trying out new computer stuff more, and observe their experience. How will the razor thin margin set cope with Amazon who’s been consistently rewarded for loosing money? Walmart and Google Hub thing, Andrew on the AI winter. The Undying J(2)EE Oracle looking to open source it, move it to a foundation. This worked out relativly OK for Java proper. It was hella weird, though, and I’m not sure the OSS version ever gained traction: maybe for, like, whatever Google, AWS, and Azure’s JRE is. Using this as a competitive ¯_(ツ)_/¯ is dicey, most people who compete here do open core themselves…so you can’t really say it’s bad; and if Oracle’s goal is to move it away from Oracle, you can’t say that Oracle is mismanaging it, etc. John Waters’ round-up of opinions, pretty predictable. Steve Yegge’s Kotlin Writeup, The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2017. Kubernetes at GitHub Just a few bash scripts, eh? Here, hold my beer. Real world discussion about moving one of their most popular services to Kubernetes. Sounds like the real deal, but there are a few bumps in the road. # PE to do 25% of tech M&A At least the analysis confirms this notion. That said, the underlying numbers are weird: “Between direct acquisitions and deals done by portfolio companies, PE firms are on pace to purchase roughly 900 tech companies in 2017.” Who exactly are these 900 tech companies? Speaking of, a PE firm bought ThoughtWorks. ICO stuff, Coté is confused. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Alibaba Dwarfs Amazon That’s a lot of revenue growth. Not on the cloud computing side yet, but definitely on the retail side. Coté: what’s the deal with Alipay being so hard to setup for Yankees? They really, really want a bankcard. Also, I don’t speak Chinese. Rescuing Open Source from Failed Startups bet365 buying and open sourcing Basho stuff. “It is our intention to open source all of Basho's products and all of the source code that they have been working on."Hi See previously RethinkDB by the CNCF Pivotal news - build pipelines Concourse is out, see also CRN coverage. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Mid-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017. NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City, September 21st and 22nd. Use the code SDT2017 when you register. PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga, also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium. Coté will also be at Devoxx Belgium, Nov 6th and 10th, in Antwerp. The train station there is nutty-balls awesome, y’all. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the Road! August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group November 6-7 - AgileNZ Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore (so will Matt)

AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer in this episode, standing in for Brandon. Removing rebel-slaver memorials Good job, Old Bay land. There’s more cities too on the case too. You like white papers? We got white papers Four new Pivotal white papers: CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH). We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations. Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit. Amazon Summit NYC There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen? Machine learning, and such. Deep dive blog post. Interview with Amazon exec, Matt Wood. AI Winter. Maths. Also, on various industry CEOs strategamizing around Amazon. “Alexa, what’s ‘anti-trust’?” Building out Azure HPC Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing. A market ready for some cash, both for HPC and analytics: “[a]ccording to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise Cloud Transformation survey, 21% of data and analytics workloads will move to public clouds in the next two years” What about the GreenButton acquisition in 2014? Peep the long piece on that from 2014. Excellent chart showing migrating COTS to SaaS, etc. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show Docker raising more cash-money, container land items Lizette Chapman & Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg: “HPC is about three to five years behind enterprise computing when it comes to new technology adoption – the applications are generally more sophisticated, and engineers are conservative…. Business software company Docker Inc. is raising fresh funds, valuing the company at $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.” Also, check out this ADP using Docker case, moderated by Alex Williams, pretty good: 1,000 containers in Nov 2016 to 3,771 in April 2017 (I think these were across dev and prod). MIPS rule everything around me. Docker Enterprise feature matrix: Also, putting Oracle in a container, over there in European banking. Hold my beer platforms - It’s easy, just build out all the platform things you need yourself. Yaml all the things! Also, Bash, puppet, terraform, go for log draining(!) and more! Bare-metal, what’s the deal? Oracle got it. What’s Twitter got to say? “You get my deck? Let me check Outlook. Who’s doing meeting notes in Word?” Cloud’s cool, but PowerPoint is the shit: “$25.4 billion in revenue in Microsoft’s 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year” Hot Dog Watch Ever vigilant, we’re keeping an eye on the future. The future is stiching together videos for 360 panorama things. See the underside of The Hot Dog. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Mid-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017. NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City, September 21st and 22nd. Use the code SDT2017 when you register. PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga, also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium. Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup, August 17th, 2017. See slides. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the Road! August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum. # Recommendations Andrew: SLOs, three chapters from the Google SRE book. Matt Ray: Run Bootcamp Windows 10 on a USB Stick The secret rhythm in Radiohead’s Videotape Coté: bacon grease in a mug by the stove, that’s how we was livin’. Speaking of saving bacon grease: Spyderco ParaMilitary 2 G-10 Plain Edge Knife; works well for camping; I got a good deal. WOCStock - mix up them pasty white-boy slides. Outro from Angela Rye, on Here & Now, August 16th, 2017.Special Guest: Andrew C

At long last, Amazon joins the CNCF to work on kubernetes and container related projects. While it's not incredibly clear how strong this embrace is, it's pretty high up there. We also discuss if there's any new topics in DevOps and check-in on the anti-trust in tech meme. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. AWS caves to the kube Press release: “Amazon Web Services Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Platinum Member.” Does this mean they’ll do Kubernetes stuff? “AWS plans to take an active role in the cloud native community, contributing to Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies such as containerd, CNI, and linkerd.” Adrian is all like: “we doin’ the open sourcery.” Heptio release: Ark and such. What’s the deal with Andy Rooney? By the way, what’s “cloud-native” meaning now-a-days. We got the way Coté uses it, we got CNCF (straight up containers?), and then we got whatever this type of thing is (think it’s the Coté/Pivotal definition). Thought Lord Problems Is DevOps tired? What are the new topics in DevOps Disruption vs. the Government Google and Facebook. Amazon and Whole Foods. The Best Buy pain trade. “Why the grim reaper of retail hasn't come to claim Best Buy.” Amazon doesn't kill everyone (yet) All your svn and stories belong to us Collabnet and VersionOne merge. End-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017. NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City, September 21st and 22nd. Use the code SDT2017 when you register. PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga and DevOps Kansas City. Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup, August 17th, 2017. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Check out this cool animated gif. Matt’s on the Road! August 17th - Sydney Chef Meetup August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Recommendations Matt Ray: exa, a modern replacement for ‘ls’; Sed & Awk 2nd Edition! Brandon: Sleeping Gods and Walking Gods. Coté: CostCo Saint Louis ribs. I feel like these are not healthy at all, but they sure are good. Also, the three European cheese plate. And use this good scallop recipe. Andy Rooney picture from Stephenson Brown.

Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies organize their global sales regions, the possible emergence of a new private cloud meme, and rumors that BMC is no longer in acquiring CA. Also, be sure to check out this week’s white paper analysis for patrons, on IoT. Global expansion tips and tricks “EMEAians.” Open source as the scouts. Microsoft laying off 19,000 people Link Who’s hirin’? Microsoft Container Service What’s a “container service”? TechCrunch notices private cloud Link Vendors have begun offering a variety of approaches that give the feel of the public cloud, but inside the comfort zone of a customer’s data center. Oracle cited rather large customers like AT&T and Bank of America using the Cloud at Customer product. Oracle cloud news picking up. That Antitrust Meme in Tech As you know, I’m not a lawyer How would it make sense? What’s the justification? “Google and Facebook Account For Nearly All Growth in Digital Ads.” Coté looking down the barrel of getting taxed at way high? BMC not buying CA Too much regulation CA financials. Flash, he gone Link BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. GoDaddy dumps OpenStack cloud The cloud business is hard More from 451 HEB was an Amazon Option? Not really, just some dude talking. Containers are Linux Link. “DevOps is more suitable for containerisation compared to other traditional approaches” Operating system vendors have something to sell you say? A History of Docker/Linux Containers Link. Red Hat maintainer breaking down the short but convoluted history of containers. ## Slack Getting Paid Link. Slack is raising another $500 million — and has attracted interest from a range of big buyers like Amazon # Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. End-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga and DevOps Kansas City. Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup, August 17th, 207. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the Road! August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 8th - Canberra Infracoders August 10th - Sydney AWS Security Meetup August 17th - Sydney Chef Meetup August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Recommendations Brandon: Netflix’s Ozark. Matt Ray: Mr. Robot. Coté: BaseIQ microSD adaptor. Ikea STUNSIG World t-shirt. Also: not giving a shit.

“Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?” Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems to be shutting down. We discuss the wonders of Snap’s hot dog app, the mystery of Amazon’s lack(?) of brand allegiance, and giving up on kale. “Share price down? I gotcha bro.” Dancing Hot Dog. Amazon to Start a Messaging App Link I get the whole need to control networks, but it seems like we’ve kinda saturated a lot of these (Allo, is this thing on?). Why not just buy Slack? (Wasn’t that a rumor? Could this be that diapers.com-style retaliation.) 80m Prime customers Twitch and “Stimpy.” The pair of people doing Minecraft. @profgalloway Uber driver on Whole Foods acquisition. Google Transfer Appliance Snowball envy? So, by “data,” they mean not only CSV files, but also VM images? HRM! Data gravity, from Dave McCrory. Someone finally made a data gravity chart: Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, etc. Brandon Butler summerizes Techcrunch on the announcement List of core stuff: Management of upgrades, releases, and integration of services. Multiple cloud options with Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry across private clouds and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack. Support and service level agreements with 99.99 percent uptime and 15 minute response on emergency issues. PCF services put another way: “...on any public or private cloud as well as on customer-owned infrastructure…. The Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution will feature 24/7 management for troubleshooting, managing updates, feature releases, and integration with various services; multi-cloud capability; and on-demand expertise for handing version updates, feature enhancements and other technical updates.” Check out dem success numbers: “Fortune 500 customers using Pivotal Cloud Foundry to build, deploy, and run their legacy and cloud-native apps have experienced 2,000 percent increase in developer productivity, as well as a 50 percent reduction in IT costs due to platform automation” Basho Shuts it Down “The Reg was obviously keen to put the claims in this story to Basho, but we’ve struggled to find anyone still working at the company to answer us.” Kafka, Casandra - WTF is going on in NoSQL-land, is this shit done yet? Sep. 2016 451 profile: “While open source did not fully disappear, the company's primary focus moved from a support and services model to a subscription-based model. Today, Basho reports that support and services make up 10-12% of total revenue, with subscriptions taking up the rest.” “In 2015 Basho cited more that 200 customers and approximately 120 employees. Basho reports similar numbers this time around, except with a higher average deal size among its customer base. Average deal size is greater than $100,000, with high single-digit-customer deals exceeding $1m in total contract value. From 2014-2015, Basho reported a 50% increase in total contract value, a 45% increase in billings and a 50% increase in growth revenue.” Let’s do math...so...oh wait, left my Monte Carlo simulator in my other car. Products: “While both products share some underlying commonalities, they both address certain use cases. Riak KV is a key-value-based NoSQL database promoted generally to address use cases for content storing of session data, log file data, profile data and chat messaging data, particularly with gaming and gambling applications. Basho points out the product's resiliency and scaling capabilities, with integrations to Spark and Redis. Riak TS, on the other hand, is a database geared toward time-series data, with an emphasis on IoT use cases. Specifically, Riak TS can be used for gathering weather, seismic and traffic data, as well as for financial trading data. Time-series data has more structure, so Basho has added functionality to describe the data schema and the ability to query the data with SQL.” Coté was on Speaking in Tech Listen in BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. CREAM for one Remember When Martin Shkreli Bought the Wu Tang Album? “This wasn’t just calamitous—this was Calamity walking into a bar, sweet-talking Catastrophe, getting really drunk together, smoking some crack, punching Fiasco in the face, then going on a shooting spree while eating orphans and setting fire to kittens.” ## AWS’s private cloud stuff The short pointer-piece also has some mention of VMware partnership for THE HYBRID. Coté doesn’t know anything about VMware. In-depth Dive into Schedulers Something Coté didn’t read, but probably should have. Probably not a great conversation topic, but a really great article on the use of schedulers and why they chose Nomad over K8s Misc. chuckles #areyounormal from @SPEAKINGinTech. CostCo Pizza @vennsplain Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.

Microsoft will ship it’s private cloud stack, Azure Stack, in September. Will this work? Will people buy it? What could you even put in that cloud? You can feel that pull people have towards private cloud, so we’re looking forward to what happens. On a related topic, by our reckoning, kubernetes to small to have already fallen. Also: the elusive Baltimore accent, Oracle and containers, and recommendations. Meta, follow-up, etc. Where does Matt Ray find all these stories? Patreon for this thing - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. SDT Slack “Not all ‘guys.’” Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. Also, get $50 off mattresses with the code: horraymattray End-roll DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) The Register’s conference in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something! Matt: July 20th - DevOps Sydney July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Up there in New England What is the Baltimore accent? Watching The Keepers, and it’s reminding me of John Water movies, but I can’t figure out the patterns of the accent. Season three of The Wire has samples. Oracle Enters the OCI-runtime with Railcar - Oracle, the dark-horse of The Container Wars Link Rust! Also Smith and Sidecar Oracle requires joint copyright assignment though… Azure Stack, coming in September Charges by consumption - how MIPS-y! “Compute charges start at .8 cents per virtual CPU per hour and go up from there, while storage starts at .6 cents per GB per hour. Those charges will be included in customers’ invoices for their overall use of Microsoft’s public cloud platform.” Hardware via partners: “The exact pricing for Azure Stack hardware, including support contracts, will be up to each individual manufacturer. Microsoft is working with Dell EMC, Lenovo, HPE, Cisco, and Huawei to make the hardware available, and the first machines should be available in September.” IDC estimates private cloud HW at $34bn or so runrate (based on 3Q2016 estimates), with 8% q/q growth. So, not too shabby there. This doesn’t include software, Microsoft’s take. Scott Guthrie: “We talked to lots of customers who said, please don’t do that [allow so much customization that it's hard to debug problems]. The model we came up with instead was to work with a large spectrum of hardware providers, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco and Huawei. Those are the five largest server manufacturers in the world. They will have systems that start with three nodes, not massive big purchases, that you can unbox and plug in. And have a fully working cloud in a day or two. Regardless of whom you call, we own the whole solution.” Pivotal Cloud Foundry will run on it Microsoft has a rocky road of delivering on private cloud. But, I’d wager the get it this time. We discussed this on the most recent Pivotal Conversations, along with other delightful ephemera. K8s Days May Be Numbered Matt Asay strikes again! Funny how OpenStack is now a cautionary tale. See Coté’s weasly, non-position on OpenStack in his May Register column. I thought Cote’ was going to write this one up? (see below) “Whitepaper review” a la The Weeds! You have to be careful how you read that 451 survey. On Asay’s 71%, Coté wrote: On that note, it’s easy to misread the widely quoted finding of “[n]early three-quarters (71 percent) of respondents indicated they are using Kubernetes” as meaning only Kubernetes. Actually, people are using many of them at once. The report clarifies this: “The fact that almost 75% of organizations reported using Kubernetes while the same group also reported significant use of other container management and orchestration software is evidence of a mixed market.” Read: they’re trying everything. Nothing has won yet. Proving Asay’s point, but also defanging his link-bait lead. “It seem far-fetched that Kubernetes could be heading for a fall” - there is no fall to be had because ascension hasn’t yet begin. The core base of 201 people are organizations already using containers, so it doesn’t include organizations not using containers. In a broader survey (where, presumably, not every enterprise was already using containers), of 300+ enterprises, producti

Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of the DoJ knocking at your door, you’re probably doing it wrong. Those are two whacky theories about advertising and antitrust, at least. With Matt Ray on vacation, Brandon and Coté talk about The Attention Merchants and the recent Google EU antitrust ruling. We also discuss several other books, and how to talk to non-tech people at parties. Surprisingly, no container talk! Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. End-roll DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 Show Links The Drunk & Retired Reboot, Charles and Coté return...every two weeks. Attention Merchants, Chaos Monkeys. Slate Monet podcast, #163. Recommendations Brandon: Apple Airpods Coté: Fixing iPad screens, fixin’ to try ATX Cell Repair.

