Software Defined Talk

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

Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever. Show Notes Follow-up Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap. Check out the last episode, the show page is- God-damned nifty! Review in iTunes France Osprey “one bag” style backpack. The Best Uber Driver Ever Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan. The Sweat Hotel Coté’s Agile shit Excerpt from a PDF in process. IBM design people. We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely. It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming. UK GDS rant. Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom. Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions The Product Manager's Lament. If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on - leave some comments! The End-roll Mid-roll Coté: Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference. Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list. Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows. Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016. Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code”. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. OpenStack Anyone? There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona 35% annual growth sounds good With friends like these…: “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.” Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.” OTH, 🤔: "If you do these things the old fashioned way with Puppet, Chef and Ansible, they can be incredibly expensive because now you need the experts for everything," he says. "If you do them with Juju and Charms, you're sharing the cost of operational code with everybody else using those Charms." Meanwhile: 451 says “OpenStack revenues to grow at a 35% CAGR and exceed $5bn by 2020.” See chart in my newsletter from this week. New York Times Buys The Wirecutter for $30 Million Good write-up about how The Wirecutter is/was very different from Gizmodo and the like Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guide Adrian Cockcroft to AWS This is like the Warriors getting Kevin Durant, if the Warriors had won the championship last season ;) AWS Server Migration Service “automatically replicate live server volumes to AWS and create Amazon Machine Images (AMI) as needed.” Currently VMware, more hypervisors coming Thanks for the partnership VMware! RackN gets Funding Looks like a seed round, yay for Rob. The Barbarian Establishment Economist on Private Equity “private equiteers” “The fees they pay each time they buy or sell a company provide a fifth of the global banking system’s revenues from mergers and acquisitions.” “This is a particular issue for pension funds, which often need to earn 7% or 8% to meet their obligations.” Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter “The company now claims that its commercial cloud annualized run rate has passed $13 billion (it was $12.1 billion last quarter), and that the gross margin of its commercial cloud business is up 7 points quarter-on-quarter to 49 percent.” Azure revenue growth was 116% last quarter; now have 11% market share compared to Amazon's 31% IBM Hiring lots of people? Stackanetes as a Product? “OpenStack on Kubernetes, or “Stackanetes” as the CoreOS team sadly likes to call it” VMware & AWS: Harder Than it Looks Former VMware/EMC exec, now at Oracle. “hope is not a strategy.” “VMware wants the world to use their stack, AWS wants the same for their technology. Not exactly what I would call a long-term stable situation.” Picks Brandon: Westworld. Coté: Sugar Bowl Madeleines at CostCo. I just ate five and the box ain't empty! Also, while you’re there: Tillamook Cheddar cheese slices, in the expensive refrigerated section. And I got another pair of brushed khaki Kirkland 5 pocket pants. Matt: Tokyo! Coté’s Bonus Recommendation: Matt Ray’s hair!

With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. Mid-roll Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney. Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there. Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording. VMware doing Kubernetes VMware's post, and a product page. Photon platform is VMware’s container-play, trying to leverage the VMware ecosystem (vSAN & NSX stuff) The New Stack coverage BONUS LINKS, not covered in the show Ubuntu 16.10 Canonical’s doing Kubernetes too AWS & Government Debunking FUD and using AWS in (Australian) government Randy Bias Leaves EMC OpenStack advocate/critic, Pets vs. Cattle 2 years to the day after the Cloudscaling acquisition Heading to… Juniper Cisco is AWS Skeptical Good luck with that What $50 buys You at Huaqianbei Fascinating article, I hadn’t realized how ridiculously cheap everything had gotten Recommendations Brandon: Accused Podcast. Matt: Song Exploder podcast and the Tobacco album “Sweatbox Dynasty” Coté: Kirkland brushed khaki pants. Also, espadrilles from that store in BCN, La Manual Alpargatera. Apple Live Photos.

