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Ep 186Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”

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SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business” How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene. Sponsors Solarwinds Loggly This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . When there is a service disruption, seconds matter. Don’t waste time looking for logs or combing through endless screens of events. Let SolarWinds Loggly aggregate, manage, and analyze all your log data so you quickly spot issues, jump to the relevant event messages, and identify the root cause. And, the Loggly in-context integration with SolarWinds AppOptics ™ adds rich performance instrumentation and distributed tracing to further accelerate identification of root cause and significantly reduce MTTR. Spend less time troubleshooting and more time innovating with context in your logs. Loggly is scalable, cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Plus, SDT listeners get a special 20% off your first year of Loggly from now until September 30. Offer for new customers only. To try it FREE for 14 days just go to loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Coté: sit at a cafe in Paris and people watch. Special Guest: Nathen Harvey.

Jul 5, 201927 min

Ep 185Episode 185: Drink your own dog food

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Drink your own dog food No matter the searing product strategy insight, ops is always left holding the bag. With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check out and even use. All product management and strategy decisions flow from that. Usually. Except when they don’t. Also, developers don’t pay for anything, they trick ops into it. Maybe that’ll change in public cloud land, but who knows? Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! Also: Dark green smoothies. Immediate value. Gotta schedule a phone call to optimize phone calls. A light under a bushel. Free bread crumbs to the public cloud oven. Don't feel ashamed, everywhere else is fucked too, cf. Lean accounting. OpenShift too expensive, but no one actually checked the price. Slit your wrists with a business card. “DJ Pull Request.” Brandon’s organic trash matter. Kim did no approve this wallet. Relevant to your interests MongoDB CEO on Open Source, Taking on Oracle, and Scaling Up Huge fluctuations in database market-share. Get your Audible credits up-front…if you pay up-front. IBM gains unconditional EU approval for $34 billion Red Hat deal. Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does Slack CEO, ahead of NYSE debut, predicts the end of company email as we know it in 7 years Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today The Power of Costco Software Below the Poverty Line Deconstructing Balenciaga’s Wacky Instagram Nonsense Acquired Podcast about SuperHuman Nonsense Talk Like a Texan: This One’s for All Y’All Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail™. To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open. Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th Recommended Jobs from Listeners Check out GO CARDLESS. Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform Netflix. Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering Netflix. Chef - Community Manager. Platform Operations Engineer Aspect. Come work at Pivotal. Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides and Talk. Listener Feedback Charles from Greensboro, NC sent in some SDT theme music so we sent him stickers. Troy from San Mateo got some stickers this week. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: City of Austin Garbage Collection Reminders. Matt: “I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers.” Coté: Secrid (Coté got the “Vintage Cognac-Rust”). Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,”charleswhollien

Jul 1, 20191h 12m

Ep 184Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG

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Do organizations ever just want to do a good job? Not really. Also, after looking through a new developer survey: Developers change what they use, but pretty much stay the same. Also, half of the, still don’t use build pipelines or issue trackers. When will these kids learn? And Coté explains why Nietzsche’s Eternal Return thing seems unhelpful. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! Also: Pretty hard stop in an hour. Slack Messaging Transport Protocol and The Cold Chain Drum-circle free zone at Vondelpark! Like us on Facebook as we hate on Facebook As people would call it… bong talk. If I’m gonna do a good job I’m gonna need a good editor. Do .ini files still exist? Or has Microsoft gone all yaml? The back 1/3 of all sci fi movies and religions. Relevant to your interests The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic Only half use CI/CD? Been like that in surveys for many years, since 2012 or so. Also, only 44% use an issue tracker? Weird. Testing is pretty good with 70% doing unit testing. Kubernetes Turns Five: Cloud Native Goes Mainstream Open Core Summit 2019 This is a VC/startup conference, seems. Why cloud is the best defense against AWS I guess it’s some fanfic on OSS companies being good at running managed middleware services? Not too far fetched of an idea: they just need good SREs and the ability to reliably and cheaply run on public clouds. Kind of like selling against generics in grocery stores. Kubernetes and the future of cloud native: We chat with Kelsey Hightower TechExplorers: Kelsey Hightower Lots of people doing it wrong: gotta have cloud native apps; don’t build platforms? Apple joins the open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation The goal of digital transformation is outcomes, not engineering Coté just wanted to point out that this is a good newsletter. Listeners will like it, relevant to your interests. Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet - Pull Panda is joining GitHub Mission critical apps make successful open source platforms Really good write-up of the sales life-cycle for any type of infrasture software. Good attention to the whole life of a customer and paying attention total revenue across their “life,” e.g.:“A customer might spend 6 months scaling their deployment on their own. But if we could help them do that in 3 months, then we probably just pulled in our next sale by one quarter. “ What are the “average” prices for thing here? Analogously, you can bucket the pricing for all condemnts (with truffle oil being an outlier) in the $1 to $15 range. But not, like, $100. There must be some basic clusters of OSS pricing. (Expensive stuff is hard to sell in this funnel.) I suppose looking at avg. annual revenue per customer for all these OSS companies would get you there. “Bodies in Seats” - Facebook moderators Even FB outsources! Here to Cognizant. Seems terrible. Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop? Follow-up on Hortonworks acquisition, road-map confusion: ‘Cloudera was also dogged by other factors that resulted in a slowing of bookings in the quarter by existing customers, which represent more than 90 percent of the company’s usual growth, Reilly said during a conference call with Wall Street analysts yesterday. The merger with Hortonworks “created uncertainty, particularly regarding the combined company roadmap, which we rolled out in March of this year,” he said. “During this period of uncertainty, we saw increased competition from the public cloud vendors.”’ Nonsense Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades The machines are going to hate us English units Sponsor: Solarwinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open. Recommended Jobs from Listeners Vilynx - Building the most powerful AI Brain Listener Feedback Mark from Wimbledon (London, England) wrote in so we sent him laptop sticker. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Coté: Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs. Matt: 50 Things That Made the M

Jun 21, 201952 min

Ep 183Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind

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Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management. Also: Wacky tobaccy Seattle Smell Denver’s Flaming Skull Mayor Announces Plans To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms. Miller time is any time. Here’s how you’ll be disappointed. After the gold rush The dispassionate gang of four. Lifestyle businesses like IBM. Everyone overvalues the present. Spend $50 million here to make a billion there. The Super Mainframe. Talking points: Coté fell asleep. Ate too much French butter, had salt crystals in it, tho. Using wildcard emails for logins - pinboard guy on securing Congressional campaign. TED Talks. Father’s Day? (Yes, June 16th) What’s the position on booze now-a-days? Zoom.us works, like dropbox works. Why was that so hard? Passport photos and Skillcraft pens (a bit pricey in Europe). Relevant to your interests Salesforce to buy Tableau Software in $15.7 billion deal. This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace. Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds. Mozilla to Launch Firefox Premium. ceejbot/economics-of-package-management. “Money let’s talk about.” What’s driving open source software in 2019 GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO “Brescia handled COO duties at Bitnami from its founding in 2011 until it was sold to VMware last month.” Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL - huh? - Project Svalbard: The Future of Have. Forget power outages -- what happens when Google goes out? Pedant tone: compared to what? Zip drives? My own laptop that’s not backed up? A corporate email server that goes down? Not backing up my photos? Was any data lost? CrowdStrike prices IPO at $34, above range. No Easy Way Forward For Commercial Open Source Software Vendors. Software company MapR, once worth more than $1 billion, to lay off 122 I’ll be passing on Google’s new 2fa for logins on iPhones and iPads. Here’s why Food Fight Farewell. Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet Coté: Been reading up on “disruptions” in various industries. (I want to write a very practical, “here, put these features in your software/do these projects/etc.” kind of write-up for various industries.) Most of the the innovations and responses - “digital transformation” are just getting better apps. Like, power companies that charge annually, my life insurance company with PDFs. E.g., Lemonade doing a claim for a Canadian Goose jacket for $979 in 3 seconds, Zürich Insurance using AR with risk engineers…Pivotal stories aplenty. The framing is basically “use these opportunities to reframe their relationship with the customer, leveraging the principles of customer experience and, in turn, will change their key processes and operations to deliver the CX-centric utility.” That is, better customer service, faster sales transactions (buying, whatever) with the customers, and easier research/comprehension (test out how long it takes you to find the details of benefits for your credit card - look up the price you pay for water - see what your total return on your retirement investing is, etc.). THIS IS ALL GREAT! BUT WHY SO HARD? (IS IT HARD?) My theory: this stuff isn’t hard, it just costs money and time. And just like developers don’t want to pay for anything, executives don’t want to pay for anything. Turns out, though, when you pay for something you get, you know, something. LegacyConf day 3 keynote: 10 Government Legacy Systems Cost Taxpayers $337 Million Every Year. “How to Use Your Meat Buyer’s Guide” - SCHOOL IS IN SESSION. Nonsense NASA is opening the International Space Station to private astronauts. LaCroix slammed with new lawsuit alleging execs sparred over whether to falsely claim its cans were free of toxic chemicals. Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty. Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail™ To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open. Recommended Jobs from Listeners Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for consultants - Qemploy SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you fr

Jun 14, 20191h 10m

Ep 182Episode 182: It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software!

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It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software! Cloudera misses their forecast, Oracle and Microsoft team up on cloud computing and more open source licensing discussion. Plus, we try to make sense of the metric system once and for all! Relevant to your interests Open-Source ‘Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins Over Skeptics Reporter's Notebook: Trees, fiber, petition The boldest WWDC move: Sign In with Apple Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company An update on Sunday’s service disruption | Google Cloud Blog Why We're Relicensing CockroachDB - Cockroach Labs What's actually changing with iOS 13 Why the new Mac Pro makes sense Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds – TechCrunch Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion – TechCrunch Mad King Leo pulled the wool over HP shareholders' eyes, ex-CEO Whitman tells court Cloudera plummets 40% after CEO abruptly departs and company cuts forecast Mongo Q1 Numbers ## Nonsense Microsoft is making Xbox body wash “what does Xbox smell like? Microsoft says the answer is fruit, herbs, and various styles of wood.” ## Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their web APM tools: Loggly®. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open. Recommended Jobs from Listeners Director of Product for Poppulo Waltham, MA SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt: Deadwood Brandon: This Land

Jun 7, 20191h 4m

Ep 181Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone

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You can now pay open source developers directly, well, those in the closed beta. Seems like a good idea, really. Also, the Commonwealth and Friends club doesn’t like Huawei, and thought lords can be bores. Hey! Want to get Coté’s book, a collection of writing on DevOps, agile, and THE DIGITAL? Go to leanpub.com/digitalwtf and use the code SDT to get $20 off Digital WTF, so $5 total. And, if you want a free copy, contact Coté and tell him you’ll help market it (advertise it, put it in Twitter, by post to your uncle, whatever!) and he’ll send you a code for a free copy. Also: What kind of hippy were you, Coté? Any whistles? Low-tech rave. 3 slides in Guam. Thought-acting. New hire announcements need to be auto-deleted. Not for you. I can assure you conference organizers… I am not polished. YAML for good. No YAML for payment. It’s going to be more than $10,000 for LDAP. Can’t tell if I like American Gods, but I keep reading/watching it. German crossbow guys, aka, crossbow bolt cult in Germany. A crossbow only does d4 of damage. Every time I log into Skype there's an upgrade. British people totally into yelling at their kids. Relevant to your interests Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source “.github/FUNDING.yml” Never mind total committers/LoC, now you can boast on cash-money given. ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs The Tech Cold War Has Begun How to thought lead — Twitter Thread Shingy’s Wikipedia page is up for deletion David Shing Adam Jacob at ChefConf Why no Docker Splunk adds 400 enterprise customers in Q1, ups outlook What’s the deal with Splunk (and, sort of, ServiceNow)? Are they just the new normal that everyone buys, the new “legacy” and/or “lock-in as too expensive?” Also, like, maybe they work really well…? Containers, microservices, and service meshes “~jpetazzo/index” - the World Wide Web! Jesus - why the fuck isn’t this just built into how networking works? Was SDN too expensive, or something? “it made more sense to build a new proxy than to extend an existing one” - ladies and gentlemen: the story of open source. So. Basically, with a local proxy and distributed hashmap you can cloud? Am I reading this right? We should add another layer on-top of all of this in some kind of framework hand-slapping game? “One approach that has a lot of potential is to use a tool like SuperGloo. SuperGloo offers an abstraction layer to simplify and unify the APIs exposed by service meshes.” Elsewhere: “The service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication in order to make it visible, manageable, and controlled.” Paging Dr. Alexa: Hospitals call on voice assistants, envisioning ‘massive’ impact on healthcare The usual AI/ML speech stuff. Also, getting Alexia to turn the TV on for you: “By the way, I don’t think nurses also like to come and turn on the TV for you,” Gholami said. “They want to care for you. They want the emotional connection part.” Coté: I was using the IVR for a rental car company recently. I mean, it was an IVR, really annoying. Voice is bullshit. Why so much “science” used in design is bullshit: Android, Losada and Frankfurt. Enterprise DevOps Company CloudBees Raises $10 Million Pivotal adds support for open Java in latest release Facebook plans to launch crypto-currency Palo Alto Networks to acquire container security startup Twistlock for $410M The World Health Organization officially recognizes ‘burnout’ Tech giant brings software to a gun fight Nonsense LaCroix faces a crippling 'free fall' as it turns 'from bad, to worse, to disastrous,' analyst says. Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail™. To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt: After Life & Dead to Me. Brandon: Dead to Me on Netflix. Coté: The Fine Art of Small Talk, excerpts in Coté’s Twitter. Listener recommendation from Jordi: Humble Book Bundle: Hacking 2.0