Looks like we’ll be getting cheaper organic food what with Amazon buying Whole Foods. What exactly is the strategy at play here, though? Other than the obvious thing of doing online groceries, how is Amazon advantaged here such that others (like Wal-mart), can’t simply do this themselves. We go over these questions and how they related to M&A in general. Plus recommendations and some podcast meta talk. Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt will be at: DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 Podcast meta-talk Podcasts.app to be able to track what you listen to. Just paying for podcasts. $220m+ estimated TAM. We have a Casper ad! Amazon Buys Whole Foods This was not covered in the Mary Meeker slide-fest. Coté’s notebook on the topic. Stratechery on WF Acquisition Exponent Podcast What exactly are the barriers to entry here for other grocery stores. The business: online, and just the grocery store on it’s own...plus the 460+ physical stores for other goods? Barriers to entry, Amazon buyers (Whole Foods looks good now?), culture clash?, HEB love, private label BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Gartner Magic Quadrant for IAAS is Here! Larry D. Once again, what a change from way back when: CRN The Register Johnny Leadgen can get a copy. On Oracle: “Gartner warns potential customers to be cautious of high-pressure sales tactics.” How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source Link “Chef is used to manage thousands of nodes internally across Azure, Office 365 and Bing.” Amazon Eyeing Slack? Link “Buying Slack would help Seattle-based Amazon bolster its enterprise services as it seeks to compete with rivals like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.” Walmart Buys Bonobo I’ve got a Bonobo suit I really like. They had ModCloth and some others. Their M&A strategy has really shifted of late. Walmart Sez Get Off the AWS Finally a reason for multi-cloud BigCo’s gonna bully that supply-chain. What’s Wrong with Jenkins? Jenkins is the Nagios of CI/CD “No toolchain is perfect, but you can achieve software delivery perfection (or something close to it, at least) when you implement the right culture.” Tools don’t substitute culture. Oracle’s Swinging For the Fences (and missing) Link “He was also unwilling for Specsavers to become a guinea pig for Oracle's cloud.” Ubuntu Mobile Post Mortem Not much strategy… Serverless and the Death of DevOps Link Spoiler: “DevOps is the ultimate reactive, or event-driven, tech use case. It’s not going anywhere” State of DevOps 2017 Report Johnny Leadgen to the rescue! Commercial Open Source Software Companies Link A bit of sourcing on the numbers would be valuable Glad Chef’s not on the list, wouldn’t want to comment on the numbers Cloud Foundry Summit A whole mess of videos! 121 of them. Heptio Out of Stealth Mode with K8s Management Tool TheNewStack covere Official page File under “It didn’t already do that. I see.” Not sure this qualifies as “coming out of stealth”, everyone knows they work on open source K8s. I’m not seeing a monetization strategy yet beyond support & training. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but they raised $8.5 for their A-round BMC Software Exploring Merging with CA STOP THE PRESSES! TERRIBLE MEETS TERRIBLE? So far, no confirmation, but: “While the two companies were once dominant in the systems management industry, the analyst notes that CA and BMC have 7.5% and 8% share respectively as of FY16 which combined would put them on a near even footing with IBM, the largest vendor, at 15%.” “There are also many other vendors in the market including MSFT (7%) and NOW (5%) so anti trust concerns should not be an issue.” High Level Kubernetes Overview Link “Basically Kubernetes is a distributed system that runs programs (well, containers) on computers. You tell it what to run, and it schedules it onto your machines.” More on Service Meshes From James Governor, RedMonk Recommendations Brandon: The Scholar and the Drop Out podcast; Coté’s add-on: Karl Lagerfella’s day, no exercise and long night-shirts. Matt: Commando: Johnny Ramone’s Autobiography Coté: Gulf Shores, Alabama; Hillbilly Elegy and “The Dead Pig Collector.”

The cat-nip of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is out this week so we discuss the highlights which leads to a sudden discussion of what an Amazon private cloud product would look like. Then, with a raft of new container related news we sort out what CoreOS is doing with their Tectonic managed service, what Heptio is (the Mirantis of Kubernetes?), and then a deep dive into the newly announced Istio which seems to be looking to create a yaml-based(!) standard for microservices configuration and policy and, then, the actual code for managing it all. Also, an extensive analysis of a hot-dog display, which is either basting itself or putting on some condiment-hair. Alternate Titles I've seen this hot-dog before. I’ve been doing this since dickity-4 I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out Mid-roll Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th. LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Hot-dog guy in Japan Zoom in on that little fellow. Internet Trends 2017 300 plus slides of charts Computes! Coté’s notebook, summary of summary: Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money. The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner. Voice, image recognition, etc. China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge. India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout. The public/private cloud debate is still far from over. But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won. Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year. Would Amazon sell some private clouds? Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop Coté: Catching up on all this week's container poop & as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so." Managed service for Tectonic as a Service - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc? However, not all done, still working on the complete solution. But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,” Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’ Another etcd description: “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values. So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002. Then there’s Istio: Istio?! Whao! Check out the exec-pitch: “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” And Google: “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.” I love their idea of what a CIO does. “An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“ SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM & Lyft - once you control the network with the “data plane,” you add in the “control plane” which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices. Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.” And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff. Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things. Let’s look at the docs (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?): First of all, these are good docs. Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.” The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versio

Live-to-tape from ChefConf 2017, in Austin, we talk about what's going on in Chef land now, esp. in relation to compliance/policy and Habitat. We also discuss the Texas bathroom bill and Matt Ray's latest trip report on international travel. There's an important update on Coté's bean position as well. See the video recording, if you're into that kind of thing. Mid-roll Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) No more beans, now on that fruit shit Paleo French Cuisine Stuck in that low 190’s weight zone for over a long time: International Travel Trip Report Matt’s Ray’s international travel experience as Platinum. Traveling as a vegetarian. What’s the plan for all the free booze? Bring a flask... Why Do They Keep Messing With Texas? The Hillbillies are obsessed with bathrooms It's really depressing how aggressively stupid Texas is sometimes. I don't blame anyone avoiding it. Coté’s notebook on the topic ChefConf! Round-up from The New Stack More “Continuous automation, when you do it right, is a bridge between your current environment and where you need to go in the future” Chef 13, InSpec cloud profiles, Habitat build service Consolidating under less brands? Configuring the stuff that goes in the containers: “now includes capabilities for security and compliance checking, as well as the ability to further automate the process of assembling and updating container-based applications.” BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Mirantis getting out of the (pure) OpenStack game So...Coté was right?! “announced that it will end-of-life Mirantis OpenStack support in September 2019” “it’s important to distinguish between popularity and value. Popular kids in high school aren’t always the ones that end up driving a Ferrari when adults. It’s true that OpenStack is no longer the popular kid; Kubernetes is — and customers often like to go with what’s popular.” - Mirantis CMO Boris Renski Getting out of VIM Link “In the last year, How to exit the Vim editor has made up about .005% of question traffic: that is, one out of every 20,000 visits to Stack Overflow questions. That means during peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim.” What’s up with Ukraine? Amazon in Charts SDT catnip Recommendations Matt: Seveneves by Neil Stephenson, almost hesitant to recommend this one given Cote’s reaction to previous books. Containers “Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves.” Coté: The Elephant in the Room. My Register column on OpenStack Coté Show podcast - subscribe already! Anti-recommendation: Outcast of the Islands. Brandon: Everybody Lies book. Matt: TrackMeNot, search fuzzer.

In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion. See the full show notes at http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/94 Mid-roll DevOpsDays MSP, July 25th to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 NEXT WEEK! The news from Australia Y'all gotta get your avocado pricing under control. $1.50 for a large one is about the ceiling 'roind here. As ever, the first step of your life-plan should be to become independently wealthy in your early 20s. Go work in a coal-mine otherwise. Also, pro-tip: if you're rich, your default position on social commentary should generally by STFU. Matt needs a driver's license Health-insurance choices HSA is probably a good idea. Better get a FAX machine. This is a trigger issue for Coté, beware. Donnie Berkholz at Carlson Wagonlit He Tweetered it: "to help them with their DevOps journey." He's a VP! - exec level #AchievementUnlocked He says: " With an all-new CEO and CPO/CTO, we're making a major pivot to become a software company focused on travel, rather than a travel agency with some apps." It'll be fun to see (hopefully!) what his group actually procures, uses, and does. He's already on that "welcome to enterprise software" shit: "Current status: Hating on vendors that don't publicly post pricing." Conference, travel, expenses? - like Concur/Amex travel? I recall using them for a lot of travel in the analyst days. Checks out: "Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company reported $23 billion in total transaction values[2] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across nearly 150 countries." Their owner, Carlson (yes, of hotel fame, but also used to own things like TGI Friday's [from 1975 to 2014]) is in MN. But then the hotels were bought by a Chinese group, HNA? So now, Carlson Group is mostly just Wagonlit? Canonical Eying an IPO? Coté's notebook on the topic. Link: "in the last year, Ubuntu cloud growth had been 70 percent on the private cloud and 90 percent on the public cloud." In particular, "Ubuntu has been gaining more customers on the big five public clouds." 5? Still, there is "no timeline for the IPO." First, Shuttleworth wants all parts of the slimmed down Canonical to be profitable. Then "we will take a round of investment." After that, Canonical will go public. The S1 filing is going to be fascinating. Mirantis still into OpenStack, Coté was straigh-up wrong: "The new platform allows users to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters side-by-side with OpenStack — or separately." CyberArk Buys Conjur "DevOps" is used 19 times in the press release. Coté: so, is this like "vault" type stuff in cloud-native land? Coté talked with a CyberArk SE at DevOpsDays Austin, they had a booth! 451 report from Garrett Bekker: "privileged access management (PAM)" "Conjur [founded in 2013] marks CyberArk's third acquisition, following the 2015 pickups of endpoint security vendor Cybertinel for an undisclosed sum and Windows least privileged management and application whitelisting firm Viewfinity for $30m. CyberArk paid $42m in cash and we estimate a multiple slightly north of 10x trailing revenue, potentially boosted by a competitive bid. Once the transaction closes, 20 Conjur employees will join CyberArk." Conjur's "three core products are Privileged Access Management for managing 'secrets' such as SSH keys, Dynamic Traffic Authorization for controlling and brokering access to resources, and Compliance Monitoring for real-time reporting." Founded in 1999, CyberArk "went public in September 2014 and is currently valued at about $1.7bn, with 2016 revenue of $216m." JJ on avoiding SSH, Coté Show #21. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in the show. GNU GPL Stands Up In Court Keith Collins, Quartz write-up. Appears willful, embedding GPL software implicitly accepts the license. It's over: "Ghostscript—an interpreter for the PostScript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)." It has dual-licensing, a la MySQL and