Summary Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, Oracle, and something about Google phones. It’s a regular episode on all the hot topics! See full show notes: http://cote.io/sdt75 Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. Sponsors/Mid-roll Check out cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Also: Lords of Computing is now Coté.show. Will put upcoming DrunkAndRetired.com special episode in there. And as always check out Pivotal Conversations. Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there. For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket! DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016. Matt at DevOps Sydney October 20. Matt at AWS North Sydney October 25. Show notes Follow-up Buy-side commentary on Oracle storming the AWS castle Those reviews are awesome, thanks so much! I’ll be re-jiggering the podcast back end again, so expect some annoying weirdness (fireside.fm appears to be awesome, if expensive) So who’s buying Twitter? Tyler Cowe’s short term focus and going private escape hatch. VMware and AWS “VMware Cloud on AWS” “The service will be operated, sold and supported by VMware (not AWS) but integrate with the rest of AWS’ cloud portfolio (think storage, database, analytics and more).” https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/aws-blinked–20cddbb537ed#.9cuvcp75o “these customers will go to Cloud, but its really a glorified co-lo.” “AWS should be encouraging customers to develop their workloads to take advantage of Cloud ( microservices, serverless etc ) and not delay it further.” InfoWorld piece: They keep talking about hybrid cloud, but what does that mean here? Just “we use multiple cloud types/providers,” or one application running across different clouds? “As part of the deal, VMware will be AWS’s preferred private cloud partner and Amazon will be VMware’s preferred partner in the public cloud.” Some MSP action: “One of the key differences between this deal and the one VMware announced with IBM in February is that this service is being offered and managed by VMware.” “Interested customers can request access to the service’s private beta starting Thursday, but VMware doesn’t expect the service to be live until early next year. General availability of VMware cloud on AWS will have to wait until even later in 2017.” Brief 451 note No data in DevOps Google Devices Roundup, and AI interlude Revisiting the Apple or Google ecosystem question. I hate having to think about ecosystems when buying electronics. And AI. Walt Mossberg Thinks Siri is Dumb Wired Interview with Obama - dude knows AI. BONUS LINKS, not covered in podcast Container Madness! Nothing much new, just content to riff on Microsoft shipping Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine Red Hat and containers - relabel, transitioned from originally a PaaS to CaaS. DockerCon coming to Austin Opentracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announcement Open tracing Luke transitions to new Puppet CEO Luke’s announcement in Twitter Luke is one of the main people who started all this stuff, based on annoyance of BladeLogic, cfengine, etc. Did I ever tell the one of how I did a terrible sales job getting Reductive Labs signed up with RedMonk? The new dude looks like the real deal of enterprise infrastructure. Recommendations Matt: Warren Ellis’ Normal - From his latest newsletter “What science fiction, as a field, is good for, is looking at ten thousand possibilities at once," Zapp Branigan reading Trump quotes Brandon: Slate Plus. Also, Harry’s Blades. Coté: iPhone 7 Plus. Live Photos, Rotate mode, Bokeh stuff actually in beta, Home button takes getting used to, Two speakers is better?

This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. SPONSOR Check out cote.io/pivotal for free books, free cloud time, etc. Come to DellEMCWorld on Oct 18th to 20th, in Austin. I'll be speaking there. There's also the annual vBBQ event, Oct 17th at the Salt Like. Pivotal is sponsoring (check out my CORPORATE AMEX, BITCHES!). Come to it, it's mostly free-ish. For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket! Show notes Wordpress Talk Pantheon Dreamhost WP Engine macOS Sierra Try rebooting. Can't get Apple Watch thing to work. Bartender broke-dick. What have you done for me lately, FREE SOFTWARE? (Just freed up 15 gigs of space with the storage optimizer, so, there's that.) Also, ordered a ~$1,000 phone today. JESUS! Another way to find big files on OS X. YubiKey support for OSX Oracle is gonna cream AWS. Wait, wut? Lydia has a good write-up. She's a bit wry, you know. This is like the 3rd or 4th go at it. To be an apologist: doing cloud is freakin' hard. Maybe Oracle should try being less of a jerk rhetorically though? It's help with their credibility. Ben Thompson is on the case BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. This week in tech PE Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6 Billion Microservices - Please don't Maybe microservices ain't all they're cracked up to be 5 "truths" (spoiler, maybe not) It keeps the code cleaner It's easy to write things that only have one purpose They're faster than monoliths It's easy for engineers to not all work in the same codebase It's the simplest way to handle autoscaling, plus Docker is in here somewhere This piece by my man Kenny is ball-exploding awesome. Too Old to Code? Tim Bray is old and codes. "That's fine for you, Marge, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. ... Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.". – Homer Simpson Recommendations Brandon: Reminders App Matt: Usual Suspects; also, my wife’s blog Coté: Logitech Keys-To-Go Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets, Red - $37.90 at Amazon: only 16 left in stock! GOOD PRICE! Also, don’t get Fantastical...if you’re like me.

At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.