Jun 3, 20191h 18m

Ep 180Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”

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Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more about tacos, always tacos! Relevant to your interests ChefConf Highlights Habitat in your dashboards, Habitat + Chef/InSpec and chef.io/migration DJ Darek Mazzone Mudhoney + Deep Sea Diver Kube stuff At peak hype? Kubernetes hopes to survive the boom and bust cycles of cloud services Apptio, Inc Announces Intent To Acquire Cloudability Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability Digital Ocean’s Kubernetes service is now generally available Security New research: How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking Over 10 million people hit in single Australian data breach: OAIC | ZDNet How do high-tech services outsmart ransomware? Often, by paying the ransoms Building Software How Netflix Thinks of DevOps Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech The Problem with Software: A Conversation With Former Microsoft Programmer Adam Barr Grab Bag U.S. regulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange Data collected by connected cars ends up with carmakers, not consumers Google attempts to shed light on the confusing 'Works with Nest' to 'Works with Google Assistant' transition HP Enterprise acquires supercomputer maker Cray in the race to "exascale" performance Nonsense New Board Game Uses All Your Other Unopened Board Games as Resource Tokens Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: American Gods Season 2 Brandon: Facebook Marketplace Image Credit

May 24, 20191h 7m

Ep 179Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin

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I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles. Opening comments: The intersection between business books and dog vomit. Democracy sausage. Coté can’t get extra pickles. Let me close out this topic of pickles. It’s not Burger King. Enterprise Salespeople don’t get tattoos T-shirt currency arbitrage. Literally misspelled responsibility Tacos and IT transformation 7 layer burrito of IT transformation. BSD and Linux are the same, right? (Don’t email me.) Don’t watch Coté’s old videos. Did the cat walk on your keyboard? Relevant to your interests VMware to acquire Bitnami: VMware’s desires: “Upon close, Bitnami will enable our customers to easily deploy application packages on any cloud— public or hybrid—and in the most optimal format—virtual machine (VM), containers and Kubernetes helm charts. Further, Bitnami will be able to augment our existing efforts to deliver a curated marketplace to VMware customers that offers a rich set of applications and development environments in addition to infrastructure software.” Coté: so Bitnami is a thing that packages up software for you in (VMs?) containers and stuff, maybe with some Helm chart stuff for deploying to kubernetes? And a service that manages them in EC2? Jay@451: “The acquisition will also help VMware support applications in various forms – including VMs, containers and Kubernetes Helm charts – across the different infrastructures. With Bitnami, VMware is also positioned to support ISVs and open source software components with Bitnami's catalog of curated, secured, certified components.” “VMware says it has acquired Bitnami for its multi-cloud competency and its Kubernetes expertise. VMware's acquisitions of CloudVelox, Heptio and CloudHealth have signaled its appetite for multi-cloud and Kubernetes.” The New Stack coverage: “Monocular, a service described by Bitnami as an open source search and discovery frontend for Helm Chart repositories.” https://thenewstack.io/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami-the-app-marketplace-platform-and-container-packager/ Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition? Coté’s collection of interesting bits, including: “This was effectively taking a WebSphere e-commerce monolith with an Oracle RAC database, and moving it, and modularising it, and putting it into AWS.” “’Today, we run about 80 per cent of our groceries online with EC2, and 20 per cent is serverless.’ In total, the company migrated more than 7TB of data into the cloud. As a result, or so Jordan claimed, the mart spends 30 per cent less on infrastructure, and regularly sees a 70-80 per cent improvement in performance of interactions on the website and batch processing.” Australian $50 bills Symantec CEO Greg Clark steps down, stock drops GitHub Package Registry: Your packages, at home with their code JFrog and Sonatype watch out How Windows and Chrome quietly made 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop It’s time for another installment of Coté’s Pedantry on Market Share Analysis (tm). Windows ships a Linux in a nifty VM. Chromebook market share was ~13% in Gartner’s 2016Q4 estimates (based on 9.4m Chromebooks shipped out of 72.6m laptops total). Meanwhile, Gartner estimates that something like 2bn mobile devices (phones and tablets) were shipped in 2016. Gartner said shipments for “PCs, tablets and mobile phones” was 2.33bn in 2016 (if I read the press release right - something around those numbers). …if you run-rate the Chromebook Q4 (which is very kind since Christmas and corporate end-of-year spending is in Q4), you get 2016 shipments of 37.6m Chromebooks. So, out of all types of computing devices, Chromebooks are, like 37.6m out of 2.3bn, or ~2%, right? Clearly: LINUX DESKTOP VICTORY! (I guess you could throw MacOS in there, but those who’d care say that was BSD or something, right? Even if you do throw them in and do *nix market share, what’s it like? Gartner says 2018Q4 Apple share was 7.2%, so add in Chromebooks and we’re at 9.2% - round it up for shits and giggles, and we’re at 10%. That anything?) iOS - FreeBSD? Google now lists playable podcasts in search results ParkMyCloud is Now Part of Turbonomic - ParkMyCloud Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech It’s the new Spotify Culture! Oppressive countries used a newly-discovered WhatsApp flaw to spy on activists The red hot 'FAANG' trade is officially over, now bet on your fellow 'MAAN' FOSDEM 2019 - The clusterfuck hidden in the Kubernetes code base Microsoft warns wormable Windows bug could lead to another WannaCry Suggested headline: “Wutzit! Washington Windows Wunderkin Wonder Why Worms WannaCry” Google replaces its Bluetooth security keys because they can be accessed by nearby attackers New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011 Google is about t

May 16, 20191h 17m

Ep 178Episode 178: What is this: a fucking <marquee/> tag?

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Putting together the M&A case for Docker, Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Oracle’s cloud grudge. Plus: The Most Expensive Free Dog in the World. Dead frogs tell no tales. It’s just me and the dog. Smart enough not to go up the stairs, dumb - enough to think the eggs are coming back. Is Docker the new MySQL. Most valuable, unrealized container brand: Google. JEDI grudge. Nihilism, greatly underrated. Relevant to your interests Announcing Docker Enterprise 3.0: Delivering High-Velocity Application Innovation A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom Department of Justice approves $34B IBM acquisition of Red Hat How Airbnb took over the world Canonical Sharpens Focus on Red Hat, VMware; IPO Plans Remain RHEL 8 released: It's the last pre-IBM Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux 8.0 release notes - Red Hat Customer Portal Salesforce acquires Tel Aviv-based conversational AI startup Bonobo for a reported $50 million Bucking a trend of rapid growth, Microsoft actually shuts down an Azure data center Microsoft Build: Microsoft Botched Its First HoloLens Demo of Build 2019 Microsoft Build 2019: the biggest news from the developer conference Microsoft Build Day 1: Windows Subsystem For Linux Gets More Linux Spatial - Collaborate from anywhere in Augmented Reality Minecraft mobile AR game teased, full reveal coming May 17 Microsoft Edge gets IE mode tabs and better security control Google I/O 2019 The 8 biggest announcements from the Google I/O 2019 keynote What is Uber? Forget the sharing economy – it's just a libertarian scam 10 Most Interesting Announcements From Microsoft Build Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys In gambling mecca, Dell’s founder offers evidence that big bets on multicloud, AI and edge will pay off Marketing Daily: Study: Voice Assistants Far From Hot Marketplace For Buying Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO Google launches Portals, a new web page navigation system for Chrome Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise OpenShift 4: Red Hat's on ramp for the hybrid cloud After two years as Docker CEO, Steve Singh steps down, Rob Bearden steps in Nonsense Red Hat employees permanently inked with new company logo Parent of Schick razors to buy shaving start-up Harry’s for $1.37 billion Bird has a new electric scooter: it’s durable, comes in three different colors, and you can buy it ## Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their web APM tools: Loggly®. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: Paris (May 23rd & 24th), San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Listener Feedback Dominic Wellington who Coté interviewed got a new job so we sent him some new stickers. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop sticker!s Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Coté: UK Hailstorm, will it work this time? Original HailStorm, circa 2002. HailStorm revisited/renamed in the Identity 2.0 era. And now? FB and Google authentication, I guess? (Also, remember this presentation that launched a million single word per slide talks?) Matt: Fleabag Season 2 (BBC/Amazon); Word for the week: Acedia. Brandon: Episode 908: I Am Not A Robot and Overcast Clipping.

May 9, 20191h 19m

Ep 177Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”

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Microsoft and VMware made peace, Java goes native, Apache goes to Github and Red Hat gets a new logo. Plus, Matt Ray explains why the Internet in Australia is slow. Relevant to your interests Can Google Cloud Revenues Reach $20 Billion by 2020? Microsoft, Dell unveil new Azure-VMware integrations Dell Technologies and Microsoft expand partnership with new VMware Solutions The Apache Software Foundation has moved all its projects to Microsoft GitHub Red Hat's Quarkus Brings Natively Compiled Java to Kubernetes Project Quarkus, Kubernetes-native Java Announcing k3OS: A Kubernetes Operating System Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community Here's Red Hat's new logo – why change? 'A much different company' today Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement (AMZN) Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses Washington Legislature Passes 30-day Data Breach Notification Law Jenkins is Getting Old Alphabet's stock tanks with analysts asking, 'Hey Google, what happened to revenue growth?’ A Cloud Guru raises $33M to guide companies into the cloud | Built In Austin F8 2019 keynote in 12 minutes Apple Engineering Leader Handling 5G Efforts Leaves Company Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years Alphabet Investor Relations Remote Code Execution on most Dell computers Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers Nonsense Airports and the TSA are gearing up for the Real ID deadline. You should be, too ‘Suspicious Object’ Leads Police To Shut Down State Street … But It Was Just A Can Of Chef Boyardee On Wheels Sponsors To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to http://papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: Paris (May 23rd & 24th), San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: The Roman Mars Mazda Virus Emacs in Rust Clippers’ Postgame Interview on Kevin Durant Brandon: Jeopardy! Listener Recommendation: Python Humble Bundle Image credit Header Image Cover Art

May 3, 20191h 0m

Ep 176Episode 176: This used to be something I have, now it’s something I know.

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Airports, the challenges of the CI/CD market, authentication woes. Plus: “Why don’t you just do this.” 86.1 degrees. The cold side of the pillow. Relevant to your interests Apple Watch authentication expanding beyond unlocking your Mac in macOS 10.15. IBM is preparing to close its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, but Wall Street has 'real question marks' after its 'mediocre' quarter. IBM pulls the plug on drug-discovering Watson AI. Fastly Going Public — Here is the S1. How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer Jessie Frazelle on Anthos. Check out Weird Trick Mafia podcast too. Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon's cloud every month, making it a top AWS customer: “The company has said in the past that it uses AWS for iCloud storage but has not disclosed whether any other Apple services use AWS or other third-party clouds.” NPM is Not Particularly Magnanimous? Staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints. Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp. How to Calculate Your Innovation’s Odds of Success. Whole lotta CI/CD goin’ on CloudBees acquires software automation startup Electric Cloud, French coverage. Jay@451’s summary: “Given the sprawl of tools and platforms for enterprise DevOps and CI/CD software releases, CloudBees' purchase of Electric Cloud represents a welcome consolidation in the industry. It also continues DevOps M&A that began with JFrog's acquisition of Shippable earlier this year. The deal should also have a broad impact on enterprise DevOps since CloudBees – backer of the widely used Jenkins CI server – will add release management, orchestration, automation and other aspects of CD from Electric Cloud, a leading enterprise DevOps specialist. The combined offerings should help provide feedback for enterprises throughout CI/CD release processes, enabling and enhancing feedback loops that are critical to successful DevOps implementations. The move may also help both vendors address the use of cloud-native software such as containers and Kubernetes, as well as hybrid cloud infrastructures that span on-premises, public and private cloud environments.” Electric Cloud has ~110 employees, CloudBess ~400. Harness raises $60 million to automate continuous app delivery with machine learning: “brings Harness’ total raised to around $80 million and values the company at $500 million, will be put toward R&D and hiring, said CEO Jyoti Bansal — particularly on the development, sales, and customer success side of the business.” (So, not marketing, HR, or finance.) Nonsense 'Jeopardy' winner James Holzhauer is likely shaking up the game show's budget Sponsors This is sponsored by Solarwinds Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: Paris (May 23rd & 24th), San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Jobs posted in the SDT Slack Riot Games L.A. based Systems Engineers and Software Engineers ## SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Coté: Check out Weird Trick Mafia podcast too. Anti: worth sticking to your carrier even if there’s a code-share flight at better time. Brandon: The OA, Season 2.