There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wars. And, as always, recommendations from the three of us. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit 2017 - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago. Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st), New York (June 20th to 21st), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Coté: OSCON Expo Plus discount: I wanted to present to you a Free Expo hall Plus Pass for OSCON coming to Austin May 10/11. You get way more than just a pass to the expo, it also covers three full-day events: TensorFlow Day, InnerSource Day, and our Open Container Summit. If you are interested, you can use the code AUSTIN at checkout. You can see the entirety of what is offered here. Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 Matt Ray’s APAC Biz Travel Fun 5 different airlines in a month. Emirates is the best. This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay. Red Hat. Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more. Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum. Cloud Rules Everything Around Me As summarized by Derrick (via CNBC: AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter. Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year. Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion. What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008. Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM. Docker is now Moby, wait what? LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers. “Moby is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system” Moby = open source development Docker CE = free product release based on Moby Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are used to build Docker, which is now the commercial-focused product Docker CE/EE Letter about Mobyan-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/ Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec. Coté’s Notebook on Moby and such Coté's Notebook on Docker's new CEO. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. EngineYard done! Press Release A snarky Tweet Another Press Release Jay Lyman at 451: “It generated revenue of about $36m in 2016.” - I seem to recall that EngineYard would report on revenue. “Native” Windows Server Support for Docker Link “Linux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology” Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017 Link 1 Link 2 Always fun to read “real” numbers 10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak Link Patch your servers and run modern versions people. Amazon’s Coming to Australia Link “The moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. “ Intel Drops out of OpenStack Innovation Center Link 30 Rackers moving internally, Intel is still participating within OpenStack Huawei Want to Enter the Cloud Fray Link Everybody wants a piece of AWS Microsoft buys Deis Coté’s notebook on the topic. Oracle Buys Wercker Link “container lifecycle management” - foundation for a container PaaS if you tie it to the StackEngine acquisition? How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide Link Deep cut from James Hamilton, AWS Datacenter guru Re: Oracle “if you assume the big three are spending roughly equally, how can $1.7B compete with more than $10B when it comes to serving customers?” “2+1 redundancy is cheaper than 1+1 and, when there are 3 facilities, a single facility can experience a fault without eliminating all redundancy from the system. Consequently, whenever AWS goes into a new region, it’s usual that three new facilities be opened rather than just one with some racks on different power domains.” “latency is not the prime driver of very large numbers of regions” “being close to population centers and major communications hubs matters to most operators more than cooling costs” Canonical/Ubuntu priorities Link Dropping Unity desktop and phone stuff in favor of desktop, cloud & IOT BrickerBot Bricks Unsecured IOT Devices Link “BrickerBot the work of a vigilante?” OmniTI Shutting Down OmniOS Development Link Open source Solaris-compatible clone “OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS” Apple makes GarageBand, iMovie and iWork free Link MacOS and IOS! Keynote is the best, why not open source for an attempt at cross-platform? Recommendations Brandon: S-

Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There's also some brief talk of Akamai buying SOASTA, Cloudera filing to IPO, and the lost dichotomy of agent/agentless. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Cloud Native Roadshows, with Pivotal and Google Cloud: Boston, Chicago, MSP, Atlanta, DC, Charlotte, Detroit, Toronto, St. Louis, Paris, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore. Coté: my big old how to cloud strategy paper is out, find the link at cote.io/cloud2. LEAD-GEN YERSELF! Matt: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th ChefConf May 22-24 Boothing Wearing the t-shirt. Success criteria for boothing. Don't speak Spanish in Japan. Sponsoring the coffee. Oracle NOT Buying Accenture From Business Insider "The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it. Completely made up." Coté round-up, small as it is. Amazon streaming NFL 10 Thursday night games, CBS or NBC broadcasts streamed Ben Thompson on bundling, sports and bundling. Chef 13 is coming April 10th Client only, server stays on 12 Time-Series Data In Google SRE book. Now you can actually do something with it. Akamai Buys SOASTA Monitoring acquisition SOASTA is testing right? A commercial district of some synthetic user testing thing? "Through SOASTA solutions, Akamai customers will then be able to test optimizations at scale prior to deployment and validate the business impact of those optimizations once they are live in production. The result is a comprehensive set of cloud-based performance and business outcome optimization." Maybe Brandon can tell us the context/issues (good and bad) for synthetic web transaction monitoring from the SiteAngel days. Cloudera Going Public Link, Link 2 Revenue: $261.0 million in the year ending Jan. 31, up from $166.0 million a year ago Net loss: $187.32 million, narrower than the $203.14 million from a year ago (cut ~$16m in spending). Analysis from Brenon at 451, esp. comparing to HortonWorks. BONUS LINKS! VMware offloading vCloud Air To OVH, a France-based hosting company expanding into the US Seems complicated Another story. Rackspace done with OpenStack as an AWS defense Now back to the classics Still on that private cloud thing: "What we are learning is the world doesn't need another public cloud, so OpenStack is shifting from and going private cloud." Yahoo/AOL to be called "Oath" Link First there was Yahoo + Alibaba as "Altaba", now there is "Yahoo + AOL" as "Oath". Clearly this is corporate trolling at this point. DellEMC financials Link Backstory on Python moving to GitHub Link "But what ended up happening is nearly none of those volunteers stuck around." Recommendations Matt: anti-recommendation: macOS 10.12.4. Broke USB headset. BOO!! Coté: AUKEY USB Wall Charger, ULTRA COMPACT Dual Port 2.4A Output & Foldable Plug for iPhone iPad Samsung & Others - go ahead and buy two. Also, always bring one of those car adaptors thingies on trips for those broke-ass, Trans-Atlantic flights. Brandon: The Undoing Project Freakonomics Episode on the book.