It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee...plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. Show Notes Twitter going to sell: The rumors “I still think Alphabet makes for the most logical acquirer of Twitter” Dark Horse: Apple. Really Dark Horse: IBM. This Week in Tech PE: HPE Spins off Software They got divested “HPE will be retaining tools that support the company’s cloud and infrastructure businesses but will be spinning off tools for application delivery management, big data, enterprise security, information management, governance and IT operations management.” From what I know of HPE, this seems to be overlapping. I’d love a list of “stays vs. goes” Q3 2017, and you thought Dell/EMC was slow Where does this leave HP? Will they acquire more SW or stay a “systems” company. It makes you realize how “small” their SW group was. Coté’s notebook on this topic. Also, Thoma Bravo says it gets, like, 20-45% returns on assets it takes private. Mid-roll Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Lead-gen free webinar with an actual, real customer talking about cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. An analyst and Coté too. Check out my Sep. column over on The Register, about ROI and shit for DevOps. I’m really desperate to answer this “question.” Put on some high-waders and check out the comments, leave some to go spice it up in that asylum. For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket! Google buying Apigee. The whole API Economy thing. They got bought! More Hear us talk about it on Pivotal Conversations: the gigantic strangler pattern! MASHUPS FTW! Hashicorp Gets $24 million B-round Vault Enterprise, Nomad Enterprise, Terraform Enterprise, Consul Enterprise Coté: what’s the deal with these folks? Are they a competitor to all us? Blogging is dead Coté gets better views/reads in Medium than on his broke-dick blog. (Maybe about 80-100 RSS subscribers.) This makes him sad and confused about what he should do. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show A16Z Not Best of the Best? Clickbait “Thought(sp?) it may fall short of some rivals, the company outperforms the average fund: Overall, its three funds have almost doubled their investment capital since inception.” What’s Cisco Up To? Our favorite Halo Effect company What’s up with “software defined networking”? I was talking with someone recently and they posited that it’s “dead-as-in-over-cause-all-the-big-cos-won.” Plus NSX does a lot (1,700 customers), right? Short History of Open Source Forks Lots of examples of successful open source forks “Oracle doesn’t seem to have a very good reputation with open source communities.” OS X <- NeXT <- “select parts of BSD” Thoughts on Nano Windows Server 2016 Is this the future of Windows (no Windows)? Moving from Docker to Rocket Bumps in the road but rkt is staying “smaller” per last week’s conversation. Picks Brandon: The Night Of. Coté: Complete Works of HP Lovecraft. Checks out. Also see the series of commentary from the two authors over on tor.com. Matt: Silent music videos: Dancing In The Streets (And, the original). The Terror. They found the boat.

Eventually, you have to decide how your open source software is going to make money, and your partners probably won’t like it. That’s what the dust-up around Docker is this week, it seems to us. We also talk briefly about VMware’s big conference this week, and rumors of HPE selling off it’s Software group to private equity. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. SPONSOR Check out the multi-cloud webinar lead-gen free! I really like Brian’s part and then the discussion at the end between all of us. I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16. Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Show notes Nippers - "Nippers learn about safety at the beach. They learn about dangers such as rocks, and animals (e.g. the blue-ringed octopus), and also about surf conditions, such as rip currents, sandbars, and waves. Older Nippers also learn some basic first aid and may also learn CPR when they reach the age of 13." Can someone explain this “Docker forking” hoopla? Coté’s write-up. Docker Inc. doesn’t want to be a commoditized building block From a Red Hat person: “The conflict started to escalate earlier this summer, when Docker Inc used its controlling position to push Swarm, it’s own clone of Kubernetes-style container orchestration, into the core Docker project, putting the basic container runtime in a conflict with a notable part of its ecosystem. Docker Inc. then went on to essentially accuse Red Hat of forking Docker - at the Red Hat Summit no less. After that, Docker Inc’s Solomon Hykes came out strongly against the efforts to standardize the container runtime in OCI - an initiative his company co-founded.” Re: that episode where we discuss Docker ecosystem challenges: “Yet on a regular basis, Red Hat patches that enable valid requirements from Red Hat customer use cases get shut down as it seems for the simple reason that they don’t fit into Docker Inc’s business strategy.” A fight over where to draw the line between free/open/commodified and costs/proprietary/competitive: "And while I personally consider the orchestration layer the key to the container paradigm, the right approach here is to keep the orchestration separate from the core container runtime standardization. This avoids conflicts between different layers of the container runtime: we can agree on the common container package format, transport, and execution model without limiting choice between e.g. Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm." Don't bring a pistol to a bazooka fight. Enterprises love RHEL - have you ever tried to sell Ubuntu into organizations? It’s like what selling NT must have been like. VMware hybrid cloud solutionaring Brief notebook from Coté. More coverage Keywords “mostly cloud” A representative, not too poorly supported VMware obit NSX up in the cloud This Week in Tech Private Equity… HPE looking to sell off Software group, sources say. “hoping it can fetch between $8 billion and $10 billion” “HPE's software unit generated $3.6 billion in net revenue in 2015, down from $3.9 billion in 2014.” Dell/EMC thing set to close on Sep 7th, 2016 Quest Software, One Identity To Operate Separately From SonicWall After Dell Software Sale BONUS LINKS! Not covered in podcast. Spaces vs. Tabs The data delivers the truth (spaces) Recommendations Matt: Bubble-sort algorithm explained with Hungarian ("Csángó") folk dance Brandon: LastChanceU Coté: Ulysses - I don’t think there’s any expensive text editors left for me to buy. [This American Life's Worst Song Ever], hear it.