Apr 26, 20191h 2m

Ep 175Episode 175: “I’m still not going to learn Celsius.”

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With Matt Ray out sick, Coté and Brandon discuss what the Pentagon’s JEDI contract means for cloud vendors, PagerDuty going public and what exactly do developers need to know about Kubernetes. Plus, Coté offers parenting advice on how to handle the no “free drink refills” policy in Europe. Relevant to your interests Simplifying identity and access management of your employees, partners, and customers Expanding Google Cloud AI to make it easier for developers to build and deploy AI Powering enterprise transformation: Announcing new additions to Google Cloud Networking Enterprise databases, managed for you Making Google Cloud the best place to run your Microsoft Windows applications Announcing Cloud Code—accelerating cloud-native application development A TurboTax-backed bill is on track to ensure your tax headache doesn’t go away Google Cloud Next 2019 IBM and Oracle are out of the running for $10 billion government cloud contract Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration Uber’s S-1 Uber files for what could be one of the 10 largest IPOs of all-time Silicon Valley's startup gamble faces employee scrutiny PagerDuty Hits $1.8 Billion Valuation At IPO—Here's Why It Had Doubters Early On Disney says new streaming service will launch November 12 for $7 SolarWinds buys Samanage Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO Introducing Gitpod – Frictionless Coding on GitHub Five thing when open sourcing proprietary software Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years IBM stock slips after revenue shortfall Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption Amazon and Google Announce Official YouTube Apps to Launch on Fire TV; Prime Video App Coming to Chromecast and Android TV Last year healthcare had more cybersecurity breaches than any other industry — and it will likely intensify Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT pros expect its presence to double by 2020 Revising its IT spending forecast, Gartner warns of slower growth across all segments Nonsense Robot dogs pulling a semi truck? Here's the deal Permanent daylight saving time passes state Senate 46-2; here’s what’s next Sponsors SolarWinds AppOptics: to learn more or try it free for 14 days visit http://appoptics.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. April 11th, 2019 - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Jobs posted in the SDT Slack Autosoft is hiring Software Engineers — Remote friendly Professor Jermey from Illinois Tech in Chicago is hiring two Adjunct Faculty for a 16 week class, 1 night a week teaching NodeJS and Web REST API development. You need a Masters Degree in any subject. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Coté: Monolithic Transformation now in Safari, but you should still lead-gen yourself to get a free copy. Digital WTF, get $10 off until next episode with this link. Boterkoek/boterpunt: “The tastiest butter cake in the Netherlands cut into bite-sized points. Naturally prepared with an abundance of real butter.” Brandon: Work Life with Adam Grant, The office without a**holes

Apr 19, 20191h 2m

Ep 174Episode 174: The multi-hybrid kubernetes cloud control plan, just in time for MOM!

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With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs, but who has time for that? Relevant to your interests A 3-year-old boy repeatedly entered the wrong password, locked up his dad’s iPad until 2067 Anthos | Google Cloud Anthos docs New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook to help catch up to Amazon and Microsoft Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure Analysts get hot under collar as ex-Oracle cloud guru ditches corporate wardrobe for Google Collaboration with Anaconda, Inc. "Open source" companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure Jeff Bezos retains control of Amazon after divorce Microsoft Introduces Azure Front Door, a Scalable Service for Protecting Web Applications - Pinterest sets IPO terms below last private valuation AWS CEO Andy Jassy Drills Down On Cloud Adoption And Amazon’s Culture Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English Netflix axes Apple AirPlay support Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports massively overstate broadband adoption Tech Company Drops Conference Swag in Favor of 13,000 School Donations Slack integration with Office 365 one more step toward total enterprise integration Nonsense Japanese Hotel Launches Unnecessary $900 Burger to Celebrate New Emperor Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today GPS Rollover is today. Here’s why devices might get wacky Interview Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob on this week’s Software Defined Interviews. Great discussion about his experience starting Chef and Chef’s decision to make 100% of products open source. Sponsors To learn more or try it free for 14 days visit http://appoptics.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. April 11th, 2019 - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Coté: The Tick, season 2. Brandon: Apple iPad Pro First Gen Outro: Can't fix the car without a whole lotta milka, Kids in the Hall.

Apr 11, 20191h 10m

Ep 173Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage

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IBM Watson didn’t work so well in health care, maybe it was too early. Also, Chef goes full open source, with Apache 2. Meanwhile, Coté has to pay taxes in two countries. Plus: My dog’s in a cone right now. I gotta go play some video games. This is not premium content. There’s a Ted talk in here. I like my science fiction truck-stoppy. You can go nuts with the code, where ever you like. You are taco-eating hologram. Molemite is the worst. Relevant to your interests How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware BMC brings back Beauchamp as interim CEO Fine-Grained Sandboxing with V8 Isolates Hitting Microsoft's metal: SUSE flings Enterprise Linux at SAP HANA on Azure TOC Votes to Move OPA into CNCF Incubator - Cloud Native Computing Foundation Google stuff Google Cloud launches fixed monthly fee plan for storage that smooths out cloud cost bursts Gmail can schedule messages to send them at a better time Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network Chef stuff Chef’s Different Recipe Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish Chef FAQ Making sense of a crazy year in open source Chef Software Open Source Communities Facebook will stop asking new users for their email passwords Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Apple Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen Cloud Foundry :heart: Kubernetes. Nonsense Elon Musk drops surprise rap single about Harambe. Finance World Faces Chaos As Patagonia Rejects Orders Of Corporate Power Vests. Microsoft gives up on US Excel Pros. Doin’ OK, gotta whole lotta milka. Sponsors Solarwinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools: AppOptics™. It’s SaaS-hosted, easy to manage, and budget friendly. Learn more, or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://appoptics.com/sdt . Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. April 11th, 2019 - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Listener Feedback Daryl from Pennsylvania starred SDT in Overcast so I sent him the last Gray T-Shirt Matthew from Boca Raton, FL wrote a Twitter review for the show, which is genius so I sent him the last T-shat. Thanks to everyone who supported the show by buying a T-Shirts, writing on a review or telling a friend. Karl from Gainesville, VA tell us” Love it when you three are back together.” and so he got stickers Richard from Rotterdam in the Netherlands tell us we are representing the Enterprise well and I sent him some stickers. Clive from Brooklyn, NY got some stickers are promises to spread the word in his local coffee shops! SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Coté: Drafts for macOS; Patagona 3-in-1 Tre’s Parka still good; “The Challenge of Going off Mind-drugs”; related, “Useful Hippie.” Matt: American Made, Mute, and Cloverfield Paradox **are perfectly fine airplane movies. Brandon: Go NFC East and Blackout podcasts.

Apr 5, 20191h 4m

Ep 172Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler

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There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers. Plus: USB-C. Fuck that shit. Don’t read the comments. Don’t throw out the executives with the bathwater. They’re using 1/24th of their ass Sometime in the future, I am going to be awesome! If I have a rock question I’ll ask you. Things aren’t too expensive, you’re just not getting enough value from them. Light a fire in an air-tight room. Outrun the bear. Relevant to your interests Zoom IPO Oracle Trims Staff During Difficult Transition to Cloud Services Oracle reportedly axes hundreds or more staff from its engineering teams Kubernetes 1.14 Adds Windows and Storage Support, Is Light on Sec OnAll the Game Streaming Services Google Stadia Is Up Against Apple Has A New Credit Card. Here’s What You Need To Know. Debunking the open source sustainability myth Oracle customers fear Oracle's reaction if they use Amazon's or Microsoft's cloud, survey shows Red Hat reports mixed Q4 ahead of IBM merger Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email Azure Data Box family meets customers at the edge AWS App Mesh - Application-level networking for all your services - Amazon Web Services Europe splits the internet into three Microsoft Unveils Azure Backup for SQL Server Mary Jo Foley covers Microsoft in depth, like, for years. Bi-modal IT, according to Gartner. Nonsense Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress WOW airlines (Iceland) shuts down. Too cheap? Micro-topic/follow-up: the MacBook Air I have is noticeably slow with some things, e.g., unlocking 1Password, loading pptx's, etc. Sponsor: Solarwinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools: AppOptics™. It’s SaaS-hosted, easy to manage, and budget friendly. Learn more, or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://appoptics.com/sdt . Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. April 11th, 2019 - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Cote: Patagona 3-in-1 Tre’s Parka. My blog, cote.io, it’s back! Bruce Sterling talks - I realized that me aping his style causes the style problems people give me notes on, i.e., jokes flying by without time to laugh at them, insiderisms, etc. FUCK IT, DUDE, LET’S BOWL! Matt: “offline macos netflix. Also, The Culture Map by Erin Meyer. Outro: “Emmylou,” First Aid Kit.

Mar 29, 20191h 16m

Ep 171Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update

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Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update SUSE is independent again, so we discuss what’s up with it and its uses. Open source, when mixed with business, is back once again: Coté craves some intellectual closer. Also, Google announced some big game platform thing. So. Chips? Tradies! Not these ones. Yes, these ones. Relevant to your interests SUSE is once again an independent company The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg Coté’s still not sure what the tidy-bow story is here. AMD stock spikes after Google confirms partnership for new video game streaming service Meanwhile, fined a lot of money (below). No one cares? Stadia: Google’s gaming service and hardware announcement, keynote, and details https://twitter.com/_js/status/1108460711854764032 Amazon Lumberyard stuff Announcing Istio 1.1 Google hit with €1.5 billion antitrust fine by EU New Google project offers Kubernetes building blocks for CI/CD I’m gonna need a map. The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 Nonsense Beto the hacker…? FringeWare! Schwa! Gone are those days. Musicians are freaking out after learning Myspace lost 50 million songs How the Internet Travels Across Oceans Sponsors Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only XL remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send Job of the week from Slack Netflix is looking for an SRE via Ryan Kitchens System and Backend Engineer at Graphext via Jordi Chef has lots of jobs via Matt Ray SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Cote: Amish balloons. Even more! Brandon: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley The Marvel guy. The Tavi Gevinson impression Matt: 100 Strong Manly

Mar 22, 201959 min

Ep 170Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch

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Look what you made me do Elasticsearch NGINX gets bought, AWS and Elasticsearch are fighting, and why are there so many tech foundations? All this and more on this week’s episode. Plus, Matt Ray tells us how he survived the Facebook outage. Relevant to your interests NGINX to Join F5 Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch Free Software is the only winner in Elastic NV vs AWS Introducing the Continuous Delivery Foundation, the new home for Tekton, Jenkins, Jenkins X and Spinnaker The Linux Foundation Launches New CommunityBridge Platform to Help Sustain Open Source Communities - The Linux Foundation Senator Warren’s Here’s how we can break up Big Tech Stratechery’s Response Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Requirements Management, QA Management | Polarion Software Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private Five Acquisitions You May Have Missed - IT Jungle Node.js and JS foundations are merging to form OpenJS Nonsense United States citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021 LaCroix CEO blames poor sales on insecticide lawsuit, calls it "injustice” Amazon stops selling Dash buttons, goofy forerunners of the connected home Scientists have discovered a shape that blocks all sound–even your co-workers Sponsors Solarwinds AppOptics To learn more or try it free for 14 days visit http://appoptics.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only XL remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send Job of the week Magento Sr. Product Marketing Manager SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Pluggable Active DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 Adapter Matt: Test Kitchen/Vagrant Remote Shell and File Editing with Emacs' TRAMP Mode

Mar 15, 20191h 1m

Ep 169Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors

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Nobody’s going to take it over, sorry startups! The 4 Horsemen of Configuration Management They need Java in Cincinnati. The Mongols have no wine. Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf. Relevant to your interests Red Hat launches Operator Hub, a repository of quality-tested Kubernetes Operators Bitbucket Simplifies Building CI/CD Pipelines with Pipes - The New Stack DevOps consolidation continues with JFrog and Shippable The Digital Maginot Line Former Kaspersky Lab Expert Sentenced in Russia for Treason Amazon Web Services CEO: We're a $30 billion revenue run rate business in the 'early stages’ Data manager DataStax prepares for IPO: sources The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT What happened to OpenStack Chronicle: Can I Get The Backstory? and more on Backstory RIP passwords | Product Hunt Phone numbers are the new SSNs - NSA's new cybersecurity tool State of Open Source Security report 2019 Lyft has to pay Amazon's cloud at least $8 million a month until the end of 2021 Build your own Data Center….It is going to cost you? Introducing Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry Nonsense Tesla launches long-awaited standard Model 3 starting at $35,000 Luminary. A better way to podcast Farm Sim Steering Wheels, Side Panels, Shifters for Farm Simulator Games | Logitech G Sponsors Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20 ## Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only XL remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send Listener Feedback Justin Garrison told us the Kubecon Keynote mentioned on last week’s episode was by Julia Evans a.k.a @b0rk who works at Stripe and here’s a list of her talks. CodeRanch Review by Rookie SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Coté: Uniqlo MEN HEATTECH EXTRA WARM LONG JOHNS. Brandon: Big Little Lies Matt: Death’s End by Liu Cixin

Mar 9, 20191h 4m

Ep 168Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear

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There’s a lot of notions about what IT executives actually want to hear in a presentation. It turns out that, like all of us, they just want to hear what they want to hear. Also, is kubernetes really a platform for building platforms, or just a platform? More topics: We can’t talk about blockchain until you’ve done your digital transformation. The Car Wash EBC. Dutch bread. The outcome is that my daughter is no longer hungry. No one ever likes the website. DevRel is Standup. I never get to the part where I deprecate myself. This sandwich is shelf-ware. She looks Australian. Relevant to your interests Now Available – Five New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances: M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and z1d | Amazon Web Services Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition Add It Up: C-suite Doesn't Have a Clue About App Dev Red Hat's Hidden Treasure - Avalia - Software Due Diligence Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries New VMware Kubernetes product comes courtesy of Heptio acquisition VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser Rancher Labs strips Kubernetes to its bare essentials for edge computing Google’s hybrid cloud platform is now in beta Top ten most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities Rule Thinkers In, Not Out The Value Chain Constraint Microsoft combines AI and humans to boost cloud security with Azure Sentinel and Threat Experts Is it time to be afraid of IBM again? Questionable marketing decisions…? Slack has decided to somehow make its icon even duller and less notable USB 3.0 & USB 3.1 merger into USB 3.2 branding by overseers further confusing USB-C Sponsors Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23 Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Abducted in Plain Sight. Matt: Anti-recommendation: The Discovery of Witches. - Coté: “Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey.” Iceland, sure - you should go. The Story/Saga of Burnt Njal.