We discuss the continual rise of Kubernetes, with Amazon as seemingly the main hold-out. This leads to a not-too-painful discussion of the stat of open source, at least how companies are using it tactically. Then we close out discussing the rumor that Oracle is considering buying Accenture and how the enterprise software plus services model seems to be panning out. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote. Also: DrunkAndRetired reboot, hopefully. Matt: AWS Summit Sydney next week DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st Brandon Try Contextual Sync New Meetup - Microservices Austin. EBay Replaces native OpenStack Container Manager with Kubernetes-based one Still OpenStack though Link "It elected to roll its own Kubernetes-based solution for container management in OpenStack rather than try to improve Magnum." ¯_(ツ)_/¯ "It's not clear if Tess.io can or will be released as open source" - what's the point of open sourcing something if a vendor isn't going to make it more accessible for consumption? Do they really expect anyone else to use something built for Ebay by Ebay and find use? Rip out Magnum in OpenStack and toss it in there? I'm always skeptical about adoption when I hear about non-software companies open sourcing a big project. -Matt There can only be one Netflix. A software company that just happens to be an auction company. What's the deal with OSS now? Companies open sourcing software for the sake of open sourcing it...but not for a revenue reason. Is open source about tactically creating standards? Pivotal can deploy k8 with BOSH, thus manage it and such Blog post on it, in alpha. Rackspace Replacing Docker-based CaaS Carina with Kubernetes Get Carina EOL IBM InterConnect BlueMix Container Services And a vulnerability scanner! How do IBM and others (ie. Oracle) regain mindshare with a "me-too" approach? Will Smith?!? Peyton Manning previously. Remember Bill Clinton at DellWorld? Coté's Analyst-hack: Watch keynotes from your hotel room. containerd & rkt donated to the CNCF Something was contributed More... Boring part of the stack commoditized & foundationed "Container-D or Contai-Nerd" is the real question "contaiNERD" - GET IT?!?!! Oracle Eyeing Accenture From The Register Everybody wants to be IBM Global Services Coté'd tl;dr: financial aside (which I don't know), probably makes sense. While we might bemoan EDS and GBS downsizing, there's endless money in the "solution" sales (tech + meatware). And - I'm sure the deal decks are saying - with SaaS penetration at 20-30%, there's a shit-ton of churn in IT in the next 10-20 years, all requiring services. Most importantly, the G2000 and governments will want to hire "trusted" brands, like Accenture, to help them. On the other hand, maybe that goofy Accenture touch screen in ORD will now be a way to touch-screen up Oracle wares: God help us. HP EDS, IBM GBS, Dell Services (Perot), etc. "Accenture has a market cap of $77.5bn, and shareholders will expect a premium offer." HPE Services and CSC, it's a thing. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Chef Survey 2017 Results Analysis, Infographic Reads really well if you imagine bullet points as spinning newspaper headlines: "Workloads are increasing faster than headcount" More: "61% are automating infrastructure, 30% are automating compliance, and only 27% are automating container management." "Of those users, 73% wait to assess compliance after development work has begun and new features have been implemented. 59% assess compliance once code is already running in production, possibly resulting in additional rework as change is re-architected to meet Information Security standards." On the one hand, this is a bummer. On the other hand: "hey, you 59% lot: you call yourself auditors?" Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs "Containers on the other hand are not real things" Down in the weeds on containers vs. everything else SoundCloud I don't understand it Newsletters! Monitoring Love. Last Week in AWS. Recommendations Coté: Google SRE book, and the Google SRE/CRE podcast with Coté and Andrew Sahfer. Also: The Economist Espresso app. Anti-recommendation, the "Southern Carbonara Recipe" at the Le Méridien Dallas By The Galleria by the Galleria. It's like a cheesecake with spaghetti and fried chicken tenders. Brandon: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Homo Deus Ezra Klein interview with Yuval Harari. Matt: New Spoon album Hot Thoughts Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, a Brandon retro-recommendation. Floppy Drive Orchestra: Beat It Fighting Johnny Leadgen and Mailinator Cover-art from You Had One Job.

While it's unknown how much time you should let your kids play Minecraft, it's equally unclear at the moment who'll win the second cloud wars. Between Google, Azure, AWS, and all the others, how companies differentiate themselves and what customers will buy on isn't sorted just yet. We discuss Google Next, Pivotal's momentum announcement, and serious theories for Okta IPO'ing. Pardon the shoddily formatted show notes below, Coté was in a hurry to get to Spring Break. Google NEXT Competing on features? Or just pricing and brand? The "complete solution." Richard summarizes announcements More from Google... Cheaper, faster, more data centers Google Cloud Dataprep for cleaning up data for ingestion Cloud Opinion's Keynote Day 1 "Differentiation from other cloud providers — "we are Google, damn it" isn't working too well" Hangouts to take on Slack? This space is getting crowded Customers: Snapchat, Evernote, Disney, Coca Cola, Home Depot, Whirlpool. Hosted container builder service Pivotal was the Google partner of the year! Mid-roll Coté at a Meetup next Tuesday, March 21st, in DFW. "Digital transformation in the streets." Hopefully some new material from my ImpossibleDevOps writing. Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Matt: DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st Pivotal: we make money, cause we have paying customers "over $270 million in bookings in one year" Previous years: 2015: In 2015Q3 "Pivotal Cloud Foundry has crossed $100 million in annual bookings run-rate" 2014: "In less than a year, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has booked ~$40 million in software sales" In addition to customers mentioned there, see some more testimonials in John Allwright's post. Okta files to go public S1 filed. I don't get it. This is going to be a disaster. Whatever the fantasy running SFDC and MSFT running identity. BONUS LINKS! Five AI Startup Predictions for 2017 Link "Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them" <- GOLD Bots go bust Deep learning goes commodity AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs MLaaS dies a second death Full stack vertical AI startups actually work Facebook Bots are failing. Enterprise product management The Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides Coté summarizes Brandon's rant. USAF locks in with Oracle "consolidates the 745,768 Oracle licenses already in use" $293,247,466 with Mythics, Inc. US Immigration's "Code Test"? I'd fail this. Recommendations Coté: The Art of Business Value - I haven't even finished this yet and it's already fantastic. Also, I added most all of the DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast to archive.org. As Matt Ray used to say it's "better than half the stuff out there." Also: Patriot in Amazon Video. Brandon: Missing Richard Simmons podcast. Matt: Tripit Pro's Seat Tracker While reading James Clear's post on Reading Comprehension Strategies he linked to his Book Summaries which are amazing good. I really like this idea, have to try to implement it for myself Hypnotic video of global earthquake data

Docker’s new enterprise SKUs and, once again, the open-core model. Also: IPO mania with Snap and MuleSoft. In discussion Docker EE, we start with a discussion on how socket-based pricing may seem goofy, but all pricing schemes are pretty weird, so you gotta choose one. We then try to dissect what exactly you get with the enterprise edition and conclude that we should have done more prep work. Mid-roll Coté wrote about Java at The Register. Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 - register with the code cfsv17cote for 20%! Matt: DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code ChefConf May 22-24 - early-bird pricing through March 31st Coté: check out Pivotal’s DIY platform paper. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn’t match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Docker Goes Enterprise Community Edition (CE) & Enterprise Edition (EE) Version jumps from 1.13.1 to 17.03 for monthly releases, very enterprisey. Love the socket-based pricing Solomon weighs in vs. Kubernetes - what the fuck are these nerds even arguing about? TPM has some good coverage Whichard’s Maxim of Enterpriseyness: Well, they added AD support. DONE-AND-FUCKIN-DONE! MuleSoft Prepares to IPO Link I don’t get the proposed $100 million IPO when they took $259 million in funding. Please explain it to me. OpenNMS on FLOSS Weekly Open source monitoring for years and years HashiCorp News Making Money With Freemium “The question of how to make money from Open Source is a vexed one, with Red Hat frequently held up as the poster child of commercial open source success, yet it remains a lonely occupant of the category "Open Source Companies That Are Profitable” Good Narrative fallacy going here: "The open source products are really focused on the practitioner," McJannet said. "The enterprise products are focused on the needs of the organisation." August, 2016: “Hashimoto said HashiCorp has just finished its first 7-figure revenue quarter” Up from “triple-digit”/month in July 2015. So, whatdwegot: $2-3m run-rate? Twitter, SnapChat & Facebook Snap IPO is leveling out. Exstensive coverage from The Economist. TAM: “The ad market is $652 billion worldwide and will hit $760 billion by 2020, research firm IDC says. Mobile-ad sales will triple — to $196 billion from $66 billion.” Where’s Steve Gillmor when you need him? See also closing plea in The Attention Merchants (book review from Coté forth coming once he finishes Chaos Monkeys): “If we desire a future that avoids the enslavement of the propaganda state as well as the narcosis of the consumer and celebrity culture, we must first acknowledge the preciousness of our attention and resolve not to part with it as cheaply or unthinkingly as we so often have.” SO ADORABLE! The SnapChat demo is good but the The Snap Company Council looks weird. Facebook found a product but it was ugly Ben Thompson picking on Twitter Hindsight fallacy Twitter could have been WhatsApp or Instagram or something else... BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. AWS S3 Outage Good post-mortem here Tweet Tweet TIL Google supports S3 API. TIL The 11 9's of are for durability, and not availability. 99.9% is S3's monthly SLA (43 minutes downtime). WTF Uber (...and The Rest of the Software Industry)? Uber is Doomed Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber I Am An Uber Survivor Uber SVP Leaves Over Previous Sexual Harassment Allegation Waymo Sues Uber Uber Circumvents Authorities by “Greyballing” Containers, Kubernetes & AWS Matt Asay No More Pixel Laptops from Google Link “Google hasn’t backed away from laptops. We have the number two market share in the U.S. and U.K. — but we have no plans for Google-branded laptops.” Texas Legislature Takes Action on Emojis “although it is a nice flag” Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. Quote Trump is Killing Productivity Link She didn’t want to be “that person,” the one who is always opining on social media. But all of that changed Nov. 8. Recommendations Matt: Finally a practical use for AI Warren Ellis’ Dead Pig Collector Coté: I always forget how good Madvillian and/or MF DOOM are. I’m not smart enough to know what kind of hip-hop this it, but I like it. Also: grapes. They’re delicious! Matt: Four Tet.zx Brandon: Hit Makers Music heard at the end: Courtney Barnett's "Avant Gardener".