This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray's first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. SPONSOR On August 31st, come hear about launching your cloud strategy and why multi-cloud matters with myself, an analyst, and an actual enterprise user of all this stuff. Register and watch it for free! I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16. Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Show notes RAX goes private for $4.3bn The usual need to hide from the Wall Street eye OpenStack dead, again. "Tough times ahead". "There was a time when it was hard to read an article about OpenStack without hearing about 'pets vs. cattle,' and OpenStack was designed to herd cattle" "It has itself become a big, complex pet, which is why Mirantis and others can make a living providing services, software and training." What could have happened: (1.) "we can beat AWS," or, (2.) "containers, shoulda thought of that." Innovation is hard, esp. business-wise How could you compete with AWS? Word vs. Google Docs vs. Office 365. Uber has spent at least $4bn? BONUS LINKS! Not Covered in show AWS Sentinel is Coming Skunkworks-ish project from AWS for managed services. Potentially lots of partner conflict "MSPs need to work with customers to convert their infrastructure to Platform-as-a-Service using microservices architecture," said one AWS partner. "They also need to bring DevOps into the heart of the organization. Unfortunately, most MSPs don't have the developers that truly understand this." “Few AWS Partners Are Really Surprised By Sentinel's Emergence“ MariaDB switches away from open source license MaxScale proxy switching to commercial-only license “The MaxScale move shows MariaDB Corporation wants to switch from a Red Hat-style service and support model to a Sugar-style sole-vendor approach.” Hashicorp Shuts Down Otto Interesting to see an open source project publicly shut down. Microsoft Open Sources Powershell Coverage MSFT blog post Follows open-sourcing of .NET earlier this year available for Linux and Mac OS Recommendations Brandon: first US college football game in Australia Matt: Rugby, help me learn it. Coté: BCG on two speed IT; Wizard of Oz series.

There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet. (Sorry the audio quality is so bad.) Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. SPONSOR On August 31st, come hear about launching your cloud strategy and why multi-cloud matters with myself, an analyst, and an actual enterprise user of all this stuff. Register and watch it for free! I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16. Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording. Gartner IaaS MQ is Out. Check out the free re-print, from Amazon I believe. I collected these notes in it's own blog post, check it out. Layoffs at Cisco Several thousand get pink slips, more "I do not think that they are going to be done after this." "We are committed to making the necessary decisions to drive our future growth" The performance didn't impress investors as Cisco's stock shed 42 cents to $30.30 in extended trading after the numbers came out. The decline may have been driven by disappointment that Cisco's job cuts weren't nearly as deep as published reports had speculated they would be. But it’s not just Cisco. Be sure to read The Halo Effect. Walmart buys Jet $3.3bn. I miss Amazon, Matt in Australia. Ben Thompson provides extensive color. Recommendations Brandon: PIN/Kings podcast. Matt: Flying in Australian is awesome, civilized even; the curved screen of the Samsung SAMSUNG C27F390F 1800R Curved 27 inch LED Free Sync Full HD 1920x1080 VA panel HDMI D-Sub Monitor, Australian edition, but Yankee plugs are cool too. Coté: James Governor on Pivotal and SpringOne Platform; Irie's Island Food in Port Aransas.

SPONSOR See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16. Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording. HPE on the block? Coverage: “several private equity firms, including KRR, Apollo Global Management and the Carlyle Group, are looking to pay $40 billion or more to buy HPE outright” Bill Hilf out of HPE, another cloud re-org at HPE Let’s compare: IBM, Oracle, EMC/Dell, even Verizon/Yahoo! - big tech companies surviving long term. Meanwhile: rumors of Rackspace going private. YAHOO! What’s Verizon doing over there? Coté’s notes on this: one and two. ChefConf Unified products as Automate Certifications! Lots of videos Recommendations Brandon: Stranger Things Matt: Utopia/Homeland2. My kids love Tim Tams. Manly. http://fan-o-rama.com/ Coté: Field Notes Byline, reporter's notebook.