Mar 1, 20191h 9m

Ep 167Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”

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Google goes enterprise, Time to upgrade Win 2008, Redis changes licenses again. All this and more in this episode. Plus, Matt explains good parenting to Brandon. Relevant to your interests Google makes $13 billion worth of cloud plans for 2019 Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma Google emits a beta of Cloud Service Platform to entice hold-outs with hybrid goodness Google's .dev domains now available for a cool $11k, sensible pricing due later this month Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret’ AT&T signed an '8-digit' deal that isn't good news for VMware, Cisco, or Huawei — but could be great for Google Cloud Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway dumped its stake in Oracle after just one quarter There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology Open source startup Redis Labs raises $60 million and starts planning for an IPO, as it takes a stand against Amazon Web Services Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again TravisCI Acquired, Layoffs 1 month later CNCF Annual Report Chef Hires Cloud Industry Veteran Goldfarb GitLab Bolsters C-Suite, Hires Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer Sponsors Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Early bird pricing ends February 28th! Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: The Dropout,Vanity Fair Article, Bad Blood Matt: HazeOver for reducing distractions on MacOS

Feb 22, 20191h 0m

Ep 166Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"

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Matt makes his return! What do vendors mean by “multi-cloud” and “digital transformation.” Could Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory apply to the public cloud? We discuss all of this and offer more advice on tacos. Relevant to your interests Google open sources ClusterFuzz With new security tools, Google looks to reduce the impact of data breaches CNCF Dev Stats Dashboards CNCF Annual Report Amazon Dropping out of NYC Ultimate Software Sells for $11 Billion - Workforce The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy Full Q&A: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber explain why they sold Gimlet to Spotify Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer Chef Hires Cloud Industry Veteran Goldfarb Exponent Podcast on Gimlet Media Sponsors Plastic SCM Get your t-shirts at http://plasticscm.com/sdt. Listen to the New Stack Makers Interview with Plastic SCM Founder Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. ChefConf 2019 May 20-23 Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Recommendations Brandon: Who is Michael Ovitz and the Jeff Meyerson interview Matt: Pecans. Criminally underrated nut. Coté: Bring duffle bag on every trip Surveillance Capital Photo credit

Feb 15, 201949 min

Ep 165Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support

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Should you pay for Java support? Now you get to decide! It’s more kindle for the lock-in fire. Also, some uninformed commentary on “surveillance capitalism.” Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Relevant to your interests Oracle Will Charge for Java Starting in 2019. What was Java treated like way back in the mid-2000s Sun days? Should you pay for this kind of thing? It seems like the answer is just to run an OpenJDK version (Oracle even has one) or pay for support. With OpenJDK you have to do updates/patches yourself…but, then, that’s why you don’t have to pay for it. Pay for it, and you’re paying someone else to worry about that. Forrester Report: “The new subscription's prices for Oracle Java SE support — $25 a month per server core and $2.50 a month per Java client — apply to all Oracle Java SE commercial customers. Previously, only Oracle's Java SE Advanced customers paid support fees to obtain security patches among other benefits ($5,000 per processor, plus 22%).” Oracle to do two Java releases a year, but many companies are way behind and don’t like upgrading. Like, if you haven’t reached release management maturity: “Executing manual regression tests multiple times each year to stay on the latest version of OpenJDK will prove to be a labor-draining exercise, but so will automating existing manual tests and keeping them up to date.” Old stuff likes old pricing models: “For Java runtimes, however, monthly subscriptions have minimal advantage, as most applications are now stable workloads. Most customers don't need pricing that allows them to scale down, as they almost never will.” From their blog on the topic: “Under the best of circumstances, a technology base of Java’s size, age, and complexity can’t pivot within six months to new support structures carrying big potential additional costs.” Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism. “surveillance capitalism uses human life as its raw material. Our everyday experiences, distilled into data, have become a privately owned business asset used to predict and mold our behavior, whether we’re shopping or socializing, working or voting.” If you’re not buying a product, you are a product “gets it wrong. Surveillance capitalism’s real products, vaporous but immensely valuable, are predictions about our future behavior — what we’ll look at, where we’ll go, what we’ll buy, what opinions we’ll hold — that internet companies derive from our personal data and sell to businesses, political operatives, and other bidders.” The question is: what’re other options? The latest The Weeds episode (Feb 5th, 2019) has a discussion of Facebook making you unhappy, and also compared to the TV rotting your brain meme. Side-note: what’s up with podcasts (like The Weeds) that don’t have actual show notes in a web page? Crypto CEO dies with the password to unlock $200+ million of customers' Bitcoin. Slack makes confidential filing to go public Former Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani Named CEO Of Commvault IDE based coding thing that uses kubernetes, from RedHat Kubernetes Goes Native for Developers Red Hat Launches CodeReady Workspaces Kubernetes IDE. Non Sense Urban Dictionary: dunning-krugerrand. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. ## Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Amazon Smart Plug. Coté: buttered bread, MacBook Air.

Feb 7, 201959 min

Ep 164Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”

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This week we discuss why Facebook, Google and Apple are fighting., what makes Enterprise Sales so hard and Coté explains why he misses American Food,. Relevant to your interests Confluent’s meteoric rise. Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data. The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect 'Agile BS.' Opinion | The Facts About Facebook. Google asks Supreme Court to rule on when code can be copyrighted. My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales. Spring into Kubernetes - Part 1. Google Hangouts is shutting down for some users in October. Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up. Software Chasms with Martin Casado. Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users. Puppet Names Yvonne Wassenaar as Next CEO. Automation Software That Helped Consulting Firm Cut 40,000 Jobs Is Reportedly Now for Sale. OmniTI ~ credativ massively expands U.S. footprint with OmniTI acquisition. Microsoft cloud services see global authentication outage. Interview with Jason Cohen WP Engine Announces $132M in Annual Recurring Revenue Non Sense Modern OSI Model Sponsors Plastic SCM Read the Plastic book at https://www.plasticscm.com/book/ and get your t-shirts at http://plasticscm.com/sdt. Listen to the Software Defined Interview with PlasticSCM. Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Movies Anywhere and Disc to Digital from Vudu Coté: new Preditor.

Feb 1, 20191h 15m

Ep 163Episode 163: 5 things Obama doesn’t want you to know about scorecards

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Coté has a late night, mental breakdown about scorecards. Can Brandon save him? Also, kafka, Travis CI, and snow. Relevant to your interests Atlassian surpassed $1B in calendar-year revenue in 2018 Google remains the top open-source contributor to CNCF projects Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open’ Morgan Stanley Downgrades Oracle Stock on Dim Growth Prospects Vodafone signs $550m deal with IBM to offload cloud biz Insiders say that Google's new cloud boss is likely to make some very large acquisitions 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism Just forget what Gartner said about AI in June 'cos CIOs are all over it now apparently Open-Source Unicorn: Confluent Reaches $2.5 Billion Valuation Three Years After Hiring Its First Sales Rep Travis CI joins the Idera family IBM Boasts Another Big Win, Touts Hybrid Cloud Prowess Microsoft wins cloud business from Albertsons as fear of Amazon grows among retailers Non Sense Oreo Competitor Makes Federal Case Out of ‘Cutthroat’ Cookie Rivalry ROAD TRIP! Buc-ee's opens 1st location outside of Texas Sponsors Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Arrested DevOps Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/ Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Jan 28th to 29th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Charlotte, $50 off with the code S1Tour2019_100. Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United State SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Billion Dollar Whale, Malaysia Wants Goldman’s Money Back. Coté: UNIQLO HEATTECH, as soft as a fancy conference t-shirt. Herbarium, dubbed in English - “that’s Jim’s spatula!” Outro: "'93 'til Infinity."

Jan 25, 20191h 15m

Ep 162Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing

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Are we still on that open source licensing thing? Yes. “The most boring topic of all time.” Also, Slack's logo and long term support software monetization models: how do they work? Summary: “Diapers.com buster (AKA Amazon)” “What is someone really selling with LTS?” “Artful genitals.” “It’s not butt ducks” “I’ve had three dogs since then…” Microsoft laughed. This week’s cover art from TheNextWeb. MONGO, MONGO, MONGO! MongoDB Issues New Server Side Public License for MongoDB Community Server MongoDB not in RHEL 8.0 MongoDB "open-source" Server Side Public License rejected AWS vs. open source: DocumentDB is the latest battlefront AWS gives open source the middle finger AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source (Ben Thompson) Fine, fine…but music companies didn’t “sell” CDs, they sold music. Authors don’t “sell” printed books, they sell stories. They sell IP. The medium isn’t the product. “This trade-off is inescapable, and it is fair to wonder if the golden age of VC-funded open source companies will start to fade (although not open source generally). The monetization model depends on the friction of on-premise software; once cloud computing is dominant, the economic model is much more challenging.” There’s some ponderous gyrating between public cloud being good at managed hosting/services (they run the stuff well) vs. software (their features are unique/good). Ben’s follow-up (subscription required): “ Atlas was only 8% of total revenue last year, which grew 57% year-over-year; that means that Atlas itself grew 330% year-over-year, from $3.3 million to $14.3 million. Of course cost of revenue grew 68% as well, thanks to a $4.1 million increase in hosting costs (AWS wins either way), but particularly given the addition of a free Atlas offering, those costs aren’t out of line.” So, with this “SSPL” thing, AWS would have to open source all of itself, or just the DocumentDB part? Here: “The specific objection is that SSPL requires, if you offer services licensed under it, that you must open-source all programs that you use to make the software available as a service. From Mongo’s press release on SSPL, Oct. 2018: “The only substantive change is an explicit condition that any organization attempting to exploit MongoDB as a service must open source the software that it uses to offer such service.” What would happen if AWS was all open source? Given that few companies could use OpenStack or make their own clouds (even with cloud.com and such), just having the code matters little to a successful cloud business, right? Or, maybe it doesn’t mean all of AWS, just the DocumentDB part. Which is, really, the in the spirit of the GPL. The competitive tactic of forcing competitors to open source their stuff is weird. Relevant to your interests Amazon reportedly acquired Israeli disaster recovery service CloudEndure for around $200M AWS makes another acquisition grabbing TSO Logic IBM Just Unveiled The First Commercial Quantum Computer “Watson! Whatever happened to ‘unikernal’?” Is that one in the bag and this is the new thing? Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR) | Multicloud Serverless Management Platform Serverless computing: one step forward, two steps back Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability Taking the smarts out of smart TVs would make them more expensive OneLogin snares $100M investment to expand identity solution into new markets Want to get rich from bug bounties? You're better off exterminating roaches for a living Direct Listings Are a Thing Now Software Maker PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO Slack’s Financials Ahead of Listing Plans - “As of October 2018, the firm had roughly $900 million in cash on its balance sheet.” Fiserve buying FirstData for $22bn - FundsXpress! The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS ## Non Sense The WELL: State of the World 2019 Apple reportedly replaced about 10 times more iPhone batteries than it expected to Say hello, new logo Sponsors Plastic SCM Visit https://plasticscm.com/SDT to find out more and get some sassy t-shirts!! Arrested DevOps Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/ Conferences, et. al. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Jan 28th to 29th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Charlotte, $50 off with the code S1Tour2019_100. Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes rev

Jan 18, 20191h 4m

Ep 161Episode 161: “Dad Mode Wins”

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Matt and Brandon discuss the“Non-Compete Software” movement, management changes at Chef and how Github just made everyone’s live a little easier. Plus, we offer tips for Dad’s traveling with kids. Relevant to your interests The Non-Compete Software Movement The Cyclical Theory of Open Source community, you keep using that word – Drew Clay Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines Dell returns to market with NYSE listing GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far GitLab Uses TriggerMesh to Offer Knative-Based Serverless Workflows Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR) CloudCast Episode Serverless Management and Knative - Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications The Results are in … The State of K8s 2018 – Heptio Here's What VMware Paid for Kubernetes Startup Heptio Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors Sponsors Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit http://appoptics.com/sdt. Arrested DevOps Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/. Conferences, et. al. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Jan 28th to 29th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Charlotte. Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States Listener Feedback Justin Garrison help make Ralph Breaks the Internet SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: The Dream Podcast Matt: Tombstone and the Making of Tombstone

Jan 10, 201955 min

New Year's Bonus -- Jake Moilanen Interview

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Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time. Connect with Jake: @moilanen LinkedIn For more interview like this subscribe to Software Defined Interviews. Special Guest: Jake Moilanen .