There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and also our feel that Slack is actually a really good tool and company. Old folk jokes Steve Gillmor Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson's. "The Southern Cross" Follow-up No call yet from papercall JJ says when you SSH into a container then you are doing lightweight virtualization. I ask is this really a bad thing? Check it out on Coté Show #21. It was Hooch, Turner was the human. Coté: follow-up, my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up. Also, finally learned how to spell "Charlotte." - See it at cote.io/not-devops Slack executes the perfect Freemium Minimum Delight Experience vs. Minimum Viable Product Build and charge for the enterprise features required by the Fortune 500 Don't apologize that you don't support Markdown or other power user features. Mid-roll Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7th to 8th. The best how to DevOps experience in Maine this year!! Use the code SDT-BALTIMORE to get 10% off. Pivotal's sponsoring, no Coté, tho. Also, we have one free ticket to give away. If you want it, write us a review in iTunes and email us up that you did so, and we'll semi-randomly select a winner. Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd Matt: DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin, Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we'll likely record a "live-to-tape" episode. Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform. Jassy Talks About the Competition Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company "I don't think in our wildest dreams we ever thought we'd have a six- to seven-year head start" When people say lock-in, it's dog-whistling for "Oracle." BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. AI & the Middle Class Link "If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do." "He also argued that these trends are reversible, that improved education and a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and research can help feed new engines of growth"... we (the US) are so screwed Coté: I keep going back to McKinsey saying 70% of work is menial; I'm sure that "study" is wonky and loaded, but still, we do so much bullshit in daily work. Another example: several Pivotal customers (Allstate, HCSC) say they usually get 40%+ productivity improvements because they stop going to meetings and actually code 7 hours a day instead of bullshit. Grim. Really, really, really grim. 2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin. "In Austin, the average salary for a software engineer on Hired is $110K. But this is the equivalent to making $198K in San Francisco when you consider the cost of living difference between the two cities." "...we see a similar trend in Melbourne. Even though Melbourne's average salary for software engineers is a relatively low $83K (A$107K), this is equivalent to making nearly $150K in San Francisco." Don't Trust the Status Page FAKE STATUS! "We cannot trust Amazon AWS status updates because the information provided to us about the severity of the issue or how quickly it will really be resolved" Reminder: https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/ Chef Joins the CNCF Link Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium Link "HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025" Recommendations Matt: Spoon in Sydney! http://atlasobscura.com I just signed up and started looking for more fun places to check out while traveling. My wife made an entry for Tasmazia (Sub-req: Political Gabfest, The Weeds, Kara Swisher.) Coté: "Don't tell me what to do!" Also, Bragg's and Hindenberg audio editor. Brandon: The Upstarts

Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategies; meanwhile, the America Fuck Yeah crew wants to start gathering passwords at the boarder. Also, Brandon lays out the case that an open-core monitoring startup is a hard row to hoe. Also, Baltimore is not in Maine. (But Coté is pretty sure it actually is.) Mid-roll Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7th to 8th. No discount code yet, but we're getting one. Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd Matt: Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform. SnapChat's S-1 The S1 "We had 158 million Daily Active Users on average in the quarter ended December 31, 2016" "We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years." - perhaps 10% of their billing. Also: "Snap will spend $1 billion on AWS through 2021." Coté Show interview with former cloud boy, JJ. The McLaughlin Group covers Google: What's up with them! Robots opening doors. Google, Nest, and DropCam - despite rocky start, maybe it's just a slow ramp-up, they have 50% y/y growth. People think GCP is the shit. "Purity vs. pragmatism." Corrections "Barra-mundi" Pronunciation tips Thing to get angry about this week DHS considering asking foreigners for passwords I mean, really? A criminal is just gonna let you see their stuff? They'll just delete it, set up fake accounts, etc. It's not like popping the trunk for a thief and finding lock picks and guns in the boot: with digital crime tools and weapons, you can hide and subterfuge. And then the only people getting harmed are innocent people. What the fuck is wrong with these people, and more importantly the shit-for brains who voted for them? (How can we de-shit those brains for 2018?) Tweet about 3D chess of this meaning the government can't hack into your stuff...or can they?!?! CNCF Buys RethinkDB's Code and Donates to the Linux Foundation Not just marketing, but actually "freeing" code Switched from AGPLv3 to ASLv2 "Abby," head of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. See a recent discussion with her and RedMonk's James Governor on developer skills in large organizations. $2.5 million VC for Sensu! Nagios replacement!!! Brandon has some advice. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode Microsoft does Azure Patent Indemnification "The system is supposed to help ease the transition to the cloud by giving companies extra peace of mind. Right now, lawsuits over intellectual property relating to open source technology in the cloud are rare" Link "those companies operating in a multi-cloud configuration won't be entirely covered" Attempting to Categorize the Cloud Native Landscape Project in GitHub Cloud native Landscape diagram Cloud Displacing Intel's Enterprise Sales "Tectonic shifts in the pattern of Intel's business show the devastating speed at which cloud is displacing traditional enterprise server sales" Link Slack Enterprise Grid should make user management easier Link Uber Steers Away from Trump "More than 200,000 customers had deleted their accounts." (Link) "Many employees were not satisfied with his answer. On Wednesday, Uber staff members followed up by circulating a 25-page Google document titled "Letters to Travis" to tell the chief executive how and why his willingness to engage with the administration had affected them." Puppet adds two vice presidents, hiring from Hewlett-Packard and EMC "Puppet replaced nearly its entire executive team in 2016, including its chief executive and chief financial officers. It hired six vice presidents last year." (Link) Rackspace lays off 6% "Since being taken private [by Apollo], Rackspace has been working to trim its annual budget by 7%, or $100 million, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission." (Link) More figures from Barb Darrow. Brief 451 coverage from Al: "After eight years as a public company, Rackspace went private in August 2016 in $4.3bn leveraged buyout with Apollo Global Management." "Rackspace just announced a layoff of 6% of its 4,600 employees" "The company is expected to exceed $2bn in revenue and top 33% EBITDA margin for 2016." Meanwhile, AWS at ~$10bn for 2016 with something like 20-

With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia! Mid-roll Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off! Matt: Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog, and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of stuff I blog, sent out on Sunday night, will tweak more. Also, in the “grim” vein, Coté reviews some books on "automation," which John Allspaw rightly says should be called "new technology," fair enough. The 1983 paper on automation and humans is a good read too. CostCo field report: Australia It’s great! US: No need for a hot pizza sign holder. US: Rayban Wayfarers are like $130 now! AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says NOT SO FAST IPO filing... “Our revenues for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were $23.6 million, $81.9 million and $150.6 million, respectively” Cisco $3.7 billion, about a 14-17X multiplier Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million Wired coverage 451 report, paywall. Public blog from 451. Oracle Buys Apiary “API Integration Cloud” Coté’s coverage, with plenty more links: small asset working on a $660m API management market. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. HP Buys Stuff Cloud Cruiser for management/chargeback, $650 million SimpliVity for converged systems, $650 million You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard They’re working on it Twitter Google buying Fabric. Facebook still king. Do We Talk About Trump? OpenStack Summits leaving the US Red Hat, Microsoft, others making announcements against the Muslim ban Coté says: these people are proven idiots. Don’t work with them. Trump’s Twitter Moves Markets Apparently he watches Fox and parrots their lines, so maybe someone at Fox is making a killing with “insider trading”? RethinkDB: Why We Failed Good read for how hard it is to crack the DB and OSS markets. “In hindsight, two things went wrong – we picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness.” Coté follow-up: be careful with TAM picking. Yahoo is Altaba … wut? Dreams $45bn Google’s AI Awakening “How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.” Extensive article on Google’s AI push from back in December Alexa Amazon’s OS Also, there’s an estimated 24.5m of these voice things around. ClusterHQ Shutting Down Docker storage startup shuts down Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions Open source continues to be great for recruiting (and probably code) Google buys Twitter’s Fabric CASH! Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World” Always a good read Recommendations Brandon: RTIC 30oz Tumbler. Matt: Donate to the ACLU. RTJ3 is out, and free! My 2016 year in the air Tennis ball making video Coté: big jar of green hatch! Get a 40! Also, how to feed three people with one bean.