SPONSOR See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. August 1st to 4th, SpringOne Platform – I'll be talking on DevOps and generally hanging out with the cloud native folks. You can get $300 off registration when you use the code pivotal-cote-300. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording. Rainbow Chicken vs. Chick-fil-A The "happy meal" barter system. The Left needs some fried chicken chain. DockerCon Docker now includes SwarmKit, making K8s more contentious In LinkedIn, well documented exploration of Docker adoption in big firms by LinkedIn profiles. Shows exponential growth vs. Java, Ruby on Rails, visualization terms Is there product strategy going on in the container space? Accident-driven intentionality. Yes, they're building up momentum and then monetization. Midroll SpringOne Platform - funny name, etc. $300 off registration with code pivotal-cote-300. ChefCon - July 11th and 13th in Austin! Brook & Bob memorial segment, On the Tech Media Matt Asay piece: The press will believe anything about open source. Not all Sunshine and Lollipops in Open Source Land What do expect? What's business model? Apple & ZFS More detail than you'd care to want It's like a story of the ups and (mostly) downs of enterprise infrastructure software. Also, the flirtation nature of announcements that keeps eager nerd-beavers on tender-hooks. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show Infrastructure Software is Dead, or, "With friends like these…" Hard truths from Mirantis "Everybody's OpenStack software is equally bad." "But none of this matters, because today customers don't care about software. Customers care about outcomes." (Because, you know, they used to not care about outcomes…? Plz. advise.) Infrastructure Investments by Cloud Service Providers Charts! Numbers! Cloud! I like her By the Numbers thing. Coté used to do something like that and it was fun to put together. 10 Hour Maintenance Windows on Oracle Cloud? I seem to remember Google having something similar Operational Best Practices for Serverless Charity Major's write-up from her talk at the #Serverless conference If you chose a provider, you do not get to just point your finger at them in the post mortem and say it's their fault. You chose them, it's on you. It's tacky to blame the software or the service, and besides your customers don't give a shit whose "fault" it is. Checking in on CostCo Which Visa to get Recommendations Brandon: Chaos Monkeys. Matt: Boston Dynamics robot video & moar falling robots! The Inevitable. Also, the podcast mentioned earlier: "Brian Christian on Algorithms to Live By," presented at The Long Now Foundation. Coté: Hey, as beef sticks go, the Ostrim ones look pretty good. No sugar, mostly? Also, The King Killer Chronicles.

SPONSOR See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording. Samsung Buys Joyent Joyent notes Coverage from Venturebeat "Until today, we lacked one thing. We lacked the scale required to compete effectively in the large, rapidly growing and fiercely competitive cloud computing market. Now, that changes," Microsoft acquires LinkedIn Press Release from Microsoft M&A Synergies Theoretical WTF'ing: Slideshare, extended to all Office formats. Login with LinkedIn + AD = SSO won. Also: "Massively scaling the reach and engagement of LinkedIn by using the network to power the social and identity layers of Microsoft's ecosystem of over one billion customers. Think about things like LinkedIn's graph interwoven throughout Outlook, Calendar, Active Directory, Office, Windows, Skype, Dynamics, Cortana, Bing and more." 433 million professionals in LinkedIn (from MSFT internal memo). ...but it's probably all the same people, tho. "Along with the new growth in our Office 365 commercial and Dynamics businesses this deal is key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes." (MSFT CEO, from MSFT internal memo) Ads and dumb-AI context: "This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete. As these experiences get more intelligent and delightful, the LinkedIn and Office 365 engagement will grow. And in turn, new opportunities will be created for monetization through individual and organization subscriptions and targeted advertising." (MSFT CEO, from MSFT internal memo) LinkedIn growth since Dec, 2008: "Our team has grown from 338 people to over 10,000, our membership from 32M to over 433M and our revenue from $78M to over $3 billion." (MSFT internal memo). Others from memo: Lydia training inline in MSFT apps; paid content in MSFT apps (a la Spiceworks); HR and recruiting. Deal PR deck - pretty good. I can see how the social graph and all the "semantic web sit" in LinkedIn, crossed with MSFT assets works well. One take on ads, doesn't like the Office angle, cause privacy, but oh wait: Google Apps and GMail It's the 1 dataset MS can keep out of Facebook and Google's hands. https://trackchanges.postlight.com/9-things-microsoft-could-do-with-linkedin-2aec55c2bc72#.iv7cofd13 "Microsoft could improve LinkedIn": Microsoft designs for people who have to do boring things with computers in order to make money. It's the 9–5 software vendor. Previous big acquisitions: Nokia for $7.2bn, Skype for $8.5bn, Xamarin for $400m. From 451 M&A coverage: I-banker stuff: "Microsoft will pay $196 per share to acquire LinkedIn, a 50% bump up from where it was trading ahead of the deal announcement, although well behind the $250 each share was worth in November. The price tag values LinkedIn at 8.2x trailing revenue." "The company [Microsoft] must find new ways to differentiate. Integrations with LinkedIn offer potential functionality that will be challenging to duplicate. When the two companies are joined, there will be multiple ways that LinkedIn's member network, and the data from that, will go into improving Microsoft's Office and Dynamics apps, besides the other benefits from running a combined company." "LinkedIn's tools for recruiters account for 58% of the $860m in revenue it generated in the first quarter of the year [so, $3.440bn run rate]. When combined with educational material from its Lynda.com acquisition, HCM tools make up 65% of sales. Tools for marketers and premium subscriptions (including its offering for sales teams) each make up less than 20% of the business, and are the slowest growing parts of the business." "Microsoft is the world's largest software developer, with about $100bn in sales and a $400bn market cap." I-Bankers rejoice! Tim Anderson inadvertantly makes a good case of CRM/HCM Private Equity buying Tech Companies Why private equity is buying up software companies The theory seems to be: SaaS companies are undervalued, and PE firms are looking to buy cheap assets and grow them, and re-exit them. This vs. the usual cut costs and re-exit then. Of course, Qlik and Ping aren't SaaS. Vista Acquires Ping Identity for