Jan 3, 20191h 11m

Holiday Bonus -- Don't call me an "evangelist"

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Brandon interviews Coté about what it's like to be a tech evangelist. Call it "developer advocacy," "developer relations," being a "thought leader," or just a straight up hustler - it's a job that most companies in the computer industry have at least one of. Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists. For more interviews likes this subscribe to the Software Defined Interviews podcast. This episode is sponsored by Datadog. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.

Dec 27, 20181h 21m

Ep 160Episode 160: “Open Source, still not a business model”

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Should cloud providers be able to host open source software? Exactly, what does the Australia Assistance Act mean for employees? What is Melbourne Cup Day? We answer these questions and more. Enjoy! More on the Australia Assistance and Access Act Australia's encryption laws are 'highly unlikely' to dragoon employees in secret What's actually in Australia's encryption laws? Everything you need to know Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password? | 1Password Relevant to your interests Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities License Changes for Confluent Platform | Confluent Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage Open source confronts its midlife crisis by Bryan Cantrill A Quick Comment On Bryan Cantrill’s Blog On Licensing GE to Sell Part of Digital Business 1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years - Geek.com A is for Austin 3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone MIPS Goes Open Source You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle - Tumblr’s App Store Ban, Tumblr’s NSFW Deadline, Verizon Writes Down Oath Nonsense Chase Sapphire Banking Melbourne Cup Day Sponsors Solarwinds Over 275,000 customers worldwide and 499 of the Fortune 500 trust and rely on SolarWinds for their monitoring software. To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit http://solarwinds.com/devops. Arrested DevOps Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/ or by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in your favorite podcast app. Conferences, et. al. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ## Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Apple Music to work on other Alexa-enabled devices Matt: Emacs Tramp Mode: transparent access to files and remote access. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Dec 21, 201855 min

Ep 159Episode 159: "Cloud native is pretty simple. You just need to know Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Jaeger, Envoy, Core DNS, Linkerd, Rook, Vitess, Etcd and Raft."

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This week we recap all the news and announcements from the KubeCon Keynotes and discuss the repercussions of Australia’s new encryption-busting law. Plus, Brandon offers his review of “The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes“ and Phippy. Relevant to your interests Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts Docker's top deck stands by Swarm in face of Kubernetes storm The 15-Year Odyssey Behind VMware's Ascent To Corporate Greatness IBM Sells Software for Once The First Open, Multi-cloud Serverless Platform for the Enterprise Is Here. Try out Pivotal Function Service Today! Facing up to the need for regulation - Microsoft recognises Big Brother potential VMware Extends Istio into the 'NSX Service Mesh' for Microservices 2018: The Biggest Year for Open Source Software Ever! (Part Deux) DocuSign beats Wall Street expectations, reveals executive and board shuffle The Etcd Database Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Kubernetes is not a development platform Oracle Cloud Native Framework Promises 'Bi-Directional' Cloud Portability Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again Knative Meshes Kubernetes with Serverless Workloads What makes a company a 'tech company,' and is the title worth the responsibility? Everything that was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A – Chick-fil-A Tech Blog – Medium CNCF to Host etcd - Cloud Native Computing Foundation Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio, Software Defined Interviews. Matt Ray’s tweet goes viral (soft of) Warrant Canary via Wikipedia Nonsense Costco is selling Macs Sponsors Datadog Sign up for a free trial today at www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk Techmeme Ride Home Search your podcast app for RIDE HOME and subscribe to the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. Conferences, et. al. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size, Preferred Color (Light Blue, Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Bear Brook Podcast Matt: My new favorite episode of 99% Invisible: Devolutionary Design.

Dec 15, 201858 min

Ep 158Episode 158: Istio is only a check box away

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Istio comes to GKE, Kubernetes needs to be patched, Microsoft & Docker announce a standard and what is going on at Faceback. We talk about all this and give you some tips for your next QBR. Relevant to your interests Kubernetes' first major security hole discovered. The Story of the First Kubernetes Critical CVE. Google Integrates Istio Service Mesh into Kubernetes Service. Nearly 250 Pages of Devastating Internal Facebook Documents Posted Online By UK Parliament. Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging and running cloud-native applications easier Defining “field CTO”: The Pivotal CTO Team Offers You Strategic Advisors. James Urquhart Just Made That Team Even Better. Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 - Windows Developer Blog Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10 China’s Alibaba Takes On Amazon in European Cloud ## Nonsense The Economist’s books of the year. Lime and Bird worth $10B+ each or 5x to 10x more than their last valuations. ## Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ## Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size, Preferred Color (Light Blue, Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States ## SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. ## Recommendations Brandon: Ralph Breaks the Internet and Slate Reviews Ticket to Ride. Matt: My new favorite episode of 99% Invisible: Devolutionary Design. Coté: since Christmas is near, and Sinterklaas has come and gone, Apple Watch 4 (no LTE in NL), I recommend revisiting the best Christmas video ever. (I gotta get me some of them sunglasses!) Photo Credit

Dec 8, 201859 min

Ep 157Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap & Australia muthafuckers!

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It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”? AWS Announcements AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 Analytics AWS Lake Formation: Build a secure data lake in days Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK): Fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service Blockchain Amazon Managed Blockchain: Create and manage scalable blockchain networks Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database Compute Amazon EC2 A1 Instances: Optimized for scale-out workloads Amazon EC2 C5n Instances: Up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances: Optimized for distributed ML training AWS Outposts – a new dimension to AWS Cloud (Hybrid Cloud with VMware), Run AWS infrastructure on-premises This is VMware? Database Amazon RDS on VMware: Automate on-premises database management Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database Amazon Timestream: Fully managed time series database Internet of Things AWS IoT Events: IoT event detection and response AWS IoT SiteWise: IoT data collector and interpreter AWS IoT Things Graph: Easily connect devices and web services AWS Partner Device Catalog: Curated catalog of AWS-compatible IoT hardware Lambda New languages (Ruby, C++, Rust), more coming Erlang, Elixir, Cobol, N|Solid, PHP https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/ Announcements are still happening Machine Learning Amazon Elastic Inference: Deep learning inference acceleration Amazon Forecast: Increase forecast accuracy using machine learning Amazon Personalize: Build real-time recommendations into your applications Amazon Textract: Extract text and data from documents AWS Inferentia: Machine learning inference chip Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Build Highly Accurate Datasets Amazon SageMaker RL – Managed Reinforcement Learning with Amazon SageMaker AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent, Autonomous 1/18th scale race car, driven by ML Machine Learning algorithms and model packages now available in AWS Marketplace Management & Governance AWS App Mesh: Monitor and control microservices AWS Cloud Map: Service discovery for cloud resources AWS Control Tower: Set up and govern a secure, compliant multi-account environment AWS License Manager: Track, manage and control license usage Media Services AWS Elemental MediaConnect: Reliable and secure live video transport Migration & Transfer AWS DataSync: Simple, fast, online data transfer AWS Transfer for SFTP: Fully managed SFTP service Mobile AWS Amplify: Build and deploy mobile and web applications Networking & Content Delivery AWS Global Accelerator: Improve application availability and performance AWS Transit Gateway: Easily scale VPC and account connections Robotics AWS RoboMaker: Develop, test, and deploy robotics applications Satellite AWS Ground Station: Fully managed ground station as a service Security, Identity, & Compliance AWS Security Hub: Unified security and compliance center Storage Amazon FSx for Lustre: Fully managed compute-intensive file system Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: Fully managed Windows native file system Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Save with auto-tiering storage S3 Glacier Deep Archive Lydia says AWS deals are huge. Relevant to your interests No room this week. Sponsored by Solarwinds Over 275,000 customers worldwide and 499 of the Fortune 500 trust and rely on SolarWinds for their monitoring software. To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit http://solarwinds.com/devops. Conferences, et. al. Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size, Preferred Color (Light Blue, Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Ticket to Ride Board Game Matt: Speaking of trains, I took the train from Canberra to Sydney. Fantastic! Coté: Patriot season 2. It’s pretty good. And: HP Color LaserJet

Nov 30, 20181h 16m

Ep 156Episode 156: People: Google doesn’t get ‘enterprise’ and should have people who’re more enterprise focused. GOOG: Look, we just hired an enterprise focused person. People: OMG! Why did just hire an enterprise person?

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See title. Google Cloud Diane Greene steps down as Google's cloud chief Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along Longer CNBC piece on the switch. Ray Wang: “Enterprise customers need a different level of care, and Google hasn't been able to deliver to date. So the resources available to Diane may not have always been allocated in the right place, but the resource is there and he has to sit down and see what partners and customer are saying.” More: ‘This might take the form of a growth of the sales or go-to-market teams at Google Cloud, but essentially "enterprises need consistency and roadmaps to adjust as they go," Wang said, and Google Cloud needs to do better at delivering that if it wants to take a bigger chunk of the public cloud market over the crucial coming years. "Google has the opportunity, but the window is closing, so there is 18 months to two years to right the ship," he said.’ History: built middleware business in the 2000s, Fusion ERP apps integration, cloud business. The Corporate Culture Survival Guide. Relevant to your interests Coté’s stump speech recordings. CX is nothing if you don’t change your business - same for digital transformation, e.g., maybe stuff here. Uber getting more legal. “Economic Recession Could Drive Serverless Standardization, Consolidation.” Oracle to acquire Talari Networks. BlackBerry agrees to acquire Cylance for $1.4 billion. Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead. AWS rolls out new security feature to prevent accidental S3 data leaks. Users "Starting to Reach for Torches and Pitchforks" amid Fresh Azure and Office 365 Lockout. Tim Cook defends using Google as primary search engine on Apple devices. Charles Phillips billboards. Nonsense Mark Zuckerburg wants you to use Android Sponsored by Solarwinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and this week, SolarWinds wants you to know about their tools designed for DevOps: Pingdom®, AppOptics™, Papertrail™, and Loggly®. Today’s recognized pillars of observability combine metrics, traces, and logs to enable DevOps teams to monitor system and application performance. But, these capabilities provide only limited insights into application performance because they ignore the user’s experience—a critical measure of application performance. Understanding if a system is slow or unavailable from an end user’s perspective is crucial in today’s digital world, even if the metrics are good and there are no alerts. Altogether, the combined functionality of Pingdom, AppOptics, Papertrail, and Loggly brings together real user monitoring, synthetic user monitoring, web and application performance metrics, distributed tracing, event aggregation, and log management to help proactively identify bottlenecks and accelerate troubleshooting. By bringing user experience, metrics, traces, and logs together with an easy-to-use, complementary toolkit, DevOps teams gain unmatched visibility into their cloud environment, so they can seamlessly follow an alert or issue from one product into another to resolve issues quickly and get back to focusing on the more proactive elements of their job. Over 275,000 customers worldwide and 499 of the Fortune 500 trust and rely on SolarWinds for their monitoring software. To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit http://solarwinds.com/devops. Going to AWS re:Invent? Visit SolarWinds at booth 608 to see their products designed for DevOps first-hand. Conferences, et. al. Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an ITunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: T-Shirt Size, Preferred Color (Light Blue, Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Listener Feedback Brian from Austin got T-shirt because he wrote an iTunes Review! SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Homecoming. Coté: UK Registered Traveler, bread.