In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; working with marketers that have poor, nothing new material; learning how to function inside a large company in the executive suite; M&A and investment bankers, getting shit done in large companies (it’s always slow), like Project Sputnik. Mid-roll DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th, 2017 - get 25% of when you register with the code SDT. Coté’s speaking at it! ChefConf 2017 Teaser Show Notes See part one of this series. Coté’s published work at RedMonk. Coté’s analysis on disruption in the industry analyst business, going over the business as it matters to the individual analysts. A discussion of Project Sputnik with Coté and Barton George, episode 34 of Pivotal Conversations. Collected tips on surviving and thriving in a big company, recording a presentation at Devoxx Poland 2016. Recommendations Brandon: Prototyping for Designers, by Kathryn McElroy. Pod Save America podcast (née Keepin’ it 1600) Coté: Bolthouse Farms, 100% Carrot Juice, 32 oz The perfect shoe for white collar yokels: Clarks Men's Trapell Form Slip-On Loafer At CostCo (or Amazon): 505 Southwestern Hatch Valley Green Chile Salsa 40 Oz

After speculating on GitHub’s business we throw out our 2017 predictions. We cover AWS, containers, AI, and government IT. Since holiday family time is coming up, Brandon also suggests some simple family IT help-desk tasks - like backup - and throws out the stretch goal of discussing 2FA at the dinner table. Mid-roll Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix, 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking! Coté: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 is out. It adds in Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready; it will run 250,000 containers concurrently; you can now auto-scale on based on new metrics like HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput, so when your app seems slow to users, the platform kicks in to make it go faster (previously, CPU; Spring Boot developers will see handy diagnostics info about their apps with new Actuator (diagnostic thing) integrations; devs can use PCF to run “tasks” (one time processes); and, of course, a slew of security updates are bundled in. Go to cote.io/pcf19 to check out my highlights and see a link to a longer, more detailed post. Feedback & Follow-up Nice review from Kiyoto! We’re in the 2,500 downloads an episode range now - thanks listeners! Show Notes GitHub Bloomberg cover their recent year. ...losing $66 million so far for 2016 - what would GitHub be spending that on? Did some upload a lot of JPGs to their repo? 'Sitting in a conference room featuring an abstract art piece on the wall and a Mad Men-style rollaway bar cart in the corner, GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath says the business is running more smoothly now and growing. “What happened to 2015?” says the 31-year-old co-founder and chief executive officer. “Nothing was getting done, maybe? I shouldn’t say that. Strike that."' “Secular” growth. Brandon's Predictions Growth on the Edge, presentation (from a16z GP Peter Levine) - the end of cloud computing and the return to the edge. Recommendations Matt: Surfing Santas: Sun, Fun and an Aldi Ham! Brandon: DBAN - Darick Boot & Nuke, Crashplan, Time Machine Multiple Disk Coté: Stratechery newsletter. He can be a little trying at times, but who isn't? He’s one of the most interesting, open, and honest IT analysts out there. See the 2016 round-up from Ben

...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie ...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?. ...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk. Mid-roll Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix, 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking! Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting with (pro tools, paint), plus internal facing apps. Feedback & Follow-up The Doc Martin shoes: Hickmire. Thanks to Chris Short. The DevOps App dev vs. IT service delivery. DevOps Kung Fu, Adam Jacob's talk on the inclusion of everyone in the org chart in DevOps What is DevOps without Dev? Is there OpsOps? AWS Managed Services Amazon will manage your shit now, with real live peoples "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." - this is a good example of the more subtle way of "paying off analysts." More like: changing their minds. "Designed for the Fortune 1000 and the Global 2000, this service is designed to accelerate cloud adoption" AKA "We're eating our partners" AKA "RACKSPACE: YOU'RE UP!" Coté: Is this like a service desk and a runbook for spinning up AWS stuff? Plus actual AMZN staff to "manage" the infrastructure like patching and such right? Coté: I was just talking with someone yesterday who's mission was "optimize how we do IT without me telling you what I want to do with IT." That is: lower costs and give us the ability to do whatever we may want in the future in under a year's planning/effort. Bezos doesn't like meetings without a memo http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5851aebfca7f0c24018b5b6f-2400/ap16349721408436.jpg Don't Sleep on Microsoft Damn, that's a monstrous URL GPUs, HANA, Media Services, Machine Deep Learning, Data Lake, Single-instance virtual machines Coté: I hear data is a thing. And AI. Cisco Shutting Down Their InterCloud Coté's audition for an ElReg headline writer: Cloud InterRUPPTED $1 Billion isn't enough, "score another body bag win for the unstoppable Amazon Web Services" "Meanwhile, the cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren't using a lot of Cisco gear. They are increasingly using a new style to build networks that relies more on software and less on high-end, expensive hardware." Sharwood@ElReg: "OpenStack public clouds have an unhappy history: Rackspace felt it could build a business on the platform, but has since changed tack. HP pulled out of its own Helion public cloud. If Cisco is indeed changing direction, the OpenStack Board has some interesting matters to ponder." Theory: AWS means on-premise IT is over-serving. You actually don't need all that. Incumbent vendors succumbed to the strategy aphasia of the disruptor's' dilemma (weren't willing to sacrifice/take eye off the ball of existing success and revenue) and lost to Amazon's lower capabilities, lower price approach. WHEN WILL TECH PEOPLE LURN? There was this talk several years ago that was all like: "well, obviously, we shouldn't compete strategy-to-strategy with Amazon. We should provide the enterprise version!" Apparently, that was dead wrong. People confused Apple's ability to sell at an insane premium with the market not caring about x86 &co. Docker Contributes Containerd Docker-engine standardized container runtime for the industry Engine vs. Machine Check out this TheNewStack story for a new strategy slide: Containers in Production! Round-up of some container survey poking n=338 respondents Sidenote: Jenkins win. Good job biffing that one Oracle. But then again: is there any money in it? "This leads us to a very difficult operational problem – how do we ensure security, and understand the makeup of an application while still allowing developer velocity to increase." More Docker usage numbers from DataDog! "ECS adoption has climbed steadily from zero to 15 percent of Docker organizations using Datadog. (And more than 10 percent of all Datadog customers are now using Docker.)" How do I read this? Does it mean adoption is fast after an initial tire-kicking? "In the 30 days after an organization starts reporting ECS metrics, we see a 35 percent increase in the number of running containers as compared to the 60-day baseline that came

...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza. ...That sweet OpEx. ..."Easy to stay." Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas. Footware Kenneth Cole slip on shoes. Keen Austin shoes, slip-on and lace. The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire. Mid-roll Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy. Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo AWS re:Invent Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here. Richard has a write-up as well. RedMonk re:Cap Global Partner Summit Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners" "10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months" Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…" Amazon Lightsail Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IP Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & Linode Amazon Athena S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others Coté: this seems pretty amazing. Amazon Rekognition Image detection & recognition Amazon Polly Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages Coté: Makes transcripts? Amazon Lex Conversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots) Coté: make chat-bots and such. AWS Greengrass Local Lambda processing for IoT Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car? AWS Snowball Edge & Snowmobile Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-ramp Not just me More on it Move exabytes in weeks "Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center." Coté: LEGOS! More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared) Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU More! F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently? Day 2 AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Chef blog Fully managed Chef Server & Automate Previous OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks" Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy EC2 Systems Manager Tools for managing EC2 & on-premises systems AWS Codebuild Managed elastic build service with testing AWS X-Ray Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda? "easy way for developers to "follow-the-thread" as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services" AWS Personal Health Dashboard Personalized AWS monitoring & CloudWatch Events auto-remediation Disruptive to PAAS monitoring & APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics) AWS Shield DDoS protection Amazon Pinpoint Mobile notification & analytics service AWS Glue Managed data catalog & ETL (extract, transform & load) service for data analysis AWS Batch Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions Werner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd" Lambda Edge for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close" More Step Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functions More BLOX: EC2 Container Service Scheduler Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments Blox.github.io Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff Jesus! I couldn't read it all! So, what's the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it. What's the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you'd go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn't flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.) BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Docker for AWS "EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS." Docker gets paid on usage? Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox? Time to Break up Amazon? Someone has an opinion HPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud&