SPONSOR See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I’ll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. August 1st to 4th, SpringOne Platform – I’ll be talking on DevOps and generally hanging out with the cloud native folks. You can get $300 off registration when you use the code pivotal-cote-300. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording. Father’s Day It’s coming, June 19th. What should fathers be asking for? Time alone a la Nathaniel Fisher. The Buff, neck-ware thing: be like Kevin Rayburn. Aerobie AeroPress Coffee Maker with Tote Bag Tortuga one-bag backpack MesosCon Platform Infrastructure at Twitter: The Past, Present and - Future - Chris Pinkham, VP of Engineering, Twitter Forgot to talk about this, but here are my notes from the MesosCon presentation by Twitter Former Nimbula founder (Oracle acquisition), early AWS founder. Twitter's kinda big deal, maybe you've heard of them. Over 1000 services manage Twitter, over 1,000,000 cores. http://twitter.github.io Heron is a newly open-sourced replacement for Storm. Supporting all of our own code isn't sustainable, need an open source community. The Ellen Degeneres photo tweet from the 2015 Academy Awards knocked a couple of services over. 25% traffic spike, hit 255k/tweets per second. 2016 Academy Awards had 2x the traffic, no failures. 30,000 node Mesos cluster (probably largest). "We don't like being the biggest of anything, we find the edge cases." 130,000,000 containers launched daily. Some of their acquisitions were in public cloud, they don't move them in-house. They're actually pushing new services out to AWS where they can. Vine, TellApart, Crashlytics, MoPub, BlueFin, etc. Ad-serving is mostly in AWS. Users: Time Warner, Twitter (30,000 host deployment), Apple Siri. What exactly is scheduling? BMC CONTROL-M Coté gets Matt to "checks out" his crudes understanding. (Spoiler: Checks out.) Serverless, what’s the deal? Wardly hitches it to Cloud Foundry Mid-roll SpringOne Platform – get $300 off your registration with the code pivotal-cote-300! Discounts to DevOpsDays: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. Cloud Native Roadshows - all year long, in many cities globally. Check 'em out and come learn about Pivotal and Cloud Foundry for free, including some lunch. As always, see Crazy Coté’s Discount Codes and Special Promotions Big News From Chef Matt’s presenting at the Austin Cloud User Group Chef’s got a sales event on the 16th in Austin Leave us some comments and reviews in iTunes, or just tell your friends to listen. Also, talking to us in Twitter is better than all these things! (We just want to be loved.) BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show: Somebody’s using Kubernetes Hear the tale! Concur & Barkly Protects Both shops did customizations to the codebase (AWS AZ & ELB support, Prometheus) AWS & Australia News It went down Message from Amazon Coté’s revamped Pivotal Conversations Podcast First episode One in the can; iTunes feed Going to use SoundCloud. Let’s see how this goes! Typosquatting Package Managers Seriously messed up. “In the thesis itself, several powerful methods to defend against typo squatting attacks are discussed. Therefore they are not included in this blog post.” A Docker on every HPE Server Running on HPE Reference Architectures! HPE 3PAR and SiteScope plugins! Maybe Brandon can regale us with some history: tales of The Mercury Wars! Also, some ALM stuff. Sadly, I don’t have access to the IDC reports on this, however, they’re expecting big things: “IDC's analysis of this market resulted in worldwide agile application life-cycle management software 2014 revenue of $450.3 million, up 30.5% from the 2013 revenue of $345 million. IDC expects very strong growth for agile ALM software for the 2014–2019 time frame, with growth to $1.8 billion by 2019 and a high CAGR of 32%” erry-one doin’ it! What’s up with Chef’s ALM/CD stuff? Pivotal circle of code vision, with ConcourseCI. Recommendations Brandon: (1.) Listener Feedback: Amazon does let you have addenda, from Josh Hoover](https://twitter.com/joshuahoover/status/728921712486572032 ); (2.) App Store Announcements overview; (3.) Ben Thompson on how to make it in the media in 2016 Matt: Diaspora Coté: Follow-up: that machette works, but watch out for poison ivy. Also, try out @Wu_Tang_Finance to really freak 'em.