Nov 21, 20181h 12m

Ep 155Episode 155: Existing investments & business innovation fuel

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Hybrid cloud and kubernetes with Cisco, and the latest beard analysis from the OpenStack community, and some spontaneous ERP and ethics of Facebook meandering - all this week in our power episode! Relevant to your interests Cisco Introduces First Hybrid Kubernetes Platform Support For Amazon EKS “The Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS enables configuration of the Kubernetes-based Cisco Container Platform optimized for ease of deploying applications on Kubernetes across either Cisco-based on-premises infrastructure or the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).” I’m pretty sure this means Active Directory now works with k8s: The style, diction, and tone of this piece is some classic power-marketing, e.g., “first,” “only,” “Enterprises have been forced to make a tradeoff in these choices that they would rather avoid.” Also, notice the “I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS” side-notes here and there. Cisco’s site on it, and press release. Developer value-propin’, from the Cisco PR quote: “Now, developers can use existing investments to build new cloud-scale applications that fuel business innovation.” And, elsewhere: “Public clouds provide developers with platforms for rapidly developing and deploying applications, yet most enterprises have their own data centers that house important workloads. That’s why hybrid cloud is a requirement for most enterprises.” Well, at least their straight-up on pricing: “Pricing for software-only subscriptions will start at approximately $65,000 per year for a typical entry-level configuration. On AWS, customers pay $0.20 per hour for each Amazon EKS cluster that they create in addition to the AWS resources (e.g. Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes) they create to run Kubernetes worker nodes.” SAP snaps up Qualtrics for $8B days before its expected IPO, will keep Seattle office: “Qualtrics offers software-as-a-service that companies use to measure and manage their reputations with current and prospective customers as well as a similar service for internal use managing employees.” Report: Vista Equity Partners poised to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio Report: Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2 Google went down after traffic was routed through China and Russia Amazon Announces New York and Virginia as HQ2 Picks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Amazon’s imminent arrival in Queens OpenStack Expands With New Projects, Canonical’s CEO Is Not Thrilled Red Hat Squeezes OpenStack, OpenShift Closer Together OpenStack expands focus beyond the IaaS cloud The Foundation keeps on the plan of expanding its portfolio. Red Hat blends Kubernetes into Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 Coder: $4.5M Series Seed Announcement – Coder – Medium Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Nonsense Stamps set for largest-ever price increase in January 2019 The Poddys Conferences, et. al. Nov 20th, London: Dell Tech Forum UK - Coté speaking with the pro-Pivotal knob on 11. Dec 6th, Warsaw - Meetup in Warsaw, Coté talking about enterprise architects, 3rd round, Dec 8th, Lublin Poland - J-Santa. Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ## Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. We can only send ship T-Shirts within the Continental United States. Sorry International listeners. Here is what you need to do: Write an ITunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: Your T-Shirt Size Preferred Color (Light Blue, Gray, Black) Username you used to write the iTunes review Postal address First come, first serve. while supplies last! Advertise your company on Software Defined Talk Listener Feedback Ryan from Slack proposes that true borders of the South are dictated by where Sweet Tea is served. Yogi Rampuria found Coté by the sound of his voice and asked for 20 stickers. ## SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal

Nov 15, 20181h 21m

Ep 154Episode 154: Singapore Sanka & tech idears

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More consolidation in the kubernetes community, plus the X Windowing System and Canonical. Related: “I’m not waiting for an answer, I’m just going to go on.” Sponsored by SolarWinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and this week SolarWinds wants you to know about their DevOps tool: AppOptics. Today, there is a divide between application and infrastructure health metrics—and the lack of unified dashboards, alerting, and management. With SolarWinds AppOptics you get a bird’s-eye view across all your resources on a single pane of glass—but can also drill quickly into the details. AppOptics includes built-in integrations for over 150 cloud-first applications, instant visibility into server and infrastructure performance, robust custom metrics dashboards, and automated APM request tracing. It’s SaaS-hosted, easy to manage, and budget friendly. Over 275,000 customers trust SolarWinds for the performance data they need, and AppOptics lets developers and operations get back to doing what they love: delighting users. Learn more or try it free for 14 days, just go to appoptics.com/sdt Are you going to AWS re:Invent? Make sure to visit SolarWinds at booth 608 to see AppOptics first-hand and learn about the complete DevOps suite of products, providing unmatched visibility across user experience, metrics, traces, and logs. Relevant to your interests Oracle Expanding New Cloud Platform to 13 Regions by 2019 Jeff Bezos says he's choosing HQ2 location with his heart IBM acquires Red Hat, but what does that mean? CA/Broadcom selling off Veracode: Buying a lot, selling a little Broadcom Completes CA Technologies Acquisition, Sells Veracode to Private Equity Firm. New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances VMware buys Heptio VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes Pivotal’s take: We’re Looking Forward to Welcoming Heptio to the Family! This is Why Our Customers Will be the Big Winners. RedMonk’s O’Grady: What Heptio actually does: “the company chose a unique path of not quite product company, and not quite full service company, but borrowing elements of both. This fit the market need in many cases, but posed significant challenges from a marketing and messaging standpoint, as the market understands product companies and service companies but is less comfortable with descriptions that don’t entirely fit into either bucket.” “None of [the open source tools developers love(d) so much] concerned VMware particularly, because as its early developer attention waned its popularity within the operations side of the house – and central IT in particular – boomed. Which has been good for the company generally as central IT has historically been less concerned both about software being open source and being free than developers, which has led to VMware becoming an enterprise datacenter standard which in turn led to its current $60.7B market cap – a valuation roughly double that of Red Hat’s, for context.” Related: El Reg decoder ring. Heptio's Episode of Exegesis podcast. Nonsense World Plug Types - what a shit-show. “Hajime Sorayama robot art.” Conferences, et. al. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 6th - Meetup in Warsaw, Coté talking about enterprise architects, 3rd round. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. MAYBE NOT! Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. We can only send ship T-Shirts within the Continental United States. Sorry International listeners. Here is what you need to do: Write an ITunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. Send an email to [email protected] and include the following: Your T-Shirt Size Preferred Color (Light Blue, Gray, Black) Username you used to write the iTunes review Postal address First come, first serve. while supplies last! Listener Feedback Jay from Ohio wrote in to get six stickers for his DevOps team. He tells us “I usually listen at 1.75x speed, and accidentally put you guys on at 1.0x and Coté's semi-coherent monologues turned into the drunk uncle that I wish I had. I highly recommend slowing the podcast down a bit for a good laugh” Also, wrote an iTunes review! Gut full of floss - Craig from Slack tell us that cotton candy is known as Fairy Floss in Australia. Listener Recommendations Nathan from Slack recommends the Humble Book Bundle: DevOps by O'Reilly (does one italicize a bundle of books?). Pay what you want for awesome ebooks and support charity! SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Listen to this week’s Software Defined Interviews Podcast with Zane Rockenbaugh Software Defined Talk Members Only Podcast now for free! Heptio's Episode Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: Libraries (aga

Nov 11, 20181h 4m

Ep 153Episode 153: “I have no idea, but I’ll go on,” or IBM buying Red Hat

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IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired. Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. IBM and Red Hat Acquisition IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Software Maker Red Hat IBM To Acquire Red Hat, Completely Changing The Cloud Landscape And Becoming World's #1 Hybrid Cloud Provider Banks could reap as much as $115 million for orchestrating the IBM-Red Hat deal Cloud Wars Forcing Irrational Open Source Takeovers Red Hat and IBM: Elephants Can Dance Armed with Red Hat, IBM launches a cloud war against Amazon, Microsoft and Google | ZDNet Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition IBM Acquires Red Hat — What This Means for Open Source Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat from Ubuntu Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat Big Blue’s takeover of Red Hat could produce an über-cloud Blockbuster IBM-Red Hat Deal Draws Support – and Concerns for the ‘Spirit of Linux’ “I like the ones where you prepare.” (Coté ed.) Look, Red Hat and IBM are Pivotal competitors, good ones: we wish them success in this complex integration, it’s good they’re finally trying to fix their cloud portfolio, we’re hiring, etc., etc.. Let’s take it for mature-granted that we’d prefer enterprises be Pivotal customers than IBM/Red Hat customers. Now, let’s put that aside. This is an exquisite slide from their deck: Easily the best corporate deck slide of 2018. First, this is a bold, good move. Acquiring Red Hat has always been a hill too high and it’s kind of mind-blowing that someone actually did it. The valuation here is sort of besides the point of anything impressive. In contrast, the GitHub valuation was impressive because GitHub is a one product company (please don’t email me about “community” as a separate product - sure thing, I agree). Red Hat is kind of everything IBM has missing…except public cloud. To be, I guess, contrarian and annoyingly not Pivotal-biased, I think it’ll be hard for IBM to fuck this up. On that last point, Ben Thompson: “The company has spent the years since then claiming it is committed to catching up in the public cloud, but the truth is that Palmisano sealed the company’s cloud fate when he failed to invest a decade ago; indeed, one of the most important takeaways from the Red Hat acquisition is the admission that IBM’s public cloud efforts are effectively dead.” In other word, IBM is too late to catch-up to public cloud co.’s, it’d need to spend lots of capex to get close. Related, sick nerd burn: “Meanwhile, [IBM’s] aforementioned commitment to the cloud has mostly been an accounting fiction derived from re-classifying existing businesses” Fixing IBM’s cloud business. What was wrong in the first place? Things Red Hat has: RHEL revenue, JBoss developer presence, product/developer know-how, support know-how, OSS good-will, OpenShift as a k8s distribution: RHEL & IBM has a foot-print in most all enterprise stacks, but not public cloud(?) IBM knows how to eek out OS revenue, so does Red Hat. JBoss + WebSphere. At some point, IBM had a huge developer community. They likely do among enterprise developers (but even there, it’s been fading). Red Hat has developers - I assume. People do like kubernetes. The know-how and good will are interesting - added to IBM’s OSS equivalent (they still have that?) you have, potentially, the biggest OSS people around…? I’m not sure which standards bodies this allows them more control over, no which projects. Google and Microsoft are contenders here too. “Lock-in”: From the press release: “research shows that 80 percent of business workloads have yet to move to the cloud, held back by the proprietary nature of today’s cloud market.” (No citation provided. I will assume it’s from the Anonymous Galactic Research Board Whose IP Licensing Policy Prohibits Your From Citing Us By Name Because We Prefer to Peacefully Float In Space Like Those Rasta Dudes in William Gibson Books But The Good Early Ones Not The Weird In The Present Ones Except For the Blue Color of Bigend’s Suit Which Was Actually Pretty Cool - But Cuban Parkour Ninja Cults? Boy.) See also: Turns out Pareto was some kind of every single study ever genius. Shut it down, boys, turns out every survey result ends up in an 80/20 split. As ever, this topic vexes me. I take lock-in to mean: I don’

Nov 1, 20181h 25m

Ep 152Episode 152: Who put robots in my clouds? Oracle OpenWorld

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There’s all sorts of cloud stuff coming out of Oracle OpenWorld this week, so Brando and Coté talk about the mouth-feel of the news. Related, Amazon’s attempts to get off Oracle in Ohio, iCloud dropping out, and JEDI problems. Sponsored by SolarWinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and this week SolarWinds wants you to know about their DevOps tool: AppOptics. Today, there is a divide between application and infrastructure health metrics—and the lack of unified dashboards, alerting, and management. With SolarWinds AppOptics you get a bird’s-eye view across all your resources on a single pane of glass—but can also drill quickly into the details. AppOptics includes built-in integrations for over 150 cloud-first applications, instant visibility into server and infrastructure performance, robust custom metrics dashboards, and automated APM request tracing. It’s SaaS-hosted, easy to manage, and budget friendly. Over 275,000 customers trust SolarWinds for the performance data they need, and AppOptics lets developers and operations get back to doing what they love: delighting users. Learn more or try it free for 14 days, just go to appoptics.com/sdt Relevant to your interests Cloud, enterprise software to drive 2019 IT spending, says Gartner | ZDNet - CNCF Adopts Sysdig’s Falco Container Runtime Monitor - The New Stack DTA goes cold on blockchain I think the DevOps people are into talking about “product now”…? Ellison makes convincing pitch on automation and security for Oracle Cloud 2.0...but can’t resist trashing AWS Kurt’s summary of Oracle cloud stuff, pretty good. Coté: Look, I don’t really know their portfolio well. It’s hard to follow cause it doesn’t show up in all my feeds like, well, everything else. I’m intrigued by their emphasis on performance and (to a lesser extent) cost. They really hit up the performance characteristics - I’m not sure they mention ease of use or “outcomes” very much. The focus on security is bizarre. Not because they shouldn’t have these things, but because these things are, well, what they should have. Cloud vendors don’t go around chest thumping about how secure they are in the same way that bakers don’t go around chest thumping about how their food is edible. Performance pitching has always been Oracle’s thing (as those of us who used to read printed trade rags know). It’s sort of indicative of easier sales: it’s all numbers in a spreadsheet, then you sort a column and it tells you which vendor to pick. Then there’s Oracle commentary on Amazon of how hard it is to move off Oracle, just barely wrapping itself in the mantle of “because our stuff works better,” when at the core it seems like the worst case of lock-in rent-seeking: ‘Oracle Chairman and co-founder Larry Ellison isn't buying it. On the company's earnings call in December, Ellison said Amazon "is not moving off of Oracle." He reiterated his point at an August event, saying, "I don't think they can do it. ‘They've had 10 years to get off Oracle, and they're still on Oracle," he said. "And it's not going to be easy for them to use their own technology. It's not going to be cost-effective. I mean, it's really, really hard.’ ☞ This kind of talk is why we all love to hear “Larry” (as everyone calls him) talk. He’s like the Steve Banon of the IT industry. They should start demo’ing at DevOpsDays and O’Reilly conferences more. Topic: when pitching to “the community” is irrelevant, or, “CIOs don’t go to your shit conferences, nerds.” Now, to put me further out on on the ledge of not knowing Oracle well, they sell a shit-ton of ERP software. They could likely have a larger, positive impact on global productivity by making that ERP software better, no matter how good it is. In the coverage I’ve read, there’s little talk about how they’re revolutionizing ERP stuff - how “machine learning” is improving that. Can it figure out how to file expenses for me? Optimize a supply chain (what ever the fuck that means), etc.? For example, Oracle has the potential to turn all that Watson talk intro practical, everyday applications of “AI.” IBM doesn’t have an ERP suite (they just have re-selling and packaging other people’s stuff injected with Watson thingies - again, whatever the fuck that means) - but Oracle does, plus the foot-print of people using it. I’m sure there’s plenty of money in databases…but their potential to improve their customer’s life is probably more in apps. Diginomica had some ERP coverage: Park Hotels going from analog to digital in accounting, and an excellent example from Red Cross work on improving outcomes. And then back to our regularly scheduled price/performance talk. Kurt has some good, dry lines: Burn-town: “[Oracle’s] Cloud 2.0 looks more like Cloud 0.5” compare to: “My project look like science fair, your project look like section 8.” Amazon's move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in big Ohio warehouse, internal report says “The outage, wh

Oct 24, 20181h 11m

Ep 151Episode 151: Who vivisected Mr Peanut?