It's a special interloper episode from Australia! Matt Ray guests on the Arrested DevOps show live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Sydney, along with Bridget Kromhout, Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, Katie McLaughlin.Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

With all the domestic, direct flight, the gang lays out the case for Southwest. Coté salivates at the prospect but is worried about sitting next to chicken cages, but there's plenty of $500 shoe sales people on board. We also discuss Oracle buying Dyn, AWS's power, the looming cloud success of Microsoft, and, of course, containers. Octogenarian style: It’s episode 80! The Brittle Bones Anniversary. Feedback & Follow-up At least one person came correct and said CostCo. I think we’re now in the 2,000 to 2,500 downloads range. Good job listeners! Mid-roll Coté: stop the container madness and just use Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have: - or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy. Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016. Matt: Sydney AWS Meetups: December 6, December 7. Oracle Buys Dyn Coté needs a dial-a-friend on this one. Fleshing out their cloud coverage This is what Coté frequently concluded when doing cloud strategy Softlayer and AWS compared Sorry Oracle, Taking Down AWS is Alibaba’s Job “Alibaba Cloud president Simon Hu has said the company is working to surpass AWS within four years.” We’ll see if YUGEly can wrap his head around IaaS protectionism. Skyliner.io “You only get one hill to die on, so choose wisely” New AWS-native PaaS from Etsy/Stripe/SquareSpace veterans Coté: I feel like I’ve read this blog post before. Maybe I even wrote it? So much typing. Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation - we’re beyond the cats and dogs mirror! Steve Ballmer is spinning in his grave More than just Linux Add to this Visual Studio on the Mac. Google joined .Net Foundation Windows, internet, phone, cloud BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show Recent Coté Nonsense “Largile” Recent DevOps books review. Red Hat wants to make Kubernetes boring (and successful) They’ve certainly made OpenStack boring (zing!) “Not that Red Hat is calling Kubernetes "boring." Instead, they're calling it "Enterprise-Ready," which is basically the same thing.” I dig that Matt Asay style. Dude knows how to pick a quick topic. The End of General Purpose Computing More precisely, as the title says “The End of the General Purpose Operating System“ “What we're witnessing in the market is the development of vertically integrated stacks” “In all of these cases the operating system is an implementation detail of the higher level software. It's not intended to be directly managed, or at least managed to the same degree as the general purpose OS you're running today.” Apple Drops AirPort Routers I’ve got 3 of them, pretty solid. We don’t talk about Apple much here. Possible topic: what’s up with Apple now-a-days? Trump vs. Tech “Now we will have a president whose affinity for high-tech seems limited to Twitter bullying” Interesting when you think that the heads of Google, Microsoft, Apple and probably Amazon (Bezos owns Washington Post) are all at odds with Trump. Facebook is trying to not piss anyone off. Not sure if we want to talk about it, so maybe it’s just a show note. MacOS Security and Privacy Guide Lots of practical tips for a safer Mac experience Black Friday & Cyber Monday "the sweet smell of cyber dealz" Recommendations Brandon: Left, Right, Center Matt: Thanksgiving in Sydney: http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/thanksgiving/ Magpie Attacks! Play your music at 10x slowdown, makes for good ambient listening. It’s up on GitHub if you want to do it to your own music collection, currently Ogg-only :( Coté: It Follows.

How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt Ray is out, getting the bills paid, so Brandon interviews Coté about how he got here, professionally. We end the story around 2011; maybe we'll pick up next time it's just the two of us. Show Notes House of Commons Co-op, Austin, Texas. See some pictures of a simpler time there. I think this is that Victorian Literature professor. He's the one that taught me how to use books as tools, writing in them and whatnot. A typical day at BMC. Always lots of jokes, there. See more pictures. In 2005, Coté wrote two pieces on IBM Lotus stuff: one on "Workplace for Business" and another on how I thought they should move it to Eclipse. Who knows why, really? Lala's, where it's Christmas all year round. James Governor and Stephen O'Grady. Coté at RedMonk. Recommendations Brandon: Ready Player One. Coté: Start and Scaling Devops in the Enterprise, Gary Gruver’s new book, an awesome 90 minutes read.

We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers. This episode features Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. Mid-roll Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016. Coté: Nov 16th - Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha, next week. Coté: Various dates - Pivotal Cloud Native Roadshows - Cincinnati - Nov 10; St. Louis - Nov 14; Hartford - Nov 16; Denver - Nov 18; New York - Nov 22; Los Angeles - Nov 28. K8s Operators Stateful applications for K8s, a shot at Mesos? Prometheus & etcd first examples (spark? hadoop?) This begs the broad question: so, what’s CoreOS’s business posture now? Azure Container Service, now with K8s Those Microsoft folks will just put anything that looks tasty in their cloud - what a reversal from the Microsoft we grew up with. Docker in Production: A History of Failure From this dude’s perspective: a failure of product management and stable releases. Bugs, documentation spotty, cleanup scripts, kernel support (Debian!?), aufs & overlay & overlay2, 7-hour outage with no post-mortem “Docker only moves forward and breaks things” “The docker hype is not only a technological liability any more, it has evolved into a sociological problem as well.” A retort… that mostly agrees “boring tech is what makes money” shiny tech makes resumes? Mesosphere Jay Lyman on the momemtum: “Mesosphere does not disclose its number of paying clients, but says it has dozens of large enterprise customers, its primary target. The company says its experience supporting software deployments in production is among its key differentiators, helped by the use of Apache Mesos by companies such as Twitter, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal and Yelp, which was featured in a 451 User Deployment Report. Mesosphere says its focus is customer deployments of 500-1,000 nodes per day in production. It also says the bulk of its customers are licensees with professional services accounting for less than 10% of its clients, which tend to move to its subscription software.” TrumpTech, aka, “Putting the 400 lbs hackers on diets.” Turns out there is some marginally clear policy, just not McKinsey title mode versus white papers. Jonathan Shieber@Tech Crunch: "The biggest question facing millions of Americans this Wednesday is: just how much of what Donald Trump said on the campaign does he intend to actually try to make happen." (For example, Korea.) Dave Lee, at the BBC has a good laundry list: “Uncertainty, frustration and an increased fragility for the global home of tech innovation. Mr Trump certainly won't want to go down as the president who destroyed Silicon Valley, but the concern here is that of the few policies that have been explained in detail, some seem directly at odds with each other.” 10% repatriation program - tech companies have tons of cash abroad: Historic rates: “At the highest tax rate, corporations must pay 35% to repatriate capital, minus local taxes charged by countries in which the funds are held.” Hardware: “AAPL (93% of $230bln), CSCO (91% of $64.6B), IBM ($8.2B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but note 58% of earnings are from non US operations), HPE ($10.0B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65% of earnings are from non US operations), HPQ ($5.6B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65%-70% of earnings are from non US operations), JNPR (94% of $3.2B).” Software: “Specifically, some of the mid and large cap companies that have large cash balances “trapped” offshore are likely to benefit from being able to return a portion of this cash to shareholders. We note companies with high gross cash balances trapped offshore include: ADBE (85% of $4B – from 2015 10-K), ADSK (86% of $2.1B), CA (76% of $2.7B), CTXS (80% of $2.45B), FTNT (38% of $1.2B), ORCL (76% of $56B – pre-N), MSFT (96% of $113B – pre-LNKD purchase), RHT (42% of $2.0B), SYMC (93% of $5.6B – post-BC), VMW (77% of $7.5B), VRSN (68% of $1.9B). We believe the chances increase of a larger share repurchase or (lesser chance) dividend from these companies.” Apple & Amazon are not in a good situation - they’ll be a good test of WTF happens. Meanwhile, tech stocks dropping a bit. Ovum has a shit ton of quick analysis, all free: Fear of US public cloud companies, globally. Remember the freak-out from NSA stuff? Same idea. I think the Gemans got over it. Outsources: “A massive curtailing of H-1B visas, for example, will mean providers will need to make immediate shifts in what they’re able to offer customers locally, unless or until they’re able to compensate with talent.” “For providers, there’s also the unanswered question of the impact on US government spending.” [Education](https://www.ovum.com/trumping-expectations-now-us-public-sector-2/ - some proposals for de-centralizing, me