SPONSOR Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording. "Residential Diaper Rash" Shit's wet in Texas The right kind of rain Battling Billionaires Thiel-attack! Internet History podcast - Microsoft gets the internet and Microsoft at the Dawn of the Internet Era. Making money in open source Something about a16z and O'Grady's open source piece. ARM licensing. Battery Ventures conference - Mårten Mickos says RDS has probably made more money off MySQL than Oracle has. Mid-roll Chef's got something new soon Just wait 260 more hours SpringOne Platform, August 1st to 4th - speaker line-up announced, including Coté and some stars from LordsOfComputing.com (Matt and Brian). Discounts to DevOpsDays: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. More shit at https://cote.io/promos/. See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals and "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Notes from Corporate Strategy Land Qlik goes private - Thoma Bravo pays $3bn. Good summary of historic BI acquisitions from 451. Wither JasperSoft?: "On April 28, 2014, TIBCO announced it had acquired Jaspersoft for approximately $185 million." Court ruling on Dell going private - Coté has nothing to say about that. However, the story of going private in the first part of the 115 page court ruling is gripping stuff if you're into corporate strategy - it's a rare chance to see what happens in all these M&A deals. Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report Video of the presentation Quartz highlights Software is getting faster at eating the (ecommerce) world: "The time it takes retailers to get to $100 million in online sales is shrinking. It took Nike 14 years from the time its retail site launched, compared to nine years for Lululemon, and eight year for Under Armour." 213 slides of charts (PDF). BONUS LINKS! Ezra Klein on productivity loss Oracle loses their case against Google - APIs aren't copyrightable- Counter-view: "cartoon vision of the world" and "banana republics." AWS launches Flourish - Framework for serverless computing - Open up the ability to add new language runtimes Salesforce moving into AWS? - $400 million over 4 years - But what about Oracle? CoreOS launches Torus - GIFEE strikes again! Recommendations Matt: Weird history of fake bands in the 60s. #tronc. Coté: (1.) Weatherproof button-up shirts from CostCo. (2.) The old guy hair of Bloodline. (3.) Coach Taylor seem like a real nice guy. (4.) Provisional recommendation: Gerber Bear Grylls Parang Machete. Brandon: Tortuga Air - no more fear of gate-checking.

SPONSORS Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording. Cost Cutting Perks in Silicon Valley More from the snack-track files. Employees at Kabam, the online-gaming startup worth $1 billion, recently felt like there was a decrease in the number of office snack stands. Although the company denies it, some believe the snack stands are now placed more sporadically in order to reduce the employees' frequency of snack consumption by making it a little harder to get to them. No Uber in Austin Brandon sets us straight on the details. Coté defends the uber-haters. Will Containers Replace Hypervisors, Almost Certainly Yes TL;DR; is the title :) Randy Bias, the "pets vs. cattle" godfather, makes a strong case for hypervisors being on the way out. Once all the legacy apps are re-written to be in containers (cloud native) or decom'ed (you know, in the future), and we don't want to run multiple OSes (so don't need the driver handling that hypervisors give us)...no need for hypervisors. QED. Cloud chief Diane Greene on how Google can beat Amazon and Microsoft A brief interview "Q: How will Google differentiate against AWS and Microsoft? A: Only 5 percent of workloads are in the public cloud. Effectively you're riding another company's innovation curve for free. We've open-sourced a lot of technologies like Kubernetes and TensorFlow. As we add more features, we'll be able to share a lot more strengths with applications." - can OSS be used to attack on-premises cloud? Not in my tater salad! BONUS LINKS! Apprenda buys Kismatic "Apprenda will also take the lead in building out Windows support for Kubernetes, which has been Linux focused," said Sinclair Schuller, chief executive of Apprenda. Do you even pop-up, bro? Apprenda pivoted towards Kubernetes recently, Kismatic was building "Enterprise friendly" Kubernetes "Per Incident" pricing is really hard to scale. Perhaps Brandon has comments on open source business models. "[I]t is what most would call a dynamic market." Digging into Microsoft's Cloud Numbers Charts! Microsoft has something like $102.6bn cash on-hand. Smoke 'em if you got 'em! Internet Giants Resume Data Center Spending "Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook spent a combined $23 billion in 2015 on capital projects. During an investment flurry from 2011 to last year, the companies' combined capex nearly tripled." "Parsimony at Alphabet is all relative. The company's $9.9 billion in capital expenditures for 2015 was nearly more than the combined capex spending of Microsoft and Amazon." Facebook Sponsors the Republican National Convention The social network says its participation — which will include a lounge — should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any candidate, issue or political party. It plans to do the same at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Tell me more about this lounge… So, who's going to sponsor the RNC JumboTron for SDT? Nazis on Reddit! Never read the comments Recommendations Brandon: Y20U noise canceling headphones - cheap! and the full Area X triology on audible, for just one credit! Matt: Doing the Lord's work; super heros jumping Coté: Lomo al Trapo, aka, "towel meat.". Also fast.com. Also The Botanist gin.