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Whether you’re in the Malaysian cement industry or not, there’s something for you in this episode: serverless vs. FaaS, Docker’s funding, Crossing the Chasm revisited, and GitHub actions. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Redis Labs and Common Clause attacked where it hurts: With open-source code | ZDNet Microsoft Calls a Truce in the Patent Wars Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not software engineers - Red Hat Flexes CoreOS Muscle In OpenShift Kubernetes Platform - Docker has raised $92 million in new funding GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool There will be no escape once Twilio snaps up SendGrid in $2bn deal GET READY TO UPGRADE Cloud, enterprise software to drive 2019 IT spending, says Gartner Chef InSpec 3.0: Wider, Deeper on Automated Compliance Conferences, et. al. Oct 22nd - Cloud Native tour in Milan, Italy. Coté and friends: a half day, a summit on Spring, DevOps, and cloud native programming. Free. Oct 27th - Matt on a panel at Rakuten Technology Conference 2018 Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. Listener Feedback Simon form the UK tells us he is a long time listener and even bought an SDT t-shirt 🙂 So we sent him a sticker. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: Another Jay on Earth. Brandon: Slow Burn Podcast. Coté: Albert Heijn Mint & Ginger water: “The ideal thirst quencher with lemon and ginger. Refreshing on a summer day or during a busy working day.”

Oct 18, 20181h 12m

Ep 150The dogs under the desk people, plus, Elastic, Cloudera/Hortonworks, and hotel loyalty programs and breakfast buffets

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Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google shutting down Google+ and a small write-up of Blockbuster failure fairy tales, we spend time discussion the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” problem of digital transformation. We then talk about Elastic search and their recent IPO, and follow-up with some better commentary on Cloudera and Hortonworks merging - better than we did last week. Hotel breakfast buffet strategies and the Chase Sapphire series of cards. Oh, and before that Matt and Coté spend a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about hotel breakfast buffet strategies. Also, it’s episode #150 - yay us! Our first episode was on May 27th, 2014, where Coté’s lamp played a prominent role, and we did video. Relevant to your interests Chase Sapphire Reserve, and others in the Sapphire line. AAdvantage Executive card. SpringOne Platform videos are all up. Coté went to Puppetizer 2018 Amsterdam. They’re really into being “a portfolio company” now. Lots of stacks presented; much discussion on managing Puppet itself. A very well run event. See also Register coverage of their SF event. Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure - “90 percent of Google+ user sessions last for less than five seconds.” be like google prd mgmt desertion effect other enterprise props? legacy services OpenOffice watch - ‘Back in 2015, Red Hat developer Christian Schaller called OpenOffice "all but dead."’ Austin Ernest says make sure you don’t cargo cult The SRE. The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales - Strategy is hard, execution at the middle-management later is harder. Put yet another way, company executives have a lot less power than you’d think. Related: WTF is “culture”? This week in IPOs: Elastic has a party, Solarwinds figuring one out. Elastic: “The stock closed at $70 per share, representing a 94.4 percent rise.” Close of market on Oct. 10th: $62.50 per share. 451 on Elastic revenue, Scott Denne: “The developer of open source search software for IT log analysis, security analytics and other applications nearly doubled its top line in its fiscal year (ending April 30) to $160m, up from $88m a year earlier, while increasing the share of subscription revenue in its mix.” More: “Judging by Elastic’s offering, the [Q3] dry spell had little impact on investor appetites, setting up a favorable environment for Anaplan and SolarWinds as both look to price this month.” 451 on Elastic’s product, Nancy Gohring: “One of the most important messages that emerged from ElasticOn is that Elastic is positioning its software to serve as a platform for collecting and analyzing a wide array of machine data that can be used in a variety of use cases. With its recently announced APM UI and the forthcoming Infra UI, as well as the Canvas visualization capabilities, SQL-like querying and advancing machine-learning techniques, the Elastic Stack will be usable as a centralized platform for collecting and analyzing logs, events and metrics by constituents within a business including IT ops, security, executive leadership, product management and others.” So, Elastic is…an OSS (presumably) cheaper Splunk, but for general search not just IT? Or, wait, it is just IT stuff? Solarwinds: Coté hasn’t been able to parse out the Solarwinds deal. The big question is/will be, “so, did it make sense to go private, or could that have done whatever they’re doing by staying public?” Serverless and FaaS, survey shows confusion: “Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months.” Coté’s old saw that “serverless” has just come to mean “doing programming on-top of cloud shit.” This is what Pivotal usually means when they say “cloud native,” versus the container kids who mean just “kubernetes,” at broadest, “containers.” Cloudera/Hortonworks follow-up: TPM: “Cloudera has raked in $1.28 billion in revenues in the past six and a half years, while Hortonworks only brought in $808 million. Add in the venture capital of $1.31 billion in venture capital, plus $225 million that Cloudera raised in early 2017 for its IPO and the $100 million that Hortonworks raised in late 2014 from its IPO, and the total pile of cash that has come to the pair is $3.69 billion. Hortonworks still has $86 million of cash and Cloudera still has $440.1 million. But over that same time period, Cloudera has booked cumulative losses of $1.19 billion and Hortonworks has cumulative losses of $979 million, for a total of $2.16 billion. Both separately and together, these companies are burning the wood a lot faster than they can cut it.” TPM’s TAM summary, as suggested by the two companies: “The core market that Hadoop

Oct 11, 20181h 16m

Ep 149Episode 149: Selling enterprise software to governments (insert funnier title here)

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With Coté worn out from travel and confused with expenses, we talk about the unique-ish problems of selling software to government agencies. There's 6 problems they have, and three types of motivation for changing up their enterprise software. We also (mostly ignorantly) talk about Cloudera and Hortonworks merging, as well as filing expenses. Relevant to your interests SpringOne Platform news, see podcast. The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects Linux now dominates Azure Oracle says Kurian has resigned as president three weeks after he left to take time off eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Which Performs Best? Cloudera, Hortonworks Stocks Soar as the Big-Data Rivals Announce a $5.2B Merger DXC Technology Scoops Up Small Texas Design Firm China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Oct 22nd - Milan! Pivotal Cloud Native Tour - free to attend! Coté and Jakob get your all cloud natived up! Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. Nonsense Costco's secret weapon: Food courts and $1.50 hot dogs SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: What Really Happened Podcast. How Social Security Numbers Became A Form Of National Identification Coté: Dopper water bottles. AMS security.

Oct 5, 20181h 7m

Ep 148Episode 148: What do these consultants do anyway?

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We discuss the recent Linux controversy resulting in Linus Torvalds taking some time off, review the latest release from Chef and try to figure out how and when you should hire consultants to help with your cloud projects. Relevant to your interests Amazon's 11 new products from its big event - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside Software provider Solarwinds files for IPO Slack has made its biggest acquisition to date In praise of SWARMing Deliver Superior Business Outcomes. We Recap the Latest Release Announcing Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure - Chef Blog Microsoft Ignite 2018: Windows Virtual Desktop, Office 2019 and everything else just announced Flexera acquires RightScale to combine software asset, cloud management | ZDNet Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service Data.world raises $12M to help Fortune 500 companies close the great data divide PKS 1.2 Adds AWS: More Multi-cloud for Your Kubernetes Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3, Powered by Industrialized Open Source, Helps You Revenge of the PMO | Silicon Valley Product Group Conferences, et. al. Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor in action at FutureStack on the 2nd. Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup. Oct 4th - ITQ Transform, Utrecht - Coté talking. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Discount Code Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Buy some t-shirts! All T-Shirts $5.50 T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: Annihilation Movie, Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Review Sonic Youth’s Youth Against Fascism Brandon: That Moment, Episode 9 with the Cote ad read at 13:11 Cloud Rankings from Liftrnews

Sep 28, 201845 min

Ep 147Episode 147: Strategy, the systems management company lifecycle, or, Adobe didn’t fuck it up!

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There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product line with the OpsGeniue acquisition, and PagerDuty has a whopping valuation at $1.3bn. With rumors that Adobe might buy Marketo, Coté recounts the RIA days and how Adobe ended up doing a good job surviving, despite RIA Relevant to your interests Americano coffee vs long black. “Mo’ digital, mo’ problems” - With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater Oracle president Thomas Kurian is taking time away from the company New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round Atlassian to pay $295M for Boston-based OpsGenie Nancy Gohring and co analyze the deal. No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different: “The work of operations is changing and the skills required to do that work are changing. The platforms and tools involved are evolving (but don't forget the decades of legacy code that isn't!). Organizational silos are breaking down, and developers and operators are co-mingling as peer engineers.” Jenkins: Shifting Gears - Coté: recently, I don’t think I’ve heard any one say “yay! Jenkins!” What’s the deal with it? Is Jenkins now bad? Vapor IO Raises PE Funding, Buys Out Nascent Edge Colocation Business from Crown Castle In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free Adobe in talks to buy marketing software firm Marketo - sources “Adobe, which has a market capitalization of $130 billion, has topped analysts’ profit and revenue estimates for the past eight quarters, driven by strength in its digital media business, which houses its flagship product Creative Cloud.” Johnny Leadgen is interested. Adobe really pulled off a successful strategy. Geoffrey More’s systems of interaction (‘member that?), some CMS/marketing analytics engines, and then moving CS to SaaS. Pretty amazing, considering all the other road-kill out there. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint team up to kill passwords Sysdig raises $68.5 million to boost security and performance for containers and cloud-native apps Packet Raises $25M Series B, Starts Deployment of Edge Computing Cloud What Is the Point of Mozilla? - “in 2016 various deals with search engines brought in an astonishing $520 million.” Linus Torvalds taking break Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase Path is shutting down Mesosphere revenue, new CEO, etc. - “Last year in Q4 we issued news about hitting a $50m+ run rate and this year’s Q2 marks our biggest quarter ever, beating our numbers over the last 14 quarters. In fact, according to a recent report from Inc, we are the third fastest-growing software company in the U.S. with a revenue growth of 7,507 percent.” Slow down, Pony Boy! You could round that 7 off the growth percent. Google making private cloud stuff: ‘Google is responding to enterprise computing needs by making custom-designed computers to run in organizations' own data centers, reports The Information. The computers include server, storage and networking functions specifically for "a handful of large customers," according to two sources close to the project in the report.’ Wut. Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Coté isn’t going to see his family until Christmas. GRIND AND STACK. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor in action at FutureStack on the 2nd. Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup. Oct 4th - ITQ Transform, Utrecht - Coté talking. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureS

Sep 21, 20181h 7m

Ep 146Episode 146: The 2018 State of DevOps Report, a gander

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This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it. Relevant to your interests 2018 State of DevOps Report, DORA edition: Coté’s notes. Effective DevOps. “Thread.” (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!) VMworld 2018 Recap. VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications. Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world. Elastic S-1. Some actually useful summary/commentary on HN. H-E-B Plans New Tech Facility, Innovation Lab In Austin. Hopefully Buddy will crush it. https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/1037485524972457990 Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by our great friends at DataDog. This week DataDog wants you to know about Logging without Limits. Logging without Limits lets you cost-effectively process and archive all of your logs, and decide on the fly which logs to index, visualize, and retain for analytics in Datadog. Now you can collect every single log produced by your applications and infrastructure, without having to decide ahead of time which logs will be most valuable for monitoring, analytics, and troubleshooting. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th - Coté at a table. New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Oct 1st and 2nd - Coté on a partner panel, also, come see The Governor. Later that night, Oct 2nd, Coté speaking at a meetup, topic TBD. ITQ Transform, Oct 4th, Utrecht - Coté talking. DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle. JDriven Managers summit, Oct 17th, near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11. Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12. Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25. Matt’s presenting! Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. Coté’s presenting. SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Also, Toronto, Dec 12th to 13th. Listener Feedback Rob from slack tells how to pronounce Galway. Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway November 18-20th We are working on the Google Chrome Security thing. Actually, Fireside.fm is working on it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) — T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Ozark Season 2. Matt: StarCraft 2, free to play! (Not to be confused with StarControl.) Coté: Embedded Netflix, in your TV. Also: Sharp Objects - like all great shows, the end is a massive disappointment of Chekhovian-ease, but the rest is great. Anti-recommendation: whatever reasons make it so I have three remotes.