This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal's funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn't hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the potential for peak ping pong. SPONSOR Get 30% off OSCON, in Austin on May 18th and 19th, when you register with the code REFERCOTE. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Get 20% off registration for the Cloud Foundry Summit, May 23rd to 25th, with the code CF16COTE. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording. Agile & Beyond Conference - Jeffrey Liker keynote. DevOpsDays Austin earlier this week. 500 to 600 people, +200 y/y Matt Ray's talk on compliance, Coté's talk. Pivotal gets a series C Press release $253 million with new investors Ford and Microsoft. Existing: GE, EMC, and VMware. Momentum by penetration: "30% of the Fortune 100 currently work with Pivotal… The company now works with seven of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the top five global auto manufacturers, and five of the top 10 telecommunication companies." Momentum by run-rate: "Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Big Data Suite having crossed the $200 million and $100 million annual bookings run-rate milestones, respectively." Momentum by logos: "GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate" "Person familiar" says Pivotal now has a $2.8bn valuation. From the same article, Ford's chunk is $182.2m. Gartner actually "likes" OpenStack OpenStack and Gartner: The Facts - Alan Waite Good representation of many things: how difficult it is to be "part of the conversation" with a paywall. The perception of Gartner is usually skewed Tip: always read the primary source, be it a Gartner PDF or a talk, etc. Ping Pong and the Tech Bubble? "Falling table-tennis sales give a peek into the economics of Silicon Valley, where the right to play on the job is sacrosanct" Seriously? No wonder people hate Silicon Valley Hey, look, it's the Pivotal SF offices! Love that chunky coconut water. More DevOpsDays Seattle next week, May 12th and 13th - Coté has an ignite talk there. Ignite talks Jeff Bezos weighs in on rewrites This anecdote has really stuck with me Recommendations Brandon: SaveFrom.net/ - save videos from the web. Matt: New Radiohead "Burn the Witch" DevOpsDays Austin speaker gifts. Coté: Lords of Computing #12 - with Brian Gregory of Express Scripts. I don't usually toot my own content horn, but this was a good episode. Also, that Elon Musk book by Ashlee Vance. It was $2 on Amazon the other day, so YOLO. Also: James Governor on an Apple Watch with an explosion behind him.

OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis. SPONSOR Ads Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal. FRONTSIDE.IO – HIRE THEM! Do you need some developer talent? When you have a web project that needs the "A Team," call The Frontside. They've spent years honing their tools and techniques that give their clients cutting-edge web applications without losing a night's sleep. Learn more at http://frontside.io/cote Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and such, here's what I got today: Get 30% off OSCON, in Austin on May 18th and 19th, when you register with the code REFERCOTE. Get 15% off DevOpsDays Seattle, May 12th and 13th, when you register with the code SOFTWARETALK. I'll be there staffing the Pivotal table and also giving an ignite talk. Get 20% off registration for the Cloud Foundry Summit, May 23rd to 25th, with the code CF16COTE. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording. Agile and Beyond conference OpenStack Coté's developer relations and marketing panel - see sample of questions. Big name membership momentum from @alsadowski Also, 451 market-size estimates: 2013: $486m; 2015: $1.2bn; 2018E: $3.37bn Docker Survey out - #WhatDoYouMakeOfThat Get the PDF Respondents are the HN set? - 511 respondents, 59% from software companies, 56% orgs less than 100 employees, 47% devs or dev managers 51% in production "survey respondents reported on average a 13X increase in frequency of software releases." "Because Docker makes it simple and easy to push software out, isolate issues and roll back, over 63% of organizations report a reduction in their MTTR which impacts overall software quality and customer satisfaction." Cloud about to get HUGE "CIOs report that 16.2% of workloads are currently running in the public cloud, and that in five years 41.3% of workloads will run in a public cloud. This suggests at least a 20% CAGR in public cloud workloads over the next five years. In our view, a near- tripling of the public-Cloud-based workload mix represents a monumental architectural shift, which shows no signs of abating and is likely to create a major ripple effect across the entire technology landscape." - "Amazon Seeing 'Momentous' Change of Guard as Public Cloud 'Booms,' Says JP Morgan" How does Wall Street work, again? A Rolex-level of "failure" Back of the Envelop podcast - where Ed used to teach Coté about how money works. Cisco OSpod podcast Dan Lyons book - candy walls and HubSpot. Feedback & Follow-up Full Snack Developer: Old Bay Seasoning on French Fries - that is Coté's new God. Mesos is fleet management. How's that one handle on the curves? Chapters in podcasts. I used Chapter app and it was better than the half-ass results with Fission. But, still, the marks didn't line up perfectly. Computers - amiright? (Don't get me wrong: Fission is awesome, but: really?) We should be in Google Play Podcasts - can someone verify this before they EOL it? I heard that two people have used the code CF16COTE to register for the CF Summit. I'm going to believe they're from the listeners here and not my newsletter. HOW YOU LIKE MY CPM NOW?! They love us in Brazil! Recommendations Brandon: TICKR heart-rate monitor. Matt: [Public cloud](www.slideshare.net/mattray/why-not-public-cloud). Also: renting your house is hard. Coté: OH YEAH!