Sep 6, 201859 min

Ep 145Episode 145: Redis be like “I just stepped into a big pile of…SaaSy!”

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This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (of course), SUSE revenue, and some VMworld selections. Relevant to your interests Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices Michael Coté from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump? What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative? Google just gave control over data center cooling to an AI O11yCon 2018: Notes and Observations Slack just raised a whopping $427 million to become a $7.1 billion company. Now, it has to defeat Microsoft. Apple Pay Now Accepted at All Costco Warehouses in United States. 10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey. Announcing resource-based pricing for Google Compute Engine. DevOps Report 2018 released. Will talk about it next week. Until then, enjoy 78 pages of landscape PDF glory. Spoiler alert: elite high performers are elite high performers. Pivotal has a webinar on Oct 11th about it. Community management is a career cul-de-sac. See interview next week. Good example of corpdev thinking, in the US (legal) drugs market. “Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community.” Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses. VMworld NA 2018 VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management - Carl@451: “Primarily a cost management and analysis platform, it has roughly 3,500 users and has also grown to cover automation, security and governance with a broad, API-based management platform for the major public clouds: AWS, Azure and GCP. CloudHealth mainly operates in the US, meaning VMware will have to square overseas operations and data management with other jurisdictions – primarily the EU GDPR regulations – going forward.” Est. $500m valuation. They monitor your cloud costs. Cf. Dr. Cloud Pricing Guy at 451. Still that MoM in the Clouds vision. “With CloudHealth, VMware not only gets the multi-cloud management solution, it gains its 3000 customers which include Yelp, Dow Jones, Zendesk and Pinterest.” VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best Place to Run Kubernetes. Cameo from the Hill Country’s favorite systems management (former) analyst. VMware's Software-Defined Vision. Coté remember when he met with Kit Colbert at DockerCon EU 2014, and Coté had no idea what this “cloud native” stuff was. Now, it seems like it’s slowly moving to be the new word for PaaS, but more like the under-girding of PaaS. Also, went back to the NEMO recently. They no longer have the closet of dead things, sadly. Project Dimension - on-demand private clouds, driven by SDDC stuff. Pat’s Pillars: ‘“Superpowers” that are unlocking game-changing opportunities on a global scale – Cloud, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things.’ Redis stinkup - the mysteries of making money by actually selling something Coté: now, what’s the deal here? They closed source some stuff that maybe others had contributed to, taking advantage of good will, and/or they’re just now charging for what used to be free? (Are there other open source scandal scenarios?) Joab and Lawrence at The New Stack: “While the core of Redis itself remains under the permissive BSD license, the company has reworded the licensing for some of its add-on modules, in effect blocking their use by third parties offering commercial Redis-based services — most notably cloud providers. Redis Labs was able to make this change because it retains the copyright to the open source code.” Commons Clause, Redis Labs. Adam Jacob Twitter thread on commons clause. SUSE Revenue Watch Somehow, this has become a bit in the show. Blame Coté. Something like ~$360m based on trailing 6 months runrat’ed to 12 trailing. Also, likely non-GAAP reporting (not clear if it’s ACV vs. TCV), but whatever. Grind and stack: “EBITDA for that period was $56 million, nearly 23 percent year-over-year growth.” So: ~$112m profit, ~31% margins. That’s the kind of stable (they claim to run 70% of SAP apps), growing cash-throw-off that should make PE people drool on their Patagonia puffy vests: “Following last week's shareholder approval of Micro Focus' proposed sale of SUSE to EQT Partners for $2.535 billion, the transaction is expected to complete in the first quarter of calendar 2019, subject to customary regulatory approvals.” If my math is right (it’s established that I don’t know how numbers work), clawing in all profits would pay that $2.5bn off by 2026: 8 or 10 years of holding growth and profit %. Of course, you’d sell it off before that. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!

Aug 31, 201859 min

Bonus Episode -- Interview with Dustin Kirkland from Google

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This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more conversations like this one. Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. Links: Dustin’s Blog Dustin on Twitter Dustin’s presentation at Google Next Run-one Vasa Museum Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

Aug 23, 20181h 18m

Ep 144Episode 144: GDPR, Observability, & more on the mystery of serverless, still with half-assed research

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“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.” The title says it all. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Observations on Observability https://medium.com/@copyconstruct This GDPR madness has to stop, son! AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined AWS Serverless Application Repository Taking Tesla Private CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 - not too bad so far. Kelsey Hightower on Serverless… but wait…. Isn’t this just PaaS? A developer’s view of getting up and running with kubernetes. “Progressive delivery,” see also James Governor on the term. Nonsense It’s raining tacos AWS icon quiz To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume “I took the cool out of Cool Rick.” Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey! DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th. DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11. DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12. DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25. DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6. Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Listener Feedback Andy from Netflix send me a LinkedIn request and got a sticker SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast Chris Donaldson on Automation Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Westworld. Matt: Dune fandom. As heard on Song Exploder: Jon Hopkins Singularity. The Red Atlas. Coté: Hemingway app. Slate Podcast Plus. PodCTL on registries.

Aug 17, 20181h 5m

Ep 143Episode 143: Serverless now just means “programming”

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After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it meant an event based system hosted in public clouds (AWS Lamda). Also, we discuss Cisco buying Duo, potential EBITA problems from Broadcom buying CA, and robot pizza. Of course, with Coté having just moved to Amsterdam, there’s some Amsterdam talk. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Everyone’s favorite Outlook feature, now in G Suite. Do we know what “serverless” is yet? Someone named that got some funding. Related, Istio 1.0: “It is aiming to be a control plane, similar to the Kubernetes control plane, for configuring a series of proxy servers that get injected between application components. It will actually look at HTTP response codes and if an app component starts throwing more than a number of 500 errors, it can redirect the traffic.” MUST BE THIS HIGH TO RIDE! Follow-up: Brenon at 451 says Broadcom is gonna have to sell off some stuff to make it’s margin targets. The mainframe profits are too high, while distributed is low enough to throw the margins out of whack. So, sell off distributed to Micro Focus? To PE BMC? Or a bad analysis. Austin Regional Clinic is in Apple Health records. Pretty nifty that it sucks them all in...sort of. Robots make your pizza. Featured in that OKR book. For real. AWS: still makes lots of money, market-leader by revenue. See also Gartner on the topic: “The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.” Gartner estimates that AWS is ~4 times as big as the next, in 2017. Tibco might be sold off: “Vista took Tibco private in 2014 in a deal valued at about $4.3 billion including debt. The company, based in Palo Alto, California, makes software that clients use to collect and analyze data in industries from banking to transportation. It currently has about $2.9 billion of debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.” Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Duo Security, $2.35bn. What’s this ABN e.dentifier thing? Apprenda shuts down. SASSY! Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! - DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey! Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6 Listener Feedback Lindsay from London got a sticker an tell us: “Really enjoy the podcast, just the right level of humour, sarcasm and facts for a cynical Brit like me.” SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Masters of Doom. Matt: Deadpool 2. If you liked the first, you’ll like the second. Coté: 1980’s Action Figure tumblr - now that I have fast Internet, tumblr is workable. Mask, Cops, sweet Dune figures, generic GI Joe figures. Dutch Internet, son! SHIT DOG!

Aug 10, 201859 min

Ep 142Episode 142: Harness that peer pressure for good

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"Harness that peer pressure for good” This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an important parenting discussion on tying shoes. Relevant to your interests Google Next GKE On-Prem | Google Cloud Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud IBM, Google Give Birth to Knative Serverless Cloud Project Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platform Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud (Supports AWS and GCP) Matt’s skeptical https://deltacloud.apache.org/ https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://github.com/fog/fog Bonkers Azure bookings give Microsoft a record-breaking $110bn year Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers IBM stock rises after earnings beat SolarWinds | SolarWinds Acquires Trusted Metrics Cisco, networking stocks drop on a report Amazon Web Services is considering selling network devices Exclusive: Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent Sponsored 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 at www.datadog.com/sdt This week DataDog is pleased to announce that Datadog APM has officially released support for monitoring Node.js applications, which joins our existing support for Java, Ruby, Python and Go. Read their announcement blog. Important nonsense I got the beer you asked for Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: The Sinner on Netflix Home Depot text message shortcut: Text the this message “121 hammer” to 24564 and you will get a link to the a map of the store showing the section for hammers. Replace "121” with the store number you are in and replace “hammer” with the item you are searching for to make new queries. You will likely have to ask a Home Depot Associate what the store number is or find it online. This is an internal tool used by Home Depot Associates to find stuff when customers ask them. Matt: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ photo credit

Jul 27, 201859 min

Ep 141Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of cloud native vendor product management

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We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much different product management seems at cloud native vendors than traditional, “enterprise product management.” Important nonsense Vinsanto is the Greek wine Coté was talking about. No more hot-dogs at Le Café CostCo. Coté rides a Lime scooter Sponsored 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 at www.datadog.com/sdt Datadog wants you to know they monitor performance metrics. You try it by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt. Relevant to your interests AT&T to Acquire AlienVault Broadcom buying CA: Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. "Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly $2.2bn in the 2017-2018 financial year, followed by its enterprise solutions segment at $1.75bn and services at $311m." Coté’s 7 tips for becoming a software company, 2016. “Wait… what?” Basho investor to pay up $20m in damages for campaign that put biz on 'greased slide to failure' Coté: what was Davenport’s plan to profit? A customer complaint about Google Cloud went viral last week, and now Google is doing damage control to 'ensure this does not happen again’ The mysterious value of dancing hot dog shares, i.e., Snap: ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company does, and that right now you can sell that share on the stock exchange for $13.31. But that evades rather than answering the question: What does the person who buys the share from you expect to get from it? The value of a stock in the market is supposed to be equal to the present value of its future cash flows, and there’s nothing about the stock itself that promises you any cash flows. Or you might say that Snap’s directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to you to maximize the profits of the company and the value of your shares, but even if that were true—it’s pretty debatable—it continues to avoid the question. If Snap made massive consistent profits for decades, it would still never have to give any money back to shareholders, and the shareholders would have no way to force it to. “I own a 1/1,258,171,112 share of a massive pile of cash,” you could say, but you could never spend it.’ Improving intranet search, always a problem: Box buys AI thing: “a startup whose software lets users search within files across multiple work applications. Butter.ai will be shutting down its application as part of the deal.” Slack fixing search: most anything would be better than how it is now. IT spending survey from Goldman: security, private cloud, and storage rise. Public cloud and SaaS fall, BI/analytics stays the same. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! Listener Feedback Emeric from Romina got a sticker and we will send you one too. 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. 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. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: In the Dark Podcast. Matt: Apple hardware, “should be fine.” Coté: Lovecraft’s commonplace book and such: pictures, some transcription (better spaced version).

Jul 12, 20181h 0m

Ep 140Episode 140: Meanwhile, in microchips…

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For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids. Meet us in Austin Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 - Software Defined Talk - Drinks & Socializing # Important nonsense Coté wrote some stuff on compliance and DevOps/cloud native/digital transformation. What do you call that stuff? Relevant to your interests Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE for a cool $2.5bn - that’s 9.5 Red Hats! Ding dong Dell deal: Firm is set to go public again Repository Attacks Continue with Backdoored Docker Images 5 Ways Serverless Changes Software Development Intel veteran departs Google Cloud unit “What your innovation process should look like,” Steve Blank, and a newer piece on the topic. What gets me about these things is (a.) they sound real correct, and, (b.) the operational advice is “well, you should do this stuff.” This one, though, has a good distinction between the innovator force and the get shit done force (“entrepreneur.”) Adoption Profile: Public Cloud In Europe, Q2 2018 Kubernetes korner Pivotal Container Service 1.1, Now GA, Helps You Run Kubernetes Without Complexity. Why PKS Just Works. Kubernetes-fil-A, and interview - running kubernetes in-store for those sweet waffle fries. DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018. Conferences, et. al. July 10th, Austin Cloud Native Meetup - The .Net Cloud-Native Renaissance - Coté’s co-host on Pivotal Conversations, Richard Seroter, brings the .Net flavor. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! SDT news & hype 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 Brandon: QuickConcall iPhone App Matt: Australian NBN, but not my provider; The Wirecutter, just because. Coté: “The Trouble With Johnny Depp.”

Jul 6, 201859 min